Farm Cleaner

Step 1 – Selecting servers When you start Farm Cleaner it automatically connects to the data store and finds all Citrix servers in your XenApp environment. The servers are presented in a list view and you are now able to select the servers you want to clean. The white box in front of the server name indicated it will be processed later on. Step 2 – Calculate Size Once the servers are selected as described in step 1, you now can find out how much space the profile folder for each server is. Because profiles are usually built up with very many small files, this task can take a considerable time! Step 3 – Options In the options menu you can select to clean: -Profile folder -Spool folder -Temp folder In most cases not all profile folder have to be deleted. For example, the ‘all users’ folder needs to stay in the ‘documents and settings’ folder on the server. Here is a complete list of folders Farm Cleaner automatically skips: -administrator -all users -ctx_smauser -dafault user -localservice -networkservice -schedtaskuser -ctx_cpscuser Step 4 – delete the folders Press the ‘Delete folders’ button to start cleaning the server(s). This job can also take a long time depending on how many servers and profiles have to be processed. Once the job has finished, you get a nice overview of the job outcome. Limitations, known issue’s -Deletion of file is use usually fail. There is no fix for this. -The account that runs Farm Cleaner must have full rights to the files/folders being deleted. Command line options: Farm Cleaner comes with a nice GUI, but it’s also possible to clean your farm using command line options, here is a complete list of the command line options: System requirements administrator account Citrix Presentation Server/XenApp 4.0 or newer .NET framework 2.0

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