As a summary of the optimization options for Lync 2013

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Much content was recently released via Lync optimization.

Many of my clients are interested in to get clear guidance from Citrix best how Lync to implement in their XenApp and XenDesktop deployments and optimize. In this blog I have tried to collect it all together and in a form which makes this product successfully deploy sense to help.

Contents

  1. Overview of functions
  2. to select the best delivery method
  3. Citrix Optimization Pack for Lync 2013
  4. Microsoft Lync VDI ​​plug-in
  5. client-side Citrix receiver noted

high level Overview of Lync optimization possibilities and functions :

XenDesktop Masterclass - virtualization MS Lync - June 2015: http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/13071

you can download the slides from the webinar can be found here: https: // citrix? .sharefile.com / download.aspx id = s0eca98e76974b828

from the Master Class we can t are to see here four optimization options:

  1. generic HDX
  2. HDX Local App Access
  3. Citrix Optimization Pack
  4. Microsoft Lync VDI ​​plug-in

choose which option is best for your environment :

Lync Delivery feature matrix
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX0279

, to determine the feature matrix which optimization technology is best for your environment. One of the most important decisions will be client operating system support here. If you have Windows on your client devices, then you can select one of four options. If you need to support other operating systems, you can not use the Microsoft Lync VDI ​​plug-in use or HDX Local App Access

Citrix option. 1 - Generic HDX

If we say that we can optimize Lync say with "Generic HDX" that we are not listed a specific optimization options below. Instead, we rely on the efficiency of the standard ICA / HDX protocol, the audio and video (and the usual screen and keyboard) to compress traffic.

There are a lot of good technology built in HDX so it can be very efficient. If you want this read about the (many) options more created for the configuration I recommend this great blog post by my fellow TRMs here read: / blogs / 10.22.2014 / what-new-with-HDX display -in-XenDesktop xenapp-7-x /

"Generic HDX", a lot of good work to do with audio and video data compression, and has the best client compatibility, as no special components (other than receiver) must present on the client device. The downside is that all processing will be performed in the data center to limit scalability, and this option does not solve the problem hairpin


Citrix Option 2 -. HDX Local App Access

HDX Local App Access is a feature of XenApp 6.5 and XenDesktop 7.x which can complete Lync application (executable files and multimedia) on the client device be carried out with the application UI overlaying with a hosted desktop session. This is potentially very useful because we can move fully the requirements for the processing of Lync from the datacenter to the client device ... as long as the client device is running the Windows operating system.

HDX Local App Access required platinum licensing so will not be an option for any environment.

HDX Local App Access has been added as a feature of XenApp 6.5 with the release of Feature Pack 2. You can read more about this feature here: http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xenapp65fp2-w2k8/ps-csp-rs-intro-wrapper.html

you can with XenDesktop / XenApp 7.5 here Read more about HDX Local App Access: http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xenapp-xendesktop-75/laa-overview.html

you can read more about App HDX Local access with XenDesktop / XenApp 7.6 here: http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xenapp-xendesktop-76/xad- laa-intro.html


Citrix option 3 - HDX realTime Optimization Pack for Lync version 1.7

version 1.7 was published last month and supports Lync 2013 client. The previous version of the optimization package (1.6) only supports Lync 2010 client. A blog post from the Product Manager describes the publication, is here: / blogs / 30.03.2015 / more flexibility-in-lync-2013 Delivery-from-xenappxendesktop /

Download the Citrix HDX realTime Optimization Pack for Lync 2013: https://www.citrix.com/downloads/xenapp/components/hdx-realtime-optimization-pack-17-for-microsoft-lync.html

documentation is here: http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/hdx-realtime-optimization-pack-17/lync-realtime-optimization-pack-17.html

With system requirements can be found here: http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/hdx-realtime-optimization-pack-17/hdx-realtime-optimization-pack-17-system-requirements.html


The Microsoft option - Microsoft Lync 2013 VDI Plugin

If you use the Microsoft Lync VDI ​​Plugin Citrix support statement for them you http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX138408.html

Download the Microsoft Lync 2013 VDI plug in here:: View can here http://www.microsoft.com/en- us / download / details.aspx id = 35457

documentation is here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204683 (v = ocs.15) aspx

with system requirements here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj205304(v=ocs.15).aspx

Deployment Guide and notes from the field: http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/archive/2013/09/23/deployment-details-for-lync-vdi-plugin.aspx

client-side Citrix Receiver noted

Citrix option - you are free to use each receiver for Windows 3.x or 4.x with the Citrix Optimization Pack

Microsoft option -. There are Microsoft Lync VDI ​​Plugin bug fixes in receiver 4.1.100 and 4.1.2 so if you want to use this optimization method they consider use to make sure that you have all of these bugfixes least Receiver 4.2

See the Citrix Lync optimization Pack in action:

click to play and see the Citrix optimization for Microsoft Lync

/ blogs / 03.25.2015 / Click-Play-and-see-the-citrix-optimization-for-microsoft-lync /

Connecting people and businesses than ever

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Today, in our fast-paced, hyper-connected world, mobile users are able to perform as many tasks on the go, online -Banking access, shopping, reading, researching or work.

But the ability for mobile app users easily connect and receive fast and quality service and support of a company that is still very difficult. So where is the business clients disconnect?

The reality is that companies simply do not have with customer expectations caught up. Workflows and processes not yet adapted to the evolving needs of mobile users. The business customer relationship in the 1980s yet been fixed!

How can we this relationship to the next level? Finally, as we jump us conceptually and technologically?

The answer to these questions in the vicinity! With Synergy (Orlando), we will introduce the newest and hottest technology in support services: Concierge you

Join us on Wednesday, May 13th at 1:30 PM ET , the concierge breakout session (# SYN252) . We will discuss how to strengthen your organization and raise your service and support company to the next level. If you are looking for more innovative, simple and secure ways to provide first-class service and support for your mobile user community, let us show you how successfully these goals with a brand new Citrix technology that achieve especially on providing world class destination service mobile application users.

you not miss this opportunity! This is a first-come, first served seating session.

In case you miss the breakout session, come forward to the Concierge demonstration in solving Pavilion (booth # 16) or visit the Concierge Live demo room (Columbia 34) 8:00 to 5:00 from Tuesday to Thursday. We will dive deep Demos perform and answer all your questions.

And for those of you who do not have Synergy able to visit, you will see just the Concierge announcement live streaming on Synergy TV while Mark Templeton opening keynote Tuesday 12th May at 9:00 ET.

Concierge coming! Sign up now to be among the first to get early access May 12 sign-up here. to get the latest updates and enter for a chance to win an Apple Watch

We are pleased to meet you there

Concierge -.! , Customer Reinvented

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XenDesktop on Cloud Platform - PoC Setup Cheat Sheet

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to the XenDesktop Provisioning Cloud Webinar saw that Mikael Lindholm and I ran a few months ago. Well, since I have many people ask me how I set up the XenDesktop on Cloud Platform Demo. There are a few good resources, but I could not get a complete guide that took you through the entire process, step by step.

Well fear not ... because I mean XenDesktop on Cloud Platform deleted (XDCCP) demonstration system and built it from scratch, every step in the recording I took! I have a complete system of XenServer host and Cloud Platform management servers to AD, Delivery Controller and storefront

This manual contains .:

- installation of XenDesktop 7.5 backend infrastructure

- How XenServer and Cloud Platform

to install and prepare - a volume Worker and desktop templates create

- configuring XenDesktop for multi-tenancy

- Connecting of XenDesktop system Cloud Platform

- Creating the first machine catalogs and desktop groups in the cloud

If you have a few spare servers and about 1.5 days, why do not you try it? I hope you find this guide useful! http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX0179

Promote your business with a partner Spotlight Story

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often ask partners how to stand out and transmit their extraordinary stories. However, some obstacles can develop lack of time to tinker the right content, or simply do not know how to start an articulate history. Fortunately, Citrix makes it easier for our partners their progress and performance showcase.

