Provisioning Services 5.1 SP1 Licensing and XenApp 5 FP2

September 29, 2009 by Jarian Gibson Leave a Comment

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 Services licensing and what XenApp workloads they can provision.  In this post I will go over the differences in Provisioning Services licensing for XenApp Enterprise and Platinum Editions.
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XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 Features and Release Date Announced!

September 16, 2009 by Jarian Gibson Leave a Comment

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

September 1, 2009 by Jarian Gibson 15 Comments

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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App-V has gone 64-bit

August 5, 2009 by Jarian Gibson Leave a Comment

Until now App-V has only been supported to run on 32-bit operating systems. Well not anymore. Microsoft has released a public beta for App-V to run on 64-bit operating systems.
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Citrix Application Streaming Notes from the Field

July 21, 2009 by Jarian Gibson Leave a Comment

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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