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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Personalizing the default printer when using Citrix session printers and AppSense Personalization

 AppSense, Citrix, Printing  4 Responses »
Dec 142011
 

Personalizing Citrix session printers for your users will not work out of the box with AppSense Personalization.
As described in http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX107415, session printers are deleted at logoff and therefore AppSense Personalization will not capture the user’s default printer.

To personalize the user’s default printer with AppSense Personalization you have to apply a small workaround. Continue reading »

PowerShell print server inventory script

 Microsoft, Powershell, Printing  47 Responses »
Sep 132011
 

Getting information from all installed printers on a print server can be an impossible task without third-party tooling or scripts. PowerShell can make this really easy.

I created a PowerShell script which lists all installed printers and gathers information like the printer name, driver, share name, location and the IP address (the actual IP address, not the portname without the “IP” prefix). Continue reading »

Unattended Printer Driver Installation

 Citrix, Microsoft, Printing, Provisioning, XenApp, XenDesktop  1 Response »
Jun 272011
 

In an environment based on provisioned servers and desktops, I personally believe it’s best practice to keep your vDisk (image) as clean as possible, so that also means leaving the printer drivers out and installing them afterwards.

Printer drivers can be installed unattended (at boot time) and this has several big advantages:
- You can exclude a certain printer driver from being installed for troubleshooting purposes.
- Replacing or deinstalling a printer driver was never easier because you are not actually deinstalling: By excluding a certain driver, the driver was simply never there. No more leftover driver files.

Let me show you how… Continue reading »