Citrix have released a new version of the popular article Communication Ports Used By Citrix Technologies, which now includes some updated ports for XenServer. This document provides an overview of TCP ports that are used by Citrix components and must be considered as part of Citrix architecture, especially if communication traffic traverses network components such as firewalls or proxy server, where
Windows 7 Taskbar support has been available since Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1), however there are limits to its integration. In quick summary, the short answer is yes for manual pinning and no for automatic pre-population (via Publishing/DC refresh). Pinning an App-V application to the Taskbar Once a virtual application has been published to an Windows 7
Effective VM Cloning with XenServer Many companies do leverage the powerful VM cloning functionality present in XenServer. This could either do full clones including a full copy process or even leverage storage capabilities by running fast-clone methods. Especially when using StorageLink this is even more performant and effective. This may also be a major consideration when using XenDesktop deployments where
Citrix Blog posted another post about Citrix NetScaler. It is already hardended and only VIP’s will respond to TCP handshakes. However here are some more considerations for hardening your deployment. Hardening takes place by implementing the following on the Citrix NetScaler Load Balancer – Securing NetScaler system communication, Access Control Lists (ACL), Securing the NetScaler system using RPCNode and External authentication.
Citrix Support published Top 10 Technical articles for October 2010. Find below the Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 for October 2010. Top 10 Technical Articles Article Number Article Title CTX368624 Troubleshooting Citrix Pass-through Authentication (Single Sign-On) CTX711855 Common SSL Error Messages, and Respective Cause and Resolution CTX238200 Troubleshooting Client Drive Mapping CTX101644 Seamless Configuration Settings CTX106531 Troubleshooting the Citrix XTE Service and
How to get flying Microsoft Windows Small Business Server with XenServer? First of all: Download Windows SBS 2008 . I used SBS 2008 x64 bit with SP2 included. Create a new virtual machine using the Windows 2008 64-bit template, run through the wizard and do a normal install of SBS. After a successfull installation the virtual machine is doing a
Are you experiencing issue with virtual Office 2010 and SharePoint 2007 where Multiple uploads and Datasheet view are not available?? The reason for this is that each component used a plugin in Internet Explorer that was not available during Internet Explorer launch. Then when VirtualOWSSuppmanager is launched it doesn’t find the plugins causing the features to not be displayed. One
On the Virtualization with Hyper-V Technical Resources page, Microsoft has posted the “Virtual Hard Disk Performance White Paper.” This paper contains information about the performance implications of operations that use a differencing disk with Hyper-V, as well as the pro and cons of using differencing disks. All the information in this document is relevant to using differencing disks within a Virtual
The Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 Management Server may appear to run out of available licenses and clients may receive the following error: You are not authorized to access this resource. Error code: 0A-20000193 Cause The stored procedure sp_SFTclosesessions in the management server database is used to close orphaned sessions, license sessions, application usage and licenses assignments that are stale.
Configuring Persistence Based on Source and Destination IP Addresses The Citrix NetScaler initially selects a server by using a load balancing method. With persistence configured, enabling the NetScaler to send any subsequent client requests to the selected server, the server can access state information for that client. If persistence is configured, it overrides the load balancing methods once the server has been
