AppSense Environement Manager Drive Mapping
Seems like an easy enough concept and we map alot of drives. But we had a special situation.
Everyone has a drive mapping of J: but we had a program that required a drive mapping of J: (to a different folder).
So using EM tell it that when INEEDJ.exe is started then it will unmap J: then remap J: to the correct location. It is a simple solution and required no scripting. Just type in the EXE and add a few more steps and it was done.
-TG
SCCM R3 Upgrade
After FINALLY getting approval for the upgrade we moved ahead with it. Updated 1 primary site and 25 secondary sites and reimaged a virtual PC in every site all with in about four hours. We had to schedule a down time for imaging or at least to be safe that is what we did. While I haven’t done alot of Configuration Manager upgrades, non of them ever went this smoothly.
The only part left to complete is the reporting services and deploying the patch to the clients. Deployed the patch to about 60 PC’s with no issues. So we will move on to deploy them to one site, ensure there are no issues and then push out the patch every where.
The next piece is collecting the power management results… Looking forward to being able report on power consumption, apply new power settings and report on the savings.
Will post more on reporting services and the power management in the near future.
-TG
I kept seeing this happen and when it would no one could launch an app, so as we are about to go live with a new web interface this is a slight problem. When you would click on an application or desktop you would get a protocal error, while I don’t think it is limited to that error that is what I was seeing.
After researching the problem a little, I came across a citrix forum that http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=280469&start=15&tstart=0 the great thing about this post is that someone else had already contacted citrix and was given a private hot fix and they posted it. I think it sucks that they had to contact them to get a hot fix, which to me means that it was a known issue.
Anyway, I applied the hot fix which is really three dll replacements, after that the socket pooling settings seemed to stick. We’ll give it some time but it appears to be fixed.
-TG
XenApp 6 Book
Reading Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6
written by Guillermo Musumeci.
https://www.packtpub.com/getting-started-with-citrix-xenapp-6/book
TechEdge Presentations from Synergy
These are some of the presentations I saw while I was there. Lots of great information. Worth taking a look at if you weren’t able to attend.
-TG
Provisioning Services Server
I just read a white paper from citrix “Advanced Memory and Storage Considerations for Provisioning Services”.
I may have to read through a few more times. It is very informative and apparently I never realized how important ram is on the provisioning server. By default I think we gave it 8 GB of ram and I think we thought we might have two vdisks on the server. Now we are at three vdisks and getting ready to add another one and then on top of that we have additional images we use for development. The ram considerations are huge and could be a definite problem with speed on the servers. I never once thought we would need up to 32 GB of ram.
I’m not saying that we need 32 GB of ram, I’m saying I need to sit down and do some math and figure out exactly what we need. Other considerations is that the provisioning server will only get rebooted once month and most everything will sit in ram to some extent.
So I would take a look at it. I’m sure you can find it on Citrix’s website or where I got it, www.papershare.com (great site).
-TG
Readings durning my Vacation…
How to Personalize Your Virtual Desktop Environment Using AppSense Environement Manager – AppSense
An Independent View of “Agent” versus “Agentless” Technology Primer White Paper – Tim Mangan
Deploying Application Virtulization At Microsoft – Microsoft
Advanced Memory and Storage Considerations for Provisioning Services – Mikael Laine
Citrix User Profile Management Guide – Mikael Laine
Nothing to exciting here. Some stuff to review and i’m sure I will reviewing all sorts of blogs while i’m away from work.
