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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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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:Â 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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
In my previous post I enabled BitLocker on both my partitions (Link). The trick now is to reinstall Windows without decrypting the system. In this example my data is stored on the second partition (Data Partition or D:) and that partition is encrypted and must be preserved. When booted from…
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