Citrix Director 7.6 Deep Dive Part 2: has brought support for XenApp 6.5

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Citrix IMA support back, allowing users to XenApp 6.5 to fix (IMA) sessions with advanced features in Director 7.6. Apart from a short list of available functions of Director 7.6 with IMA architecture to provide, I have created this post to detail and outline each feature

Features :.

  • Activity Manager for XenApp 6.5
  • Delegated Admin support
  • Shadow Session
  • machine detail area
  • Session Details panel
  • Personalization panel
  • HDX panel

Global user session search about XenDesktop sites and farms XenApp:

Director 7.6 now helps search Administrators user sessions via XenDesktop sites, and XenApp farms. This feature allows administrators to obtain all sessions for users in a search session. We also quickly switch between sessions made it convenient

. Note: Director 7.6 supports three types of search: Find user, machine and endpoint. XenApp sessions are supported only "user" search

[Director Session Chooser showing sessions across XD/XA Sites and XA (IMA) Farms]

ActivityManager .:

Director 7.6 now shows different applications and the process list on a XenApp server for a user session running the Windows task Manager to imitate. As an administrator, you can close an application or kill the process remotely. to help one of the most important applications, slow applications can be diagnosed when a user, the help desk calls that session interactions complain slowly. Now, administrators can drill down to a process, the high resource consumption and kill them much needed resources freely

[Director Activity Manager: Application and Process View]

Delegated Admin Support .:

Director 7.6 supports XenApp administrators in addition to full administrator role delegated. Full Admin, View Only Admin and User Admin are supporting the types of administrators using the Delegated Admin Support function. Permissions for each admin can type (see product documentation) are configured.

Director 7.6 now allows administrators to mirror user sessions. This feature helps administrators diagnose problems quickly and get a direct view into user sessions. Admins also have provided access to appropriate checks. To enable this feature, Microsoft Remote Assistance in XA servers should be enabled. Here is the link that you install and enable Remote Assistance on Windows Server 08 R2 helps. See

[Director Shadow Session: Picture illustrates the ease of having a peek to user session]

Director pages that appear for XenApp

Activity Manager:

This view is the basic insight into the processes and applications on the user session is running. It contains the "End" and "shadow" buttons and helps the Admin-based control operations perform

user details .:

The user details view that gives an eye bird view the user's session. This view shows all information about the user session as session Equipment details, the farm name and the machine OU. It also helps to find the client computer name and IP from which the session was started, the session state and the total time for the meeting on the current status.

allows Personalization Panel us to locate the user profile. The registration period panel displays the logon time (although the registration period chart is not displayed for XenApp sessions). Finally, the HDX-panel displays the status of each channel HDX. For more details on troubleshooting, the administrator can click on one of the channel symbols

Installation WMIProvider on XA Server .:

Thus Director retrieve data from XA 6.5 server sessions to the administrator must install a WMIProvider on XenApp 6.5 servers. This can be found in the DVD folder / support / DirectorWMIProvider. Once this is installed, make sure that the WinRM is enabled. This can by running the

Winrm qc

command The expected output is done:

C: > winrm qc [1945019

WinRM service is already running on this computer.

WinRM is already set up for remote management on this computer.

configuration WinRM permissions for XA-Server: This Director retrieve the information from the XA-Server

, it is necessary to enable WinRM permission for administrators. These details are described in our edocs. We have two types of permissions:

(1) To view the information from the XA-Server obtained in Director.

ConfigRemoteMgmt.exe / configwinrmuser Domain Name

ConfigRemoteMgmt.exe / configwinrmuser domain Helpdesk User Group : This can be achieved by running the following command

(2) to enable operations in the session. The operations are actions such as end-use, end process, etc. This can be achieved by running the following command:

ConfigRemoteMgmt.exe / configwinrmuser Domain Name / All

ConfigRemoteMgmt.exe / configwinrmuser domain Helpdesk User Group / All

How to configure in Director 7.6 XA Server

after installing open command prompt on the Director server. Enter the following command:

C: inetpub wwwroot Director Tools DirectorConfig.exe / xenapp

Once the tool runs successfully, Director is ready to fix your XenApp 6.5 user sessions

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