XenApp

That's a fact, XenApp is ALSO mainly use to deploy Rich Web Applications and not only for rich client one.

When you deploy such applications, you may not want users to be able to use the published Internet Explorer to surf the web or be able to access other informations.

To do so, many policies exists, but there are also some "hidden" settings, not present in standard policies but only within specific KB.

Having to deal with such cases, I've created a little custom ADM that is managing ...

Another experience from the field ...

Deploying applications on XenApp, You may have faced this kind of issue : an application is working fine within a published Desktop, but is not launching when published seamless.

In many cases (although it can also be related to a seamless issue), this is because the Application needs "explorer.exe" running (which is the case in a published desktop but not within a published application).

To deal with this problem, you can ...

During migrations you may have had to upgrade the XenApp client to its latest version.

To do so, it is often better to uninstall the previous clients before installing the new one.

To automate this task I've written two little scripts that are shared through this article.

Be careful when using them and be sure to test them before releasing them to production.

As always this content is provided as is and using it is at your own risks.

This first script has been designed to remove ...

Working on a XenApp project where we had to deploy an SAP Module, I had to work on renaming the autocreated client printers to remove spaces and shorten names.

To do so I've written a little vbs script using WMI to access the printers and rename them according to the SAP module requirements.

Note : The main purpose of this article is to explain how to run such a script with a standard user's account (without having to do a runas task requesting an admin account).

Following an article in French found on Doctor Citrix I decided to translate it in English as these settings are not documented as far as I found on the Internet.

The purpose of these settings is to set up a specific NIC for IMA use when You have multi homed XenApp Servers.

Working in SBC environments for some years now I've used some best practices documents like the well known Methodology In a Box (MIAB) from Douglas Brown or the MF Tuning Tips from Rick Delingher.

These documents, although really pertinent, are now quite outdated and do not include the latest OS and XenApp releases.

The purpose of this article is an attempt to summarize all Tuning Tips I've found (and also that I'm using) and describe the target operating system / XenApp version(s) they're working for.

Do not hesitate to give us your comments for this Article to be updated with your experience and feedback.

Please note that these informations are provided "as is" and that using these tips is at your own risks.

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 ...