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…
If we want to add a server to an existing XenApp farm 6 in order to distribute the load among the servers or in some other way; simply, we will have to install the XenApp function and join an existing community. This can be done through a GUI with the XenApp server configuration wizard or via the command line.
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…
PowerGUI is one of the best free tools, especially for those of us who work with PowerShell environments and still do not feel comfortable, it is a graphic tool that allows us to create, edit, import, export our Windows PowerShell-based scripts. In this document we will see how to install it that has nothing and how we can organize our scripts, as well as being able to see how to use scripts for VMware, Exchange, Active Directory, SQL, Routers, communications, Internet, Systems Center, Operations Manager, Xen, Hyper-V, Citrix, Skype, Reporting, Twitter … everything that relies on PowerShell.
We start, for those of us who knew the Citrix WANScaler product which is a physical appliance, Citrix has now renamed this product to Citrix Branch Repeater. This product is available in its apliance version as until now and also in an apliance under a Microsoft Windows operating system 2003 o Windows 2008. This product and its family are traffic optimizers, This is, if we have several delegations and there is traffic between them, With these products we can save exaggerated times when sending files or any type of traffic, since Branch Repeater will optimize all traffic that passes through, based on package optimization, by packet frames, caches data structure, and when more packages with the same patterns pass through, that data will not be sent, since he has them searched.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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