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September 2015

Citrix printing with Universal Print Server, Universal Print Driver and Citrix Universal Printer

Sep 30, 2015
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XenApp/XenDesktop

There are three different components to Citrix printing that can be implemented to unlock better management and advanced printing capabilities. The Citrix Universal Printer is one, the Citrix Universal Print Driver and the Universal Print Server are the others. Keep Reading

Citrix Local App Access – Reverse Seamless

Sep 29, 2015
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XenApp/XenDesktop

Local App Access, a Platinum feature reintroduced to FMA under XenApp and XenDesktop 7.5, brings the ability to present applications locally installed on your client device across to the Citrix XenApp Shared Desktop or XenDesktop session.

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Citrix Profile Management

Sep 21, 2015
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XenApp/XenDesktop

Citrix Profile Management (now on version 7.16) at the time of this writing comes installed with the Virtual Delivery Agent when installed on your 7.x Worker VMs. Below are some of the frequently used and important policy settings that are configurable with CPM:

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Citrix Performance Monitoring

Sep 15, 2015
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Provisioning Services, XenApp/XenDesktop

After installing Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop roles such as StoreFront, Delivery Controller, VDA on servers, the setup installation adds several new performance counters that you can access and use via Performance Monitor. Some of the counters will be specific to the role you install so the counters available to each machine will vary.

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Tweaking Citrix Director with a dash of monitoring

Sep 15, 2015
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XenApp/XenDesktop

I’m going to integrate a few short posts in to one. In this post I will talk briefly on tweaking parts of Citrix Director, and monitoring the Hypervisor with Citrix Director.

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Using MCS to create Worker VMs

Sep 13, 2015
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XenApp/XenDesktop

Machine Creation Services (MCS) is a single image management solution from Citrix that allows you to easily create multiple virtual machines based off a gold Virtual Machine by performing thin or full linked clone copies of a master virtual image.

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Updating an MCS master image

Sep 09, 2015
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XenApp/XenDesktop

From time to time you need to update MCS gold images so that the VDA’s using them can introduce a new application, patches, and so on. The process is really as simple as it can be.

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Moving the Logging and Monitoring Database

Sep 07, 2015
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XenApp/XenDesktop

When installing Citrix XenApp/Desktop 7.6 three databases are installed to your SQL instance during site creation.

Monitoring
Configuration (logging)
Site database

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StoreFront as the Default IIS Page and optimizations

Sep 04, 2015
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XenApp/XenDesktop

The option to make StoreFront (pre SF3.5) Receiver for Web the default page/document in IIS simply does not exist within the StoreFront console like it used to back in legacy Web Interface. What I mean is that if I was to browse to my StoreFront server via https://storefront I’d get the iisstart.htm IIS 8.5 page.

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