Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Rebuilding a Desktop Delivery Controller

After a windows update, a desktop delivery controller was BSOD. After other resources rebuilt the server and reintroducing the server back to the XenDesktop 5.6 farm, it didn't work fully as you expect. The broker service wasn't starting and things weren't quite right. So rebuilding the server is what needs to be done.

The high-level planned steps are below:

1. Backup XenDesktop farm database
2. Run evict script http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134486
3. Turn over server for Wintel rebuild
4. Install DDC software

I'll update with results.

1 comment:

  1. Just to update as promised, I would have been better off building the server as new and introducing it to the farm under a new name. Rebuilding was a debacle and introduced several issues, which outweighed the significance of the issues I was trying to avoid.

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