Blog Posts

Last night, I upgraded a couple of our XenApp administration servers to the latest version of the Access Management Console (v. 4.6.4).  Ah, the AMC, we didn’t know how good we had it with the old CMC.  Anyway, I did the upgrade to address the slowness of using this console... [Read More]

Out since late May of this year, Citrix XenApp Power and Capacity Management Technology is currently available as a tech preview here.  iForum 2009 in Melbourne just finished and they demonstrated this technology in the closing keynote.  The use of this technology can really make a difference in your bottom... [Read More]

XenServer, while not as mature an enterprise product as VMWare’s offerings is bridging the gap quickly (competion is a good thing 😀.)  Citrix has recently released XenServer 5.5 which we are looking at to virtualize our XenApp servers. Today, Citrix has created XenServer Central to consolidate all the information available... [Read More]

Do yourself a favor and read John Smith’s post on the (then) new Citrix Netscaler VPX. John has written a great article detailing how the Netscaler VPX is a real game changer and how to set it up in your own lab via a UtipU video. Netscaler VPX Beyond the Lab... [Read More]

NOTE: Have XenApp 6.x and PowerShell? I revisited this problem in XenApp 6.5 with a new PowerShell script. Read about it here [Read More]

Since we had changed our front end to dual NetScalers (9010 Plantium edition) we ran into a problem delivering a certain application. Previously with MSAM (yes, we were one of 2 customers with that gem of a solution) we had 2 sets of servers with different session timeout settings to... [Read More]

This post is part of a 6 part series. Jump to [part 1][part 2][part 3][part 4][part 5] To sum up how we got here: We used PowerShell to gather some specific session stats from Citrix MFCom and output them to a text file. [part 1] [part 2] We then created... [Read More]

This post is part of a 6 part series. Jump to [part 1][part 2][part 3][part 4][part 6] To sum up how we got here: We used PowerShell to gather some specific session stats from Citrix MFCom and output them to a text file. [part 1] [part 2] We then created... [Read More]