XenDesktop Active Directory Configuration Wizard is not available in XenDesktop 5.x. Background If you decide to use Active Directory-based controller discovery in your environment, in the previous versions of XenDesktop, you could use Active Directory (AD) Configuration Wizard to create and configure the AD Organizational Unit (OU) for the farm but in XenDesktop 5.x, you…
Citrix administrators are not set up automatically during XenDesktop installation. After installation, only local administrators on the server running the Controller have full administrative privileges, with authority to manage and administer all areas of the XenDesktop site. Only an administrator with full rights can create additional full or delegated administrators. Note: Local administrators on the…
Blade PC/Server: Series of servers added to a chasis and inserted it in a rack in datacenter. Here in the front view, the green rectangles are single servers. In a single case we can add multiple servers. Small green rectangles are half blade servers(where processor and ram are less) and full rectangles(processor and ram are bit…
What’s New in XenDesktop 5.6 XenDesktop 5.6 includes the following new features and enhancements: Personal vDisk – This feature is a personalization solution for virtual desktops. Two new types of catalog allow you to preserve the assignment of users to desktops even when the disk is cleaned at restart; the same user is assigned the…
Desktop groups are sets of virtual machines allocated to users and user groups. Full and assignment administrators can create desktop groups from the catalogs previously generated using the Create Catalog wizard. Desktop groups are listed in Desktop Studio under the Assignments node. In addition to the total number of machines in each group, the number…
Here is a video from citrix which installs xendesktop 5, configures master image, creates catalog, delivery group, updates master image etc..
Windows Remote Management (WinRM) is the Microsoft implementation of WS-Management Protocol(a protocol developed by a group of hardware and software manufacturers as a public standard for remotely exchanging management data with any computer device that implements the protocol.), a standard Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based, firewall-friendly protocol that allows hardware and operating systems, from different…
Client Hypervisor A client hypervisor is a hypervisor that resides on a laptop, PC or other client device. A hypervisor is a program that allows multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host. Normally all the Type2 hypervisors come under Client Hypervisor category. A hypervisor comes in one of two forms: a bare-metal hypervisor,…
Sometimes the Citrix licensing server doesn’t get accessed for a long time, maybe the admin leaves and is replaced and no-one made a note of the password. Suddenly, you can’t access the licensing server any more. What to do ? If you have access to the disk sub system (ie.. the files) on the licensing…
It is also recommended to take a snapshot before you start the below process. If something fails, you can revert to the old vm from the snapshot. 1) Boot your original master VM up. 2) Install the new application 3) Shut the VM down 4) Take a new snapshot of the VM 5) In DesktopStudio…