Introduction Partner Spotlights, a free service, the partner professional copy writing, describing their history with Citrix and is presented on a monthly basis in Citrix Partner News to the partner community worldwide, and appears on Citrix.com. This fantastic opportunity is increased recognition of outstanding commitment with Citrix and your profits. We manage the entire coordination between partners and our professional copywriter your story to ensure the essence of your success begins to grow and prosper with Citrix solutions, program services, training and enablement resources to help you.

A recent example of a Spotlight history Presidio, our 2014 North American Partner of the Year. Her story shows her recent success a complete solution with Citrix XenDesktop 7, Microsoft Hyper-V and Cisco UCS provides a large Georgia to expand the school system learning and testing with flexible online access.

Another Partner Spotlight example Regal IT, a faithful Citrix partner for 13 years. Her story shows their relationship with Citrix to present sales end-to-end mobility and deliver virtualization and cloud solutions to medium-sized companies.

Share your profits and tell your story!

If your business accelerated to the next level, you make in solutions sales, expand your marketing know-how with our tools and continue to level your relationship with Citrix and thus to achieve greater success, we tell your story - is a state; You have earned it!

it a. Simply use our online form, click on the "my story" and we will work with you through the rest side side care to deliver your partner Spotlight.

Be inspired! Read past Partner Spotlight stories. | Stay connected! Follow @CitrixPartners today on Twitter.

Auto Scaling Cloud with Citrix Technologies

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With VMworld 2014 in San Francisco recently behind us, it, AEOS good to reflect back on the event, held talks and the interest of participants expressed by our booth.

As always with these fairs, was a great interest in all Citrix technologies and especially for me, a lot of great conversations had with people expressed interest in Citrix, AEOS cloud technologies and what we. at VMworld demoed that had the ability to scale automatically and dynamically or workloads scale based on their use

the ability to unload for cloud administrators manual tasks such as creating workloads in order policy means in their network integration and load balancing, they are free to do other more important work. Last but not least, they are not available, these objects, say early run in the morning when your company, AEOS website traffic to escalate by public notice or product release has begun. Traffic control at all times of the day is not a very viable option.

What if a part of the infrastructure is gone offline due to a failure of the infrastructure and what in another place remains isn, Äôt able to handle the load by itself? Do you want your administrators build time to spend the Web server farm to meet the demands of the business or the infrastructure to be failure of the repair?

Now, when the cloud infrastructure is resilient and able to scale automatically and in workloads these types of scenarios are dealt with much more easily and continue your site to deliver the content without interruption.

this year at VMworld, I integration between Citrix Cloud Platform demoed the industry, AEOS only future-proof, application-centric cloud orchestration solution with more than 250 customers production clouds in deployment and Citrix NetScaler the world, AEOS advanced Application Delivery controller for mobile and web.

to scale an application environment to be able to quickly or in, you need to automate the processes that transport and peripheral monitor resources. With Citrix Cloud Platform AutoScale the administrator configures the NetScaler appliance balance traffic on the use of virtual machines (VMs) to load, monitor thresholds and power and trigger scale-out and scale-in options to add or remove VMs to or from the application fleet.

, these two products through the integration of the customers are providing cloud-based server farms based with Auto Scale policies easily able.

simply the minimum and maximum scale define the thresholds for scaling up and down, and the cloud does the rest, so that you, the administrator, simply in the knowledge, in order to rest, that it is less a matter about yourself as if it must relate to many or too few dedicated resources to support, AEOS web server farm is the company.

to watch the demo video to see how it works!

I hope that those who to see of you who came to more cloud-related discussions in the near future on another conference of the cabin!

Scripting: Automate VM operations on XenServer with PowerShell

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XenServer+PowerShell With the release of XenServer 6.2 SDK, there is a better alignment between the PowerShell snap-in and the PowerShell standards cmdlets design and use. Here are some good reference documents:

  • XenServer 6.2.0 SDK Release Notes
  • XenServer 6.2.0 PowerShell SDK Overview

in the solutions from Citrix Lab we have for all our XenServer environment Einsatzaufgaben this SDK was with and we want to share with you.

all this installation on the XenServer pool master under perform

downloading and XenServer PowerShell snap-in scripts include connection and a set of cmdlets perform the various tasks. Of course this requires that you have the latest XenServer PowerShell snap-in that is available for download installed at http://www.xenserver.org/partners/developing-products-for-xenserver.html under Download SDK components and click the software Development Kit link.

to extract After downloading the XenServer-6.2.0-SDK.zip file, and run the [1945010XenServerPSSnapIn-620-1msi] located at XenServer SDK XenServerPSSnapIn .

[1945001auch], keep in mind that the XenServerPSSnapIn_old folder contains the old version of PowerShell snap-in, which is not used in this discussion. If this was a mistake installed, you can uninstall it and the right of the XenServerPSSnapIn install folder.

The sample tasks

, to perform a task, such as with other complex operation, the script go through a series of steps to achieve the desired result. Below I will go over the steps that are used the example of tasks to accomplish. Each of these steps can be referenced in the sample scripts as comments with the prefix "blog step" to help follow you

Creating VMs from other VMs or templates

  • Download the. XenServer snap-in
  • to connect to the XenServer Pool Master
  • Get the source VM or template
  • Decide whether we a clone or copy (ie thin vs. do thick provision)
  • Plan complete the creation of VMs
  • wait for the creation
  • When we started with templates, then we need VMs for the provision of terminate copies / clones and wait for the provision of
  • If we want the VMs, then get each VM and schedule a performance on
  • separating XenServer pool Master
  • Remove the XenServer snap -in start

change the VM resources such as CPU, memory and networks

  • load the snap-in XenServer
  • the pool XenServer Connect Master
  • each VM Get and a graceful closed schedule
  • ensure each VM Get and that the VM is off
  • If we modify networking:
    • If we are to hold the non-existing networks on the VM, then remove all the existing networks on the VM
    • networks VMs simultaneously adding it to skip duplicates and a number of devices hold
  • If we modify CPU (we must always meet a CPU control from 0
  • When CPUs in VM are greater than our desired number, then we can reduce start-up CPUs, followed by max CPUs
  • When CPUs in VM are less than our desired count, then we increase max CPUs followed by start-up CPUs
  • If we this action
skip
  • If we modify memory (we must always meet a memory control memory_static_min ≤ memory_dynamic_min ≤ memory_dynamic_max ≤ memory_static_max):
    • If desired memory amount is less than the static minimum, then our desired amount to the change storage static minimum
    • If static maximum memory is greater than our desired amount of VM, then we put dynamic minimum, followed by dynamic maximum and finally static maximum
    • If static maximum storage on VM less than our desired amount, then we set the static maximum, followed by the dynamic maximum and finally dynamic minimum
    • Otherwise, we skip this measure
  • Get any VM and schedule performance on
  • When networks were added, then we wait until the VM is rebootable a graceful reboot plan to apply changes
  • separating XenServer pool Master
  • remove the XenServer snap-in
  • Creating and resetting of VM snapshots

    • Download the XenServer snap-in
    • to connect to the XenServer pool Master
    • If we take a snapshot:
      • each VM get and a graceful shut plan to obtain each VM down of VMs
      • , ensure that the VM is turned off, and plan the creation of snapshot
    • If we take a snapshot reset:
    • obtain
        each VM, you get the snapshot, you plan the reversion of snapshot
    • Get each VM and plan performance on
    • separating XenServer pool Master
    • remove the XenServer snap-in

    Get the sample scripts

    We would like to share with you some sample scripts that go described above in the various tasks of the steps. These scripts are very useful when the sample tasks is carried out as bulk operations across multiple VMs.

