Citrix Tablet Optimized Windows Experience

For XenDesktop customers delivering Windows desktops to end users using an iPad or Android powered tablet, Citrix has developed a new user interface layer for Windows. This new interface is optimized for tablets and touch enabled navigation.

The example shown here is a full Windows desktop on an iPad using the latest version of
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Citrix Case Study: Using ProcMon to Troubleshoot Slow Logons

In this Citrix Article CTX131825 an interesting Case study, where a delay in the logon times is occuring (up to three minutes), after deploying XenApp version 6 and Citrix Profile Manager version 4. ProcMon is used to troubleshoot.

Why You Shouldn’t Install Citrix Receiver on Citrix XenApp

My highly appreciated colleague Nando pointed me to this article on XenAppBlog where it says:

“The newest Citrix Receiver for Windows 3.0 (13.0.0.6685) requires almost 150% more memory per user than Citrix ICA Client 11.2. So when optimizing you Citrix servers for the highest user density you should consider if you even need some
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Load Sharing Across Zones is the Default in XenApp 6 and higher

And suddenly my colleague Nando looked very surprised, when he discovered that ”…Share load information across zones has been removed from XenApp 6″

More information about this can be found at: CTX125143

Unable to launch Citrix Published app via WebInterface 5.4

Today run into a rare issue, and costs another hour to find the solution.

I needed to test some Citrix Published applications with different screensize, % screensize, Full Screen etc. My thoughts: Let’s do this simple, use the XenApp 6 Delivery console, publish some apps with different ‘Appearance’ settings and kick them off using the
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HP Printers Supported in XenApp Environments

Here’s an updated old and long lasting list of supported HP Printers on Citrix XenApp environments. This list saved me a lot of troubles in the past.

Click here to view the list.

Context Aware Computing with RES Software at Citrix Synergy

Interview with Bob de Kousemaeker (Product Manager) and Jeff Wettlaufer (Director) from RES Software, about context aware computing with RES Software Products

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Source: http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/4812

Unable to Reconnect to a Disconnected Desktop Session in Windows 2008

You launch a published desktop and wait for the idle timeout to disconnect the current session. If you launch the published desktop, then instead of reconnecting to the disconnected desktop session a new session is created on a different server.

There is more than one XenApp 5.0 server with load balanced published desktop. There
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HOWTO install XenServer 5.6 SP2 on a USB Drive

To install XenServer on USB drive, complete the following procedure:

Disconnect or disable all hard drives, except the external USB drive If you do not disable or disconnect other drives, you have to adjust the device name (/dev/sda1) that are used in the following commands. Download the Citrix XenServer 5.6 Service Pack 2 Start
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HOWTO Use XenServer to Simulate Network Latency

This article describes how to simulate network latency on XenServer to reproduce a customer issue.

Background

XenServer has the capability to manipulate certain network scenarios with the use of the Netem utility which is built into XenServer.

More information on Netem can be found in the following Web page:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/netem

Environment

In this scenario,
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