Prerequisites Explained: We all know the prerequisites for installing Citrix Xenapp(any version). But if anyone asks us WHY they are considered as prerequisites, why they are important to Citrix? Most of us dont have answer(including me). Hence I am going to explain some of the important prerequisites here: If we are talking about prerequisites only 3 major…
On-demand application delivery with Citrix XenApp How application virtualization and session virtualization work Citrix XenApp is an on-demand application delivery solution that comprises application virtualization and session virtualization technologies. Understanding application virtualization Citrix application virtualization technology isolates applications from the underlying operating system and from other applications to increase compatibility and manageability. As a modern…
The ICA Client This is the original name of the client software that seemed to work fine for ten years. If we were scientists, this would be our ‘control.’ Historically there were Program Neighborhood, Program Neighborhood Agent, and Web packages available. You could use any of the three packages to connect to seamless published apps…
The XenApp planning and installation documentation uses the following terminology. Multi-user environment An environment, including XenApp and Terminal Services, where applications are published on servers for use by multiple users simultaneously. Application servers The farm servers that host published applications. Infrastructure servers The farm servers that host services such as the data store or the license…
What and why Citrix? Citrix is a serverbased computing package that incorporates a proprietary network protocol that separates an application’s logic from its user interface allowing clients to run “thin.” Thin clients have little or no secondary storage and are used only as clients depending on the server for software, processing and secondary storage. The proprietary…