10-Mar-2010
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Citrix XenApp 6 Sets New Standard in On-Demand App Delivery for Physical and Virtual Desktops
New Release Simplifies Management, Enhances Scalability and Expands High-Definition Support for Macs, Smart Phones and Microsoft Platforms
3/10/2010 » SANTA CLARA, CA » Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), today announced Citrix® XenApp™ 6, the de facto standard for centralizing applications in the datacenter and delivering them as an on-demand service to both physical and virtual desktops. XenApp 6 offers major new enhancements that simplify computing for IT, including easier central management, enhanced enterprise scalability and seamless integration with Microsoft technologies like App-V and Windows Server 2008 R2. XenApp 6 also improves productivity for end users with extensive new high-definition HDX™ technology enhancements and simplified self-service access to apps from any device, including PCs, Macs, laptops and smart phones.
The new enhancements to XenApp 6 will also be available as an integrated feature of the company’s comprehensive desktop virtualization solution, Citrix XenDesktop™ 4. Mainstream adoption of desktop virtualization requires a proven, scalable solution with the ability to deliver any type of virtual desktop to any user on any device, and to be able to interchange delivery technologies at any time. With more than half the ROI of virtual desktops coming from centralized app management, this integration provides an unparalleled advantage over any other desktop virtualization solution on the market today. This powerful combination makes it easy for customers to deliver apps as an on-demand service to any user, on any device, across a broad range of both physical and virtual desktops.
03-Mar-2010
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : Apple, Citrix, Mac OSx Snow Leopard, Secure Gateway VPX, XenApp 5, XenApp 6, XenApp Plugin, XenServer 5.5
Tags: Apple, CAG, Citrix, Citrix Access Gateway, Error 61, Mac, Mac OSx, SSL, SSL Error 61, XenApp
In this post I explain how I tried to troubleshoot this issue, if you need the solution, go at the end of this post.
My company (Activlan) had to renew our certificate installed on our Citrix Secure Gateway 3.1.3. As you might know, Citrix has issued some virtual appliance and I had to chose between, Citrix Access Gateway 4.6.2 VPX and Netscaller VPX Express (Free !). My choice was to integrate a Citrix Access Gateway (CAG) mainly because we are using other product to manage VPN to all our customers and I wanted to install what I needed, nothing less, nothing more.
So here we go, I got my xva file from MyCitrix account and I just deploy it on our XenServer, very easy, very simple, just some clicks. Once installed and basics configuration set, I had to generate the CSR (Certificate Signing Request) and wait for Verisign to send me the certificate I had to use with the CAG. This was a big adventure and of course I should have read the manual before, and configuration isn’t so easy but I guess when you do it all day long you begin to know everything and I can say now, I know how to troubleshoot a CAG from the client side to the Web Interface.
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21-Feb-2010
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : ArchY.net Site, Citrix, Presentation Server 4, Presentation Server 4.5, Windows 2008 R2, XenApp 5, XenApp 6
Tags: Citrix, Microsoft, Tuning Tips, Windows 2008 R2, XenApp
There are many post around to tune Citrix XenApp in many ways and there are even more to tune Microsoft Windows 2008 R2.
I want to begin a new document as we had with Citrix Metaframe 1.8 tuning tips on Microsoft Windows NT4 TSE. This was a great document and very helpfull in many way.
If you have any ideas, agree on what I will write or disagree, I take everything to form a big document available online for everyone.
First I would like to know if we should create a wiki-like to let everyone working on the document and add/change at will, what do you think ?
Which is the best way to realize Citrix XenApp tuning tips
- A wiki where everyone can add/change (69%, 9 Votes)
- A thread on the forum (31%, 4 Votes)
- By email (0%, 0 Votes)
- Another (0%, 0 Votes)
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If you choose other please add a comment bellow !
19-Feb-2010
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Unattended installation is very usefull in large XenApp farm, of course if you’re deploying one server per two month you might not be interessed by this process automation but this is always interresting to know this kind of tips. Scripts bellow are example I use every day in production to install servers, of course its needs to be change and adapt to your own settings and of course if you have some ideas to share, I take it !
This unattended example assume you have only one network card enable, a local XenApp source installation file and IP address type 192.168.3 / 192.168.10 / 192.168.200 / 10.113 / 10.112. This file allow to join an existing farm named CTX_TEST with a datastore hosted on a SQL server. Finally, you need to create one folder per farm inside your XenApp source folder if you are automating multi farm setup.
