Sometimes there is a need to publish an application to individual XenApp servers for baselining or troubleshooting purposes. But if you have a lot of published applications in your XenApp 6 farm, this can be a huge hassle. Thankfully PowerShell allows us to quickly and easily take our existing published applications …

If you are running XenServer 5.6 FP1 or later, there is a little trick you can use to improve network throughput on the host.

By default, XenServer uses the netback process to process network traffic, and each host is limited to four instances of netback, with one instance running on each of dom0’s vCPUs. When a VM …

Deploying CAG with Web Interface 5.4 is actually very easy, there are just some “gotchas” that you have to be ready for. This is a guide to help you avoid those snags and pitfalls that commonly occur with a CAG VPX and Web Interface integration.

I recommend getting the Citrix Access Gateway VPX Getting Started Guide …

Citrix Provisioning Services is very nice, but it does come with a slightly annoying quirk: All of your provisioned XenApp servers end up with the same STA ID! This will cause all sorts of problems for Citrix Access Gateway, Citrix Receiver, and anything else that may depend on having unique STA IDs. The good news is …

Your user is happily working in your published, seamless application via XenApp 6 running on Windows Server 2008 R2, and life is good.

Then one day, when your user goes to print something, he is looking at the print dialog and notices this “Microsoft XPS Document Writer” printer as an option.

“HMM I wonder what this …

Have you ever wondered how scientists calculate the age of dead plants and animals? This is a topic that has fascinated me for many years, because while it may sound very simple and straightforward on the surface, as you will see, it is really a rabbit hole that leads into all sorts of unexpected places. Come with me …

Prerequisite: XenApp6 PowerShell SDK

Let’s say you want to copy all currently published applications into a folder named “Test” in the console tree, while simultaneously modifying the new published apps with different permissions and client folder settings. Here’s how:

First, create the “Test” folder by hand (you can …

I ran into a little snag when executing some XenApp PowerShell commands. Certain commands like Get-XAFarm and Get-XAAdministrator would always give an “0x80060016” error. Here is an example and the fix:

`PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-XAFarm
Get-XAFarm : Error reading the current administrator data (0x80060016)
At …

A few days ago I booted up my rather old HP workstation which is running Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS (Hardy Heron) and Firefox 3.6. I wanted to see how it would perform playing music from last.fm, so I browsed to the site, logged in, and tried to launch a stream.

Well, nothing happened.

I pretty quickly realized that Flash was …

A common problem programmers have with CakePHP is saving related models with a many-to-many relationship, something Cake calls “hasAndBelongsToMany” or HABTM. One of the things that makes saving HABTM models so challenging is that when you go to save your models, Cake will act like everything saved fine when in fact …