Storefront Receiver

Citrix Storefront 2 (Preview) vs WebInterface

Citrix Storefront 2 (Preview) vs WebInterface

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

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

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)

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)

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

Receiver Storefront – adding a server to a server group

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