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. 
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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 the XenApp Plugin for Hosted Apps (formerly known as the PNAgent) installed, FTAs and content redirection work properly and the correct streamed application launches fine.  So how do you get around this in a seamless session?  Have the XenApp Plugin for Hosted Apps run within the seamless session.  Below are the steps for setting this up.
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Citrix Application Streaming Notes from the Field

Since the release of Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, I have had the pleasure of working with Application Streaming in many different customer environments. Here are some of the things I have learned from those engagements.
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