Latest news from ThomasKoetzing.de http://www.thomaskoetzing.de Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:52:22 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/images/M_images/tk_rss.jpg http://www.thomaskoetzing.de Latest news from ThomasKoetzing.de http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=327&Itemid=254 More often People running into an issue where a seamless applications starts a full Desktop right away. With XenApp your will get the error ICA Seamless Host Agent Dialog box . The problem is a bug in Microsoft Active Directory Manager from Server 2008/R2. Typically customers have an Active Directory based on 2003 but Administrators are using the MMC... http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=326&Itemid=254 Would you like to meet peers at Citrix Synergy? You know peers for some time through eMail, Posts, Twitter, Facebook you name it but not in person? Use the LinkedIn group CitrixSynergyVisitors (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3318554&trk=anet_ug_hm) to arrange meeting with peers at Citrix Synergy.I will attend the next Citrix Synergy in Berlin, so see you in October! http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=323&Itemid=254 Recently I had the task to convert physical Servers to virtual XenServer (P2V) instances and with Windows Server 2000/NT as the operating system. All Servers where from HP and old hardware like ProLiant 5500, DL 580G0 with SCSI hard drives with 4GB and 8GB max capacity. Taget Hardware was HP Blade 460c G6 and I had some issues to overcome... http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=321&Itemid=254 Changed: I'm doing quite some PVS implementation and found that Citrix is not working with Microsoft KMS Server! According to CTX124106 (http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX124106) the only supported solution is using Microsoft KMS Volume Activation with vDISK in standard mode. At first I noticed that the MAK model is also working with vDISK in standard moduse but not supported by Citrix. After changing... http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=320&Itemid=254 Sam Jacobs a true master of Web Interface gave a presentation at BriForum 2010. He sends me the modifications so I could publish them. First it's a Support Information tab that shows things like IP-Address, Host name, Client Version etc. In this release I removed the AD query portion for group membership but will publish that version later.Here the downloadSupportInfo5.x_v1.2.zip... http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=319&Itemid=254 The Citrix INI File Reference (CTX107919) is an important document that describes (mostly) ICA file parameters. This article was last updated in 2007 and for the ICA Client version 9.0! Today we are at version 12.x and a lot of new parameter exist but were not published.This has changed with the new online ICA settings reference documentation based on version... http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=318&Itemid=254 Recently I updated XenServer to 5.6 and run into some issues with Provisioning Services 5.1 SP2. Not all environments will encounter the problems and I'm unsure when exactly it happens.Environment is XenServer 5.5 and PVS 5.1 SP2 where PVS runs also the PXE service. After updating one XenServer to 5.6 the VM's couldn't Network boot anymore from the 5.6 host.... http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=317&Itemid=254 The days of Citrix Secure Gateway are over for sure but customer get a better and free solution! Citrix changed the licensing for Access Gateway in a way that ICA Proxy connection through the Gateway are free. In addition you can download the VPX version of Access Gateway Express and simply import it into XenServer. A VMware/Hyper-V version is expected... http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=316&Itemid=254 Claus Isager just send me an update of his FREE SMS Token solution whitch works with Active Directory 2003 and 2008 and now with Web Interface 5.2 (probably works with 5.3 too). He also added a new version that uses E-Mails insted of SMS. You can leave comments hereAt the same time I checked the Analyse Center and it works... http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=315&Itemid=254 Access Gateway Standard (Model 2000) version 4.6 is out for some time but it looks like Citrix forget to mention an important feature! I outlined the functionality to Citrix during the beta test of 4.6 and even said they should document it. I couldn't find it in the documentation and even the online documentation of XenApp 5.0 FP2 states that...