It’s recommended to elevate the zone election preference on at least two servers in large XenApp farms. One server’s zone election preference should be set to “most preferred” and the other should be set to ”preferred”. Most “Citrix people” will refer to those XenApp servers with elevated zone election preferences as the “zone data collectors” or “data collectors”. The remaining servers in the [...]
Citrix Provisioning Server auto-add is a waste of time. I use this script from a Provisioning Server that has the MCLI snapin and XenServer Powershell SDK installed. The script connects to XenServer, gets a list of virtual machines and creates target devices for the virtual machines.
Script to list the MAC addresses of virtual machines
Target device retries can be seen from the Provisioning Services Console by expanding the farm, sites, your site, and then servers. Right click the Provisioning Server and click “show connected devices.” The retry data from the Provisioning Services Console is nice, but is almost useless because the target device retries will increment while the target [...]
Bug in XenApp Powershell Commands (CTP3) – Changes farm license server and port to 7680
Bug in XenApp Powershell Commands (CTP2) – Changes farm license server and port to 7168
Powershell script to check logical disk space across a XenApp farm. XenApp Powershell commands are required.
It’s no secert that Citrix released a Powershell SDKs for Provisioning Server that’s not Powershell “friendly”.
Here’s a script that will convert the output from MCli-Get to a System.Collections.ArrayList.