Post Contributions from ‘Dane Young’

• Scale-Out File Server Role and Citrix Provisioning Services vDisk Stores: My Thoughts and Recommendations

  Posted Jan 4 2014 by Dane Young with 13 Comments

  Updated: The focus and root cause in this blog post has changed since I initially wrote it.  There are tons of good nuggets in the first section, so I decided to leave them so readers could follow my troubleshooting logic… Over the last couple months …

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• Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 HDX 3D Pro on HP’s Moonshot ConvergedSystem 100 for Hosted Desktop Infrastructure (HDI)

  Posted Dec 27 2013 by Dane Young with 15 Comments

  There’s been a lot of coverage of HP’s recently announced Moonshot based ConvergedSystem 100 for Hosted Desktop Infrastructure (HDI) solution.  Wow, I know, that’s a lot of acronyms.  If you haven’t heard much about this solution, I recommend you check out a couple links, listed …

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• Missing ICA Session Performance Counters on XenDesktop VDA

  Posted Dec 26 2013 by Dane Young with 1 Comment

  I’ve not been able to nail down why the “ICA Session” performance counters are missing on several of my XenDesktop pools. Digging around I only found resolution for XenApp servers (CTX127151), and the DLL file is not in the same location for XenDesktop. Symptoms On XenDesktop virtual …

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• Deploying Generation 2 (Gen2) Virtual Machines from SCVMM 2012 R2 Templates Fails with Error (23352)

  Posted Dec 14 2013 by Dane Young with 0 Comments

  Trying to deploy Generation 2 (Gen2) Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual Machines from System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) templates over the weekend, I found consistent failures with Error (23352): Error (23352) VMM cannot find the device or this device is not valid for a …

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• Citrix Chained Reboot Scripts, now supporting Citrix Cloud, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD), and XenApp/XenDesktop 5, 6, 6.5, and 7.x!

  Posted Dec 9 2013 by Dane Young with 173 Comments

  Updated 2018.12.22: Revision 1.9 Now Supports Citrix Cloud! One script now works with all current and modern versions of XenApp, XenDesktop, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD), and Citrix Cloud Virtual Apps and Desktops Service from 7.0 and later, through 1811. In zero-downtime 24/7 environments …

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