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.

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…

Consolidating snapshots on VMware

There are times when for one reason or another a VMware datastore fills up, it's usually because of 'fault’ from a snaphost that doesn't account for the maximum size of the disk definition. On certain occasions when the datastore is completely full, we will not even be able to delete the snapshot, Not even being able to start the machine; So we're lost. A 'solution'’ is to extend the LUN, then expand the datastore and that's it, We retried what we wanted. Sometimes this is not possible, or is it directly a ñapa; what we have to do is consolidate our disks with their snapshots on a temporary LUN and finally return everything to its original datastore without snapshots or so on, Here's the solution.

Encrypting our hard drive with TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt is a great utility that will allow us to encrypt our hard drives, are local, Remote, USB, pen drive, Sd… Thanks to this utility we will avoid any loss of information through theft or loss of our laptop or external media, The decryption form being transparent and fast for our users. Uses different encryption algorithms (AES, Serpent and Twofish or a combination of them). We could even create a hidden partition with a hidden operating system in case we were forced to hand over our password, to give them false information! Can be used on Windows XP/2000/2003/Vista/7, Mac OS X, Linux… Of course it is free! (but not GNU). How to decrypt a password or a file can be used (Keyfile) whatever each one prefers, being able to decrypt the system disk when starting the computer or if we take the disk out and connect it to another computer, if you have TrueCrypt installed it would also be enough. The […]

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.