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Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 – March 2012

Citrix Support is focused on ensuring Customer and Partner satisfaction with our products. One of our initiatives is to increase the ability of our Partners and Customers to leverage self-service avenues via our Knowledge Center.Find below the Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 for March 2012.Top 10 Technical ArticlesArticle Number Article TitleCTX129229 Recommended Citrix and Microsoft Hotfixes for XenApp 6 and Windows Server 2008 R2CTX101644 Seamless Configuration SettingsCTX238200 Troubleshooting Client Drive ...

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Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 – February 2012

Citrix Support is focused on ensuring Customer and Partner satisfaction with our products. One of our initiatives is to increase the ability of our Partners and Customers to leverage self-service avenues via our Knowledge Center.Find below the Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 for February 2012.Top 10 Technical ArticlesArticle Number Article TitleCTX129229 Recommended Citrix and Microsoft Hotfixes for XenApp 6 and Windows Server 2008 R2CTX101644 Seamless Configuration SettingsCTX238200 Troubleshooting Client Drive ...

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XenClient MasterClass II – Q & A

We decided to use this media to provide and share all answers from the XenClient MasterClass II, which took place on 11th Nov. 2010. First of all my apologies for the short interruption during the call due a internet connection issue at the place (hotel) I was when delivering the webcast.As a general rule: It's always good the check our forum, lots of information and ...

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XenApp 6 Policy Administration–Worker Groups, OUs, and Fast Provisioning

Administration has changed quite a bit in XenApp 6. Not only have a few Citrix-related policies have been added or modified, but there are new options for administration. Citrix policies are now based on user or computer policies, and they can be administered as Active Directory GPOs. That combined with Worker Groups based on OUs may initially seem complex but really can ...

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Migrating to XenApp 6 — Yellow Flags?

XenApp 6 has now been available for about two months, and kudos to Citrix Engineering for creating the best XenApp yet. At Summit/Synergy, I made it a point to talk to partners and customers about how they planned to transition to XenApp 6. Feedback regarding XenApp 6 itself was great, but the yellow caution flags went up in discussions about the transition.There are ...

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New Citrix XenApp Tech Talk Series released!

With the recent announcement of Citrix XenApp 6, several relevant Tech Talk webinars are being lined up over the course of the next month to support this new release. These technical webinars will be presented by our top product engineers & architects. The schedule of webinars includes a series of six topics, including:What's new in XenApp - the inside scoop - Friday, March 12, 2010 Citrix ...

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XenApp 6 is here!

Today we announced XenApp 6 to continue building upon our vision of delivering on-demand applications and desktops to both virtual and physical hosts. XenApp 6 raises the bar for TCO and performance, and is also an integrated feature of our desktop virtualization solution, XenDesktop 4.We don't usually talk about what it takes internally to develop a product. However, in this case it's worth knowing that ...

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XenApp for 2008 R2 Policies Deep-dive

In my previous two posts, I've described how XenApp for 2008 R2 configuration can be defined as XenApp Template-based Management, and how it can be defined as Group Policy integration in XenApp for 2008 R2. Today I will cover some common questions I get when explaining this new configuration model. Please feel free to add yours in the comments sessions below, if I didn't cover ...

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Group Policy integration in XenApp for 2008 R2

It's been over 2 years since my initial post on XenApp/Group Policy integration... how time flies! This feature is finally seeing the light of day with XenApp for 2008 R2 (in Tech Preview right now). I'm really happy with the results, let me describe how it will enhance management of XenApp farms.As I described in my previous post, our primary goal for XenApp management was ...

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XenApp Template-based Management

The main theme behind XenApp for Windows 2008 R2 management was to enable template-based management of XenApp servers. Instead of configuring individual servers, the new release let you use "templates" to simplify common management tasks and eliminate configuration drift among servers in a silo.Now that the Parra Tech Preview is available, you can finally see how things worked out!As an example, assume I want to ...

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