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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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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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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01-Oct-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Reference problem post : http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1409280
Here is my environment : Windows 2008 SP2 with MUI pack installed and Citrix XenApp 5 with latest hotfixes and Citrix Edgesight XenApp Agent 5.1 . I get this error when I open a console on the XenApp servers and it seems to popup in some user’s session…
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31-May-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
To day I read a very interresting blog, and I want to share it because now the service pack 2 for Windows Vista and 2008 is out, we have to know what’s inside !
And Aaron Parker did the work and just blog all the terminal server related fix include in the SP2 :
As you’re most likely aware, Microsoft has recently made available Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2. If you would like to know the details of every single fix and feature in the service pack, download this spreadsheet: Hotfix and Security Update List: Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2.
23-Feb-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Now we know how to install Citrix Provisioning Server 5 on Windows 2008 (Â Citrix Provisioning Server 5 on Windows 2008Â ) and how to deploy the ‘client’ on a target device (Â Â ) we need to know to learn how everything works together.
This video shows how to configure Citrix Provisioning Server 5 and how to create the first template then build a virtual hard disk from scratch and share it for 2 or more Virtual Machine.Â
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21-Feb-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : Citrix, Microsoft, Provisioning Server 5, Windows 2008
Tags: Citrix, Citrix Provisioning Server 5, guide, guru, how to, Installation, Quick Install, Windows 2008
This quick installation will provide you the ability to test the product and run all the test you need to understand the way Provioning Server can change your point of view on provioning workstations and / or servers. This is a stand alone installation, which mean everything is install on the same server, DHCP, Pxe Boot, SQL Database, and TFTP server. No Active Directory interaction and no impact on the PRODUCTION network (be carefull to work in a separate VLan or on a close network.
At first you need to download Citrix Provisioning Server 5 here, after you need to download and install Microsoft Framework 3.5Sp1 from here, and optionaly, download and install Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5 from here.
The video begin after the installation of the Framework 3.5Sp1. The first step in the video is the installation of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, you’ll find it with the Citrix Provisioning Server installation files.
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13-Dec-2008
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Quick quide to show how to setup a new forest on Windows 2008 fresh install. I leaved this computer in DHCP to show and make you remember you have a fixe IP address an if you’re not using IPv6 you have to disable it.
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29-Nov-2008
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : Citrix, Microsoft, Windows 2008, XenApp 5
Tags: Citrix, guide, guru, Installation, metaframe, Microsoft, presentation server, terminal server, Windows 2008, XenApp
Installing Citrix XenApp is very easy but you have to know some tips before running an installation of this product. First you begin with a clean Windows 2008, up2date. The you’ll have to install Java JRE 1.6.0_05 then install the framework .net 3.5 and after you can install Visual C++ runtimes located on the DVD of XenApp 5 (in \support\vcredist x86 and x64) and you’ll maybe need to install Microsoft Primary Interoperability Assembly 2005 located on the DVD too (in \Administration\Access Management Console\Setup\vs_piaredist.exe)
Of course you need to have a licence server and think about the way you want to create (or join)Â an existing farm and the way you will build your datastore before. There is three easy way, local access database, with the SQLExpress localted on the DVD (in \Support\SqlExpress_2005_SP2) or a SQL Database.
Then you’re ready to go.
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