Category: Citrix

Configuring profiles for XenApp or XenDesktop with Citrix Profile Management 3

Well, We finally have a new version of salvation for those of us who work with roaming profile environments, the great Citrix Profile Management product 3.0 that will help us manage our roaming profiles using Active Directory policies. The Profile Management agent must be installed on the XenApp servers and these GPOs must be configured with the parameters that interest us, we can even migrate from a traditional configuration of mobile profiles with CPM.

Migrating to Citrix XenApp 6

The past 24 Citrix finally released its latest version of XenApp, in this document we will see how to bring our Citrix XenApp environment 4.5 o Citrix XenApp 5 to this new Citrix XenApp version 6. Of course,, as XenApp 6 only supports Windows 2008 R2 (x64) we will not be able to upgrade directly on our current XenApp servers, we will have to export all its configuration with a tool provided by Citrix called Citrix XenApp Migration Tool and import it into the new environment. So we will have to set up the new environment on another server beforehand, performing a clean/new installation, creating a new community and subsequently, We would have to reinstall the applications with the same configurations as in the previous environment. Apparently an unpleasant migration, But of course, all this is due to the need to mount it under Windows 2008 R2 that will provide us with greater performance.

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 […]

Checking Load Balancing in Citrix XenApp 6

Today we see a Citrix utility that will help us check the correct functioning of load balancing in our Citrix XenApp communities 6. It is a tool that will simulate the process of loading a specific application with a specific user/group (even indicating a computer name and/or IP address). We will be able to obtain load information from XenApp servers, Load Balancing Policies, Working Group Information (new), Order of preferences…

Installing the first Citrix XenApp server 6

Once again Citrix releases a new version of its best-known product, XenApp or formerly Presentation Server; this time Citrix XenApp 6. In this document, we'll look at how to perform the first XenApp installation 6, which is becoming more automated every day, since in this version it will directly install all the necessary Software prerequisites. Increases end-user productivity as it only works under Windows Server 2008 R2 with 64 Bit. It also comes with HDX improvements (High Definition, improvements in multimedia and especially VoIP, Increased USB device support…), XenDesktop integration 4 (Complete Desktop Virtualization Solution…), Simplicity of administration (also PowerShell support, Workgroup servers, Console Integration, integration of policies with Active Directory,), integrates with Microsoft App-V, improvements in service isolation or IEA…

Using ThinStation to Reuse Computers as a Thin Client

I've been working with this kind of wonder for a long time, It is an ideal for companies, Incredible savings of all kinds, The use of thin client philosophy in an organization. In this document we will see a free project that allows us to use any computer and convert it into a light computer or thinclient. There are other Linux distributions that are also based on this philosophy, And this seems to me to be the best, since it has a lot of packages that we can add to the posts and people who contribute.

Using Citrix Branch Repeater (WanScaler Virtualized!)

We start, for those of us who knew the Citrix WANScaler product which is a physical appliance, Citrix has now renamed this product to Citrix Branch Repeater. This product is available in its apliance version as until now and also in an apliance under a Microsoft Windows operating system 2003 o Windows 2008. This product and its family are traffic optimizers, This is, if we have several delegations and there is traffic between them, With these products we can save exaggerated times when sending files or any type of traffic, since Branch Repeater will optimize all traffic that passes through, based on package optimization, by packet frames, caches data structure, and when more packages with the same patterns pass through, that data will not be sent, since he has them searched.

Publishing a shortcut to Citrix XenApp

All of us who use Citrix XenApp to publish apps have come across an app that resists being published, either because it has characters that we can't enter in the path, or why it has a somewhat strange command line, This is for example more than two parameters and this is not supported. To solve this type of incident, We can take advantage of the shortcut left by the manufacturer of the application, since in a shortcut (.lnk) it can have any character or all the parameters that such an application has.

Using Citrix XenApp PowerShell

One who is ignorant of life did not know that this existed! I was looking for how to create lists of applications by filtering certain characteristics or with certain conditions until I found that XenApp has a command line! Well, a script execution shell, that allows us to perform anything under command! Just like Microsoft's PowerShell on its servers, XenApp has a PowerShell or also called XenApp Commands. For example, a utility that can be given to it, With a command we can export all the information of the applications that we have published with all their features, Configured Users… and with another command we can import them. This as a backup is not bad at all!