    Creating VMs from other VMs or templates

    Copy XenServerVMTemplate.ps1

    Change the VM resources such as CPU, memory and networks

    Set- XenServerVMResources.ps1

    Creating and resetting of VM snapshots

    Set-XenServerVMSnapshot.ps1

    Happy Scripting!

    Santiago Cardenas

    Citrix Solutions Lab

    Disclaimer:

    This software / sample code provided "AS IS "without representations, warranties or conditions of any kind. you can use, modify and distribute it at your own risk. CITRIX DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, WRITTEN, ORAL OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that (a) the software / code sample could be inaccurate, design flaws or other problems that may cause data loss or damage to property; (B) it may not be possible to make the software / sample code fully functional; and (c) Citrix may, without notice or liability to you, no longer available to make the current version and / or future versions of the software / sample code. In no case the software / code to support ultra-hazardous activities should be used, including but not limited life support or blasting activities. NEITHER CITRIX NOR ITS AFFILIATES OR AGENTS IN BREACH OF CONTRACT OR ANY OTHER LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE / SAMPLE CODE, INCLUDING DIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR OTHER DAMAGES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. You agree to indemnify and defend Citrix against any claims arising from the use, modification or distribution of the code created.

    Continue to play! Citrix is ​​investing in a partner-led services Schedule

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    Citrix has developed a strong team of channel partners. Just as a quarterback is critical to move the ball forward, delivering services and to speed up the excellent piece for Partner and Citrix to growth.

    Citrix Solution Advisors are asked by customers more and more services via Citrix product lines to deliver. A recent survey of partner services within Citrix Worldwide Consulting & Education showed that 64% of customers use a partner to deliver services.

    completed by TechValidate Partner Services survey in August, our customers cheered that Citrix partners different winning professional services at all stages of the consultation, in areas as complex as complete architecture and design of end-to-end -Citrix solutions.

    customers were to implement on their enthusiasm for the partners clearly Citrix solutions and their need to use their talent and expertise

    select

    Top clients with Citrix partners work

    The main reasons why customers choose perform Citrix partner services include reasons :.

    partners success is our success

    our partners ability to sell services and supply is a key factor for growth for both partners and ultimately Citrix. The Partner Services and Worldwide Channels team work, to discover new ways to join forces with our partners to continue to promote it and to enable to successfully sell and deliver services.

    We will be the world champion, as we grow and support partner-led services in all Citrix solutions. A customer said it best, which could offer a Citrix partner.

    talking with partners continue to be mostly positive and enlightening, how we work together as creating various plays and offers to, as best practice tools, processes, services e-learning relationship dashboard and joint marketing services and messaging.

    It's Time and customers are clearly ready to use its services as the more the partners. This is an excellent opportunity and we look forward to flawless execution in a partner-centric services to create the future together.

    Follow @CitrixPartners

    CTO Council September newsletter

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    In this Newsletter CTO Council month, we explore the future of health care in the first part of a two-part series. We next take a look at the impact of HTML5 starts to have and then discuss project Accelerator, an experiment that accelerates the implementation of XenDesktop, XenApp and XenClient in mobile development. Finally Martin Duursma writes about the constant changes in our technological world and raises Citrix technology landscape

    The future of medicine -. Part 1

    It is an exciting time as health technologies real-time statistics, medical specialists worldwide, major medical knowledge bases at your fingertips develop to make available, medical data analysis, and a variety of technical and communication advances, the new health knowledge. In this article we will explore technologies in the medical field, to take us into the future of healthcare.

    What is the impact of HTML5?

    Have it facilitates open standards like HTML5 development on mobile platforms for developers to make simple applications across multiple mobile device platforms to target? In this article we examine the use of mobile developer tools and look at an example of how Citrix Labs mobile development with HTML5 approached a specific problem to solve.

    Project Accelerator

    [1945001ProjektAccelerator] takes to help an innovative approach, Citrix customers and partners to accelerate deployments of XenDesktop, XenApp and XenClient by design, providing tailored by specific requirements. To simplify the process, Accelerator asks a series of questions and receive customized hardware recommendations and a recommended architecture for your deployment. Try it now at project.citrix.com

    The only constant is change

    One of the few certainties in life is change. to keep abreast of technological change can be daunting. In order not paralyzed by the ever-changing sand art, Citrix every year publishes the Citrix technology landscape, a five-year vision on, is led in the technology and its effects on human beings and society. The full document is now publicly available here

    The CTO Council is a virtual team of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of every Citrix product group and the division includes, as well as executive and strategic employees from all Citrix. For more information on the CTO Council and what they are up to, check the trends and innovation website at Citrix.com out

    Cubefree Introduction: The world is your office

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    Cubefree app Today we are pleased to bring you a latest Citrix innovations for the mobile workforce and a very useful addition to your mobile office Toolkit ,

    , the winner of the Citrix Connect 2014 Innovation Challenge and also a graduate of the Citrix Startup Accelerator program Cubefree is a mobile application that allows the hassle out of finding the perfect place takes in plug-and-get work, no matter where in the world your office must be, any day of the week.

    to the Foursquare API index hundreds and thousands of cafes, libraries and co-working spaces use, Cubefree gives you all the Intel you need to know the correct place of work and "before going to choose ', as well the wifi is what the noise level is and if you get such a socket all by itself.

    Key features

    • real-time map with cafes, libraries and co-working spaces

    • Wi-Fi speed test

    • [:
    • reviews from Wi-Fi, outlet availability, parking and noise

    • Browse by location or other places if you

    • [1945006reisenwerden]

      Professional Networking

    • coffee table -Sharing Invitations

    • Chat

    • special offers on Citrix productivity apps and other goodies

    Cubefree was created with the challenges of mobile workers in mind. It often takes more than a cafe with good coffee and Wi-Fi to be productive. If you work in a busy city, you can use the app networking features to secure a seat in a crowded café, before you go with a quick message to a buddy Cubefree that is already there. How many times have you needed to the coffee bar or toilet to step, but were afraid to leave your mobile office (AKA your stuff)? With Cubefree you know if other nomadic workers around you and have an easy way to offer a coffee or ask them to share a table.

    Cubefree is to find as much about the right environment to do work as facilitate professional connections and creating a community of people who work outside the office in a similar manner.

    Now there's an app for mobile workers who need to find a job locally between meetings, owners Startup who want to expand their professional relationships, international workers' travel, the need to find places about Starbucks and course work to experience mobile workers as just different work settings from day to day.

    The world is your office. Meet your new employees. Download the Cubefree app

    More free Citrix applications for savvy mobile workforce .:

    Convoi: save Free and easy conference calls plus group SMS time and keep work flowing

    Talkboard: .. Visually express your ideas with friends and colleagues from across the room or across the globe

    ShareConnect: your files and desktop applications for the iPad and Android tablets optimized.

    GotoMeeting Free :. Online meetings without the hassle of

    Sibos 2014 addresses key technology trends, Financial IT promotes to "buckle"

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    When asked about his company's approach to IT strategy in an interview last year describe Joel Schwalbe, CIO of CNL Financial paraphrased that says a famous quote from Wayne Gretzky to "skate where the puck will be, not where it is or where it has been." With this statement, Joel plays on the face financial IT challenges in trying to keep up with technological changes in the banking and financial services industry occurs, caused by the consumerization of IT, new technologies, disruptive competitors, new threats and more. To other sports use reference. - I have to assume that Joel assertion at home for the majority of financial institutions without regard to true, where or with whom they do business

    With Sibos 2014 with us this week, it makes sense that technology is a big issue at this year's agenda. The Technology Forum program covers two days and includes a variety of hot topics such as cyber security and the need to strike a balance between business-critical and innovative strikers IT, among others. The program encourages participants to "buckle in and find out what you are prepared and what you should be ready."

