This procedure explains how to update a Citrix community, let's say we have one or more servers with Presentation Server 4.0 and we want to migrate this community to new servers to retire the old servers, This would be the procedure. Because if you want to have a mixed community with both versions, you could, they would simply have to join the existing community. In this case we are going to retire the old servers, you will have to move the DB in case it is an Access or MSDE to another server with SQL version 2005; if the database is on a SQL server external to these Presentation Servers, It could stay where it is. In this procedure we will migrate the community to other servers with the 4.5 and move the database from MSDE to a SQL 2005. Logically, all its functions will have to be transferred, The Applications, The Services […]

This procedure explains how to upgrade a single Citrix server that is running 3.0 to the version 4.5. Simply what we will have to do is update the entire environment 3.0 to the 4.5, we need this server to already have a database in MSDE 2000 (otherwise, see how to migrate from Access to MSDE – HERE). The steps would be as follows, first, Logically run with the latest versions: do a Windows Update on the server and keep it updated; and logically also with Citrix patches, have the Citrix server updated with the latest Rollups/patches. After that, we'll update all Citrix components as normal, even Presentation Server, We have to migrate everything to the environment 4.5, as if it were a normal installation (HERE) and tell us that we're upgrading, Confirm, and at the end of the entire update we will continue to receive IMA errors that do not start the DB, it's logically because he's running in […]