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Citrix VDI Assignment Tool

Posted on December 2, 2020October 31, 2021

Photo by Haupes Co. on Unsplash When a new employee joins a company, as part of the onboarding process, the service desk team receives a ticket for VDI assignment for that employee. They route it to the Citrix team for VDI assignment. It is a very small task for the Citrix team which is, pick…

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Machine Catalog Update Tool

Posted on October 17, 2018October 31, 2021

As part of the Citrix VDI life cycle, Citrix admins have to update master images and update machine catalogs at some point. For PVS update process is completely different. For MCS dynamic VDIs, we already have a GUI option in the studio to update the machine catalog with the updated snapshot. But for MCS static…

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Citrix VDI Profile Reset Tool

Posted on October 2, 2018October 31, 2021

One of the issues where users might end up in bad mornings is at loading their VDI. If their UPM profile is huge, it takes long time for them to login. In case if we end up a user with long logon time issues, we will first have a look at user’s citrix UPM profile….

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Tools I came across

Posted on September 14, 2018October 2, 2018

Tools that I came across in my day to day troubleshooting: Autoruns – shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and when you start various built-in Windows applications like Internet Explorer, Explorer and media players. CDFControl – CDFControl utility is an event tracing controller or consumer for capturing CDF trace messages…

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Tools to clean Receiver and VDA software

Posted on July 11, 2018July 11, 2018

Receiver Cleanup Utility: You might want to uninstall existing receiver version and install same version or a newer version of citrix receiver in user’s machine. In this case, you can uninstall citrix receiver directly from add or remove programs but that might leave some registry keys, and folders back. So, it is always recommended to…

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Auto Deploy new VDI in xendesktop catalog

Posted on April 3, 2018March 31, 2021

As part of day to day tasks, one of the major activity for citrix admins is to maintain free VDIs in xendesktop delivery groups. If we dont have registered free VDI machines, and when new users try to connect to VDI, they would get errors like “Cannot start VM”. So, we have to make sure…

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Send Message to users and Logoff after predefined time XenApp 7.6

Posted on January 7, 2016

As a part of reboot schedule, which is a inbuilt feature of xenapp 7.6, DC would send message to users before the time we set, and then logoff users from the servers and reboot. Recently I came across a task to send message to users and logoff users from a particular delivery group So, I…

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PowerShell script to find unregistered vms and send email in xenapp 7.6

Posted on January 6, 2016

I recently came across a task to check all the unregistered vms in xenapp 7.6. I got the infomation and send email manually. I thought of a script which would do the same and wrote this small script: Script: Add-PSSnapin citrix* $smtpServer = “MAILSERVER.TEST.COM” $smtpFrom = “FROM EMAIL ID” $smtpTo = “TO EMAIL ID” $messageSubject…

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PowerShell script to Enable and Disable Maintenance Mode XenApp 7.6

Posted on January 6, 2016September 18, 2018

Small script to enable and disable maintenance mode on xenapp 7.6 environment. Script: Usage: Enable-MaintenanceMode -servername SERVER Disable-MaintenanceMode -servername SERVER

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XenApp 6.0 to 6.5 Upgrade Utility

Posted on April 4, 2013

First of all, thank you very much to citrix team for developing such a nice script. Click Here to download the script XenApp 6.5 does not provide a binary upgrade path from XenApp 6.0. For some environments, the ability to create a new virtual machine image or clean installation XenApp 6.5 servers might not be possible….

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