Category: XenDesktop
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XenApp / XenDesktop 7.x – All the PowerShell cmdlets
Here is a dump of all that you can do via the PowerShell cmdlets in a XenApp /XenDesktop 7.x world. Note that the below has been taken from a XenApp 7.5 controller so there might be SDK updates in the newer releases. I also have this article here discussing how to perform certain tasks in…
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Citrix XenApp – Long Logon Times and Potential Fixes
Long logon times in Citrix is a dreadful situation to be in as an end-user and as an Administrator and is the no 1 reason people hate Citrix. I have had a similar issue recently for one of my deployments with XenApp 7.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2 workloads. My logon times averaged around 30…
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Storefront Multi-Site and High Availability – Guidelines for an Active-Active datacenter design
I am currently working on a XenDesktop 7.6 project that is designed to span 2 datacenters, Auckland and Sydney. One of the critical customer requirement is to redirect the user connections to their primary site regardless of their location first and failover to secondary site if the primary site is down. They also have a…
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Using XPERF to troubleshoot slow logons
Installing XPERF to capture a slow boot or logon trace Install XPERF from the Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework on the slow boot or logon computer. Hint 1: It is possible to install only the Windows Performance Toolkit from the Windows SDK. Hint 2: I suggest installing the WPT in an X:\XPERF…