Xenapp

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

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.

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