One of Ben Franklin’s well-known sayings is “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” What’s perhaps less well-known is that he was referring to the need for configuration auditing of business IT systems. OK, maybe not; he was very forward-thinking, but that could be a stretch. Nonetheless, the meaning in Franklin’s words applies to modern IT infrastructures surprisingly well.
Configuration auditing encompasses a range of both preventive and proactive measures that can keep your network and applications functioning as intended, and should be an important element in your overall security strategy.
This article describes how-to setup client deployment directly from the Web Interface (5.4.0). When the Web Interface is installed directly from the XenApp installation, there is no question/part where the clients are installed from the DVD.
First we copy the clients from the folder: “Citrix Receiver and Plug-ins” on the installation source to the following location: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\Web Interface\5.4.0\Clients”
Receiver Files Paste Receiver Files Then navigate to: “C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Citrix\XenApp\conf” and open (with notepad) WebInterface.
Summary:
This article describes the process of updating a Free XenServer license at renewal time. The procedure leverages XenCenter and assumes an internet connection from the XenCenter console to the activation server.
Background:
Starting in April 2009, Citrix began offering a free edition of XenServer with an annual renewal requirement. As with the initial free license, renewing a Free XenServer license requires activation of the affected XenServer hosts.
In return for providing the Free XenServer product to customers, Citrix asks for annual re-activation for two reasons:
You can use the configuration utility to upgrade most older releases to 10.5. For others, you must use the command line interface. You follow the same basic procedure to upgrade either a standalone appliance or each appliance in a high availability pair, although additional considerations apply to upgrading a high availability pair.
This document includes the following information:
Upgrading a Standalone NetScaler Upgrading a High Availability Pair Upgrading a Standalone NetScaler Before upgrading the system software, make sure that you have the required licenses.
XenServer 6.1 Storage XenMotion - Storage XenMotion extends the existing XenMotion capability of moving running VMs from one host to another to now include the case where (a) VMs are not located on storage shared between the hosts and (b) hosts are not in the same resource pool. Live VDI Migration - Live VDI Migration allows system administrators to relocate a VM’s Virtual Disk Image (VDI) without shutting down the VM.
This topic lists the supported systems for the Delivery Controller, Citrix Studio, Citrix Director, and Virtual Delivery Agents (VDAs), at the time XenDesktop 7 released.
System requirements for other features and components, such as StoreFront, host systems, HDX, receivers and plug-ins, Desktop Lock, and Provisioning Services are described in their respective documentation.
Unless otherwise noted, the installer deploys component prerequisites automatically. This includes .NET 3.5 SP1, which is required when installing components on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 systems.
I have downloaded and started to install XenDesktop 7, the first thing that I noted that Citrix Studio was extremely slow to start. I shrugged it off as first time launch but after subsequent reboots I notice the issue still persisted. I have seen this issue lots in past and its mostly because of no internet access which is needed to check the signed dll with trusted CA. To workaround the issue we can disable this check as per below:
The debate still rages on, Hosted Shared or Hosted Virtual desktops. This is probably one of the most common question I hear. So which is it? Hosted Shared or Hosted Virtual?
Guess what? The answer, for once, isn’t “It Depends”. The answer is “Yes”, you will mostly likely need them both. For those of you who aren’t sure what the difference is, it is pretty straightforward:
Hosted Shared Desktops: A published desktop on XenApp.
Below mentioned is a real time scenario with Questions and Answers:
We have Presentation Server 4.5 on 2 servers. Everything is on our Server1. Server2 is currently just used as another Citrx server in the same Farm for deploying Citrix applications. We need to take Server1 down for maintnance. I need to move everthing to Server2 including the database. Both servers have Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition installed. The Citrix database is on Server1 in its Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition database.
How to Move a Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine Data Store From One Server to Another
Summary
This article describes how to move a Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE) data store from one server to another.
Background
The steps involved in moving an MSDE data store from one server to another is similar to those used for an Access database.
A step-by-step process is detailed below.
Server 1 is the old server
