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Citrix MCS against Nutanix Prism Central

Jeroen — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:25:15 +0000

Citrix has added support for Nutanix Prism Central in version 2507 CU1. This means when setting up a host connection you can attach it to Prism Central instead of Prism Element. Meaning you don’t have to connect each cluster separate but only the Prism Central which manage all the clusters…

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Omnissa Horizon on Nutanix AHV with Golden Image creation

Jeroen — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:35:07 +0000

Update 23-01-2026: Cleanup process updated and some typo’s corrected.Update 20-01-2026: Added a correct, working, update mechanism. 😉 In this blogpost I will describe how to connect Omnissa Horizon against a Nutanix AHV cluster and how to setup the golden image. We are going for an RDS setup because we can…

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Nutanix Guest Customization Profiles

Jeroen — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:46:27 +0000

In Prism Central 7.5 Nutanix has added “Guest Customization Profiles”. With this nice feature we can create unattended installs for Windows (current only Windows). In Windows we have two (2) types of unattended installations: Before we continue we need to know the requirements: (link) So to continue we first need…

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Upgrading Windows machine from BIOS to UEFI on Nutanix AHV (and IDE to SCSI/SATA)

Jeroen — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 10:59:59 +0000

In this blogpost I will show you how to upgrade a Windows 10 virtual machine running legacy BIOS to UEFI, and so making it ready to upgrade to Windows 11. First of all let me show you the current setup of the virtual machine: A lovely Windows 10 virtual machine…

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Creating and Maintaining a Template Virtual Machine in Nutanix

Jeroen — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:37 +0000

Blogpost updated on April 9th 2025. Trying to get some confusion out of the way for those administrators coming from VMware 😉 In this blog post I will show you how to create a Windows Server template and how to maintain it. Templates are virtual machines to be used to…

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Slipstream VirtIO Drivers into Windows ISO to use on Nutanix AHV

Jeroen — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 21:56:49 +0000

This PowerShell script creates a Windows ISO with VirtIO drivers included, enabling the installation of a virtual machine on Nutanix AHV. Created by Jeroen Tielen, the script checks for admin rights, installs necessary tools, and processes ISO files accordingly. A demonstration video and the script are provided.

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Finetune Nutanix AHV Plugin for Citrix and the Screen sleep timer

Jeroen — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:32:14 +0000

To ensure efficient shutdowns of virtual machines in SBC and VDI environments, adjust the Group Policy to disable screen sleep behaviour and edit Nutanix AHV plugin configurations for Citrix. This will enable immediate response to ACPI shutdown commands and allow for choice between soft and hard power-offs.

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Microsoft User Profile Disks Policy Template

Jeroen — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 09:53:06 +0000

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…

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Enroll Windows 10 into XenMobile with a simpel URL

Jeroen — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 14:27:17 +0000

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…

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Howto create a Windows Server 2012 / Windows 8 Mandatory Profile

Jeroen — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:20:10 +0000

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…

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Self Service Plugin / StoreFront / Merchandising Server / Citrix Access Gateway (Part2)

Jeroen — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:56:47 +0000

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.…

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Is it possible to install Mac OSX in VMWare vSphere 5?

Jeroen — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:29:38 +0000

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…

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