The free XenServer course below no longer exists but the good news is there is new stuff out that might catch your fancy. These are not massive in depth technical sessions but a bit of an overview about the products - still targeted to a technical audience.

XenDesktop 5.5 Overview
http://training.citrix.com/mod/ctxcatalog/course.php?id=54

XenApp 6.5 Overview
http://training.citrix.com/mod/ctxcatalog/course.php?id=250

XenServer 6.0 Overview
http://training.citrix.com/mod/ctxcatalog/course.php?id=266

Netscaler 9.3
http://citrixtraining.com/content/index.cfm?content_id=197

No updates for over 12 months? Well after my hosting provider lost the server everything was on and I recovered what I could manually I just lost interest. A year on, a few new products and I'm ready to start again - lets see how long this lasts.

Over that time this place turned into spam central. I've deleted all comments on all posts - sorry if there were some legit ones but after the first 50 comments about viagra I figured they could all go. I've also changed the site so it requires you to be logged in to post.

Andrew

The www.tekhelix.com site appears to be down and I don't want to lose this tool, I use it almost every day. I finally found the msi, the attached file has been changed - it's like mstsc for ICA.

This course introduces learners to Citrix XenServer 5.5 and Citrix Essentials for XenServer 5.5 and provides the knowledge needed to perform basic configuration and management tasks. Through online simulations, learners will view, install and configure key product features, as well as explore capabilities such as StorageLink, Workload Balancing, Lab Manager and Stage Manager.

This is the book for IT professionals who want to learn more about the latest Microsoft virtualization technologies, including Hyper-V and Remote Desktop

Download in PDF
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/B/4/5B46A838-67BB-4F7C-92CB-EAB...

This is an update to an earlier post I made about the Active Directory recycle bin... Awesome concept.

2008 R2 Has a recycle bin for AD, basically deleted objects are preserved in the recycle bin for 180 days. When you restore an object it restores any permissions and trusts as well.

So how do we make this wonderful thing work?

Well the kicker is we must be at 2008 R2 functional level - so do that first.

To Enable the recycle bin

Open Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell, type the following , and then press ENTER.

This isnt just for server 2008 Core, it works for 2008 and Vista to enable remote admin
Cscript %windir%\system32\SCRegEdit.wsf /ar 0 and hit enter

For Server 2003/XP
Cscript %windir%\system32\SCRegEdit.wsf /ar 0 and hit enter
Then
Cscript %windir%\system32\SCRegEdit.wsf /cs 0 and enter

If it is a core system all you will get is a command prompt when you remote in.

We have the base CPU Utilization management that once enabled reserves 20% CPU time to the OS and the rest is split between sessions. So for 2 sessions they get 40% each, 4 sessions 20% etc etc.

This is just a soft limit, if User 1 is only using 5% and user 2 needs more it will be granted. But what say we want to make a 'Power User' that gets more CPU time?

Well it can be done.

RegEdit time, jump in to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\CTXCPU

To give someone more CPU time add the following line under the value:
"domain"\"user",cpu.shares=number

Once you move to XenApp 6 this isnt necessary but prior to that here are two handy little scripts. One to back up Xen App Policies, the other to restore them.

Nice and easy to use.