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Application Migration Workbook Guides Windows 7 and Virtualization Projects

Penny Gralewski — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:29:42 +0000

It’s all about speed and accuracy when you’re trying to meet the CIO’s deadline to launch a virtualization project — or complete a migration before the Windows XP support date ends in April 2014. A new Citrix AppDNA Application Migration Workbook gives you the detail you need to start a migration project and determine the time and costs needed. Use this Application Migration Workbook to…

Are you using Citrix Quick Launch ?

Frederic Serriere — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Have you ever heard or used Citrix Quick Launch ? If not, download it from our Knowledge Center and test it http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX122536 It is very important to note that Citrix Quick Launch isn’t supported by Citrix Technical Support, so you use it at your own risk. Nevertheless, a lot of administrators enjoy the tool as a quick way to connect using ICA/HDX to their XenApp…

AppDNA 6.1 Outlines Path to Reach Windows 7 Deadline, Speed Virtualization Projects

Penny Gralewski — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:33:27 +0000

This week, Citrix announced AppDNA 6.1, a new version of the application migration software suite coming later this quarter. AppDNA 6.1 will help enterprises reach the Windows XP migration deadline and speed virtualization projects – making it easier for you or your Citrix partner to install, setup and get started with the AppDNA software. AppDNA 6.1 also will bring further work to combine user, machine…

Project Avalon: Automating Windows app and desktop delivery

Orestes Melgarejo — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:30:39 +0000

By now you’ve heard the exciting news about Project Avalon – the next generation platform for delivering apps, data and desktops as cloud services. In this announcement, Citrix has detailed how we will integrate technologies like CloudStack, XenDesktop and CloudPortal to create an unprecedented system for the delivery of apps and desktops as services for both public cloud providers and Enterprises who want to run…

App Orchestration: Provisioning Machines Part 2

Christopher Lawrence — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:38:04 +0000

In Part 1 we provisioned a Web interface. This second part will guide you through provisioning XenApp Controllers and XenApp Workloads. Provisioning XenApp Controllers The 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…

App Orchestration: Provisioning Machines Part 1

Christopher Lawrence — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:00:11 +0000

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…

Simplifying App Orchestration Setup

Tom M Kludy — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:59:10 +0000

If you are planning to set up the Cloud Provider Pack and use the app orchestration technology, be sure to follow the administrator guide to make sure you have all of the prerequisites covered beforehand. This is critical to ensuring a successful deployment of the app orchestration components. One of the more tedious parts of setup is ensuring you have a GPO configured to enable…

App Orchestration: Architecture

Tom M Kludy — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:12:09 +0000

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 effort on…

App Orchestration: Concepts

Ashish S Gujarathi — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:59:41 +0000

About three weeks back, we released the App Orchestration technology as part of the Cloud Provider Pack. App orchestration enables Citrix Service Providers to manage multi-tenant, multi-farm deployments of apps and desktops as a service efficiently. To get you jump-started with app orchestration, I am starting a 10-part blog series to which key engineers of the app orchestration team will be contributing over the next few…

Завершить сессию не удаётся – сессия остается активной в консоле XenApp

Alexey Kutuzov — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:37:00 +0000

Доброго времени суток, дорогие читатели. Снова с вами российский голос технической поддержки Citrix. Тема сегодняшнего поста оказалось весьма востребованной, когда появилась одновременно у троих моих клиентов. Суть проблемы – при выходе из приложения сессия не завершается, в консоле DSC\AppCenter сессия видна как активная и пользователя в её свойствах не видно. При этом Session Pre-launch и Session Lingering не используются. Что делать? 1)Проверить, что вы установили все заплатки…