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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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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20-May-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
I had a new toy and I’m typing this news with it, this is my new Asus eeepc 1000 he. This is really cool, very small and quite powerfull, I have choose to deploy Windows 7 on it and I’m very surprise it works perfectly. This is very very cool with Citrix Receiver I can connect from everywhere at work, when I’m in the train, at a customer office etc etc.

So just to say this new toy took me some time and now I’m late on eveything
The XenDesktop installation and setup with PVS is almost complete, I just have to type some word and upload the video, it’s very simple and will allow you to setup you own XenDesktop. I have also setup a XenServer 5.5 beta 1 and a Merchandising Server, I would have like to setup a Dazzle server but the beta is not available yet… Everything should popup very soon in here so stay tune !
16-May-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : Merchandising Server
Tags: Citrix, Citrix Merchandising Server, Citrix Plugins, Citrix Receiver, Communications plug-in, Merchandising, Offline app plug-in, Online app plug-in, Plugins, Receiver, Secure access plug-in - enterprise
Citrix deliver us a new way to connect to Citrix infrastructure, a new approach to access the application delivery architecture. Exit the classic ICA Client formely know as Client Citrix ICA and on the late XenApp Plugin.

The installation is very basic, you have to install Citrix Receiver to be able to deploy plugin after. Plugins are listed as follow :