Tag: Guides

21st August 2016 · Luca Sturlese

Getting started with the AWS SDK for PowerShell

The AWS SDK (for any language) is awesome and very powerful. Everything you can do in the AWS console you can do programatically which is why the AWS platform is so awesome to work with.

Getting started with using the AWS SDK can be a little daunting, so in this article we will be looking installing and configuring the AWS SDK for PowerShell so that you can get straight into automating your AWS environment.

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26th March 2015 · Luca Sturlese

Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Introduction

In October 2014, Citrix released version 7.6 of both XenApp and Provisioning Services. A few weeks after the release, I created a 8 part step-by-step series on how to install and configure Citrix XenApp 7.6. If you missed it you can see it here >> Citrix XenApp 7.6 Install Guide.

At the time I promised that I would make a similar guide for the installation and configuration of Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6. Well here it is….

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26th March 2015 · Luca Sturlese

Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Part 13: Testing Published Applications

This is final article in the Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 installation and configuration guide. Here we will be testing the published applications to ensure that our environment is working as planned.

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26th March 2015 · Luca Sturlese

Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Part 12: Creating a Delivery Group

This is part 12 in the Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 installation and configuration guide. In this article we be creating a XenApp 7.6 Delivery Group which will publish the applications that are running on our PVS target devices.

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26th March 2015 · Luca Sturlese

Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Part 11: Creating a PVS-Enabled Machine Catalog

This is part 11 in the Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 installation and configuration guide. In this article we be creating a XenApp 7.6 machine catalog from a Citrix PVS collection.

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26th March 2015 · Luca Sturlese

Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Part 10: Creating new PVS Target Devices

This is part 10 in the Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 installation and configuration guide. In this article we learn how to create new target devices by cloning or templating an existing PVS target device VM.

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26th March 2015 · Luca Sturlese

Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Part 9: Preparing for Production use

This is part 9 in the Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 installation and configuration guide. In this article we be making the final changes to the image in order to convert it into Share Mode to be used in production. We will also be repurposing the capture VM into a standard target device.

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26th March 2015 · Luca Sturlese

Citrix PVS 7.6 Install – Part 8: Installing Virtual Delivery Agent on the PVS Image

This is part 8 in the Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 installation and configuration guide. In this article we install the Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) on the newly captured image.

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