When using Microsoft User Profile Disks within XenApp/XenDesktop environment you always ending up creating some scripts to enable this. Trond created a nice article howto configure this: https://xenappblog.com/2016/user-profile-disk-citrix/ But I want a bit more flexiblity to the configuation without changing the startup script every time. I’ve created a Group Policy Template Read more…
When Windows 10 COPE (Company Owned Personaly Enabled) devices are used across the company and you want to “simply” manage them with XenMobile you must enroll them into XenMobile offcourse. You can do this in a simple way. For example: Users are given a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet which they can Read more…
In this blog post I’m trying to explain how-to create a mandatory profile for Server 2012 and Windows 8. This is only for a clean windows installation. The Microsoft best practices are saying that you need to update the Mandatory profile after each software installation/update on the system.
The Test User
First we create a user named: Manny. This user is used to create the profile. You can name it any way you want. Don’t give it any profile. You can create a local user, but my test machine is also a domain controller, so I only can create an AD user.
In Part1 I was talking (euhh typing) about the Citrix Receiver and the Self Service Plugin. Today it’s time for the Merchandising server (I will type MS from now on). The MS is an virtual appliance which helps you deploy/update/configure/maintain the Citrix Receiver and plug-ins for Windows and OSX systems. As you can see in Part1 I want to place the MS in my LAN behind the CAG. But unfortunately this is not possible (well maybe it is but I can’t get it to work 
) So there are some things you need before you can setup the MS.
A couple of days ago, the PepperCrew had his monthly meeting. There was a little discussion about the new vSphere 5 release from VMWare. In the release notes there is mentioned that it will support OSX installations. I’m not convinced that that would work. There is a big community in the world who wants to install OSX in a sandboxed environment or even native on not Apple hardware. (Hackintosh or OSx86 etc etc). So, lets try some different scenario’s.
Apple supports only virtualized OSX Server installations on Apple hardware. Normal OSX installations aren’t supported or possible.
First Test: Install OSX Snow Leopard (10.6) in VMWare Fusion (On an iMac)
This is not allowed. The installer stops with the following error:
Second Test: Install OSX Snow Leopard Server (10.6) in VMWare Fusion (On an iMac)
