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Writing my first XenApp book: calling out to the community

Jun 12

Posted by virtuEs in Book Reviews, HowTo | 4 Comments

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A couple of week ago I was contacted by a book publisher and asked if I wanted to write a XenApp book. A challenge I enthusiastically take upon me.

I strongly believe in the power of sharing knowledge and how it enables communities to grow strong and great ideas to blossom. And I do think the Citrix community shows that every day.

After visiting my first E2EVC in Copenhagen I got to see the power of the Virtualization community in action and felt greatly inspired to take that community and E22VC spirit with me a try to put some of it in my book.

The XenApp book will be about XenApp Best Practices, technical tips and tricks to improve your XenApp infrastructure and useful tools to manage it. It will be a collection of how-to articles on all XenApp infrastructure components.

 

Power of the community

… So what better way to get some of that community spirit in my book than by asking the community for a little help …

 

So I hereby call out to the Citrix community for help:
What how-to articles, best practices and tools should be included and promoted in my XenApp book?

 

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Out with the old, in with … AGEE VPX (part 1)

Jan 22

Posted by virtuEs in HomeLab, HowTo, Network Appliances | 3 Comments

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In a previous blogpost I wrote about the announcement from Citrix regarding the Citrix Access Gateway Product Line Simplification. At the same time I just finished building a Proof of Concept for a customer of one of our consultancy partners that included the (soon to be End of Sales) Access Gateway VPX. So I quickly informed our partner of the announcement and we decided to implement the new AGEE VPX into the production environment for the customer.

Of course I was very excited to be working with the new appliance and become more familiar with the NetScaler productline, as the AGEE VPX shares the same code as the NetScalers do.

 

I did have the chance to get some hands on practice with the NetScaler during one of the attended Hands-on labs at Citrix Synergy, so I felt brave enough to take on this new challenge.
 

 

… And a challenge it would prove to be …

 
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Access Gateway Licensing Demystified | Citrix Blogs

Nov 18

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Access Gateway Licensing Demystified

Products: Access Gateway

Access Gateway discussed in this blog is the Access Gateway based on NetScaler, which is popularly referred to as Access Gateway Enterprise. Citrix has recently announced End of Life for all non-NetScaler based Access Gateway platforms, which then makes Enterprise edition, the de-facto Access Gateway.

In this blog, we will discuss the two license types used on your Access Gateway appliance, the two kinds of vServers you can set up to leverage these licenses to provide standard / advanced functionalities, and an example scenario towards the end, to help illustrate these concepts in a real scenario.
License Types

Access Gateway is licensed at two levels:

Platform License
Universal License

via Access Gateway Licensing Demystified | Citrix Blogs.

by Prashant Batra · Published November 16, 2012

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Receiver for HTML5 is now available | Citrix Blogs

Sep 2

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Receiver for HTML5 is now available
[By Robin Manke-Cassidy (Published August 31, 2012)]

It is my pleasure to announce that the Receiver for HTML5 is now available for Chrome and Firefox browsers. Receiver for HTML5 is a zero install client allowing connection through a browser to XenApp and XenDesktop. The combination of the Receiver for Web and HTML5 provides a fallback option for environments where a native client is not available or an option.

Key new features include:

Google Chrome (version 19+) & Mozilla Firefox (version 11+) browsers on Windows and Mac desktops
In-session Tool bar that can move and close
Copy/Paste text
Key to send Ctrl+Alt+Del to desktop session

External access of XenApp applications and XenDesktop via Access Gateway
Direct internal access of XenApp applications
Performance enhancements

Check out this new capability. Download from Citrix.com today.

via Receiver for HTML5 is now available | Citrix Blogs.

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Citrix Clientname Passthrough « Joe Vu’s Citrix and other things – Portal

Aug 27

Posted by virtuEs in Troubleshooting | 2 Comments

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Citrix Clientname Passthrough
Posted on 04/02/2010 by Joe

This registry fix enables clientname passthrough on a Citrix server. This helps when a user logs onto a Citrix Published desktop, then launches a published app from the published desktop. In this situation, 2 concurrent licenses can be used up because the user is logging onto 2 different published apps from 2 different clients.

By adding this registry key to the server that is servicing the Published desktop, the client name will passed through to the Citrix server where the published app is published from, hence only 1 Citrix concurrent license is used up.

32-BIT OS Key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\ICA Client\PASS THROUGH\”PASS THROUGH”=dword:00000001

64-BIT OS Key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Citrix\ICA Client\PASS THROUGH\”PASS THROUGH”=dword:00000001

via Citrix Clientname Passthrough « Joe Vu's Citrix and other things – Portal.

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