    Consider buckled our seat belts on Citrix. We recognize that change is imminent and that the technology is both a factor of change and an enabler of how they in the Citrix CTO Office 2014 report, "The Future of Work: Finance" declared (p.53) .. Despite all this, Citrix customers in the banking and financial services industry are ready and willing, the mentioned above embrace "future", because they are equipped with the right technology foundation.

    Today, our customers in the financial sector, such as CNL Financial are to mitigate a high value on the safety and security of their customers, the placement of information and technology uses the risks associated with cyber threats related as DDoS attacks and data breaches. Says Joel Schwalbe: "We take very seriously the protection of our customer information, Citrix helps us that address."

    Another major challenge for financial IT is a balance between maintaining to find business-critical legacy technology, in the implementation of new technologies to drive growth and innovation. And it is no secret that the financial IT community is asked to do so - while running from day to day operations - with less money and fewer resources. A senior executive at a global wealth management company determines how virtualization complexity "two different companies can address both run on the same new platform for new applications and infrastructure ... at the same time older to [the] to be legacy platform. the best approach to do that was to use a virtual desktop ... the technology integration and business integration, has a great success. "

    the change is inevitable. But the right technology solutions and partners, financial institutions can help them meet head on, innovation and growth to drive on the road.

    . For more information about how Citrix solutions for banks and financial service providers, visit citrix.com/ Financial Services

    Related Financial Services Content:

    Mobile & Modern: How the German Bank and RBS their workforce Transformed

    About the author: is

    Jessie Hill, a marketing professional with experience in solutions and vertical marketing and strategy in the high-tech industry. In her current role at Citrix, Jessie is responsible for defining and enterprise-wide vertical solutions executing marketing strategy for the banking and financial services industry. Since joining Citrix in 2011, Jessie has used experience enjoyed in sales and marketing positions. She holds a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Florida. Connect. With her on LinkedIn or follow their thoughts on technological transformation in the banking and financial services industry on Twitter

    Transform your organization for success with Citrix BYOD Mobility Solutions

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    There is no longer a secret that the consumerization of IT, is here to stay, so you can also embrace. You may not want to admit it, but you have a couple of "Outlaws" in your organization that use their own devices, regardless of whether you or not allow. In fact, you probably have whole departments access to emails, applications and data on the devices and services that are not safe. Cowboy Consumerization is here ... and it's here to stay. The challenge most organizations face today is how to transform their organization BYOD success still keeping company data secure, with a complete EMM solution.

    When business information is accessed by personal property, consumer devices is the right basis to ensure essential IT control. The challenge is not only where to start, but how do you ensure BYOD transformation ADDS (Rate - design - providing - Support) until successful. Your BYOD program should align with your organization's key business drivers. Done correctly, a BYOD program should do support than just tablets and smartphones more. It should support any BYO device, the mobile outside and within the walls of the organization, and align with key business initiatives such Flexwork, teleworking, business continuity, secure and compliance.

    Citrix has 7 essential components for deploying BYOD so identified before starting a BYOD initiative, it is important that products underlying to understand that will be a part of your BYOD solution, their functionality and feature sets. Equally important is the methodology you use to implement BYOD strategy. One size does not fit all and but although BYOD solution may seem complicated, it is all boils down to addressing BYOD in four main phases, which we discuss in this series:

    • Reviews for BYOD - Available on-demand
    • for BYOD Designing - Available on-demand
    • BYOD deploy - Available on-demand
    • BYOD support - Available on-demand

    In this webinar series four part we learned with you, some of the best practices sharing Citrix when BYOD deploy , Some of the topics we cover:

    • assessment of users, devices, applications and data for BYOD participation
    • Evaluating your environment for BYOD Adoption
    • Preparing environment, users and IT for BYOD
    • aligning business, user and IT requirements for the right security model
    • Educating and both users prepared and IT as the BYOD model works
    • measuring user, device and safety requirements for your delivery model BYOD
    • collecting user, device and app requests for BYOD support
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    How Citrix Receiver pass-through authentication for storefront or web interface (Public Sector Edition)

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    Earlier this year I had to configure the following conversation:

    customer: Henry, how can we get rid of the pen calls when in the virtual desktop application

    Me: we need to configure the receiver for passthrough and ...

    customer (interrupting): Yes, that is what I want. That's it !!!

    Me: Well, there are some limitations ...

    You see, I knew we could configure pass through but was the question of how to meet this requirement with a Common Access card involved (CAC - Government jargon for Smart Card in the department of defense) and a locked Windows 7 image. That is where the journey began. Please note that happened aforementioned conversation while I spot to do with the customer a NetScaler Gateway Proof of Concept was and considering that I while had enough time to eat out, I accepted the challenge ,

    So at the time there was no clear support article that explains how to do that with 2.5 storefront, and the latest version of the receiver. There were a few blogs and older Citrix support article are helped, but I had to piece together some concepts to get it to work. Since someone in technical support created on CTX-support article, how to do it. (Phew !!! This post would have been three times as long and boring!). You can see the article here

    Now for the aspect of public sector output. In order to work for CAC / Smart Card, you have to by to check out the steps 'smart card' that should be obvious as you go through it.

    but in step 6, you have to allow "local user name and password." I, if am by design not sure, but the Ssonsvr.exe process does not start. The SSONSRV process is required to work for the pass-through. Without it, you are not going anywhere. This is the first thing to check on the Windows endpoint. On the virtual desktop side, has the virtual desktop to have the middleware software. I think that people who know smart cards these days support this already, but I wanted to make clear.

    Also, there may not be anything to delay or stop the process as a welcome banner, where the user must click on 'OK' to accept or group policy enforcement CTRL + ALT + DEL. The main reason, there are built-in timeout for safety reasons. These are the reservations and in no way, I propose to go here to IT policies. In some cases, especially in the federal government, changes to the gold master could be an exception or someone assuming require risk. I know that in this specific customer environment, the banner page instead placed on the Storefront page (Here's how to do this.) And the customer filled in modifying the gold master image for their organization, the paper work for the exceptions.

    So ... in the end, wanted the customer to get what they. A domain connected Windows 7 endpoint logging virtual applications and virtual desktops powered by XenDesktop 7.5 (BTW, 7.6 is now available!) Without pin prompts. Now, a PIN prompt. The one for the application to the endpoint required. At the end of the day, customer was satisfied with the NetScaler Gateway POC and a PIN request.

    Citrix Director 7.6 Deep Dive Part 1: License Monitoring

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    With Director 7.6, we really wanted to make sure that users know when they are going to be affected by a license problem. To fix this, license alerts from the license server is now being made available in the dashboard view in Director 7.6. This new feature provides a better insight into the licensing status of XenApp / XenDesktop so administrators aware of impending current license conditions, which may affect the functionality of the product. Licensing error in an environment can cause major failures or degraded service for customers and in earlier versions of XenApp / XenDesktop, it is difficult to recognize when licensing issues your site affect or influence over user connections.

    Subsequent grace

    In previous versions of XenApp and XenDesktop, if the user of licenses expire they receive session rejections on the license policy engine. To address this limitation, we have a new concept called Supplemental Grace Period (SWP). During the Supplemental grace period, the license will grant PolicyEngine unlimited connections, a time window has to purchase additional licenses. SGP will be granted on the consumption of licenses to allow you to add an additional 15-day window for fixing the issue. After the SGP regular license limits are enforced.

    Director dashboard view

    licensing status is provided this feature with two plates on dashboard view under a new tab available named. Licensing Status tab display identified the conditions by the license system (license server and controller). The number shown in the Licensing tab is the total number of warnings / alarms by the license server and each controller recognized

    License Server Alerts Panel -. This shows status updates that are generated directly from the license server. Warnings / alarms are activated when triggered by the server. Alert messages include: Incomplete configuration, compatibility with the Delivery Controller and the activation of SGP. In addition, administrators are provided with recommended actions License Server to solve problems.

