Vishal Ganeriwala recently reported that Citrix's Dr. SDK has written a new white paper titled "The Ultimate Guide to MFCOM" (MFCOM is the API for Citrix Presentation Server/XenApp). The white paper covers everything up to SDK version 4.5 including advanced MFCOM topics such as multi farm management, publishing different types of applications, policies, load evaluators and more. This guide goes very deep into the internals of MFCOM, but it is written in such a way that beginners can pick it up. more...
One of the challenges that Citrix administrators face is keeping up with hotfixes, hotfix rollup packs, and patches. One of the cool things Citrix did with the new support site is set up RSS feeds for each product's updates. Just subscribe to the feeds you need in your favorite RSS reader. I have already subscribed to several of these feed using IE 7 RSS support. more...
A new utility titled "Citrix Fast Launch" will be released soon on the Citrix CDN site. This is kind of a unique tool because it was developed for internal use by the Citrix Application Delivery Team. The Citrix Application Delivery Team is responsible for rolling out XenApp and related products for internal use by Citrix (or Citrites). Anyway, this tool launches applications at workstation startup very quickly - quicker than your local applications in fact. more...
Citrix maintains a support article (Document ID: CTX107572) that contains a plethora of troubleshooting tools for your Citrix/Terminal Services environment. Most of the tools are targeted at Citrix installations, but there are several tools useful in a pure Terminal Services environment as well. At last count, there were 106 tools available. Some of these tools you will use on a daily basis - others you will use once in a blue moon. more...
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