Category: XenApp 5.0

Installation, Configuring and Using Citrix SmartAuditor

In this document we see one of the utilities that can help us obtain more information about incidents we have with our Citrix XenApp environment. We will see the installation, Citrix SmartAuditor Setup and Operation, which is a utility that will allow us to record the users' sessions on video, being able to notify them or not that they are being recorded, With this we can see how users work and we could detect errors (It can even serve other types of purposes such as demonstrating the correct work of an employee…) is yet another help provided by Citrix for XenApp monitoring.

Using Citrix Dazzle

Citrix presented this month at the Citrix Synergy™ fair a new utility in order to facilitate the day-to-day life and use of Citrix for our users, called Citrix Dazzle. It's a new manager or self-service for applications, and makes it easier for users (No training) Using Citrix Apps (according to them as 'simple as turning on a TV'). It is distributed together with Citrix Receiver in plugin mode and is valid for both XenApp and XenDesktop, this may make us think that the Citrix Web Interface has a news program left. The only downside (For now), that does not have multi-languages.

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.

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.

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!

Uninstalling and installing Citrix clients automatically

Well, for those who need to uninstall a Citrix client from one or all computers on the network, be it a current customer or an old one to replace it with a new one if possible personalized (We can be guided by this: HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=676), there is a utility from a friend of mine called UNICA de Gourami that is totally free and runs by command line. With this program we will be able to uninstall any version of the Citrix client from the version 4.0 to the current one 11.0 o XenApp Plugin. Apart from putting parameters to the command we can put the file to install after a successful uninstallation, another parameter to put a message while performing the process and another to generate a LOG file with the information of what happens.

Deploy the custom XenApp Plugin client in Citrix Web Interface 5.1

If we want to put the latest version of the Citrix client on our web Interface, every time someone connects us with an obsolete client and also be able to customize the installer a little to make it even easier to connect, since those who connect are not Citrix experts, We can combine several functionalities. This document explains how to do this with the native client, if you need to have all the customers, it would be enough to copy the Clients folder from the Citrix CD to the Web Interface directory.

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?