Category: XenApp 5.0

Script to run when you're on Citrix or Terminal Server but not on-premises (or vice versa)

Although it may seem a bit simple, I'm forced to have to post this, since many people have asked me for it and to put it here… How is it free… 😉 Well, is as simple as a script that will be executed at the login login of the users of our Active Directory, through policies or GPOs. There are many times that we want users to run a certain script when they're on Citrix but not when they're on-premises, or the other way around 😉 when they are in the local that they execute a certain script, but when they are in Citrix or Terminal Services they are not.

Using GOURAMI FASe in XenApp Environments

This utility (for a fee) will allow us to perform many tasks more comfortably or at least faster than through Citrix XenApp consoles. The other day I needed to change three parameters in almost 500 Published Applications, in the face of that we are sold out and we cannot do 'anything' in principle. Or we get into DB level (never) or we are looking for some utility that will make our lives easier, In this case, it is even cheaper for the customer to acquire this application than to pay for our hours, since 'only’ slope 100$. Even so, we can download it from its official website and be able to execute all the tasks in DEMO mode (that is, with restrictions) in www.gourami.eu. FASe is from the manufacturer GOURAMI and is a package of applications: – Published Applications Utility – PAU: Allows you to modify any configuration to all Citrix published applications in bulk. – Farm Documentor: Generate a […]

ClearType on XenApp

ClearType is a feature designed by Microsoft to improve the user experience and make reading text on monitors more comfortable (especially on LCDs), by smoothing the outline of the text. This feature could not be enabled in XenApp ICA sessions 4.5 running on Windows 2003, Microsoft explains the problem as follows: “The option to enable the Font smoothing feature is not available in the Windows Server version of RDC 2003 that was published. Windows Server 2003 disables the Font smoothing feature on all remote connections by default. These connections include connections established through RDC 6.0.”

Using XenAppPrep 2.0 to clone XenApp servers 4.5 and XenApp 5.0

There is a utility that we can use to clone Citrix XenApp servers 4.5 o Citrix XenApp 5.0, called XenAppPrep, currently in its version 2.0. Its official website (HTTP://support.citrix.com/article/CTX116063), we can download it from AKI. We can use it to create Citrix Provisioning Server vDisks (HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=763) or to create templates from XenServer or VMware ESX for example. As well as to clone it on a regular basis with a Ghost or whatever…

Citrix WI and PNA Balancing with NLB: Configuring Web Interface and Program Neighborhood Agent Groups for Balancing with Network Load Balancing

This document is quite useful if what we have is several servers with the Web Interface service or with the Program Neighborhood Agent and what we want is to balance between them, that is, if one of the servers goes down or we turn it off, we don't have to do anything on the users' PCs so that they continue to work normally. To do this, it will be necessary to configure it on servers that have W.I.. a cluster with NLB, I mean, create an IP address “virtual” to which clients will connect and this IP address “virtual” connect to hosts that are lifted, to one server or another; both for W.I. How to stop PNA.

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.