Farm Nanny, a Citrix XenApp farm monitor application

 Applications, Citrix, XenApp  21 Responses »
May 012012
 

Although Citrix EdgeSight is completely packed with features, it is a little top-heavy and personally I still miss the good old Citrix resource manager because it was a quick and easy way to get an overview of what’s going on with your farm and servers.
Sure there are a lot of PowerShell scripts to be found which give you an overview of your farm, but those scripts are just snap-shots of your environment.
What you really need is something that monitors your Citrix XenApp farm in real-time

After some digging around in the Citrix XenApp SDK, I decided to make my own Citrix XenApp farm monitor: Farm Nanny!

Farm Nanny is a Citrix XenApp farm monitoring application for XenApp 6 and XenApp 6.5 which will help you with troubleshooting, health checks and resource monitoring. Continue reading »

Installing Symantec Endpoint Protection in a Citrix Provisioning Services vDisk using PowerShell

 Applications, Citrix, Powershell, Provisioning, XenApp, XenDesktop  No Responses »
Apr 052012
 

If you install Symantec Enterprise Protection in a Citrix Provisioning Services vDisk in standard mode, you will notice that your clients will create duplicate entries in the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager at every reboot.
Just like most other centrally managed anti-virus products (see my other post on Trend Micro OfficeScan), Symantec uses hardware id’s to uniquely identify clients and this causes issues with read-only vDisks. Continue reading »

Change the text size in a remote desktop session

 Applications, Citrix, Microsoft, XenApp  16 Responses »
Dec 212011
 

When connected to a Windows 2008 R2 remote desktop session, you cannot change the size of the text on your screen (font size / DPI settings).
If you go to “Control Panel” – “Display” you see the message: “the display settings can’t be changed from a remote session.”.

Especially for users with large screens and large resolutions, this can be a real problem. Continue reading »

Installing Trend Micro OfficeScan in a vDisk

 Applications, Citrix, Provisioning, XenApp, XenDesktop  10 Responses »
Jun 252011
 

A default installation of the Trend Micro OfficeScan client in a vDisk of a provisioned device is going to get you in trouble…
The Trend Micro management server expects each client to register with a unique GUID.
When you install the Trend Micro OfficeScan client in a vDisk, all provisioned devices using that vDisk will register with the same GUID and the management server becomes clueless. Continue reading »