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

During the design phase of a XenApp server installation, a common question is whether to remap the server’s drive letters.  If a server has one hard drive partition and one CD-ROM drive the dri

WHEW!!! I honestly never thought I would get the PVS and XenApp article completed. I swear, if you put ten Citrix Consultants in a room you will get, at a minimum, 50 different viewpoints on how PVS s

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

I am picky when it comes to the Citrix XenApp servers on which I work.  Warnings and Errors in the event logs just drive me up the wall.  They are both to be banished if at all possible.  A client

I really like using my Apple iPad for accessing published applications on my Citrix XenApp servers hosted on Citrix XenServer 5.6.  I had four problems I thought were related to the Citrix Receiver f

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

Using the Citrix Receiver for iPad In Chapter 11, you learned to create and configure a XenApp Services site and test internal secure access to a published application.  In this chapter, you will lea

XenApp Services Site In Part 10, you learned to install and configure Citrix Secure Gateway 3.2 and test both external and internal secure access to published applications.  In this Part, you will le

Using Citrix Secure Gateway In Part 9, you learned to allow external access to the published applications using the AltAddr method.  In this Part, you will learn how to: Generate an SSL certificate

Using Altaddr In Part 8, you: Created a test user account, Learned to publish applications, Tested access to the published applications from the Web Interface site, and Learned to perform basic Xen

Publishing Applications and Basic Farm Maintenance In Part 7, you learned how to create a Web Interface site and do basic configuration of that site to allow users access.  In this Part, you will: 1.

Web Interface In Part 6, you successfully: Extracted the Feature Pack 3 files, Upgraded the License Server to 11.6.1 build 10007, Updated the Java Runtime Environment, Backed up the data store, Insta

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 Learnin

Install XenApp 5 In Part 4, you learned how to install the Windows Server 2003 prerequisites for XenApp 5, the License Server and Web Interface and all Windows security updates.  In this chapter, you

Install Prerequisites and Windows Updates In Part 3, you created your Virtual Machine (VM) and installed Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x86.  In this Part, you will install the Windows Server 20

Install Server 2003 R2 In Part 2, you successfully: Installed XenServer, Installed XenCenter, Added your XenServer host to XenCenter, Activated XenServer, and then Performed additional optional confi

Install and Configure XenServer 5.6 In Part 1, you learned how to: Create a MyCitrix.com account, Download a copy of XenServer 5.6, Download an evaluation copy of XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2, Download th