Tag: Citrix

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…

Creating a ThinClient on an outdated PC and using it to connect to RDP or ICA

This procedure explains how to get a PC with minimal hardware and without all its components to perfectly boot the software necessary for an employee to work with only their applications. Another advantage would be economic savings, since it would not be necessary to expand all the company's PCs, but only the hardware of the servers. It's centralized management and if a team fails, just restart it and in a minute a minimal Linux distribution would be downloaded that connects it via ICA to the Metaframe server to run only the published applications.

Installing Citrix Metaframe XP SP3

This procedure explains how to install and configure Citrix Metaframe. For those who are not familiar with this program, it can be said that it is like Terminal Services but more focused on end users, Instead of accessing the desktop of a Terminal server directly, users access the published applications that you grant permissions to in Active Directory, These applications are installed on the server and users run them from their workstations, All the performance load falls on the server itself, It is much more secure than Terminal Server, and the end user does not even realize they are working directly on the server.

Citrix Client Installation and Configuration 10.0

This procedure explains how to install and configure the current Citrix client, version 10. The procedure explains how to set up two 'clients'’ from Citrix, the “Program Neighborhood” and the “Program Neighborhood Agent”. – Installing the Citrix Client for Windows XP – HERE – Citrix Client Configuration “Program Neighborhood Agent” – HERE – Citrix Client Configuration “Program Neighborhood” – HERE

Installation, configuración y administración de Citrix XenServer

Citrix XenServer enables enterprises to make Windows and Linux virtual machines available quickly and easily, Manage machines and their related storage and networking resources from a single, easy-to-use management console. It is the product that will virtualize our company's operating systems from Citrix, whether for workstations or for server environments. XenServer is a product that Citrix acquired by buying part of XenSource (the leading company in virtualization through a technology called Xen hypervisor, Open Source Technology). So XenServer is the new Citrix product that uses virtualization with Xen hypervisor, is based on a thin layer of software called “Hypervisor”, is installed directly on the hardware or “BareMetal” and that separates hardware from virtual machines, The novelty of this technology is the use of paravirtualization that allows to obtain a high […]