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.

Difference in Client Drive Mapping between XenApp versions

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

Client Drive Mapping (CDM) on Presentation Server 4.5, XenApp 5.0 is now called Citrix Drive Mapping Redirector (CDMR) . Presentation Server 4.5 and XenApp 5.0, use the method of ‘network mapping’ the local drive of the user. This method only … Continue reading →

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How to Mitigate Heartbleed Vulnerability in Citrix License Server

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

Citrix Security Advisory for CVE-2014-0160, aka the Heartbleed vulnerability. The Citrix License Server version 11.10 of the License Administration Console and older are not vulnerable to ‘Heartbleed’. The Citrix Web Service for Licensing replaces Citrix Simple License service in version … Continue reading →

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How to Install a SSL Certificate on a NetScaler

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

To create and install certificate log on to the NetScaler appliance as nsroot. We can also copy or paste the CSR or server certificate to the /nsconfig/ssl directory on the NetScaler directly using any third-party file transfer utility such as … Continue reading →

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Designing Citrix Environment

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

Data Collector XenApp member servers replicate their dynamic data to the Zone Data Collector designated for their zone. XenApp uses a star topology for replication among zones, each ZDC replicates all of its zone dynamic data to all other ZDCs … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting Citrix License Server

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

For troubleshoot Citrix licensing issues we may need to monitor license check-ins and checkouts. The logging of check-ins and checkouts is disabled by default. We can edit the Citrix.opt file located in the C:\Program Files\Citrix\Licensing\MyFiles or C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\Licensing\MyFiles folder and add … Continue reading →

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