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Impressive demo on what Citrix Receiver will be on iPad with the possibility to use your iPhone as a trackpad !

http://community.citrix.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=133005705

Hello,

I just created/added a new module to Slax for the 11.000 Citrix Receiver.

With Slax and this module, you will have a bootable USB Disk with access to your XenApp/XenDesktop in 15 minutes !

Just search on “Citrix Receiver” on the AppStore and there you go

More info : http://community.citrix.com/display/xa/Citrix+Receiver

The iPhone Plugin becomes really concrete now with even a ship schedule !

Right now the ship schedule is first half of ‘09 , but keep those votes and use cases coming and help us increase the priority further !

You can see here a video on the copy/paste feature and the file browser :

Source : Citrix Blog

And HERE you can find the iPhone plugin blog aka Project Braeburn!

Dmitry Vostokov, the famous webmaster of http://www.dumpanalysis.org/, has just posted a summary of the most downnloaded and best rated Citrix Tools !

You can find this list HERE

The Citrix Escalation team is pleased to announce the new Citrix Symbol Server. The Citrix Symbol Server provides on-demand access to public Citrix symbol files from any machine connected to the Internet. Prior to the symbol server, public symbol packages had to be downloaded over the Internet and copied to the local computer before debugging could be performed.  Additionally, customers routinely had to upload large dump files to Citrix’s FTP site before analysis could begin. We are excited to leverage this new resource to decrease problem resolution time and drive seamless cross-vendor collaboration.

Usage

To access debug symbols for the Citrix XenApp products – simply add the Citrix Symbol Server to the symbol path in your debugging tool of choice:

example: SRV*<your local symbol folder>*http://ctxsym.citrix.com/symbols

Reference article CTX118622 – How to Use the Citrix Symbol Server to Obtain Debug Symbols

Citrix has created a community site which is dedicated to hosting Citrix related technical tips/demo videos.

Please take a look at the site at http://citrix.utipu.com

• Larger resolution than YouTube
• Designed for computer screen captures (you can see the text clearly for example)
• Display notes
• User rating, comments, etc.

http://citrix.utipu.com/app/

This is a great video from Ashish (Principal Design Engineer at Citrix Systems) explaining how does XenApp application delivery process work through Web Interface. Ashish explains different servers involved in the process and then he dives into health recovery and monitoring feature.

Really interesting to watch, especially to remember every server involved in Web Interface.

Source

Brian Madden gives an excellent analyse of the new Terminal Services features of Windows 2008 versus Citrix XenApp.

• TS RemoteApp (a kind of seamless windows / application publishing)
• TS Web Access (a web front end for TS RemoteApps)
• TS Session Broker (a load balancer for incoming RDP sessions)
• TS Gateway (an SSL gateway for RDP)
• TS Easy Print (An XPS-based printing solution)
• Windows System Resource Manager (Performance Management)

You can read the whole article here :

Windows 2008 Terminal Services versus Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp: Citrix has nothing to worry about

Good tip found on “The Shonk Project” via “Brianmadden.com”

In summary, go in the Citrix Access Management Console, select mutliple applications and drag/drop them in the right pane of a server … this is it

A good advice found on BrianMadden.com !
Bookmark this link and you will have a very fast access to Citrix Documentation !

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX116089

Brian Madden has just posted a link to a video showing head to head performance comparaison between Citrix XenEnterprise and VMware ESX 3.0.1 implementation.

Video Here

You can see some screenshots of the future Web Interface 5.0 (Delaware release of MPS) on the blog of Thomas Koetzing.

Here is the introduction of Thomas :

Microsoft has release Windows Server 2008 in February of 2008 and Citrix will follow with their release of Presentation Server 5.0 (Delaware) that is targeted for the new Windows server generation. With each new full release of Presentation Server, the product components are also updated to support the new version.

Continue here …

Working solution found on Citrix Forums :

Hello here is my way – the citrix document wasnt correct:

to move the IMA DB from “Oldserver” to “newserver” if you use indirect access to the database

1. stop the ima service on the old server
2. copy the mf20.mdb to the new ima server to the following path:

"C:\Program files\Independent Management Architecture\"

3. Start imaservice on the oldserver
4. Create a new DSN (file dsn)entry in the same folder and name it mf20.dsn (ODBC -Access)
5. call on all servers, except the newserver, in the dos box “DSmaint Failover NEWSERVER”
6. On the newserver call:

"DSmaint Config /user:citrix /Pwd:citrix /dsn:"C:\Program files\Citrix\Independent Management Architecture\mf20.dsn"

7. regedit on oldserver and newserver :

oldserver
HLM\SOFTWAE\Citrix\IMA\DatabaseDriver\Imaaccess.dll
to
HLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix\IMA\DatabaseDriver\Imaodbc.dll

Newserver
HLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix\IMA\DatabaseDriver\Imaodbc.dll
to
HLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix\IMA\DatabaseDriver\Imaaccess.dll

8. stop and start imaservice on newserver
9. stop and start imaservice on all other servers

In the Citrix document is one step not described. I think it is the change of the registry on the oldserver.