    License Server panel

    2. Delivery Controller Status Panel -Displays license server for each controller connection status. Delivery Controllers that belong to the same place and their License Server Connection Status will appear. Delivery Controller that can not connect to the license server, an alarm is triggered. The administrator can also view the license information for each delivery controller in Overview and Details tabs.

    Delivery Controller panel

    a) Overview field: Contains license server status details that SGP state and the remaining time before the grace period expiration. An alarm is activated if the time limit has expired, as the purchased limits are applied and no licenses are granted.

    Overview

    b) Details box: Displays the further details of the licensing status with the Delivery Controller. It is displayed in detail on the state of grace for the license server, and also the last licensing event timestamp. The fully qualified domain of the licensing server name, port used, product output of the license application, product ID, and the licensing model be used, recorded under Details Panel.

    Details

    Alerts vs. Alarm

    Alerts generated customers to consult, if compounds refuse licensing reasons. These alerts provide warnings and usually contain warning text and displayed in orange. Licensing Alarms occur if the licensing is configured incorrectly, damaged or usage is not properly licensed. In these cases, immediate action should be taken. These alarms are displayed to the administrator in red

    Below are screenshots showing the different license alarm / alarms scenarios

    Alarm: ... licenses consumed exceed the threshold set

    alarm

    alarm. Licensing Service is reached, an alarm on Director caused

    Alarm

    Normal working Licensing Server without warning or alarm:

    no licensing alerts

    alarm threshold licensing

    Administrators could set a threshold for the license use. If the licenses consumed exceeds the set limit, an alarm is generated and displayed in the License Server Panel in Director. The default limit is set at 0% but it can be configured with the following XenDesktop PowerShell command on the Delivery Controller, a custom threshold on

    Set-ConfigSiteMetadata -. Name "LicensingAlertThreshold" -Value "0"

    , the alarm is shown in the following screenshot Director added:

    deployment scenarios

    I have included a table showing for each of the different scenarios and the expected result.

    license server version And Controller version is ... And Director version is ... The expected result is that ...
    7.6 ( v11.12.1) 7.6 7.6 alerts work. SGP-licenses granted by the controller
    7.6 (v11.12.1) 7.6 Pre-7.6 no warnings in Director shown not granted in the new tab license status
    7.6 (v11.12.1) Pre-7.6 7.6 Broker SGP licenses. No warnings shown in Director in the new tab license status
    7.6 (v11.12.1) Pre-7.6 Pre-7.6 Pre-7.6 behavior for both controller and Director
    Pre-7.6 (pre-v11.12.1) 7.6 7.6 The controller can not checkout licenses as a license server is not compatible. No warnings appear.
    Pre-7.6 (pre-v11.12.1) 7.6 Pre-7.6 broker can check any licenses, is not compatible as a license server. No alerts are generated.
    Pre-7.6 (pre-v11.12.1) Pre-7.6 7.6 No warnings. No SGP (ie before the 7.6 behavior

    ** Note -. For pre-7.6 behavior, no warnings or SGP will be generated in the License Status tab

    [

    Director also provides license server status in the infrastructure panel on the dashboard for all applications This is for all applications regardless of versions (for downward ~~ POS = TRUNC used) status display .:

    • connected = everything is
    • was as expected not connected = period entered.

    Component interactions

    input (for a period as a result of inability to the license server to contact is)
    Component interactions

    Summary

    license monitoring is designed to know Citrix administrators to help if questions of licensing can affect their operations and provides the recommended action to resolve the problems. Look for additional features around the terms of license and proactive notification and alerting in future versions.

    Citrix NetScaler AppFirewall: Lowest TCO per Protected Mbps While efficacy High Security Providing

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    NetScaler Web application firewall test its strength proves the effectiveness of security during the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) provides Protected per mbps to customers. Here is the Security Value Map (SVM), which shows Citrix NetScaler AppFirewall as a leading company in the top right corner of the quadrant. Details on how these SVM can read and look for this SVM download link.

    NSS Labs, Inc. is the recognized leader in independent security research and testing. This test was carried out for free on NSS-conditioning in Austin Texas based on the Web Application Firewall methodology, see www.nsslabs.com. NSS any remuneration in return for the participation of Citrix obtained

    As in the NSS report mentioned, here are some of the key points on why Citrix NetScaler AppFirewall is a leader in the recommendation list .:

    Citrix NetScaler MPX 11520 AppFirewall

    the main findings:

    • use an agreed policy, the Citrix NetScaler 11520 AppFirewall MPX blocked 99.77% of the WAF attacks
    • , the device proved to be effective against all tested evasion techniques.
    • The device also all stability and reliability passed tests.
    • The NetScaler MPX 11520 AppFirewall is assessed by NSS at 46,282 connections per second (CPS), which is higher than that claimed by the manufacturer performance.

    Please refer to the press release that came out today and NetScaler AppFirewall differentiations and NetScaler AppFirewall Architecture awesomeness blogs found.

    Create and deploy new VMs with XenClient is a piece of cake

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    "His [XenClient’s] local client hypervisor separately treated and poorly connected scenarios

    ~ Michael Otey, Windows IT Pro

    , which was used XenClient properly " to describe companies in a recent review by Michael Otey Windows iT Pro, who found the XenClient " makes centralized management of mobile devices [laptops] and ", and that allows users "to migrate easily to new devices within a few minutes." XenClient is a client virtualization solution that extends the benefits of XenDesktop Corporate laptops and makes PCs more manageable, reliable and secure. It allows end users to run virtual desktops locally on the hottest new laptops, PCs and Ultrabooks to give while IT centralized control and security.

    The Citrix Synchronizer management server created centrally, deploys, and manages Windows VMs that are downloaded and run locally XenClient-enabled devices. These VMs are synchronized in the background with the golden image that is located on the Synchronizer server to get the latest patches and updates of IT when the user is connected to the network. After testing how the Synchronizer IT allows "provide a simple way new desktops and manage desktop images" onXenClient enabled devices Michael commented that "to create new virtual machines and with XenClient deployment is a piece of cake."

    Moreover enforces Synchronizer granular, role-based policies on XenClient devices that these endpoints with security policies to protect such as remote wipe / Kill, VM and VM expiration lockout. Michael used to make these policy controls and role-based management "easy to manage large number of users and devices." In addition, XenClient complete isolation of VMs and AES-256 disk encryption, which by Michael "has a number of layers of security."

    with XenClient with XenDesktop allows users to switch between local and hosted desktops with ongoing synchronization of user profiles and data, allowing users to work on their laptop, and then switch seamlessly to any device to access their hosted virtual desktop. In addition, users can both easily access their local and hosted virtual desktops that is built into their XenClient XenClient device for Citrix Receiver.

    is as local mode of XenDesktop, XenClient included with XenDesktop Enterprise or Platinum as a free and Citrix Workspace Suite. Download more information about XenClient and evaluate for free in your area or the XenClient product page. Finally, the entire review of XenClient by Michael Otey Windows IT Read to learn Pro, as it will benefit both your IT administrators and users.

    Discuss, by connecting to the Citrix XenClient team!

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    Surveillance of XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 with Director and EdgeSight - 2nd Edition

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    In May 2013 Josh Fleming, Lisa Green and I co-authored the first edition of our reference architecture for directing and EdgeSight. When XenApp / XenDesktop 7.6 released in September, we thought we would update the document with helpful appetizers and the 2nd edition of the paper was created.

    As we move from the EdgeSight console Director as our problem area of ​​glass, give rise to many questions. This article brings to light the functionality that is obtained with a complete Director / EdgeSight / Insight monitoring solution. has

    The monitoring team a simple document that you go through the design, construction and functionality of our updated monitoring suite. The provision of door-to-door monitoring solution provides administrators with the depth of knowledge that they crave. It also provides the Help Desk with visibility that could help are in supporting the end users.

