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PowerShell is the new API for Citrix XenApp starting with version 6. Whether you want to write interactive applications or work with your XenApp farm via command line, you first need to set up the XenApp 6 PowerShell SDK. This post will step you through setting up the Citrix XenApp 6 PowerShell SDK in your environment. [Read More]

There are times when you need to update a property on multiple XenApp published applications. If you only have a few applications to update, this can be done via the management console. However, if you have more than a few applications to update, then PowerShell is the way to go. In this post, I will show you how to use PowerShell to update published application properties on multiple applications at the same time. [Read More]

This post will show you how to use the Citrix XenApp 6 PowerShell SDK to obtain a list of applications from your XenApp 6 farm. We'll look at how to do this with using the PowerShell Runspace and how to do this using the Citrix XenApp 6 wrapper assembly. [Read More]

In XenApp 6, MFCOM is out and PowerShell is in. This post is the first in a series to help you understand how to develop appliations that utilize the Citrix XenApp 6 PowerShell SDK and Microsoft C#. [Read More]

MFCOM has been the de facto standard for programmatically interfacing with Citrix XenApp. Whether you wanted to write a simple script or develop an application that interfaced with XenApp, MFCOM was the answer. Now, Citrix is committed to building their management architecture on PowerShell--not just for XenApp, but for all Citrix products. That's great news for standardization across platforms and aligning with Microsoft on using PowerShell for management architectures. Now, the question is how do... [Read More]

I'm blogging the Citrix Synergy keynote in real time. I'll be adding to things that strike me as interesting to this post as announcements are made. [Read More]

Layering is an emerging concept for VDI. In this article, I will draw some parallels with VDI layering and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to look at ways of solving the difficult User Installed Applications layer. [Read More]

This is the fifth part in a series on Citrix XenApp Configuration Logging. This part will focus on the database schema, the information contained in the database, and how to decode certain parts of the data. [Read More]

This is the fourth part in a series on Citrix XenApp Configuration Logging. This part will foucus on out of the box reporting tool. In a later article, we will look at custom reporting. [Read More]

This is the third part in a series on Citrix XenApp Configuration Logging. This part will show you how to configure your Citrix XenApp farm for Configuration Logging, what all the settings mean, what happens when you configure your farm for logging, what happens when things go wrong, and more. [Read More]