Archive for the ‘Citrix XenApp’ Category

The iPad is Good for Business – and for using Microsoft Windows and Office Applications

Posted on December 20th, 2010 by by Steve Schulte

The Apple iPad phenomenon is truly remarkable. While some suspect this is just a fad, we here at Citrix believe that tablet computing is becoming part of the workplace DNA. And we’re not the only one. That’s because people aren’t just talking about iPads; they’re using them. They’re voting with their dollars and buying these [...]

New Analysis Pack Available from Lanamark Inc.

Posted on September 29th, 2010 by by Michelle Egan

Now it’s easier than ever to optimize Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop and Microsoft remote desktop services environments with Lanamark’s new analysis pack – Terminal Services Analysis Pack. Lanamark announced the news today saying this pack is “designed to help enterprises optimize application and desktop delivery while ensureing licensing compliance of Citrix and Microsoft termal server environments.” [...]

Backing up critical XenApp components

Posted on December 11th, 2009 by by Charlie Messemer

I have a best practice of backing up several key things for any Citrix implementation.  Most of our Citrix servers do get backed up on a regular basis, but outside of the daily backups I like to keep a small thumb drive with some critical configuration information that would go a long way toward building [...]

How to upgrade from Citrix Presentation Server 4 to Citrix XenApp 5

Posted on September 18th, 2009 by by Charlie Messemer

  Citrix can be a lot of different things these days , but the traditional Citrix product that does what we call “application virtualization” has been around for a long time, under the names “WinFrame”, then “MetaFrame XP”, “XP FR3”, Presentation Server 3”, and then “Presentation Server 4”. Presentation server 4 was a robust product, [...]

Redirecting Application Data in Roaming User Profiles for a Citrix / Terminal Services Environment

Posted on September 15th, 2009 by by Charlie Messemer

A small retailer using Citrix Access Essentials, the small business version of XenApp, had a lot of problems as far as profiles. Occasionally a user would call, unable to work, and we’d get them limping along again somehow, but almost every user who logged in was generating event viewer errors relating to roaming profiles and [...]

How often should a Citrix server be rebooted?

Posted on September 15th, 2009 by by Charlie Messemer

My informal survey of hundreds of Citrix administrators over the years yields a “bell curve” for the answer to this question. The vast majority of our peers say they reboot their production Citrix servers every one, two, or three weeks; these are, after all, Windows servers. There are the few, at one tail end of [...]