Citrix Optimizer with HP thin clients
Citrix have a great tool called Citrix optimizer that analyze you HP thin Windows clients. You must create a user account to download the tool.
The tool comes as a zipped file all you have to do is unzip it and run the exe file on the thin client (see pic 1).
Pic 1 unzipped files of Citrix Optimizer
When you start Citrix Optimizer you have some choices to make. I choose to run local templates and the windows version my thin client runs is 1607 LTSB (see pic 2).
Pic 2 Citrix Optimizer select template
After choosing which version of windows you want to evaluate, just press analyze (see pic 3).
Pic 3 Citrix optimizer Analyze
The tool is quite fast and goes through services and other things that can be good to optimize (see pic 4).
Pic 4 Showing the analyzing phase
Before you start to optimize it´s a good idé to read the result. Click on the view result and a webbrowser will open the report (see pic 5).
Pic 5 Citrix optimizer report
And yes you can unlink and link what you want to optimize if you have some services or built-in apps that you don´t want to optimize. Just click Optimize and the tool will start to optimize your thin client.
Just some advice, optimize all Xbox services and scheduled tasks. Delivery optimization and Branch Cache is also good to optimize. Xbox Live Auth Manager, Xbox Live Game Save, Xbox Live Networking Service, XblgameSaveTask, and XblGameSaveTaskLogon.
If you want to roll back your changes you can do that with the PowerShell script in the folder. In the "logs" folder you will find a folder with the date when you run the optimization (see pic 6).
Pic 6 Execute_History.xml with the date and time
If you run the Powershell script “CtxOptimizerEngine.ps1” with the execute xml file you can roll back the changes.
.\CtxOptimizerEngine.ps1 -source C:\Temp\CitrixOptimizer\Logs\2019-09-2714-03-18\Execute_history.xml -Mode Rollback
