Now that Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1 has been released, I am going to go over the upgrade process. Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1 has added some new features, fixes, and removed some features. For a complete overview of the changes in Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1 see one of my previous blog posts … Continue reading »
Posted in September 2009 …
Provisioning Services 5.1 SP1 Licensing and XenApp 5 FP2
Citrix has changed licensing for Provisioning Services with the release of Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1 and XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2. The license change comes from the new VM Hosted Applications feature in XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2. With this change I can see how XenApp Enterprise and Platinum Edition licensed customers can be confused on Provisioning … Continue reading »
Provisioning Services High Availability with a Read-Only vDisk Store
Provisioning Services 5.1 introduced another storage option for a vDisk store. The ability to use a read-only vDisk store. Provisioning Services 5.1 has added some nice new features to the product and the ability to use a read-only vDisk store is another one of those features. For more information on the new features in Provisioning Services 5.1 you … Continue reading »
Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1 Overview
Citrix is getting ready to release Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1 in the next few weeks. A Citrix knowledgebase article has been released detailing the release notes of the Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1. Let’s go over what is new, what has been removed, and what has been fixed in Provisioning Services 5.1 Serivce Pack … Continue reading »
XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 Features and Release Date Announced!
Citrix has finally announced that XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 will be released on September 29th. XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 will be bring new features such as VM Hosted Apps, Power and Capacity Management, and HDX to XenApp 5. Read more to see what all new features are included in XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2.
Provisioning Services High Availability with a Local vDisk Store
When setting up high availability in a Provisioning Services environment there is always the question of where to put the vDisk store. You have several different options for the location of the vDisk store. You can place it on the local system, on a Windows CIFS share, Network Attached Storage, iSCSI SAN, or Fibre Channel SAN. … Continue reading »
Give Precedence to Session Sharing Over Load Balancing
Citrix XenApp 5.0 Windows 2003 Hotfix Rollup 4 has new feature enhancement that allows you to give precedence to session sharing over load balancing. Now with this enhancement you can decide to have session sharing override load balancing in your XenApp farm.
Hosted Apps, Streamed Apps, Seamless Sessions, and Content Redirection
When having a mixed environment of seamless sessions using hosted applications and streamed applications, file type associations (FTA) and content redirection won’t work for streamed applications. The FTA isn’t recognized and prompts you to select an application to open it with when you click on the streamed application FTA. In full desktop session that have … Continue reading »
