Blog posts tagged with 'mac'
I want to use this blog to post answers to common and/or complex questions I get asked about Workflow Studio. One that has been asked fairly often is how to access the MAC address of a VM running in XenServer. The MAC address for a VM is located in the following object path:
VMList.VM.VirtualInterfaces.MAC
When you call Get-VM you get back a list that represents multiple VMs. Whenever you are dealing with something that returns more than one item in Workflow Studio you are going to need to access the individual items with the "For Each Object" task. As you iterate over this list of VMs you will have a new object that represents an individual VM. This typically has properties on it that you want to access, but in this case there is another list of things named "VirtualInterfaces". Because a given VM can be assigned multiple network cards we have an object that represents each of them, so we need to go down one more level using the "For Each Object Task" to get an individual Virtual Interface so we can access the MAC property. I hope that is clear, but since pictures speak more clearly here is an example:
At the top of the workflow you would call Get-VM and then use For Each Object to iterate over each one returned:
You will notice that the For Each task has the little (s) icon representing it has sub-tasks, so if you double-click on that task you will be able to specify the sub-tasks where you will iterate again on the Virtual Interfaces:
And then you can access the individual MAC address: 
Hopefully that clears up how to get to the MAC address of a VM.
I just came back from BriForum in Chicago and besides the awesome event that was, one more thing came to attention, half of the Notebooks being carried around by attendees and speakers were Macs.
Carried away by the energy of the event I decided build something for our Citrix Community. A dashboard app that makes easier for our visitors to read the latest posts and collaborate with their comments.
Meet the Citrix Blogs Widget
With version 1.0 you get:
- The latest 30 Citrix Blog posts
- Adjust view from Full to Summary
- Collaborate with your comments
- Open posts on Safari or Firefox
- Spotlight Search (Instant search)
- Push updates (no refresh required)
- Watch blogged videos
- Check for updates
- Send feedback
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or greater
Download via CDN:
Citrix Blogs Widget
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Special thanks to Chris Anthony's group for designing our dashboard logo! Thank you guys so much!!!
The PowerShell open source reimplementation for "others" (Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc...) and Windows (including Windows Mobile and Windows CE)
With what we can do with Citrix Workflow Studio and the Citrix Delivery Center already, can you imagine the possibilities of what we can do with PASH, as Windows Poweshell has already become the language of choice for administration, intergration, and automation.
Here are some screen shots of PASH in action:
Continue at Source: Pash - cross platform PowerShell is out in the wild! Announcement
The Mac ICA Client 10.x has been completed and released to web. Thanks for all the Beta participants who provided their valuable feedback. Check out my earlier post for details on this client feature set. One new thing you will see in this client (compared to the Beta client) is a new icon for ICA. It looks way cooler compared to our previous Mac ICA icon. You can download this client from the client download page and remember that this is a universal binary client and hence can run on both Intel and PowerPC Macs.
To introduce myself, I am Sridhar Mullapudi from the Presentation Server product management team. I want to talk about our upcoming Mac ICA Client release and also request participation in a Beta program to give us some feedback. If you are interested, send a mail to Mac-ICAClient-Beta@citrix.com. As a Mac person myself, I am excited about this long awaited release. The main features in this release are
- Universal Binary Client - This client will run natively on Intel and PowerPC based Macs
- Seamless Windows - Ah! Finally. I guess I don have to explain what this feature is
- Session Sharing - Multiple application sessions from a user can share the same session. This means faster application launch times for subsequent applications.
- Improved file transfer speeds (at least twice as fast as before). You will see a big difference when you transfer files over a high latency link
- Session Reliability - This will let users reconnect automatically to the application(s) when connection is lost without displaying annoying dialogs
- Pass-through authentication - This is now enabled using Kerberos (the local machine and the PS environment should be set up to enable Kerberos)
- SpeedScreen image acceleration - This helps improve user experience when viewing web pages that have images etc.
- SpeedScreen Progressive Display - This is a cool feature introduced in PS 4.5 that dramatically improves (provides a local experience) when accessing 2-D applications etc
- SecureICA - This is not a new feature but we dropped it in the last client release and are introducing back due to strong customer request. Though Citrix strongly recommends using SSL for the ICA encryption needs, customers still use and like the simplicity of SecureICA and hence this support will be maintained for a while.
- Printing enhancements - Any printer available to local Mac application will be available for PS delivered applications. Users can also pick and choose their printer (not just relying on their default printer) and can change page sizes, layouts etc
- Keyboard Pass-through This will give the user an option of using Mac specific keyboard shortcuts that can be applied to the ICA Client itself (without passing it to the server application)
Mac OS 10.5, 10.4 and 10.3 versions will be supported with this client (though the recommended OS versions are 10.4 and 10.5)
Mac ICA Client is a high priority for Citrix and we will constantly innovate on this platform (we have already started planning for the next release). Some cool things we are thinking for the future are, ability to subscribe to applications (so you can put just the apps you need on your doc or desktop and can always have a one click access to them), much better integration with local desktop (use application icon instead of Citrix icon for the app on the dock, spotlight integration, simpler file type association etc). If you have any suggestions, feel free to share it with us.
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