ICA or RDP are not the best protocols to copy files between DataCentres and remote workstations. But, some times is very difficult to implement a different solution to provide access to users local files from Citrix XenApp or Terminal Services, and even if the idea was rejected in the design of your environment, one day [...]

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In this month Citrix released a new utility called FastLaunch. This is not a official supported utility or even a tech preview. It is just a very small utility made by IT guys in Citrix to “hold” Citrix sessions, providing to users reconnect their sessions every time, instead to logon again.
This tool was created some [...]

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Day by day, PDF files are becoming more and more popular and in some cases, more used than .doc files! And I bet that many Citrix administrators never stopped to think how much the PDF Readers are affecting the server performance and scalability in a Citrix farm, considering that memory consumption of PDF readers can [...]

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Rename a Citrix XenApp Server (Presentation Server/Metaframe) Is a very common administrative task, but many administrators ignore that Citrix has recommendations to be followed. And this recommendations are different from XenApp 4.0/4.5 than XenApp 5.
Basically, there is only one item that was included by Citrix on the procedure to rename servers. But is very important, [...]

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Sometimes we need install a simple XenApp environment for some porprouse like training, pre-sales, show some funcionality, test something before put in production, test an application to see if is compatible, etc. and depending of the propourse, you might spend some hours doing this boring task.
But for XenApp 4.5, you can use a freeware called [...]

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Citrix brought some benefits launching XenApp 5, and the majors were support to Windows 2008 and a reformulated Web Interface. The new Web Interface 5 is very cool, using the most new CSS techniques and is more smart, recognizing the browser capabilities that each user is using (including mobiles).
Also, the new Web Interface 5 brings [...]

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To measure the Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server/Metaframe) or Terminal Services link consumption for an application the best is: publish to users and watch. Yes! Users are totally unpredictable and is very difficult to know every thing that they can do in some scenarios.
But, you always need know how much bandwidth an applications needs to be [...]

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To receive emails from Citrix Resource Manager, you can set a MAPI or a SMTP address. On many organizations, is much more simple set a SMTP address than configure MAPI but since Metaframe XP 1.0, Citrix insist on “hide” this configuration under a context menu on Resource Manager option of Presentation Server Console (Java).
Even on [...]

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Some times, you need publish a specific website on your Citrix XenApp farm, but you need avoid to users see toolbars or addressbars, and you don’t want put Internet Explorer on kiosk mode. Then the alternative solution can be publish a .VBS that opens the Internet Explorer as you wish.
First step: Create a .vbs and [...]

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On last year, with Presentation Server client version 10.x Citrix finally introduced a template .adm to administration of clients configurations through Windows Group Policies. This icaclient.adm template is very useful to ensure to you that all configurations were applied to all users that you want.
With this .adm you can do somethings like:

Configure single Sign-On for [...]

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