Citrix offers a Migration tool which is uploads local data to your Sharefile account. This is a really useful tool because multi-streams uploads making it quicker. But what if you have 700GB of data in AWS and you need to migrate this to your on-premise storage? Over the past couple of weeks, this has been my…
News: Over the last couple of months, I’ve been working on an exciting project to build an Enterprise class multi-tenant Sharefile & XenMobile MDM solution. Working with these new Citrix products pretty much completes my Citrix Portfolio. Our client already had a XenMobile and Sharefile platform in AWS so this would also be a migration project….
After years of Xen products introduced in 2008 which replaced the traditional presentation server and MetaFrame. Citrix have decided to come up with simple names for their products. It appears this is because Citrix want customers to use their own cloud offering and it makes marketing simple. There doesn’t appear to be much thought gone into…
You can add as much HA and DR infrastructure as you like to your farm but ultimately the license server or RDS license server can bring down your entire estate. Citrix offer a 720 hour grace period which allows you time to fix your license server or bring a new one online. Microsoft RDS license…
Summary: We have an existing machine catalog with VMs created on a XenServer cluster. The existing machines work fine and are power managed. In Citrix studio you can turn on and off machines but not create new ones. There is sufficient resources on the XenServer. The frustrated client wants more machines for new starters. The Issue: We…
Its taken Citrix a while but finally Receiver 4.8 supports auto update as a new feature. http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/receiver/windows/4-8/about.html
Hello readers, I back to writing my technical blog, mostly on Citrix issues I’ll cover other topics of interest as well. over the past 2 years I’ve embarked on a Global Citirx deployment of Netscalers, XenDesktop 7.x and XenServer VDI solutions. To be honest I haven’t had the time or energy to write, but now…
Im working in an environment where there is no direct access to the StoreFront servers. All users connect to the Netscaler VIP wherever internal or external. This is the save the headache of applying ACLs to multiple VLANs across multiple global sites. It’s simple TCP 443 and your have access to your Citrix Apps./Desktops. I’ve…
Its been a while since I last updated my blog, but during the last 18 months I’ve deployed a global Xendesktop and Netscaler infrastructure. This has been a really interesting and exciting time where demand for Citrix is rocketing and now we have a solid platform for the future. The project includes building 12 netscalers…