Since XenApp / XenDesktop 7.7 you can configure zones for geographic deployment around the globe, put your Delivery Controller in the Zones and so on, But Zone preferencing is more powerfull than that only. Remember to XenApp 6.5 you con configure prefered Loadbalancing to switch your users to other servers with the same published application […]
On my latest customer, we are finalized the Server 2016 Migration (XenApp 7.15 LTSR) just in time, end of June 2018. Now we are on the schedule to de-provisioning the old XenApp 6.5 Environment and starting to remove the Farm from the old Webinterface/StoreFront and remove it from the Citrix Director Servers in the IIS […]
The long awaiting BETA with some bugfixes is now available. The biggest HotFix is for Citrix AppLayering, now it detect the RunMode and the BIS-F own Diskmode.. with this 2 combinations, BIS-F is able to detect App- and Platform Layer different if needed. Read here, how it works. The new Documentation fo this release can be found […]
Recorded Session from E2EVC in Orlando, 27. May 2017, get it here Thanks to Jonathan and Eric
It is time now for another blog. In this blog, you will see how a case study of how we successfully set up Citrix monitoring in a large customer environment. In the last few months, we were jointly working with the eG Innovations team, to deploy eG Enterprise Citrix performance monitoring suite for a large […]
Hi Folks, we working hard in the last few months to make this release even better and better, some long nights to find the right solution for new technologies like Citrix AppLayering to get the Layer, run VM inside or outside ELM… sometimes not so easy. With BIS-F 6.1.0 many new features and enhacements: For […]
James Kindon has written his onw blog to analyze VDA 2016, BIS-F, WEM, CTXOE and VmOSOT in combinations. We will say thanks for this great blog and read all the details on his site. https://jkindon.wordpress.com/2017/09/02/image-optimization-analysis-citrix-xenapp/
Before you upgrading your Site from 7.9 to 7.x, we found the following needful things, they are necessary in our environments. These three environments have been created according to the TAP model, so everything is identical. Before you think of an update, you should make a snapshot of all participating machines! We have unpacked the […]
In my last Citrix Project with Netscaler (SAML SP) with IBM TFIM (SAML IDP), StoreFront 3.9 and XenApp 6.5 HF 7 we has some issues with the Kerberos Ticket Caching, default is 15 minutes. Failure On Customer side, in the external portal we have one link, for each publish application, if the user clicks to one […]
As mentioned on this blog (here and here), last week Citrix released the beta(!) version of a new tool, called “Citrix Optimizer” (or “Citrix System Optimizer Engine” – CTXOE). By the way: CTXOE is already supported by BIS-F 😉 But what is the purpose of this tool? If you are familiar with tools like “VMware OS […]