Farm Nanny 2.0 available: A new look and many new features added!

 Applications, Citrix, Printing, XenApp  2 Responses »
Jun 202012
 

Farm Nanny 2.0 is available now and has many new features added!

The XenApp resource manager / farm monitor now shows the status of the print spooler and citrix print manager service, installed printer drivers and installed hotfixes.

Farm Nanny’s new features include:
- Printer Driver Replicator, a GUI for XenApp printer driver replication.
- Health Checker, an easy interface for checking your farm and XenApp server health and availability.
- Hotfix Browser, shows all available hotfixes and information from Citrix.com.
- Technote Browsers, showing you all the latest technotes directly from within Farm Nanny.

On top of all the new features, Farm Nanny also has a brand new clean and easy interface, based on WPF technology.
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Better HA for Citrix provisioning: PowerShell conditional reboot script for target devices

 Citrix, Powershell, Provisioning, XenApp, XenDesktop  No Responses »
Aug 292011
 

Citrix has done a good job in helping us make a XenApp or XenDesktop environment based on provisioning high available.
Once your target devices are up, you’re mostly in the green zone:

  • A target device that has acquired license has a grace period.
  • Offline database support allows your SQL server to take a break.
  • 2 or more provisioning servers ensure high availability for your target devices.
  • NIC teaming
  • And so on…

However, when your target devices go into a (scheduled) reboot, you can go into the red zone.

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