If you have inherited a XenDesktop environment or you are just doing an audit and need to know which version of XenDesktop version you are running you can use PowerShell to retrieve that information for you. The command to issue is: Get-BrokerController This will give you similar output to below where you can view the …
Learn PowerShell in a month of Lunches–Chapter 3 answers
1 Can you find any cmdlets capable of converting other cmdlets’ output into HTML? ConvertTo-Html 2 Are there any cmdlets that can redirect output into a file, or to a printer? Out-File & Out-Printer 3 How many cmdlets are available for working with processes? Get-Process Cmdlet Gets the processes that are running on the local …
PowerShell in a month of Lunches
One of the things on my to do list is to learn PowerShell to a decent enough level where i am comfortable with it to perform my day to day duties. Me and scripting have never really got on very well even though i am aware of its usefulness and benefits. Throughout the years i …
Unable to add Server 2012 Hyper-V host to SCVMM 2012
Good morning from a nice and sunny Manchester!! With the release of Server 2012 I have decided to upgrade everything I can in my lab to Server 2012 so I can get some experience with it. As part of my lab I run SCVMM 2012 for Citrix XenDesktop 5.6. When I attempted to add the …
Unable to power on a 64-Bit Nested VM
In this article I am going to show you how to resolve a problem that you will hit when using VMware Workstation to nest virtual machines. In my test environment which consists of mainly my laptop I like to test and run multiple hypervisors, mainly ESXi and Hyper-V. When building my lab from scratch I …
Snap-in is not responding in XenDesktop Desktop Studio
Hi Folks!! A common issue I see happen all the time which most people put up with but I do not is the Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Desktop Studio being extremely slow to start up and also you receive an error saying “This snap-in is not responding” Luckily the fix is nice and simple!! Go into …
Configuring HDX Flash Redirection for XenApp
I have spent the last few days fighting with HDX Flash Redirection and trying to get it to work for a demo to show to a few customers. There are certain things which you have to do to get this working properly. HDX Flash Redirection basically takes a lot of load of the XenApp servers …
Installing ESXi5 under VMware Workstation 8
This is just a quick blog post to show you how to install VMware ESXi5 under VMware Workstation. Being able to do this makes a great learning environment as you can create and destroy as many virtual machines as you like. In my lab i have 2 permanent hosts running ESXi 5 but if i …
Enable remote console connection to ESXi 5 host through the GUI
I recently installed 2 ESXi 5 servers into my lab to assist with my ESXi 5 certification update. In my home lab i do not have a spare monitor so each time i have to display the console i have to unplug the monitor from my main PC and plug it in which is a …
Installing and configuring PowerCLI
In this article i am going to go over the steps to install and configure PowerCLI to run on my virtual center server. This will enable me to interrogate all the virtual machines and VMware environment by using Powershell. 1) The first step is to download Powershell v2.0 from Microsoft. Note this is only applicable …