Recently I build a XenApp environment on Azure for demo purposes. I used –> this <– website helping me calculating the costs. This website (running on Azure :-)) makes it easy to calculate the costs of your XenApp/XenDesktop environment on Azure. You can provide the locations, working Hours, Workloads and numberRead More →
Description In complex environments, where distributed applications are deployed across the network utilizing numerous physical servers and workstations, connectivity can be reduced in general and/or per session basis. Connection Quality Indicator is a tool which provides feedback to the user when the network has been impacted to the point thatRead More →
CtxPatcher is a tool for downloading (and installing) updates for Citrix products. Just install the tool using next-next-next and enter your MyCitrix account details : Select the products, hit search and all available patches are ready to download. When you download the patches a install script is also created forRead More →
Citrix Education has a great offer. At a cost of $600 dollar you get 12 months of education to learn Citrix products. New courses are added at no extra costs. Current courses included in the eLearning Subscription include: CAD-100 Introduction to Citrix AppDNA – English CAD-200 Simplifying Application Migration withRead More →
The following registry key must be set for the Outlook Plugin to be enabled : [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\Malone.AddinModule] “LoadBehavior”=dword:00000002 If “LoadBehavior” is set to 2, then it is disabled. If it is set to 3, then it is enabled.Read More →
After creating the Sharefile accounts and installing the Plugin into the vDisk a customer didn’t saw the Outlook plugin features. This is how to enable them. First open outlook and go to Opties (Dutch languagepack) Select “invoegtoepassingen” Select the sharefile plugin and choose start: After that configure the Plug-inRead More →
Sometimes you run into a hung VM on XenServer. This is how to kill the VM running on XenServer : First look up the UUID (in my case 50fa073a- etc) Using the command list_domains you can find the id’s (0, 6, 7, 9 etc) Now use the grep command toRead More →
Today a customer requested to upgrade the amount of memory on their XenServers. This is how you easily can determine which memory modules are being used. Ofcourse you can use ILO, but then you only see the size and location but not the specific type of (memory) module : ThisRead More →
After my review of Xackup XenServer backup software I received serveral emails and tweets with people asking me if I had ever done a restore test. The answer is : ….. YES! Ofcourse. 🙂 Volledig album bekijken I did several migrations and restores for testing purposes and they allRead More →
The last couple of days I ran into some problems with restoring VM’s on Xenserver. I started looking for Hypervisor backup software for Xenserver. I took a deep dive into the wonderful world called the Internet and found Xackup from Fungusware. Alright, strange name but let’s take a look atRead More →