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I recently completed some work to spin up an entire Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop testing environment in Azure with LoginVSI and FSLogix all installed automatically. I decided to write this blog post as I stumbled across a thread on twitter about people having some issues deploying the VDA with SCCM due to the multiple …
I was in a situation with a client where we did not have access directly to the certificate authority and web enrolment was not available. I used this process to request a wildcard certificate that I could use for the duration of my project. I’m covering here, how to use certreq and certutil to request, …
So today the new version of LoginPI is released, personally I loved LoginPI2 and thought that the proactive monitoring aspect had a lot of scope for businesses running Virtual Desktops, helping to ensure up-time, performance and availability was maintained. We all know, you build your nice new desktop image; its quick and fast and …
So you’ve got some DNS Zones on your Domain Controllers and you’re building a test lab or another domain that you want to copy these to. Easy right – not so easy if they are AD integrated zones. This means the files for these zones are not stored in C:\Windows\System32\dns an normal, they are actually …
I’m working on a project at the moment where I need to generate alot of email content for a test users mailbox. I’ve written a script for this and thought it might be useful to others. I’ve uploaded it to Github and embedded it here. This script takes publicly available open license content in the …
A lot of organisations today use an expensive MPLS network to connect all their branch offices. With the fast emergence of online services and consumer driven products like Office 365, these networks are becoming increasingly strained. Where an MPLS network was originally designed for Thin Client and more traditional share-based access, we are now seeing …
I was in a situation recently where a migration was necessary between two separate Citrix Farms, one being live and long standing with published applications and another being a published desktop. Migrating users between these two environments was straight forward using some powershell scripting to apply some filtering to the old farm. In earlier releases …
Evening all, I’ve recently had discussions around people needing to estimate how much storage may be needed for Outlook OST cache for User Profile Disks. I decided to knock up a quick script to achieve this. The script I’ve written to do this only requires powershell 3.0 or above, you must have a login for …