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Xenapp 5- Control Streaming vs Published access based on remote acess

One nice thing about Xenapp is the ability to have both streamed and presented apps. One not so nice thing is you can’t let Citrix control that based on bandwith of the client. Here is a little something you can do to make that happen.

Publish your app as Streamed if possible and presented if not

Setup your remote users (or users with crap bandwith) with a range of IP adresses

Create a policy, set the policy to force presented app usage (Service Level)

Filter this policy to apply to the above range of IP’s

Voila

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.