In October 2008, I went to the Citrix Summit in Orlando.  There I attended a XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008 Hands-on lab taught by Jo Harder of Citrix.  Later during the Summit, I saw Jo standin

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 Enterp

In Part 3 of this 4 Part series, the PowerShell script from Parts 1 and 2 was modified to list all the offline Citrix XenApp servers in a XenApp farm by Zone and validate the Zone name entered.  The

In Part 2 of this 4 Part series, the PowerShell script from Part 1 was modified to list all the offline Citrix XenApp servers in a XenApp farm by Zone.  While the script works and gives the desired o

A colleague recently had an issue with the Citrix License Server version 11.6.1 build 1007 where a license user account could not be deleted.  Restarting the Citrix license services and restarting th

In Part 2 of this series, you were given my personal observations into preparing for and taking Citrix certification exams.  In the final article in this series I will give you some short random thou

In Part 1 of this series, you were given the necessary resources to get you started on your Citrix certification journey.  In this article, I will give you my personal observations into preparing for

This article series will give you insight into preparing for and taking certification exams from someone who has successfully taken over 100 of them.  Specifically, this Part 1 article will cover pre

Will a stand-alone Citrix License Server running in a Workgroup service the licensing requests for XenApp Servers running in multiple farms in multiple directory service systems? Someone asked me this question and my first thought was yes it would. But would it?

NOTE: Most people believe that XenApp can only be installed on a network that uses either Active Directory or eDirectory. That is not true. XenApp can be installed on a stand-alone workgroup computer, as well as UNIX versions for Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.

The first question usually asked by the Accidental Citrix Admin is “what is citrix?”. There are two ways the term “citrix” is used: as a specific product or as the name of a company which provides that product. Usually when “citrix” is mentioned, the term is referring to software used to allow multiple user access to one or more applications hosted on another computer (normally a server).