    Finally, I wanted you to know to make a blog post, wrote Lisa Green. He emphasizes: "What's New in Director 7.6". We have also included in Annex 2 of our paper highlighting some useful links. We hope you enjoy the update.

    Happy surveillance ... again!

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    If Citrix Universal Print Server to test identification problematic printer driver in Citrix UPS Installation

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    If Citrix Universal Print Server to test identification problematic printer driver in Citrix UPS Installation - , which we in the test team look deeply, how well the product works when we perform: Print Driver Isolation compressive load tests on the entire environment when real third-party printer drivers are installed on a large scale and stressed. One of the things we have with Citrix UPS found on the print server, print insulation host and spoolsv processes have crashed.

    Why does this happen?

    Where are these crashes occur? For starters, we try here at Citrix always to narrow it and to find the cause of the problem. So if we execute installed on a print server with Citrix UPS different stack traces on the PCB insulation host or spoolsv processes, the cause is always of a third-party drivers on the server crash caused either process. But used depending on the driver of the administrator on the print server, it could crash another process, so what gives? Enter printer driver isolation.

    What's printer driver isolation?

    printer drivers are notorious for this kind of questions that and can vary greatly their quality, and Microsoft introduced to identify and reduce these problems against this mechanism. Essentially, it is a mechanism introduced Microsoft that the printer driver allows it to be carried out within separate run spaces.

    printer driver isolation in three different configurations can be configured, all of them set at the driver level can be set within the "Print Management" console on the "Drivers" section. The first mode is "shared" that creates a print insulation host process that is shared with another driver that uses this mode. The second is "None", then the printer driver in this mode, the tread tells spoolsv. Finally, "isolated" creates a separate print insulation host for each active printer driver performs all printing activity.

    To illustrate my point, here is what happens to a problematic printer driver in all three modes in scenarios. When a printer driver was erratic with "No" Printer isolation mode would crash spoolsv.exe. This is a huge obstacle to people who use the print server, and. In its most stable and scalable state If spoolsv crashed, no further printing operation can continue when the spooler on the print server is restarted.

    The Standard "Shared" mode for printing activity permitted to continue, spoolsv is not a crashed process but instead create a separate print insulation host process is open to all printer related to the driver activity in this running space happens. But of course, if a problematic printer driver Print Isolation host were to crash, all print jobs that would work with the "shared" mode are rendered useless because they for a reboot or cleanup of Print Isolation host process waits.

    The last "isolated" mode creates a separate drive space for each of the printer driver. This provides an environment an elastic print server by individual print insulation host processes crashes, so that working drivers continue their pressure within their own running chambers. The disadvantage, however, this is every print insulation host consumes a memory requirement, which could potentially increase memory usage on the print server. This may have the lowest possible storage conditions result that would occur no doubt, when the number of drivers are managed on the print server, were continually increasing.

    If we UPS test large-scale print environments, we find pressure isolation Host "isolated" mode is to narrow down very useful which drivers were problematic therefore to use and specific drivers may also exclude from our tests, so that we can produce base product results based on our environment on a large scale. Once there is an established set of drivers is used, a "shared" model for all printer drivers is also believed to emulate customer environments, while a stability in spoolsv process is maintained.

    If your Print Server with Citrix Universal Print Server experienced constant print insulation host and spoolsv crashes I recommend reading to learn this article in more detail, such as Print Driver Isolation and some specific recommendations for configuration

    • http :. // Support.citrix.com/article/CTX136332 - pressure recommendations for XenApp / Terminal Server environment (Print Driver insulating section)
    • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows / hardware / ff560836 (v = VS.85) .aspx - printer driver isolation
    • http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/09/10/08/windows-7-windows-server-08-r2-print-driver-isolation.aspx - Windows 7 / Windows Server 08 R2: Print Driver Isolation
    • ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software12/COL40853/ds-99414-1/UPD_Microsoft_Driver_Isolation_Mode.pdf - DRIVER ISOLATION MODE with the HP Universal Print Driver with

    last thought - your driver, contact the manufacturer if you identify driver error

    printer driver isolation principle reduction and identify a useful tool driver problems. Ideally, you would not be used in production (especially "isolated" mode. If we identify faulty drivers, we contact them to make the production attention to the issues. Often there are updates, or replacement driver available from the manufacturer.

    Why Join Right Away Citrix certifications to update?

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    Update your Citrix certifications now for maximum profit potential

    Citrix incentive programs your potential to maximize profit!

    Not only that our up-to-date certification ensures that the Citrix projects smoothly

    Update :. With effect from July 15 2015, there will be changes to the Citrix Solution Advisor program. legacy certifications such as the CCIA and CCEE for Virtualization no longer counts towards Program requirements .

    Take action! Now make plans your technical sellers provide to acquire the latest certifications and qualify. Your CCIA and / or CCEE profession (s), the certification upgrade paths utilize down while their certifications are active. Visit Citrix Education for further details

      • Update legacy CCIA for Virtualization on Certified Expert. - Virtualization ( CCE-V ) .: Take the expert-level exam, 1Y0-400
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    Citrix Director 7.6 Deep Dive Part 5 :. Monitoring & Troubleshooting Anonymous User Sessions

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    Anonymous (unauthenticated) user-session support

    A new feature of XenDesktop 7.6

    : users must not leave with forward is Active Directory user credentials, a combination of network security and authentication within the application in Citrix receiver login

    Anonymous session Support -. refers to running meetings as a group of pooled, local user accounts.

    1. This feature is very popular in XenApp in the healthcare industry, since their applications have usually Server backends with their own applications, separate from the user AD accounts. Thus, the Windows account for the client application is running irrelevant.

    2 Anonymous session support is managed from a pool of local user accounts that AnonXYZ called XenDesktop and generally, where XYZ is a unique 3-digit value of the end user does not know the actual username.}

    .

    For more information on Anonymous Feature Session Support page.

    is assigned to any anonymous session with anonymous meetings a random name as ANON001, ANON002 etc.
    1, helps Citrix Director administrators Details of each session of XenApp Users search display. But here's the rub, as seen details of the anonymous user session, as they do not use Active Directory credentials for the session, and the end user has no way to know what is the user?

    2, the Helpdesk Admin must be a way for the user-specific anonymous session to search, enter the Help Desk view, and user details views to follow their standard error-recovery processes.

    EndPoint search

    , the new functionality introduced for Citrix Director 7.6

    There can be used to display details of the anonymous user sessions. Typically, the end user is the name of their endpoint know so often, a sticker on the screen or device to device (endpoint) is appended name. If the end user calls to the help desk, they can now use the Help Desk to tell the endpoint name admin as the Help Desk administrator can start debugging with Director.

    1, can Sessions run on a particular terminal Endpoint search be seen through.

    2, search administrators for the client device and a list of all started from this particular client sessions are provided (as shown in the screenshot below), from which the administrator can choose to display the desired session details of this meeting.

    3, for an endpoint looking over a large number of sites can be costly.

    to improve the performance, we have the capacity made available to "group" endpoints. This is done by the Director Config Tool performed, restricting the search within a defined group. How do you group endpoints? All you need to do is the director Config Tool, select / create site groups, enter the IP and a name and run your done! Once the configuration is complete, which is "Choose a group" option is available as part of the search view be

    Note :. Endpoint Search results include all customers, of which a session independently started on whether the session is an anonymous user session or not.

    When Director multiple sites monitored is the target web page after login for the endpoint search option.

