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Unitek Citrix Blog — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:37:25 +0000

Among the bits and pieces of undocumented Citrix history that I’ve picked up from the national Citrix classes we’ve been running at Unitek over the years, I learned that Citrix really was named after the “citrus” trees in Ft. Lauderdale, where Ed Iacobucci invented Terminal Services and sold it to Microsoft. Of course Microsoft missed [...]

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Citrix XenDesktop is an Extension of The Server Virtualization

Unitek Citrix Blog — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:39:29 +0000

Citrix XenDesktop is an extension of the server virtualization (XenServer) and application virtualization (XenApp) products, utilizing virtualized, dynamically provisioned desktop O/S’s streamed to the client device, whether that’s a Citrix-Ready “Desktop Appliance”, or a repurposed Windows XP box running the “Desktop Receiver”. XenDesktop is available in several versions: Express: Is free, for POC builds of up to ten [...]

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Update: Citrix XenApp 5

Unitek Citrix Blog — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:46:46 +0000

Citrix announced last week the the XenServer 5 product will be free, in a move to shake up the competition between VMware’s ESX 3.5 Product - (now in “Update 3″ with more features), and the hypervisor from Citrix. Unitek is now offering the official 2-day Citrix XenServer 5 training course (CXS-200-1i), in addition to the [...]

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Cloning Citrix XenApp 4.5 on VMware ESX 3.5

Unitek Citrix Blog — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:50:30 +0000

Though running Citrix XenApp 4.5 - formerly Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 - on XenServer 4.1, the new virtualization platform from Citrix, might be a likely topic for a Citrix Training Center blog, today the Citrix story I have to tell is actually about running XenApp 4.5 on VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3), because that’s what [...]

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Advanced IMA - Compatibility Mode - Part 2

Unitek Citrix Blog — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:45:04 +0000

Changing farm membership The admin at the second, questionable server, should go to the command prompt and type “chfarm” - the “Change Farm” utility. Changing farms takes about two minutes, and costs nothing else. As long as we are not on the data store server, we can simply “chfarm” and tell the system we are “creating [...]

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Advanced IMA - Compatibility Mode - Part 1

Unitek Citrix Blog — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:32:20 +0000

Advanced IMA In a farm of fewer than (roughly) thirty servers, with all the servers in one location, IMA runs itself, and the defaults are appropriate. In a larger farm, or a more complex implementation where there are servers in multiple locations, the IMA defaults may need to be modified in order to optimize the implementation. And even [...]

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AAC Integration With Web Interface 4.5

Unitek Citrix Blog — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:12:40 +0000

The Access Gateway 4.5 with Advanced Access control is the Platinum product’s preferred access portal, called the “Access Navigator Portal”, or the “Nav” portal for short. Configuring the Access gateway with AAC (Advanced Access Control) and with the Presentation Server Farm in 4.5 is a little more involved than it had been in 4.2, and [...]

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Active Directory (AD) Integration - Part 2

Unitek Citrix Blog — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:58:14 +0000

GPO’s Windows 2003 Group Policies can do a lot of things; it’s such a big list of things that you can do in a Group policy, with the default templates, that it can be difficult to find a setting among the hundreds of fields and sub-fields in the Group Policy tool in Active Directory. There is [...]

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Active Directory (AD) Integration - Part 1

Unitek Citrix Blog — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:50:31 +0000

There are two main areas of Active Directory design that are critical to most Citrix implementations: Profiles, and Group Policies. Profiles With the most simplistic, default situation on a Windows Terminal Server, a user exists in Active Directory without any “profile”, or “terminal services profile” information included. When the user first logs in to the Terminal Server, [...]

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Redundancy - Top 5 Single Points of Failure in Most Citrix Implementations

Unitek Citrix Blog — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:39:31 +0000

WI/CSG XML STA TS licensing server License server and data store When we talk to Citrix administrators and first ask about their Citrix implementation, they may tell us they have 2 or 3, 4 or 5 servers. With the exception of one machine running the Web Interface, the rest of the Citrix servers are assumed to be pretty much equal, [...]

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