Citrix

Forms with VBScript do not work with Terminal Services in Outlook

Ok so this is a known issue I encountered that I wanted to post about. I found a MS support article with a fix for this.

 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302003

So in situations where you are running Outlook on a TS(or Citrix) box, VBScript will not work and you will need to apply the fix in the article to get it working.

Citrix unveils Xen Desktop 4.0

You can check this out here:

 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Virtualization/…

This is great and awesome and all that, nice job to Citrix for constantly updating their product but can they slow it down a little? I am going to be writing my cert for Xen Desktop 3 very shortly and now I haven’t even gotten the cert yet and it’s already out of date!

Force Xenapp Uninstall

So to uninstall Citrix you have to have the Citrix IMA service running properly. Which of course begs the question of what you do when you are trying to uninstall because the IMA service ISN’T working properly in the first case?

Open command prompt, navigate to the directory that has the Xenapp install MSI and use the command

msiexec /x mps.msi CTX_MF_FORCE_SUBSYSTEM_UNINSTALL=Yes

That will take care of the issue for you and force an uninstall

Changing userid and password for DSN in Citrix XenApp

If you need to change the userid and password that control the DSN access for Xenapp here is what you  need to do.

From command prompt on the citrix server (you will need to do this from each one)

dsmaint config /userid:*username* /pwd:*password* /dsn:”C:\program files\citrix\idependent management architecture\mf20.dsn”

Restart the citrix IMA service

Citrix client Auto deploy not working

I had trouble with this today. Make sure that when you copy the contents of the client folder from the installation media into the Citrix\Webinterface\*version number\clients folder, you keep the exact file structure the same. Also just sopy the contents of the client folder, not the whole folder itself

Citrix Xenapp 5 - Stream to server

I really like Citrix Xenapp 5’s ability to publish app’s by streaming them to the server. For those not familiar with this you package the application (office, etc) using the citrix app packager. Place these packages on a file server somewhere and then when you publish the app just specify stream to server and refernce the network path of the package.

First this makes life easier in deploying new citrix servers. Second it means you can deploy software that normall wouldn’t work together (office 2003 and 2007 for example) from the same box. It really keeps your citrix servers neat and clean.

Altaddr command missing from Citrix Web install

The Altaddr command is a command used to specify the external Nat’d address of your server so that Citrix Web can accept requests coming to that address. The Altaddr command gets installed on your computer when you install citrix, makes sense right?

However when you are installing Citrix web portion on a server that isn’t a citrix server you don’t have to download the full packaged and do the full install. Citrix has a smaller installation that is only for the web portion. However for some good only knows why reason, this smaller web only install doesn’t actually install the altaddr command? Does this make sense to anyone?

VMware develops rival protocol to ICA to compete in the VDI market space

One of the exciting (and long overdue) announcements from VMware is there development of a new PCoIP protocol for use in the VMware View product. This protocol will be replacing their use of RDP. One of Citrix’s big claims to fame in this market space with it’s Xendesktop product is it’s use of the ICA protocol which is far and away the superior protocol over RDP.

Good on Vmware for taking the fight to Citrix. I think this fight will go a few arounds so sit back, relax, and enjoy the match.

Upgrading Citrix from Presentation 4 to Xenapp 5

I recently had a discussion with some guys from Citrix and asked about the optimal way of upgrading Presentation server 4 to Xenapp 5.

Here is there recommendation

1) Upgrade the licensing and upload the new license file onto the license server

2) Run the upgrade on the server acting as the Resource Manager

3) Upgrade the remaining servers in whatever order you choose

Epic Technology Day - April 21st, 2009

For those not familiar with this event, my company hosts a bi-yearly technology day seminar. It’s a great free event with lots of interesting and informative seminars presented by companies like Cisco, VMware, Citrix, HP and others.  The next one is coming up on April 21st in Winnipeg and the 23rd in Saskatoon.

If you are going to be in one of these area’s you should register to come and take a look

Go here to check out the seminar list and to register:

 http://www.epic.ca/events.asp