david brown1709155931

April 15

Hello

Is it possible to monitor a citrix session end to end to help indicate where NW latency may be occuring. I know ADM can show WAN or server side delays but i was wondering if there is a way / Tool that can go a bit deeper and show firewalls / segment / hop delays from the client to the server / app, both internal and external ?

Pity ADM can't do that (as far as i am aware).

Thanks

Dave

March 17

Thanks Santosh

should i create a new pool with the 8.2 hosts or remove and add back to the existing pool ?

Are their any implications in renaming a pool ir is it just a namespace ?

dave

March 17

Good morning all

I have a pool of 12 hosts running legacy 7.5. The task is to rebuild all of them to Hypervisor 8.2 CU1. Is this possible by removing individual hosts from the pool and installing 8.2 cu1 then adding back to the pool, repeating the process for all hosts ?

was wondering if there would be any unforeseen issues i might come across by doing this. or would it be best to create a new pool once the first host had been rebuilt ?. An additional concern is that the pool is using local storage on all the hosts and the disk size is 70 gb !

any advice appreciated

dave

February 21

Hello All

I am currently trialing XenServer 8 in public preview. Has anyone a rough idea when this will be released for production (GA)?

I have tried looking on the XS8 web site but cannot find any release date just statements about it will be released when ready...

i am in the process of upgrading legacy and kind of makes sense to wait until its released instead of going the Hypervisor 8.2 CU1 route

Thanks

Dave

February 17

Mark

Thanks for making things clearer. So if i have a lot of Citrix Hypervisors hosts running 7.5 and i want to bring them into support are my two options, a fresh instal of hypervisor 8.2 CU1 or a new build using XenServer 8?. the current Hypervisor hosts have enterprise licencing valid until 2030 according to XenCenter. if that's valid wonder if there is a buy back solution for 8.2CU1 or XS 8 licensing ?

Regards

dave

January 30

Thanks Robert

its still not clear, as far as i am aware 7.1 is newer like 7.5 (just like with XenApp versions where 7.1 was newer than 7.4 for example). think i need to have a look at the partition table to see how many partition there are. if its 4 then think a fresh install is required. needs to be 6 partitions.

thanks

dave

January 26

Hello All

What is the best way to upgrade from XS 7.5 to 8.2. can i use the rolling pool method or does each host have to be upgraded / re-installed from the iso ?

i seem to be finding contradictions from its either possible to a need for a fresh install.

would appreciate any thoughts, and potential Gotchas

Thanks

Dave

July 11, 2023

Hello

I have a problem with W10 VDI & screen saver. The screen saver has been configured to load after 15 mins. this seems to work fine but the screen saver does not run. the screen displays the screen that was left open 15mins previous. obvious security issue. if there is any user input using mouse or keyboard the screensaver kicks in immediately.

W10 22H2. vda 1912LTSR. pooled desktops

i have added CTX205214 to the image. still the same

any ideas appreciated

thanks

dave

July 10, 2023

James.

FYI

V2 schedules do work fine with W10 pooled desktops

Thanks again

dave

July 4, 2023

Thanks

June 27, 2023

Hello

What is the best way to schedule weekly reboots of Windows 10 machines. can i use the New-BrokerRebootScheduleV2 cmdlet or is this just for shared desktops ?

currently using 1915 CU5 and W10 22h2

Thanks

dave

June 13, 2023

Thanks carl

if there is no real benefit will probably leave as is for now

thanks

June 13, 2023

Hello

I have a news mcs VDA image running 1912 LTSR VDA. is it advisable to install the latest W10 22h2 Current version VDA or keep with 1912 LTSR (CU6) ?

Thanks in advanced

dave

Profile Management - General · April 8, 2022

Hello all

i have another Question regards FSL profile and O365 containers. This time thoughts around migration.

the plan is to use a big bang approach therefore there will be the need to create nearly 1000 vhdx's on the storage (NetApp). this will have obvious infrastructure consequences, not least on the NetApp.

what is the best way to mitigate this ?. Would pre-creating the vhd's make any difference by using the frx tool and if its viable can you use a txt file to pipe in the usernames ?

any thoughts appreciated

regards

dave

Profile Management - General · April 1, 2022

Thanks Both

Kasper - that's what i understood about copy actions between client / server but never seen a detailed techie explanation so had trouble convincing some people even when the solution works well

Carl - thanks again. i am using that very same xml file from aaron

thanks all

dave

Thanks Both

Profile Management - General · April 1, 2022

Hello

i am implementing FSL profile containers to replace UPM. there is already an existing implementation of O365 containers in production.

Questions have been asked around adding all the UPM exceptions into the xml file, including all the defaults and a lot of custom ones. my concern is that this is not recommended but need some definitive guidance.

i have read that exceptions can cause performance and stability issues but i would like to know why this is the case. how does the xml file work under the hood.

thanks in anticipation

dave

February 21, 2022

Luke

do you include Office in the desktop build ?

what sort of performance issues do you experience or is it across all apps etc.

Have you raised a support call with Crowdstrike support or engineering ?

regards

dave

January 22, 2022

Hello

I usually Disable IPv6 in the master image build but i am wondering if there is any advantage to this?. is the general recommendation to disable on enable. if it's to disable why is this, does it cause any potential issues ?

CVAD 715ltsr / MCS / published HSD 2016 / 2019

advice appreciated

regards

dave

January 17, 2022

Luke

afraid not

have you a similar problem or have any ideas ?.

still an issue

regards

dave

January 12, 2022

Kasper

thanks for responding. the issues is now fixed. apologies for not responding earlier

dave

January 5, 2022

oh apologies it's the OS - Server 2016 Office seems happy enough

regards

dave

January 5, 2022

Hello All

i have Just built a new master image - VDA 1912LTSR CU4 (DDC's are 1912 CU2). optimised with BISF and CTXO . OS activated ok. However when i provision a few VDA's (MCS) they become un-activated after about 1 hour. A reboot fixes the issue but then reverts to requiring activation again after about 1 hr

checked the vda and ddc logs and cannot see any obvious cause.

is there a PS cmd i can check activation on either CDA / DDC or even KMS servers ?

Any advice much appreciated

thanks

dave

October 29, 2021

thanks for that.

how do you get it to run the ctxo put the source in the same folder ?

regards

dave

October 28, 2021

Hello All

Is BISF still relevant for newer, current versions of W10 or Server 2019 / 2022

i was keen on it because of the app optimisations, but it does not seem to have been updated for quite a while. is it still current / recommended. i used to run it then CTXO afterwards, then a bit of manual tuning. always seemed to be useful in improving the EUC.

thanks

dave

October 6, 2021

Hello All

i currently have a shared desktop 1912ltsr environment publishing 2016 desktops. i want to look at W10 vdi in the same environment, site. currently the licensing strategy is CVADS Premium with User / Device licensing. is this strategy ok for licensing W10 VDI ?

also what are the implications re Microsoft VDA licensing as i would be potentially moving away from RDS CALS.

thanks

dave

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