Carl Webster

Fellow CTP Wilco van Bragt, e-mailed me and told me that in my XenApp 6.5 script the Health Monitoring & Recovery (HMR) policy setting was not formatted properly. While looking into this issue, I found that I had not even included the HMR settings in the XenApp 5 script. In XenApp 5, the HMR settings [...]

A customer site I was at recently needed their XenApp 5 farm documented. I remembered reading about Citrix having some PowerShell “stuff” for XenApp 5 so I started searching. I came across a short article by Michael Bogobowicz Send Farm Server & Application Inventory By Email — XA6 PS Script located at http://community.citrix.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=148703582. That short [...]

Have you ever worked with a customer that had multiple Citrix license servers and product editions?  I worked with a client recently that had upgraded their Citrix XenApp product licenses from Enterprise to Platinum and had moved to a new Citrix license server.  Their problem was that they, over the years, had an unknown number [...]

Installing Hotfix Rollup Pack 6 In Chapter 5, you installed XenApp 5 for Server 2003 Feature Pack 2 – Platinum Edition, your Citrix product license and added your license server to the Learning Farm.  In this chapter, you will: Extract the Feature Pack 3 files, Upgrade the License Server to 11.6.1 build 10007, Update the Java Runtime [...]

Getting Started and Downloading Software Learning the basics of Citrix XenApp 5 is a fairly easy process.  However, understanding all the installation options, configuration settings, management consoles and administrative processes for all the various Citrix software and hardware components that can go into a Citrix farm can be a daunting task.  This book will lead you [...]