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Using VMWare with XenDesktop

When you are using VMWare ESX as Hypervisor you need to configure some setting on the Desktop Delivery Controller and on the VCenter server before you can add the VMWare vCenter host to the XenDesktop environment. First you need to create a user or a role where you can add multiple

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Change vDisk from MAK to KMS

When using MAK on a provisioned vDisk with multiple versions and you need to change the activation to KMS, it’s important to first create a Merge of the version to a now Base image. This has to be done because you need to change the Microsoft Volume Licensing option within the vDisk

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Shrink vDisk VHD file

When you created a dynamic vDisk with Citrix Provisioning you like this file to be as small as possible, but when you remove files from the vdisk the size doesn’t shrink. To Shrink the file please use the following steps. Start the vDisk in maintenance mode and download sDelete from

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Install/Remove HP agents XenServer

Download de HP agent for Xenserver from the HP site: HP Agent Look at the revision section to see if you have the latest version. Go to the ILO site of the host which you would like to update/install, open an Integrated remote console session. Mount the HP agent ISO

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Using Trend Micro OfficeScan with Citrix Provisioning Server

Installing a Antivirus solution on a Porvisioned disk can be a problem, not all the programs support this way of deployment and are working well. One of those is Trend Micro Officescan. I did a search and came accross a solution written by Neil Spelling. He discoverd that the client

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Citrix Auto Support

When working with Citrix products you want to be sure your configuration is correct, or want to troubleshoot why you have a problem. Citrix developed the Citrix Auto Support formerly known as Citrix Tools as a Services (TaaS). You can can make a health check for XenServer, XenApp, XenDesktop and

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