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Citrix has released a new hotfix rollup pack for XenApp 5/Presentation Server 4.5 for Windows 2003.
Before you install this latest rollup pack make sure you read through this article http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX119069
One of the most important prerequisites is to update your Citrix Licensing server to 11.6 https://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/details.asp?downloadId=1688507&productId=186%20target=
If you have not yet installed hotfix rollup pack 3 then [...]

 
In the last few weeks I’ve met with a couple different clients that use Windows Terminal Server to provide applications to their end users.  While their environments worked pretty well and were very cost effective, they still have some pretty common problems.  Performance was usually an issue depending on how many people were connected and [...]

Here are some useful resources for troubleshooting Citrix Application Streaming.
Troubleshooting Application Streaming Issues – http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX113304
Application Streaming FAQs for Administrators – http://support.citrix.com/article/ctx118181
RadeRunSwitches – Application Streaming – http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/josephno/2008/03/28/RadeRunSwitches+-+Application+Streaming
Citrix Application Streaming Guide for XenApp 5.0 – http://support.citrix.com/servlet/KbServlet/download/17820-102-18856/Application-Streaming-Guide.pdf
How to Find the .Rad File that is Used to Launch a Streamed Application – http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX114673
XenApp Plug-in for Streamed Apps – [...]

No…there still isn’t a Citrix XenApp client for the iPhone but Citrix did just release some new videos showing their Citrix Receiver that is coming at some point.  Click here to view them and see some updated information.  Hopefully it won’t be much longer!

Check out my updated User Profiles Best Practices White Paper.
http://www.varrow.com/index.php?id=98

Posted in Citrix, Microsoft, windows2008, xenapp, xendesktop Tagged: Citrix, Microsoft, xenapp

Some of you may have already known about the mandatory profile change in Windows 2008 but I had no idea. I recently did my first Citrix XenApp 5 - Windows 2008 project and had a hard time getting the mandatory profile working.
After some searching I found that the mandatory profile folder name has to have [...]

I did a migration last week at a clients site from Windows 2003 Presentation Server 4.5, Provisioning Server 4.5 and Web Interface 4.6 to Windows 2008 XenApp 5, Provisioning Server 5.1a and Web Interface 5.
During the image build for Windows 2008 XenApp I had a few issue that were resolved by installing these 5 Windows [...]

Citrix XenApp is the new name for Citrix Presentation Server. The following clients and components have been updated to reflect that product name.
Citrix XenApp Advanced Configuration is the new name for the Presentation Server Console
Citrix XenApp Plugin for Hosted Apps is the new name for the plugin for server-side virtualization (formerly named Citrix Presentation Server [...]