Richard Parmiter

Speed up the launch of the XenDesktop Delivery Services Console (DSC)

RP — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:33:58 +0000

Sometimes the Delivery Services Console takes a long time to launch. This is due to a .NET delay in the authenticode signature component as described in Microsoft Article Q936707. The following config file can be added to speed up the lauch of the Delivery Services Console. mmc.exe.config Ensure the contents of the file contain the [...]

Use a different name for the XenDesktop Controllers Group

RP — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:51:04 +0000

During the initial instalation of XenDesktop, an Active Directory Controllers group is created and populated with the DDC servers in the farm. This group is named ‘controllers’. For any subsequent installation of XenDesktop a new controllers group is added for each XenDesktop installation with a different name based on controllers – such as ‘ControlA0D3′ If [...]

use xe.exe to start/shutdown vm’s on XenServer

RP — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:37:06 +0000

I wanted to stress test a Citrix XenServer 5.6 computer to see how it copes with a number of simultaneou startup and shutdown requests. I also wanted to see the IOPS passed to back end storage where the virtual machine hard drives are stored. Rather than manually selecting the machine in XenCenter and shutting down [...]

Customize Page title & favicon on Citrix Web Interface 5.x

RP — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:18:27 +0000

The defaut page title and fav icon logo appear on the browser tab when connecting to the Citrix Web Interface Site. Shown here: It is possible to replace the logo with your own one and change the text to be more appropriate. Logo The logo is: ..\inetpub\wwwroot\Citrix\{site name}\media\IcaComboAll.ico replace with your own .ico file but [...]

Customize logos on Citrix Web Interface 5.x

RP — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:08:41 +0000

This was done on Citrix Web Interface 5.2.0 but should work on any 5.x version White theme This is detailed in several places but most notably here: CTX119509 This gives the default logon screen in white. Identify the images used Here is a screen shot of the default view and list of the associated images [...]