Entries by Silas Arentsen

Installing LoadGen Load and Performance Testing on Windows Server 2019

If you would like to find out on how to install LoadGen Load/Performance, I created a video on how to do this: Silas ArentsenStarted working in IT since 2016 for several Managed Service Providers. IT is always changing, which is why I like to learn from others. A challenge is never too much and will […]

XenMobile Managed Play Store empty (no approved apps showing)

We had an issue where suddenly the whole Managed Play Store on our Android Enterprise phones would be completely empty. We went long ways to fix this issue without any success. The solution was apparently a lot easier. The problem exists because in XenMobile Apps we had two apps which were NOT approved in the […]

XenMobile 10.13 upgrade breaks LDAP configuration, should be fixed in rolling patch 1, EDIT: Rolling patch 1 fixes the issue 50% (use FQDN instead of IP on LDAP)

We tried upgrading (from XenMobile 10.12 RP4) to XenMobile 10.13: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xenmobile/server/whats-new.html, which resulted in our LDAP configuration to stop working. After hours of troubleshooting and checking all ports, certs and IP’s of our domain controllers, Citrix support admitted there is a port bug in XenMobile 10.13. The warning we received in the console looks like […]

LoadGen automatically get VMware Host CPU % Utilisation via PowerShell/Vmware PowerCLI

During loadtesting with LoadGen Load and Performance (https://www.loadgen.com/load-and-performance-testing) I was making screenshots of the VMware vCenter host CPU % utilisation. Doing so, required a person to be active during the loadtest and capture screenshots. Requirments:1. VMware PowerCLI installed: https://code.vmware.com/web/tool/12.0.0/vmware-powercli 2. LoadGen – Load and Performance installed3. VMware host where the VDI’s are available To automate […]

PowerShell Automated Export and Import of StoreFront Subscription Database

When upgrading the Windows Server OS on Storefront servers the best way is probably to just build new VM’s alongside the production servers. This allows for a seamless migration. Citrix provides a few PowerShell lines which will make you able to migrate the whole Storefront configuration with Import and Export commandlets in PowerShell. This proces […]

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop HTML Dashboard with PowerShell – Delivery Group capacity

Updated 27-08-2020: percentage rebuild, CSS optimisation and some small changes to codeUpdated 29-09-2020: fixed issue with user sessions which are in maintenance The idea to make this script originates from missing a few features in Citrix Director. A few of the options/views we miss in Citrix Director are: Sum of two CVAD Sites when using […]

Problem with ActiveSync ID change not recognised by Citrix Gateway connector for Exchange ActiveSync/XenMobile NetScaler Connector/XenMobile

We manage an environment with XenMobile, Citrix Gateway connector for Exchange ActiveSync and NetScaler to allow Active-Sync traffic. We had some issues with Samsung devices not being to able to fetch email. We could see that in the logs on the Citrix Gateway connector for Exchange ActiveSync server that the device was denied. The weird […]

PowerShell Script to trick Stub files to be loaded on disk

A customer we are working with is busy with migrating to an online platform from on-premise. To accomplish this the data must be transported with physical disks. The data is stored on a physical machine and the backup suite used is Commvault. This script is not exclusively for Commvault as the script only targets the […]