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]

This is the second part in a series on Citrix XenApp Configuration Logging. When Citrix XenApp Configuration Logging is enabled, all changes are written to a back end database. In this part, we will look at the details of how to create the database, logins, and users. [Read More]

This is the first part in a series on Citrix XenApp Configuration Logging. Citrix XenApp Configuration Logging helps keep track of changes made to your server farm. This feature can tell you what changes were made to your server farm, when they were made, and who made them. Part 1 in this series will further define where changes are logged and how the changes are logged. [Read More]

When I first started this site, it was my goal to write technical articles and have a platform to distribute custom written software. I think I have kept true to that, but that makes for sparse updates. What you may or may not know is that I do contribute to 2 other blogs out there on a more regular basis [Read More]