hanced Virtual Desktop Naming for XenDesktop Setup Wizard

Document ID: CTX119734 / Created On: Jan 8, 2009 / Updated On: Feb 2, 2009
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Summary

This article explains how to configure Citrix XenDesktop Setup Wizard to use the Flexible Desktop Naming functionality. This functionality allows the user to have control of the desktop names generation or the desktop names format. There are three additional ways of generating desktop names for desktops created using the XenDesktop Setup Wizard.

Note: The existing method of generating desktop names is using a numeric index that is suffixed to the common name entered in the Virtual Desktops page of the wizard.

Requirements

CTX119035 - XenDesktop Setup Wizard, Version 2.1.33267 - For Citrix XenDesktop 2.1 - For Windows Server 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit)

Procedure

Use the appropriate procedure, depending on the format of the desktop names.

Procedure 1 - Obtaining Desktop names from a file.

1. Download and install XenDesktop Setup Wizard, Version 2.1.33267

2. Create a file, with a list of desktop host names in one of two forms:

• As part of a table of comma separated values, with the hostnames in the first column (csv files supported)

• A list of hostnames, each on a new line (txt files supported)

3. The following setting in the SetupWizard.exe.config file (found in the directory Program Files\Citrix\XenDesktop Setup Wizard). The appSettings section needs to be uncommented:

4. Ensure that the value attribute (c:\ HostNames.csv") is set to the correct name and path of the file that contains the desktop names.

5. Run the Setup Wizard. On the Virtual Desktops page, all controls will be disabled, and a message appears to indicate that a the file with the desktop names, has been found. The Next button on the wizard will have a validation of the desktop names to be processed.

Additional Information

Desktop names are validated against Active Directory as well as Provisioning Server device names. Duplicate desktop names and empty lines in the file will be silently ignored. If the first line starts with a left bracket ' [ ', it is treated as a header and will be ignored.

Procedure 2 - Generating desktop names with numeric index.

1. Download and install the XenDesktop Setup Wizard, Version 2.1.33267

2. When on the Virtual Desktops page, the '#' symbol(s) can be entered anywhere in the Common Name field, which will act as a mask for the numeric index. The number of consecutive '#' symbols, indicates the minimum number of digits for the index, which may result in the host name being filled in, with leading zeroes , where appropriate.

Additional Information

Examples of using this option:

Number of desktops

Common name

Start index

Resulting desktop names

3

cam###tester

2

cam002tester, cam003tester, cam004tester.

3

cam###tester

9

cam009tester, cam010tester, cam011tester

2

cam#tester

20

cam20tester, cam21tester

Procedure 3 - Generating desktop names with alphabet index.

1. Download and install XenDesktop Setup Wizard, Version 2.1.33267.

2. When on the Virtual Desktops page, the '@' symbol(s) can be entered anywhere in the Common Name field, which acts as a mask for the alphabet index. The number of consecutive '@' symbols, indicates the minimum number of alphabet characters for the index, which may result in the host name being filled in, with leading ‘a’ characters , where appropriate.

Additional Information

Examples of using this option:

Number of desktops

Common name

Start index

Resulting desktop names

3

batch1@@@Test

b

batch1aabTest, batch1aacTest, batch1aadTest.

3

batch1@@@Test

z

batch1aazTest, batch1abaTest, batch1abbTest

2

tester@

ab

testerab, testerac

This document applies to:

XenDesktop 2.1 x32
XenDesktop 2.1 x64
XenDesktop 3.0 x32
XenDesktop 3.0 x64
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