    Search another view of the Director, administrators Endpoint sessions with the new search button on the ribbon of the Director:

    Below is the screenshot of the list of sessions running on a specific client computer:

    Note: the endpoint name must be unique to be for director able to locate the appropriate session and back

    for details of Anonymous User session in client details .:

    • session details : Anonymous field in session details field is used to indicate whether the session Anonymous or not (above in note How Endpoint Search Anonymous User Sessions not limited to)

    Activity Manager and. Device Details panel are similar to the User Details page

    Note: .. Shadow is disabled for Anonymous sessions as Anonymous user accounts Guest accounts permissions for shadowing have not

    • LogonDuration : login time in client details page is only for the current session and 7 daily averages of registrations from the client device, in contrast to when a particular user, and the 7-day moving average is the average seen so provided from this delivery Group.Duration for each application steps such as toggling, as in user details Page.More Logon on permanent same here, see
    • Personalization :. Reset profile and PvD reset buttons are disabled and panel shows "not available" as Anonymous User Accounts Citrix not use personalization. Components
    • HDX Insight . Network data HDX Insight is for anonymous users not available

    Anonymous user in filter Sessions Show .:

    Director has the chance all Anonymous User sessions by sessions in filter side to filter facilitates

    offers the ability global actions on anonymous meetings run fast (ie logout) as needed.

    to Filters-> Sessions page and filter use, navigate to " Anonymous is Yes"

    note : In the figure above, note that endpoint_name column is clickable. Clicking endpoint name leads to the same behavior as endpoint search.

    Summary

    close to Help Desk functionality Director adding the ability to search and troubleshoot endpoints and machines allows to expand Help Desk their use problematic cases and allows a tool and a method for first call resolution.

    Optimization of Citrix Receiver for pre-launch and Single Sign-On

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    This building, I have to say that I got a little frustrated with the receiver and the work that the best user experience makes it necessary to give so that things like session pre-launch and single sign-on (pass-through authentication) a very nice experience for all users.

    Useful Information
    in the course of completing the pre-launch and single sign-on, I found some information that I want to share. Part of it was available online, some of which I worked for me. But the "small treasuries", which can be very helpful, (Of course not everyone has that luxury) came while working with our engineering team.

    to take some of the pain, I was recently in the work of our laboratory, the establishment of XenDesktop 7.6 and all the latest and greatest! While I experienced myself, consider the following measures:

    1. Before starting the following is assumed to be installed and configured

    • Storefront is configured 2.6, for pass-through authentication
    • XenDesktpop 7.6 is configured for Pre -launch
    • session prelaunch configured and activated on XD 7.6
    • you know how to use gpedit
    • do you know how to use regedit

    2. Installing receiver with Single Sign on

    CitrixReceiver / includeSSON

    • not restart (we still have much to do)
    • While receiver is now installed and for SSO activated. (However, this is not all that is required to work for iterate over india Receiver)

    3. The next part I have done on local policy, but it could be achieved through RegKeys or GPO, I just do not play the time in these areas

    • Introduction GPEDIT.MSC output and add the icaclient.adm this in the installation directory of the receiver is " C: program Files Citrix ICA client configuration "
    • Once Add Browse over gpedit to
    • computer configuration
    • Administrative templates
    • Classic Administrative templates
    • user authentication
    • local username and password
      • pass-through authentication enabled
      • for all ICA connections allow pass-through authentication

      , the delay time receiver take these settings launched, so it should be very little delay between the display " Logon " & " username this its about 3 to 4 seconds,

      DISCLAIMER [1945005sein]

      While these settings could "without not be recommended, the experience definitely improving case do.

      is executed from a command prompt as an administrator, the two commands run based on relevant platform x86 or x64, optimize them to start authentication to the receiver and communicates back to showcase

      32 bit

      REG ADD HKLM SOFTWARE Citrix Dazzle / f / v InitialRefreshMinMs / t REG_SZ / d 1

      REG ADD HKLM SOFTWARE Citrix Dazzle / f / v InitialRefreshMaxMs / t REG_SZ / d 1

      64 bit

      REG ADD HKLM SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Citrix Dazzle / f / v InitialRefreshMinMs / t REG_SZ / d 1

      REG ADD HKLM SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Citrix Dazzle / f / v InitialRefreshMaxMs / t REG_SZ / d 1

      finally, for this part of the installation, you have trusted within Internet sites specify the Explorer URLS to have your storeFront server in them; You could do this via GPO so that it applies to all users or re-reg key.

      example

      https://storefront.domain.com [1945005[

      User Experience (optional)

      to make the experience seamless to a user, I do not show the progress bar, all applications should start to see very quickly how PreLaunch is enabled

      I have done this by the renaming, this could not be recommended, but again from a demonstration and UX perspective, I really do not need to see these things as user

      • program Files Citrix receiver ProgressNotification.dll

      PreLaunch settings

      PreLaunch you allow, will need to activate this, install a do out of the box does not allow

      to use regedit and should be set to navigate them

      HKLM software Citrix Dazzle

      "EnablePreLaunch" enable true

      client drive mapping registry (CDM)

      out of the box during the file type associations do not work from a start is CDM drive due to a registry key that is set by default FALSE

      change this to true will allow this to work, so you literally click a file can double and published application is started and open the file you clicked on

      FTA - CDM registry settings

      32bit

      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Citrix ICA client Engine Configuration Advanced Modules client Drive

      "Native Drive mapping" = "TRUE"

      64bit

      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Citrix ICA client Engine Configuration Advanced Modules client Drive

      "Native Drive mapping" = "TRUE"

      now your Windows computer is to restart as soon as you restart your business can add about recipients and should realize now that no authentication requests, recipient authentication is very fast and application launch times are very fast

    Nominations Open: 2014 Awards for Citrix Service Providers

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    Nominations Open: 2014 Awards for Citrix Service Providers -

    Citrix Service Providers Recognized with Pins at Citrix Summit 2013 Today Self nominations are open for the 2014 Citrix Service Provider Awards. The winners will be at the Citrix Summit 2015 The nomination deadline is announced Wednesday December 3, 2014

    In recognition of the innovative, growing and concentrated Citrix Service Provider, the Citrix-based desktops-as-a-service business advance representing 2014 Citrix service provider Awards significant achievement in the hosted services industry.

    The Provider Awards recognize service Citrix Citrix Service Provider partners and distributors who are successful in building and growing a desktop service provider business hosted. They provide business-ready hosted workspaces largely SMB buyers

    . Challenge: Choosing the best sales-growing, innovative, visionary Service

    Issuing SoftCAT the 2013 Citrix Service Provider Distributor Award are Scott Swanburg, Citrix, Sam Routledge, SoftCAT and Tom Flink, Citrix

    last year, Citrix service provider program Awards recognize nominees and winners for innovation, hosted the growth of their workspace business and thought leadership in the fast-growing desktop-as- a-service market offers

    the Jury -. consisting of Citrix channel, technology and marketing manager - took the award nominations thoughtful, to be innovative and market-moving. There were some lively debates before the commercial, technical and management teams that could determine 2013 finalists and winners.

    We look forward to the same challenge in this year selection of the best nominations from a growing group of record Citrix Service Provider Program partners and distributors

    nominations. open: Recognizing market Outreach Vision and Excellence

    There are again three Citrix Service Provider price categories categories ~~ POS = HEADCOMP for 2014:
    - partner Visionary Award to widespread use of technology, a wide range of supported versions of Citrix technologies, unique impact on the market and a mentor to enhance approach, the adoption of hosted services recognition performance

    - marketing excellence. Award honors innovation and / or performance to unique market focus and execution, demand generation, external communication activities and customer satisfaction

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    nomination forms on the Citrix Service Provider Center of Excellence in the awards and recognition are section.

