Storefront: For StoreFront, the credentials are verified directly to a Domain Controller. SF then passes the validation over to the DDC to begin resource enumeration (Step 4). Note: StoreFront validates user’s credentials by default on its own. From Storefront 3, we can enable xml service based authentication, When StoreFront is not in the same domain…
Disaster Recovery (DR) refers to the set of policies and procedures in place to ensure the continuity and recovery of mission critical systems in the event of a disruptive event such as a power outage, flood, or cyberattack. In other words, how quickly can you get your computers and systems up and running after a…
An effective design of user profiles can make a significant difference in the performance and manageability of a XenApp environment. Many of the issues commonly seen in large or complex XenApp environments (including slow logon, loss of user settings, profile corruption, and excessive administrative effort) are often the result of sub-optimal user profile designs. A…
Product Name changes: Citrix WorkspaceCitrix Workspace will become one unified, contextual, secure offering. Citrix Workspace offers a user-centric experience where everything you need to work is in one unified app, with access and performance made simple based on user context and IT-designed conditions. Citrix Workspace is composed of the following components depending on your edition…
XenApp 6.5 has reached end of maintenance and with the end of life date only a few months away, migrating your existing 6.5 environment(s) to XenApp & XenDesktop 7 is highly recommended. This also means moving from the IMA architecture to FMA. In earlier 7.x versions, some 6.5/IMA features were not available, but rest assured, they were added throughout…
Symptoms or Error Intermittently few Server VDA’s remain shutdown and do not turn on automatically after scheduled reboot. On the Delivery Controller below series of events are logged: Event ID 3012 – Warning; “The Citrix Broker Service detected that power action ‘Shutdown’ (origin: Schedule) on virtual machine’domain\severname’ failed.” Event ID 3104 – Information; “The Citrix…
The major difference between the two is the type of desktop. XenApp delivers a one-to-many Windows Server (e.g. Windows Server 2008 or 2012) machine that is shared by many users. XenDesktop delivers a one-to-one Windows desktop machine (e.g. Windows 7 or 10) that is used by a single user. At a high level, this fundamental…
The process of creating machines in XenDesktop via MCS can be split into 2 sections. Provisioning Scheme Machine creation. Let us understand provisioning scheme step by step here: What is Provisioning Scheme? Provisioning Scheme can be seen as a “template‟ used to store the parameters and create the VMs. It includes details like the CPU…
An effective design of user profiles can make a significant difference in the performance and manageability of a XenApp environment. Many of the issues commonly seen in large or complex XenApp environments (including slow logon, loss of user settings, profile corruption, and excessive administrative effort) are often the result of sub-optimal user profile designs. A…
Scalability: “Increasing” the capacity to meet the “increasing” workload. Elasticity: “Increasing or reducing” the capacity to meet the “increasing or reducing” workload. Scalability: In a scaling environment, the available resources may exceed to meet the “future demands”. Elasticity: In the elastic environment, the available resources match the “current demands” as closely as possible. Scalability: Scalability adapts only to the “workload…