Category: Access Essentials

Configuring Citrix Merchandising Server and Client Distribution with Citrix Receiver

Today we see one of the latest Citrix novelties, your Merchandising Server product together with your Receiver client. The Citrix Merchandising Server product offers us a perfect distribution of any type of customer (or plug-in) to our network teams, apart from always keeping them updated as it continuously checks for new developments! We can create a series of rules to distribute the plugin that interests us to whoever and how we are interested. Of course,, to distribute the plugins, we will need Citrix Receiver in the installed stations, being able to make a remote and silent installation in any way (with Microsoft GPO's…), once you have Citrix Receiver, it will know if you should install a plugin or not, Fully transparent to the user! Of course, it is free for those who have a Citrix environment since it does not require a license, And if we give it some thought we can see that we can distribute other types of software […]

Free and interesting utilities for Citrix environments

In this document we see a series of quite interesting utilities, especially for Citrix environments, although there are some for Microsoft or VMware environments, They are all taken from the http website://ctxadmtools.musumeci.com.ar, We can download all of them in the pack called: CtxAdmTools. With them we will be able to list, export, Import and make bulk modifications in our Citrix communities, it is always quite interesting to be able to export something in case the DB gets corrupted, ¿No?

Additional Configurations on a Presentation Server or XenApp

This procedure explains a variety of topics, I put them all in the same document, but they would be the following topics: ICA Protocol Configurations – AKI Connect to a User Session – AKI Create additional Citrix administrators – AKI Server/Application Performance Improvement and Connectivity – AKI Isolation Environments for Applications (IEA – Aplication Isolation Enviroments) – AKI Print Themes: Printers and drivers – AKI Zones – AKI Ensure connectivity by enabling Citrix SSL handover and raising the level of encryption – HERE

Using Citrix User Profile Manager – Citrix UPM

Citrix User Profile Manager is a new Citrix product that we hope will help us take some of the headaches away. It is well known that in Citrix environments one of the biggest problems is the management of mobile profiles, With this new app we hope to make everything a little easier. So let's not wait any longer and download the application, which is free from the Citrix website in MyCitrix: HERE. It is a utility that integrates with Active Directory, since what it generates in itself is a template that we must import into a policy to later configure it and apply it to users.

Using Citrix Stress Printers

En este documento veremos cómo se usa Citrix Stress Printers para testear un entorno Citrix con múltiples impresoras. Usaremos una herramienta de Citrix llamada Stress Printers, con esta utilidad podremos simular la carga que sufre un servidor cuando crea las impresoras en el logon de los usuarios. Podremos configurar cuantas impresoras queremos que nos cree (simulando un logon de un usuario), el tiempo que queremos que espere para borrarlas (simulando un logoff de un usuario) y cuantas veces queremos que repita este proceso. Este es un proceso que se debe realizar en los servidores Citrix Presentation Server o Citrix XenApp.

Hide Local Drives on Citrix Servers

This procedure explains how to hide the local drives of a Citrix server so that users when working against published applications cannot store anything on the server's disks. It is simply a matter of editing a policy template that we will then apply through a policy to the users we are interested in not seeing the server units. This policy can NOT be applied only to the server, rather, it is a user policy, so it must be applied to a user OU. Typically, the Citrix server has letters assigned to it other than C and D, the normal thing would be M, N… and so on respectively, then, We will run into a problem when applying the policy because our disk drives do not come. This document explains how to customize this policy with our disk drives

Create a website in Web Interface and connect to it

Una forma cómoda de que se nos conecten los usuarios, o por lo menos desde internet para no tener que hacer grandes configuraciones o explicaciones a ellos, es habilitar un sitio web para que se conecten a las aplicaciones. En este procedimiento se explica cómo habilitar este sitio y la forma de acceder como si fueramos un usuario final.

Configurations to be made on an additional server

Estas configuraciones hay que hacerlas de forma obligatoria siempre que tengamos más de un servidor en la comunidad. Simplemente es configurar un balanceo de carga para que gestione las aplicaciones y el rendimiento en los servidores, que no se llene un servidor de usuarios teniendo otro disponible, podemos crear diferentes patrones de carga para hacer balanceo de usuarios. En mi ejemplo creare un balanceo de carga para diez usuarios máximos por servidor. Después al meter el segundo servidor en la comunidad tendre que configurar las aplicaciones publicadas que se ejecuten en diferentes servidores, that is, que si Word está publicado en el servidor 1, habrá que publicarlo también en el servidor 2 para que los usuarios se conecten indiferentemente a uno u otro servidor. Y al final configuraremos un perfil móvil a todos los usuarios que se conecten a los servidores Metaframe. Imaginaros que personalizan una aplicación publicada (Word) Yes […]