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 ...

This Article is based on another nice article written initially in French by Laurent Falguiere.

Windows 2008 Terminal Services introduce a new functionnality called "Drain Mode".

This new functionnality allows Admins to connect to a Terminal Server while Users can not (Only disconnected sessions will be able to reconnect, while new sessions won't be allowed).

Actually, when a server is configured in this mode ...

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

This feature is added through ...

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This Article is a translation of an Article written by Mickaël Williot for CitrixTools.Net

ThinPrint .Print Application Server uses a license key you have to specify at installation step. This key can then be deleted using the product console, but if you do that, you won't be able to use it again even after doing a full uninstallation / reinstallation of the product.

So what can you do if you want to use it again without reinstalling the operating system ?

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 ...

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 ? ...