Author Archives: Murugan B Iyyappan

About Murugan B Iyyappan

Working as a Senior Consultant - Citrix solutions architect with 20+ years of experience in the IT industry. Expertise in Citrix products and Cloud VDI platform.

How Connection Leasing and LHC Works?

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

After XenApp 6.5, Citrix does not use the IMA data store as the central database to store configuration information. Instead, it uses a Microsoft SQL Server database as the data store for both configuration and session information. Microsoft Access and … Continue reading →

Posted in Citrix, Citrix XenApp | Tagged Citrix Controllers, Citrix Datastore, Connection Leasing, Difference between IMA and FMA, Difference between XenApp 6.5 and XenApp 7.6, FMA, IMA, IMA Datastore, IMA Service, LHC | Leave a comment

Components of Citrix StoreFront Server

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

1. Authentication service: This service, which is an integral part of StoreFront, authenticates users to XenDesktop and XenApp farms. 2. Store: The store retrieves user credentials from the authentication service and provides resources to the to authenticated users. The store … Continue reading →

Posted in Citrix | Tagged Application Subscription Store, Authentication service, Beacon points, Citrix StoreFront, Citrix StoreFront server, Citrix StoreFront service, Data Store, DMZ, Firewall, Netscaler, Netscaler Gateway, Receiver for HTML5, Receiver for Web, STA, Store, StoreFront Datastore | Leave a comment

Citrix StoreFront logon process

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

Once the user enters the credentials the authentication service of StoreFront fetches the user credentials and validates them with a domain controller. So the StoreFront servers must reside either within the Active Directory domain containing the user accounts or within … Continue reading →

Posted in Citrix | Tagged Application enumeration, Citrix Delivery Controller, Citrix Logon Process, Citrix StoreFront, Citrix XML, multiple instances, New in Citrix StoreFront, parallel resource enumeration, Receiver for Web site, spinner, StoreFront logon process, Web Interface vs StoreFront | 4 Comments

Citrix Command Center

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

The Citrix Command Center (Monitoring Tool), which was available only for Enterprise/Platinum Licenses, are now available for free from 24th September 2014 onwards. Citrix Command Center is a management and monitoring solution for Citrix application networking products that include Citrix … Continue reading →

Posted in Citrix | Tagged AppFirewall, Citrix AGEE, Citrix Branch Repeater, Citrix Command Center, Citrix Monitoring Tool, Citrix NetScaler, CloudBridge, Command Center, Netscaler Gateway, Network Monitoring Tool | Leave a comment

Anonymous Authentication in Citrix StoreFront

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

Web Interface was written in J# and Microsoft announced end of life for J# by June 2015 . As the result StoreFront has been developed from scratch using more flexible and powerful framework than Web Interface that enables StoreFront to provide next … Continue reading →

Posted in Citrix, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop | Tagged Anonymous Authentication, anonymous user access, Citrix Receiver, Citrix StoreFront, Citrix Studio, Store, StoreFront v 2.5, unauthenticated users, Web Interface | Leave a comment