Procedure: Add machines to a Machine Catalog

 

Using Citrix Studio

  1. Open Citrix Studio and navigate to Citrix Studio –> Machine Catalogs
  2. Right-click the machine catalogue and select Add Machines

    image_thumb8
  3. Select the number of machines you want to add and click Next

    image_thumb10
  4. You can create new accounts or use existing accounts

    If you are creating new accounts:

Select the locaiton for the accounts, and provide a naming convention, hashes # are used to provide dynamic names using either numbers or letters.

image26_thumb1


If you are using existing accounts:

Browse for the existing accounts or import the accounts from a CSV file and select the appropriate password management option. If using a CSV file, the column title must be ‘[ADComputerAccount]’. You need to include the square brackets, but not the quotes in the column heading. In both cases the computer accounts must be prestaged.

Once complete, click Next and then Finish.

image_thumb12

Using PowerShell

The below commands are being run from the XenDesktop Controller with an account that has permissions to create computer accounts.

Add the PowerShell snap-in for Citrix

  1. Create a computer account in Active Directory for the new machine using New-AcctADAccount

    image
  2. Create a Virtual Machine using New-ProvMachine

    image
  3. Add the machine using New-BrokerMachine

    image

Popular posts from this blog

Get local computer UUID/GUID using Windows Powershell

gPLink and gPOptions

PSLoggedOn Getting Started on Windows Server 2008 R2