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    hosted services business success and celebration before Wednesday, you submit self nomination December 3, 2014

    Citrix Mobility in Berlin: Get out of the hardware squeeze

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    The topic Our events in early November in Berlin Could Hardly current. Shortly before GDL had called the longest strike in the history of Deutsche Bahn die fand Our customer event on "IT solutions for the workplace of the future". And of this is fact and portable flexible. THAT IS the good old desk in the office probably bald marginal, -including the congestion and strike worries.

    two days could get informed interested at the Citrix Mobility Berlin, How it yourself sattelfest do in the future in terms of mobile working skills. Useful for thought provided, among other things Munich Re and Audi Citrix customers who demand of their practical experience reported. They made fast Significantly, How important new workplace concepts in companies Ihren HAVE. And did the technology Headed to the mobile age extremely important, but the underlying concept at least as important. Of this mess firmly anchored in the corporate culture and thus "top to bottom" being carried. Here yourself goods also all speakers agreed that the IT jumble of art out of corner and specialized Become increasingly perceived as a business enabler in the company. An important step there is the Successful "juggling" with Many Different Devices to enable the employees to Dordrecht work where they want. Without temporal and local constraints.

    Must addition, IT hardware squeeze without necessarily die from yourself. You can not for every additional phone model solutions development, in order to quickly integrate into the company. Instead, they should take the helm even in die Hand. We at Citrix talk here of "Software Defined-Computer" (SDW) and enhance THAT the currently much-discussed approach to software-driven workplace. We speak in client hardware of this connection even used over the complete decoupling of the applications, services and data. The bedeutet, dass die employees receive absolute flexibility, quite convenient local owls device independent work and making sure all corporate resources Can access. The IT department, in contrast, thanks to virtualization and automation tools relieved, because the software-defined workspace Allows Easy and Efficient Manage.

    Due seiners relevance for employees die IT and ultimately the Entire Business prior software-defined work also at the center of events in Berlin. Various technology presentations made clearly, can assist in Which way Citrix going to die necessary infrastructure for this approach to build. At the same time an established practice many lectures did SDW ALREADY in the IT world arrived and can be implemented -. We're talking also of future music in the distance not, But today and now

    Let there be light! With HDX Insight increasing transparency in XenDesktop and XenApp

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    Let there be light! With HDX Insight visibility in XenDesktop and XenApp to win

    HDX Insight is an invaluable tool that organizations NetScaler provides XenDesktop to deliver hosted virtual desktops and applications with unprecedented insight into the ICA traffic on their networks. Part of the NetScaler Insight Center and additional Web Insight, HDX Insight collects, correlates and displays very informative network usage and performance data for XenDesktop / XenApp, both in its entirety. And down to the level of individual user sessions Using these data, both network and application administrators can be seen immediately and problems Triage network and application.

    The beauty of HDX Insight

    The main features and functions that deliver HDX Insight create unrivaled value, include the following

    • Simple, inexpensive providing . Unlike other solutions that have multiple touch points and require a complex configuration of network taps or pushy agent software, HDX Insight offers end-to-end visibility with little more than one organization, the existing base of NetScaler ADCs, NetScaler gateways and Cloudbridge WAN optimizer. The necessary instrumentation (AppFlow) is already a part of this solutions; it just needs to be turned on, and pointed to an instance of NetScaler Insight Center Virtual Machine (VM). In addition, the NetScaler Insight Center VM a self-contained solution containing all necessary subcomponents, with an integral database

    FIG. 1: High Level Solution Architecture
    (source: White Paper)

    • output = actionable intelligence . Instead of a pile of reports raw performance data, with HDX Insight IT teams get granular and actionable information based on the automated correlation of network and application-level data. Everything needed to the source must be determined for performance issues, provided at a central location available, thereby avoiding the need to manually assemble a picture by flipping between multiple consoles.
    • Granular ICA Details . Unlike solutions that identify only the presence of ICA traffic, HDX Insight not only decrypted but also analyzes ICA sessions. The result is a unique level of insight to the level of individual virtual channels.
    • combination of real-time and historical data . HDX Insight eliminates the need to rely more solutions by companies addressing needs for both real-time and historical data in a single package.
    • Seamless integration with Director 7.0+ . , All HDX Insight data and reports can be viewed within the same console organizations use to manage their XenDesktop environments

    What HDX Insight really stands out from conventional solutions, however: (a) the width and the depth of information it provides, and (b) what the iT team can do with this information.

    width and depth of the information available

    High-level aggregated information with drill down to session -level data can be retrieved from different perspectives, including :.

    • user Administrators can see a snapshot of the average round trip time (RTT or screen delay time), WAN latency datacenter latency and bandwidth usage for all users over periods select (eg recent 5 minutes to an hour, day, week or month). The same screen can also see top users are used by a number of attributes (eg number of applications / desktops started consumes bandwidth, latency and number of active desktops / apps), or search for individual users.
    • applications. is addition to the aggregate bandwidth consumed by all hosted applications, this view provides an app-by-app breakdown that started the number of active sessions and applications, the total number of sessions and applications and start life over selection period includes periods.
    • Desktops . is addition to the total bandwidth of all hosted desktops consumed, gives administrators a breakdown by user, which includes the number of active sessions and desktops, session duration, bandwidth utilization, RTT, datacenter latency and WAN latency.
    • gateway . The unit / Summary data for this view is the traffic based each instance of NetScaler / NetScaler Gateway (or Cloudbridge) and provides an opportunity to compare the transit service through websites / sites.

    As discussed above HDX Insight, is also the only solution that reliably dissected the ICA protocol to provide granular details of what goes in each virtual channel level right.

    Figure 2: High-level overview for Desktop Information

    of course is the true measure of the HDX Insight is what to do enables iT teams. So let us at a handful of common use cases a glance

    #. 1a: Tactical Troubleshooting - Rajiv's reports Slowly app (s) / Desktop

    The scenario in this case is a single user, Rajiv, has reported a performance problem. The entry point for the analysis is the summary screen for user information.

    In addition to the aggregate user information, here we can also use the summary level to find information for individual users, including Rajiv. What we immediately notice a relatively high RTT (screen delay time) 819ms. We can also see that the WAN (12ms) and data center (1ms) latencies are low, which is the cause of the problem elsewhere. hover In fact, by Rajiv for the record drilling and for the active sessions for Rajiv on the RTT, we can see that the host is a whopping delay 587ms. So the problem is clearly in this case, the server is the IP address for which we easily seen in the recording session, as well.

    # 1b: Tactical Troubleshooting - Market Reports slowly app (s) / Desktop

    In this second example, we have a similar situation, this time with "market" reporting a slow experience. However, we see at once from the summary screen for the user information in this case that the client network is the main culprit.

    drilling into the summary level record for market also shows high WAN latency for all market 's sessions. As a result of the support desk should "market" Options coach a powerful network service / port for the search.

    If necessary, the Network Administrator / Support Desk can also take a look at the individual applications access market during its current session.

    # 2 Proactive Performance Management

    studies similar to those described above can also be carried out proactively to hold questions of development of major problems are. For example, an administrator who could be a group of users with high RTT all delays arise with the same host in advance to fix and noted to resolve calls from the affected user after receiving the host-level problem.

    could in a similar manner, routine checking of information HDX Insight provided show a trend that proactive attention requires - as adjusting network QoS settings in response to ever-increasing amounts of video traffic

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    # 3 capacity / Strategic planning

    HDX Insight can also be used for capacity planning of network and application infrastructure. For example, data relating to simultaneous applications, desktops and meetings in connection with the bandwidth consumption can plan / size upgrades for LAN / networks WAN are used, application licenses, NetScaler [Gateway] licenses, as well as the network infrastructure of the company in general.

    The Bottom Line

    Citrix HDX Insight is a powerful yet cost-effective solution for obtaining the unparalleled application and network level insight into XenDesktop and XenApp traffic on your network. With HDX Insight can proactively monitor performance problems in real-time triage and develop manage situations before they plan to bigger problems balloon, and accurately for future server and network infrastructure required IT teams.