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App Orchestration: Provisioning Machines Part 2
In Part 1 we provisioned a Web interface. This second part will guide you through provisioning XenApp Controllers and XenApp Workloads.Provisioning XenApp ControllersThe App Delivery Setup Tools require a XenApp Primary Data Collector machine and a XenApp Backup Data Collector machine. Along with the two machines you will need the following:A valid Citrix license server. A database server to host the farm database and credentials with ...
App Orchestration: Provisioning Machines Part 1
To help ease the trouble of bringing up Citrix XenApp Controllers, Citrix XenApp Workers, and Citrix Web Interface, App Orchestration provides easy to use PowerShell scripts to automate the process. These PowerShell scripts are referred to as App Delivery Setup Tools. I will give you a quick overview on these scripts and point you to more information when available. This will help you get through ...
Managing application access within published Desktop with Citrix CloudPortal Service Manager and Citrix App Studio
My first post will describe a solution that can help service providers to use Citrix CloudPortal Service Manager (CPSM) together with Citrix App Studio to manage the visibility and usage of installed applications within published Desktop.For those of you who have been working with Citrix App Studio and integration with CloudPortal Service Manager before probably know that the current integration of these great products has a limitation that they can "only" enable automation ...
App Orchestration: Architecture
With the recent release of the Cloud Provider Pack, our app orchestration technology (a.k.a. Project Rainmaker) is now available for immediate download and use. You can find more information about the many benefits you get from this technology in several recent blogs. Suffice to say – we have reinvented the way to manage complex multi-tenant, multi-farm deployments of XenApp with a minimum of ...
Let’s Get Ready to Architect
Many of you have visited my personal Ask the Architect site where I've focused on desktop virtualization architectures based on real-world use cases. This has been very successful and I thank all of you who have sent in email questions. But like all good things, many of you have more questions or topics than I can answer or discuss in a timely manner. So I'm ...
Citrix, A Developer’s Platform
This is going to be a quick post, but something that have been passionate about for some time so here it goes,Let's start off this post with a number, 34!. Did you know that is how many SDK's we offer for extending or tieing into Citrix products. Thats a hefty amount of platform SDK's to build upon.As developer's we are always looking for platforms to ...
Workflow Studio Value and Capabilities?
Alessandro over at virtualization.info commented that we need to do a better job communicating the value and capabilities of Workflow Studio: http://www.virtualization.info/2009/09/release-citrix-workflow-studio-20.htmlI have to admit, I have been focused on talking about the new version and features (I'm excited about them.) There are lots of places though where we do talk about the capabilities that Workflow Studio enables for our customers:On the main product page for ...
Automate XenApp with Workflow Studio
In a previous post announcing the availability of Workflow Studio 2.0 I listed the new features that are available. Here is a closer look at the first feature mentioned:Native XenApp activity librariesWith the 2.0 release of Workflow Studio, we now include 18 activities for managing application virtualization scenarios with XenApp. These activities provide access to your XenApp farm, servers, applications, and even sessions.These 18 activities ...
Automating workflow execution for Citrix Workflow Studio using an ASP.NET Web application
One of the most common questions I've heard on Workflow Studio is how you can initiate the execution of workflows from an ASP.NET web page. The web is a great platform for delivering applications to end-users, and more and more applications are being delivered by a web browser each day. How cool would it be to kick off a workflow within Workflow Studio based on ...
XenApp, Provisioning Server, and more…
Just in case you haven't seen the posts by Ed York and Michael Bogobowicz on Workflow Studio recently I wanted to call them out. In addition to providing some excellent activities and workflows for you, there are posts that explain the process of creating activities and workflows around XenApp, Provisioning Server, and SQL.Michael wrote a workflow that automates the update of vDisks in Provisioning Server ...