XenDesktop 5.6 - Change disconnected behaviour to Shutdown

While using Atlantis ILIO for not none persistent desktops run purely from memory it is important to reclaim as much space as possible back from the Datastore. This will ensure you don't run out of space. One problem with this in Xendesktop 5.6 is when Users disconnect from from there sessions. From the GUI you are only able to suspend the desktop after a certain number of minutes.
This will not reclaim any space. However there is an alternative, we can use the PowerShell to change the settings.

Waterstones AppSense Case Study

Here is a link to a case study I did on behalf of Waterstones for Appsense....

Link to Case Study

Windows 7 Clients intermittently fail to apply group policy at startup after Atlantis ILIO deployment

After the deployment of Atlantis ILIO to our VDI environment we started to get user experiencing issues with GPO's not applying as expected. How was this related to Atlantis ILIO I hear you ask.. Well I'll explain..

Update Multiple Windows Instances DNS Servers with Powershell

If you have ever been frustrated with having to manually update DNS Server entries on all of your server infrastructure. (I know I have) then keep reading.....

Monitor Atlantis ILIO with PRTG using SNMP....

Hi People, I recently implemented Atlantis ILIO for Waterstones VDI environment. I needed to find a decent way to monitor this as ILIO centre is not great. I looked how I could incorporate this into our in house monitoring solution PRTG.

Step by Step Exchange 2010 Certificate creation...

This document contains the following:

• Creating New Exchange certificate using Exchange management console and generating CSR to internal Domain controller to get SAN Certificate.
• Installing pre-requisites for CA Server.
• Installing the CA Server to get SAN certificate.
• Submitting the Exchange 2010 CSR to get SAN certificate.
• Installing SAN certificate to Exchange 2010 Trusted root.
• Complete the pending Exchange certificate using Exchange management console. (Importing Certificate)
• Enable exchange 2010 client services on SAN certificate.