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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23-Nov-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : Citrix, Microsoft, Presentation Server 4, Presentation Server 4.5, Provisioning Server 5, Receiver, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Windows XP, XenApp 5, XenApp Plugin
Tags: ICA Client, ICA version, Online Plug-in, Using Edgesight, XenApp Plugin
This information can be very useful, because as you might know, there are build numbers and version numbers, and it become a mess very fast when you try to list all ICA client version connecting your Citrix Presentation / XenApp servers.
4.00.581
4.00.686
4.20.715
4.20.727
4.20.741
4.21.779
6.00.910
6.01.963
6.01.964
6.01.967
6.20.985
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16-Oct-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
I have a new issue… I am updating all Edgesight XenApp agents to 5.2 and I have problem on only some servers. These servers have remapped drivers ( m: & n: ) and run Windows 2003 R2 Sp2. The installation is successful without any error but after a reboot the service doesn’t want to start with the message : “The Citrix System Monitoring Agent service on Local Computer started and the stopped…”
In Event Logs
Type: Error
Event Source: Citrix System Monitoring Agent
Event Category: None
Event ID: 34
Date: 16/10/2009
Time: 09:49:32
User: AUTORITE NT\SYSTEM
Computer: EMCXPA000
Description:
The Citrix System Monitoring Agent was unable to startup. Please consult the Sys_event_txt.txt agent log in your data directory for details.
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23-Sep-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
To completely disable DEP in Windows Server 2003, perform the following with administrative credentials:
1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Tools > Folder Options > View
3. Uncheck Hide Protected operating system files (Recommended) and Hide extensions for known file types
4. Click apply > OK
5. Browse to C:\
6. Right click on boot.ini, select properties and ensure the “read-only†tab is unchecked and click OK
7. Edit boot.ini
8. Modify the  /noexecute=
For example, set  /noexecute=AlwaysOff to disasble DEP entirely
9. File > Save, close boot.ini file
10. Right click on boot.ini, select properties and ensure the “read-only†tab is checked and click OK
11. Reboot the computer
02-Aug-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
I need to install Citrix Password Manager to rehearse my next Citrix exam 1Y0-327. This video show you how to setup this production with Active Directory integration and private certificate. My previous video about this setup has been replace because I didn’t knew the product well enought to make a good and usefull video.
Before begining seting up your own Citrix Password Manager, you need to have access to an intergration Active Directory. I show in this video how to setup certificat services and options you need to install on your Windows 2003.
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24-Jun-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
This is the second time I have this issue, when clicking on a publish application on the Citrix WebInterface I get this weir message : ERROR: The MetaFrame servers reported that the alternate address cannot be found. I mean weird because I’m on a LAN and I don’t cross any subnet or different VLAN and there is no alernate address configured on these servers.
Error Message at the bottom of my WI :
 
It looks like the LHC (Local Host Cache) doesn’t contain valid informations. And the only way to be sure about that one is to simply recreate the Local Host Cache.
So login on the computer and do as follow :
26-Feb-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
This video shows how to install Citrix XenDesktop 3 on Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 SP2. I was very surprise at first because I wasn’t able to install Citrix XenDesktop 3 on Microsoft Windows 2008 (?!) This product is less than one week old and Microsoft Windows 2008 is not supported yet.
In this video, I show how to install Microsoft SQL Express 2005 then Citrix XenDesktop 3. The next step will be as follow :
- How to install the Desktop Receiver.
- How to use Citrix XenDesktop 3 with Provisioning Server 5 and XenServer 5 or VMWare ESX.
- How to intergrate Portable Profile 2 with Citrix XenDesktop 3.
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21-Jan-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
This is a short guide to install with the basic requirements the Citrix Web Interface 5.0.1 on a Windows 2003 R2 / sp2. First you have to install IIS Components from the add/remove program in the control panel. If you don’t know what to install request more information I will post screenshot of component you need to choose. After we need to install Framework 3.5 SP1 from Microsoft. You need to install Microsoft Visual J# Net 2.
From here begin the installation of Citrix Web Interface, first we need to install Web Interface 5.0.1 Access Management Console Extension and then we can begin to deploy the Web Interface installer 5.0.1 and you can watch the installation of the two Citrix components in the video bellow :
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29-Nov-2008
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : Citrix, Edgesight 5, Microsoft, Windows 2003
Tags: -2147217900, 2005, 2008, Citrix, database, edgesight, error, nlb, sql server, vmware esx, Windows 2003, XenApp
During my experimental EdgeSight setup, I have to face different error, mostly because everything was not ready or not well configure on my side but it can happen.
I have install two Edgesight web server (Esx nlb) and two SQL Reporting Services server (Esx nlb too) with a database store on a SQL 2005 cluster.
I didn’t had the hand on the setup of the two nlb so things where a bit hard to understand since there is quiet a lot of issue and things to do to enable two VMWare ESX nlb communication. (I’m still working on it, any informations are welcome 
)
I will update this post everytime I will have an error, I hope it will help some of you.
- Error : Setup was unable to locate the requiered SQL Server Client Tools. The SQL Server Client Tools can usually be located on the SQL Server installation disk.
You just have to install client components of SQL Server 2005 (or 2008) and RTM first
