About a year ago I released “The Ultimate Golden Image Automation Guide” and since then I had the chance to implement the runbook at many customers. During those implementations I tweaked the Runbook a lot and I thought it was time to update the guide accordingly. So I present to you “The Ultimate Golden Image Automation Guide Version 2.0” Some of the changes: More Automation
Category: Citrix
Automate the cloud! Citrix + Azure + MCS + PowerShell
Two weeks ago I went to Citrix Synergy in Anaheim. Here Citrix announced the future vision of the company. And the vision is clear, it is CLOUD. Citrix now thinks of itself as a cloud company. And with their new Citrix Workspace they have a great cloud product. But how does automation fit into the cloud and what can we automate? In this blog I
Solutions to replicate/sync your Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) Store
Everyone who uses Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) knows that it is important to make your vDisk and PVS servers High Available. There are two ways to do this. You can share high available (centralized) storage between your PVS servers or you can attach local storage to each PVS server to create a local store. In the real world, I have seen the local storage option way
Create new Citrix Provisioning target devices, including VMware VM’s, DHCP reservation and AD accounts from a CSV file with PowerShell
As you may know my motto is; Automate Everything. So when a costumer asked me to create almost 100 Citrix Provisioning Services Target Devices with a correlation between MAC and IP address I thought to myself; let’s create a PowerShell script!’ The goal of the script: Read data from a CSV file (see sample file) with the Hostname, IP Production network, MAC Production network, IP PVS
Create a new VMware vCenter Hosting Connection with SSL Trust in Citrix 7.x with PowerShell
Just a small new blog, as you know my motto is “Automate Everything”! Well, the past weeks I’ve been busy with just that. I’m at a customer and we are creating a completely automated Citrix 7.15.1 Environment deployment. And one problem I ran into was adding the vCenter connection into hosting through PowerShell. I found this blog on the Citrix blogs about this topic: https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2013/10/30/scripting-howto-xendesktop-7-hosting-configuration/
Everything SaaS ? The future of applications and desktops
Lately a lot of companies I visited or talked to are telling me they want to move away from local applications and even their entire SBC/ VDI deployment in favor of going completely SaaS + BYOB (Bring Your Own Device). Is this possible ? What about classic applications ? What about credentials and Single Sign On ? What about your own data ? In this
The SBC/ VDI Profile Cheat Sheet
Ever wondered which profile solution fits the best with your SBC/ VDI environment? With this SBC/ VDI Profile Cheat Sheet you can easily compare the different types and vendors of profile solution. So you can figure out for yourself which one will best fit your, and the end users, needs. Click here to download the .PDF I hope this was informative. For questions or comments