Comments on: Updating Provisioned XenApp vDisks: To XenAppPrep or not to XenAppPrep? http://jariangibson.com/2010/01/12/updating-provisioned-xenapp-vdisks-to-xenappprep-or-not-to-xenappprep/ Application, Desktop, and Server Virtualization Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:44:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Shane Kleinert http://jariangibson.com/2010/01/12/updating-provisioned-xenapp-vdisks-to-xenappprep-or-not-to-xenappprep/#comment-253 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:53:18 +0000 http://jariangibson.com/?p=517#comment-253 Hi Jarain,

Great post! I saw a few different articles besides yours talking about using xenappprep /PVS to prep your XA machine before running xenconvert. Do to the mixed comments I’ve seen out on the interwebs regarding the need to set the startup mode to manual I decided for fun to just boot into private mode and see what happen, of course a few things got corrupted. I wasn’t able to run xenappprep /PVS any more, nor could I start the IMA service. I ended up using dsmaint recreatelhc and recreaterade to fix my IMA service not starting issue. Once I did that, I was able to rerun xenappprep /PVS.

At that point I saw the importance of just setting the service to manual and using your batch file to read the contents of personality.ini to determine which mode it’s in. That really helped! :) Citrix should either upgrade there tool, or at least provide some solid documentation explaining what you explained above regarding the service startup mode. Thanks again!

Shane

]]> By: Nik Stapley http://jariangibson.com/2010/01/12/updating-provisioned-xenapp-vdisks-to-xenappprep-or-not-to-xenappprep/#comment-231 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:27:48 +0000 http://jariangibson.com/?p=517#comment-231 Hi

I would like to know how you can ensure that ALL App-V apps are pre-cached at XenApp startup? We are implementing a new XenApp 6 Farm with PvS and App-V, so we need to ensure the servers are auto pre-cached upon every startup

Thanks
Nik

]]> By: Using EdgeSight with Provisioned XenApp Servers « Jarian Gibson http://jariangibson.com/2010/01/12/updating-provisioned-xenapp-vdisks-to-xenappprep-or-not-to-xenappprep/#comment-227 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:22:16 +0000 http://jariangibson.com/?p=517#comment-227 [...] script can be combined with my script from my previous blog Updating Provisioned XenApp vDisks: To XenAppPrep to not to XenAppPrep? to detect the vDisk mode and only start the XenAppPrep service and Citrix System Monitoring Agent [...]

]]> By: Jermaine Aulds http://jariangibson.com/2010/01/12/updating-provisioned-xenapp-vdisks-to-xenappprep-or-not-to-xenappprep/#comment-195 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:47:26 +0000 http://jariangibson.com/?p=517#comment-195 Well what do others think?

]]> By: Nico van Meurs http://jariangibson.com/2010/01/12/updating-provisioned-xenapp-vdisks-to-xenappprep-or-not-to-xenappprep/#comment-168 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:31:12 +0000 http://jariangibson.com/?p=517#comment-168 Hi Jarian,

Nice article!

I always configure the XenAppPrep service to manual using a GPO. The service is being started using a startup script.
I usually create a seperate OU for my Master Target Device which contains minumum GPO’s and no startup script. This way I make sure XenAppPrep is never started in private mode.

Like your personality check though!

Cheers

Nico
http://www.virtualdesktopblog.com

]]> By: ken avram http://jariangibson.com/2010/01/12/updating-provisioned-xenapp-vdisks-to-xenappprep-or-not-to-xenappprep/#comment-167 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:04:03 +0000 http://jariangibson.com/?p=517#comment-167 Jarian,

In the latest version of XenAppPrep that came out in the beginning of December, you no longer have to remove and delete the service, just re-run xenappprep /pvs before shutting down and thats it, seem like they have fixed it.

Ken

]]> By: Trond Eirik Haavarstein http://jariangibson.com/2010/01/12/updating-provisioned-xenapp-vdisks-to-xenappprep-or-not-to-xenappprep/#comment-165 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:02:41 +0000 http://jariangibson.com/?p=517#comment-165 I have been using XenApp Cloning Tool from CitrixTools.net and it is highly recommended. The Citrix XenAppPrep do not get many updates, but the tools from Pierre are frequently updated, and also comes with plugins to automatically publish applications on new provisioned servers.

Eric
http://www.xenappblog.com

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