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I was troubleshooting some issues and I needed a way to collect an overview of Windows Updates installed on a couple of machines and after some digging around I found the following command line: gwmi Win32_QuickFixEngineering | select Description, Hotfixid But because I had to run this command on…
This post has no valuable technical information but it was worth mentioning ;-). I had some spare time this evening so I thought I would update our demo environment with a Citrix XenApp 6 server. While installing the following screen passed by which contains an obvious typo: Curious to see if…
Citrix releaed a new whitepaper yesterday containing the XenDesktop and vSphere Reference Architecture Overview, you can find the article here The introduction is as following: Many organizations are looking for a better way to manage and deliver desktops to their end-users, and…
Today we tested the difference between XenApp 6 and XenApp 6.5, these installations are out of the box (same hardware as they are virtuals). See the difference between these two desktops, the XenApp 6.5 install beats the XenApp 6 install without problems. Seems the +150 additional HDX improvements…
Today while working on an unattended installation for a Citrix XenApp 6 on Windows Server 2008 R2 installation the customer asked me to add some fonts to the default installation. After some searching I found a VBS script that could do this, I had to change the script a bit because it gave some…
Today Citrix published CTX130632 containing XenDesktop Planning Guide – Storage Best Practices. This document describes a list of best practices, recommendations and performance related tips that cover the most critical areas of storage integration with Citrix XenDesktop. This Best Practices will…
