Session initialization No matter how an ICA session is invoked (Program Neighborhood, Web Interface, double-clicking an ICA file, etc.), the ICA client engine (wfica32.exe for Win32 clients) fires up and loads the module.ini file from the root folder of the ICA Client. The module.ini file defines the specific capabilities that the ICA client should or…
PVS runs on dedicated servers (VM or physical) and is pretty heavy on network io and should be designed properly while MCS needs nothing more than hypervisor snapshots which, by know, we already have. When we are going to implement physical targets for both VDI and RDS we need PVS. MCS integrates on the hypervisor…
Assigning published applications to users may be a very simple task, but if not managed well, it can end up creating more problems. I have seen customers assigning individual user accounts to the published apps in the Citrix admin console and this can get very problematic as there are danger of assignment inconsistency. Usually, we use Active…
1). Enter credentials at the Web Interface 2). Web interface reaches out to the XML broker, and passes the credentials 3). XML broker reaches out to AD Domain Controller, and authenticated credentials. 4). After being authenticated, user can request an ICA file for application launch 5). The best server will be selected based on load…
General Info: Sharing resources from one physical box(like esx, xenserver, hyper v etc) is server virtualization. Publishing virtual machines created by xenserver, esx etc to end users is desktop virtualization. Xenconvert is used for converting physical machine to VM. Multiple OS boots from single VHD file using provisioning services(PVS). ICA and RDP Differences: 1. RDP…