A new version of Strorefront is coming along with XenDesktop 7. There are a lot of change in this version comparing to the previous one but first here is a quick internal architecture of Storefront Services : What have changed with Storefront ? No more external database HTML5 Client improved Desktop Appliance Site Session pre-launch (for XenApp … Continued
Citrix CloudGateway 2.5 – Configuration
One more time for those who won’t have time to try another release here is a short and simple blog about Citrix CloudGateway 2.5, you’ll be able to read and see accross this blog post different steps and screens to setup the AppControler. New version are coming along with every time as much new features … Continued
Citrix Excalibur Tech Preview – Installation
Now we can play with Excalibur, I will split Overview, Installation and Configuration into 3 separate blog, so you can check it ASAP and navigate more easily in the blog part you need to check. Of course this blog is here to give you an overview of this new release for the one who don’t … Continued
Citrix Excalibur Tech Preview
As many of you might know Citrix are kind of melting all there product in one, a Cloud product. The project name is Avalon, with two releases until next year named Excalibur (what we will speak about in this blog post) and Merlin coming later next year. First, I spoke with many customers and other … Continued
Microsoft NLB with CloudGateway (Receiver Storefront)
Many time at many of my customer place I had to install WebInterface and bring high availability for this front web. The first thing coming in my mind every time and the first question I have is : “Ok, do you have an appliance (F5, NetScaler) to enable the load balancing ?” Most of the … Continued
WebInterface vs Receiver Storefront (CloudGateway)
CloudGateway is here to replace the good old WebInterface (end of support 2015) as WebInterface is one product, CloudGateway is a marketing name for several products : CloudGateway Express (Free) = Receiver Storefront + Access Gateway VPX CloudGateway Enterprise ($$$) = Receiver Storefront + Access Gateway + AppController If we want to compare the WebInterface … Continued
Citrix Synergy San Francisco 2012 highlights
Every year I cross half of the planet to go over the United States in San Francisco to attend Citrix Synergy event. This is every time very exciting, meeting new people, friends, geeks and of course doing some business. This year was different as I didn’t had time to go to all the session I … Continued
Receiver Storefront – adding a server to a server group
As I’m going through high availability architecture design for some customer with CloudGateway features, Receiver Storefront, I wanted to try in my XenServer @ home lab the “Join existing server group” option build in Receiver Storefront when you launch it for the first time. My first server already setup is SUOMIWEB02 and I want to … Continued









