Roberto Alves

Scripts and Server Based Computing

I found at VisualBasicScript.com Forum a very useful script wrote by a user called “ginolard”, that can be used at login scripts or if you need, you can use the basic structure of this script into others scripts with different proposes.
Basically, this script read a XML file and execute mapnetwork commands considering the information gathered. [...]

Day by day, PDF files are becoming more and more popular and in some cases, more used than .doc files! And I bet that many Citrix administrators never stopped to think how much the PDF Readers are affecting the server performance and scalability in a Citrix farm, considering that memory consumption of PDF readers can [...]

Rename a Citrix XenApp Server (Presentation Server/Metaframe) Is a very common administrative task, but many administrators ignore that Citrix has recommendations to be followed. And this recommendations are different from XenApp 4.0/4.5 than XenApp 5.
Basically, there is only one item that was included by Citrix on the procedure to rename servers. But is very important, [...]

Sometimes we need install a simple XenApp environment for some porprouse like training, pre-sales, show some funcionality, test something before put in production, test an application to see if is compatible, etc. and depending of the propourse, you might spend some hours doing this boring task.
But for XenApp 4.5, you can use a freeware called [...]

White Web Interface for Citrix XenApp 5

Citrix brought some benefits launching XenApp 5, and the majors were support to Windows 2008 and a reformulated Web Interface. The new Web Interface 5 is very cool, using the most new CSS techniques and is more smart, recognizing the browser capabilities that each user is using (including mobiles).
Also, the new Web Interface 5 brings [...]