To measure the Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server/Metaframe) or Terminal Services link consumption for an application the best is: publish to users and watch. Yes! Users are totally unpredictable and is very difficult to know every thing that they can do in some scenarios.
But, you always need know how much bandwidth an applications needs to be [...]

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To receive emails from Citrix Resource Manager, you can set a MAPI or a SMTP address. On many organizations, is much more simple set a SMTP address than configure MAPI but since Metaframe XP 1.0, Citrix insist on “hide” this configuration under a context menu on Resource Manager option of Presentation Server Console (Java).
Even on [...]

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Some times, you need publish a specific website on your Citrix XenApp farm, but you need avoid to users see toolbars or addressbars, and you don’t want put Internet Explorer on kiosk mode. Then the alternative solution can be publish a .VBS that opens the Internet Explorer as you wish.
First step: Create a .vbs and [...]

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One picture say more than a thousand words. Because this in some cases I like to include a lot of images on my project documentations. Generally, these pictures are PrintScreens of consoles and their configurations and diagrams that explain some funcionality.
Benefits when you use pictures instead pure text on project documentations:

You are sure that all [...]

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On last year, with Presentation Server client version 10.x Citrix finally introduced a template .adm to administration of clients configurations through Windows Group Policies. This icaclient.adm template is very useful to ensure to you that all configurations were applied to all users that you want.
With this .adm you can do somethings like:

Configure single Sign-On for [...]

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Is very common find applications that works only with a specific configuration on Control Panel / Regional Settings.  And change this configuration on all users profile can be very big headache, then save these lines below as a .adm file and include on your policy.
Default settings are configured to British standard but you can change [...]

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This is a very simple script that copies a folder from a specific path to all servers listed on servers.txt file.
There is a file called progress.htm that runs an activeX control that shows a progress bar, that increases when the copy is done on each server.
On Error Resume Next
source_server = “machine_name”
source = “\c$\Install\CPS45HF”
Dim server()
Set objFSO [...]

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Very useful on File Servers migrations, this script was created and used on login script of 1000+ users after migration from Novell file server to a new Windows file server. The script reduces the calls on service desk after migration, reading what mapped drivers each user has and creating a new mapped driver.
Basically, you need [...]

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This is a very, very and very simple inventory tool. But can be very useful on sbc environments. This script checks the list of applications on Add/Remove Programs of each server, and writes a result in a table inside a html file.  Then, you can compare if all servers has same software installed or same [...]

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I made little modifications on this script created by Jakob Heidelberg to search for printers manually created on user profiles. This is very usefull when you wanna ensure that eveybody has only auto created printers, from Citrix or ThinPrint.
This script load ntuser.dat on each profile, check some registry keys, write a log and unload ntuser.dat. [...]

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