Category: XenApp 5.0

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.

How to clone a Citrix Presentation Server or XenApp server

This procedure explains in detail how to clone a Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 or Citrix Presentation Server 4.5. The idea is if we already have a server in the farm installed and with the applications installed, to avoid this, having to reinstall them all and Citrix PS back on it. It will depend on whether the DB is Access or SQL, but to do so we would modify the script that we will discuss below, It works for both databases. Let's start with the explanation.

Publish apps to Citrix XenApp

Once all of the above is configured, we are now going to publish the applications that we want clients to connect to, logically we must first install them on the Presentation Server, In my example, we'll make it easier for customers to access Microsoft Office applications 2007, First then, I will install the Office 2007 so I don't order the CD and I'll update it, Now we're going to publish the apps that I'm interested in users accessing.

Citrix Application Streaming on XenApp

This is the main feature of the version 4.5 from Citrix, Application Streaming, This document explains how to use it. Application Streaming is nothing more than being able to use a Citrix application as if it were installed on our computer but without being, not just execute it (That's publishing an app as normal) otherwise, it would be distributed on the PCs and they could use it without connectivity to the Citrix server. The following steps need to be taken:

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

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 […]

Fix Citrix Default Printers Problem

Sometimes, Citrix modifies users' default printer, They may have a printer set as the default and certain users may change it to the default printer on the servers. Previous steps: Logically, we have had to configure the Citrix policies in which it is indicated that the default printer is the client and not the server. Have the client printer drivers installed on the Citrix server in case the drivers provided by the user are not compatible. We have to take into account that the user with the problem must be logged into a Citrix server, we will log in to that Citrix server as an Administrator and we will perform the following tasks: