Two weeks ago I had a server in my lab that would not launch an application. The event log had event 10001 listed and it read "A usable server cannot be found on which to launch the application...".

So I checked out my homegrown monitoring service (which I will blog about later on) and everything was fine. The User Load was 0, the ICA port was listening and responding correctly, the XML service was running, etc. etc., but nothing would launch. This server has been running fine for more than two years. [More]

I like the concept of EdgeSight but it is a beast to maintain and I rarely use the Performance Metrics. What I use most often is Application Usage reports.

I loved using the old Resource Manager for creating Application and/or User Usage reports. I miss that basic function since I have been using XenApp 6.x for a few years now. EdgeSight was supposed to give me this but it does not since I am at the Enterprise Licensing tier for XenApp. [More]

So I was browsing for a good PowerShell script that uses the built-in Windows Server Backup features. Augagneur Alexandre's script, http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/WSB-Backup-network-email-9793e315, was a good start, so I took it a little further. [More]

This Script runs from a Windows Machine with XenCenter installed. The script creates a list of all VMs in either a Pool or a stand-alone server, shuts down each VM, exports the VM, then starts the VM using XenCenter's XE command. [More]

Powershell Script to Shutdown and Export Hyper-V VMs, one at a time, for Windows Server 2012.

Now that I have rebuilt my cluster using Windows Server 2012, I had to change my Export script since the new Powershell Management for Hyper-V 2012 is different from the PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V. [More]

This script uses PowerShell and the Citrix XenApp PowerShell SDK to create a report of Citrix Published Applications in Excel. [More]