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16-Feb-2010
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
ArchY.net was already mobile compliant, but a bit ugly 
Not anymore ! Check this out and tell me what do you think about this new interface !
Comments !
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29-Jan-2010
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Update 2 is already here and is double size vompare to the first one, here is some more informations :
This update resolves the network connectivity issues that affected customers with both IPv4 and IPv6 network interfaces enabled who installed Update 1. This issue is described in XenServer 5.5 Update 1 Upgrade Causes Virtual Machines to Lose Network Connectivity.
Additional Changes in Update 2
Addressed an issue where the system was falsely reporting lost access to the HA metadata disk.
Fixed issues upgrading from XenServer 5.0 to the roll-up ISO for XenServer 5.5.
In addition, the XenServer 5.5 documentation was rereleased to coincide with Update 2. While the changes in the documentation are not significant, there are some differences between XenServer 5.5 and XenServer 5.5, Update 2.
You can download it here : http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX124027
You can download the updated ISO files here : http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/4701/XenServer-5.5.0-Update2-install-cd.iso
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13-Jan-2010
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : Citrix, Merchandising Server, Password Manager, Receiver, Single Sign On, SmartAuditor, XenApp 6
Tags: Citrix Merchandising Server, Parra, Single Sign On, SmartAuditor, XenApp 6
Many new features have been updated with XenApp 6 Technical Preview (Project Parra), UPM, Merchandising Server, Single Sign On, SmartAuditor. I will show you in the post the main part (for me) User Profile Manager 3 Tech Prev, a bit about Merchandising Server 1.2 and Single Sign On 4.8.
User Profile Manager 3 Tech. Prev.
Here is a list of new featured inluded in this TP
- Citrix streamed user profiles. With Citrix streamed user profiles, files and folders are synchronized on the local computer only when they are needed, which speeds up logon and logoff. (Registry entries are cached immediately.) This feature includes the following settings in the ADM file.
- Cache entire profile. Profiles are synchronized locally after logon as a background system task, without any feedback to users.
- Active profile write back. Files and folders (but not Registry entries) that are modified can be synchronized to the user store in the middle of a session, before logoff.
- More supported operating systems. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are now supported.
- Diagnostic enhancements. Administrators can now set the computers and groups to be monitored using the Diagnostic Facility in the Daily Management Console. They no longer have to configure logging in the ADM template and force a group policy update (that they may not have permissions for). In addition, new event log messages display the full path to the user store for each user logon.
- For further deployment information, including how to add the ADM file in the download to Group Policy, see the installation topics in the Version 2.1 documentation.
- Installation enhancements. Profile management checks for more errors during installation and, if they are encountered, writes messages to the event log. A new command-line switch installs Profile management without the .ini files that were previously used for configuration.
You can see bellow installation screenshots :
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03-Jan-2010
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Happy New year to you all, and I wish you all the best for 2010. ArchY.net is still a young blog but I post as often as I can between familly life and work (Activlan).
You are more and more to come every day in here to ask and share some experience and I’m very glad some of you find answers and appreciate the time spend to fill this blog.
Don’t forget, if you have any question, you can post it in the forum : http://www.archy.net/forum you just need to register an account on ArchY.net (1 minute)
All the best for 2010 !
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22-Dec-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : Citrix, Merchandising Server, Microsoft, Password Manager, WebInterface 5.x, Windows 2008 R2, XenApp 6
Tags: Citrix, Citrix Merchandising Server, Password Manager, Single Sign On, UPM, User Profile Manager 3.x, webinterface 5, WebInterface 5.3, XenApp 6
The Citrix XenApp 6 Technical Preview is now available and works fine, even if there are some “bugs” I haven’t notice yet a BIG problem. Anyways, XenApp 6 is the most important component of this new release because it goes along with Microsoft Windows 2008 R2, but there are many other new stuff like WebInterface 5.3, Single Sign On 4.8, User Profile Manager 3, unified administration console (Yes !), Merchandising Server 1.2 and many other things Sridhar Mullapudi list in his post here : http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2009/12/15/XENAPP+SNEAK+PEEK+-+XenApp+for+Windows+Server+2008+R2
I will bring some lights about what you can find in the 2,5Gb iso file and compare what’s new and different with what we are use to administrating every day.
More users, faster logons- Get up to 20% more users per server with XenApp on the R2 platform and faster logons with new Profile management streaming technology that improves user profile load times by up to 80%.
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