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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Is very common find applications that works only with a specific configuration on Control Panel / Regional Settings.  And change this configuration on all users profile can be very big headache, then save these lines below as a .adm file and include on your policy.
Default settings are configured to British standard but you can change [...]

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This is a very, very and very simple inventory tool. But can be very useful on sbc environments. This script checks the list of applications on Add/Remove Programs of each server, and writes a result in a table inside a html file.  Then, you can compare if all servers has same software installed or same [...]

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Here we have a simple VBS that can be used at published aplicattions on Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server), or running local applications with their necessary mapped network drivers.
This script map network drivers and open an application.
Letra = “S:”
‘Precisa ser letra maiuscula
Caminho = servidorshare
Aplicativo = Letra & “teste.exe”

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