Years ago when I migrated this blog from the old “unNetwork.blogspot” to AtumVirt.com, I decided to use WordPress. And why not? Azure had a slick “deploy” feature for the website from the gallery, which promised to do the web hosting, configuration, securing, and updating. Couple that with WordPress having update […]
When working with RDS VDI scenarios using VMM, it may be helpful to have a view of which users are assigned to persistent desktops. Using the extensible power of Virtual Machine manager, you can easily provide this information to all of your virtual machines. The script below can be run […]
I spend a lot of time thinking about and discussing Citrix, VMware, RDS, and other end-user computing topics with people from across the world. It’s one of the things that gets me all warm and fuzzy, because there are a thousand different ways to do it and they range from […]
Some ideas take a long time to realize. Unfortunately, one of those has been a good way to manage local administrator passwords. System admins the world round have developed scripts to randomize and change the local administrator password of their systems. Others ensure the local administrator password is disabled, but […]
For a variety of software, such as SQL Server or Provisioning Services SOAP service, the services will attempt to self-register their Service Principal Name (SPN). When they are running as Network Service, they’ll be operating as the computer, which by default will have permission to set its own SPN. However […]
As I’ve been working with RDS, I’ve been getting reacquainted with the fantastic product disaster known as SCVMM 2012 R2. While working on familiarizing myself with RDS VDI deployment, I noticed my virtual machines weren’t appearing in Virtual Machine Manager even after a refresh, when I came upon this article describing […]
In late February and early March we experienced “All the Citrix XML Services configured for farm failed to respond to this XML Service transaction.” As virtual desktops have grown increasingly important in our organization, this failure was critical to resolve quickly. Unfortunately, the first time it happened, reboots of the delivery […]
After having a rather rough start to a school year (read: ass whooped) it’s time to unleash some hatred that has been building for several years. I’ll try to give a fair shake, but be warned, there are years of bottled up emotions here. Early on, Hyper-V was being touted […]
To say that I’ve been busy the past few weeks is a bit of an understatement. I am relieved and proud to say that as of today we had 193 desktops of 861 in use. We survived a log on / log off of 50 users at once and things […]
When deploying PVS 6.1, we had difficulty with the XenDesktop Setup wizard. PVS couldn’t see the template from SCVMM, and there were few resources available as it didn’t appear many Citrix users employed Hyper-V for PVS. Ultimately we ended up calling Citrix for support and after a few days they […]
