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Taking a XenApp Server Offline for Maintenance Purposes

The purpose of this Article is to summarize and illustrate the different ways an Administrator can use to take a XenApp Server Offline for Maintenance purposes.

A XenApp could need to be Isolated from production, either for Maintenance purposes (System or XenApp Updates, for example) or because the Server is unstable and should be removed from available servers.

To Isolate a Server, XenApp Admins can use different methods ...

posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 2:38 PM by Pierre Marmignon in XenApp Article Rating1 Comments 12379 Views

Start a Published Application on a Specific Monitor

Another nice Article written in French by Frederic Serriere (Escalation Engineer, Citrix) on Doctor-Citrix.com

To Start a Application on a specific Monitor You'll need

On XenApp 4.0, You'll need hotfix PSE400R03W2K3030 (or PSE400R03W2K009) or later.

On Client Side, You'll need ICA Client 10.100 or later.

Then, on the Server, You'll have to set the DefaultLaunchMonitor DWORD value in the following Registry Hive ...

posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:54 AM by Pierre Marmignon in XenApp Article Rating0 Comments 7425 Views

Log ICA Logons & Logoff in the Server's EventLog

Here is a nice tip provided by Frederic Serriere (Escalation Engineer, Citrix) on Doctor-Citrix.com :

To Log ICA Logons and Logoffs in the Server's EventLog you need to add the following registry value on the Server :

posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:23 AM by Pierre Marmignon in XenApp Article Rating0 Comments 3100 Views

Allow Users to Manage Image Lossy Compression

A recent new feature allows users to control the lossiness of images through an aggressivecompression slider bar.

This feature is added through ...

posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:31 AM by Pierre Marmignon in XenApp Article Rating0 Comments 3053 Views

Using the Netscaler to Load Balance and HealthCheck a XenApp Environment

The following Article is an update of the Official KB Health Checking Citrix Services with Advanced Monitors from the NetScaler Application Switch.

In this KB, Citrix Consulting explains how to use the Citrix Netscaler to Load Balance and HealthCheck a XenApp Environment.

However, the Official article is based on the Netscaler 6.1 kernel, and now all appliances are shipped with the 8.X so you could easily understand that some updates are needed ...

posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:38 AM by Pierre Marmignon in XenApp, Netscaler Article Rating0 Comments 12168 Views

Optimizing XenApp / Presentation Server 4.X Universal Printing

The purpose of this Article is to describe and explain UPD v3 functionnalities that can dramatically improve performances. Actually XenApp (Presentation Server) 4.0 came with a brand new printing subsystem based on the Universal Printer Driver.

This new driver (only available for Windows 2000 / XP Workstations) allow admins to provide users a "Real" Universal Printer Driver that can be used for almost any Client Side printer . You can even manage Client Printers trays and paper formats, etc…

Well let's stop the marketing things ;) : Even if this new driver is a big step for Citrix in printing management, Third Party products like Thinprint still seems to be a step ahead from Citrix regarding print jobs size. Seems To ? ...

posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 7:06 PM by Pierre Marmignon in XenApp, Tuning Article Rating7 Comments 14943 Views


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