Author Archives: Murugan B Iyyappan

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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.

Load Balancing Citrix StoreFront Servers

To add the second StoreFront server for load balancing with an existing StoreFront server, we need to create an Authorization code from the first server. ​ Enter the Authorization code to the second server. ​ Once the two StoreFront servers … Continue reading

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XenApp 7.5 quick installation and configuration

There are many changes in this new XenApp version, i.e., XenApp 7.5 1. We can not limit the instances of application allowed to run in server farm or limit  only one instance of application for each user. 2. The load evaluator … Continue reading

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Worker (Session Host Only) or Controller modes in Citrix XenApp 6.5

In XenApp 6.5 we have 2 roles for the servers, a Worker role (session host only) and a Controller role. The default role for a XenApp server is a Controller role. The controller server is responsible for farm management tasks … Continue reading

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MCS process flow

The machine creation process is as follows for pooled-static, pooled-random or dedicated desktop: 1. Create master VM with OS, applications and all configurations. 2. Launch Desktop Studio; Create a Catalog. 3. Select the master VM. 4. MCS automatically creates a … Continue reading

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Difference between Session Reliability, Auto Client Reconnect and ICA Keep-Alive feature

Session Reliability Session Reliability keeps sessions active and keeps on the user’s screen display when network connectivity is interrupted. Users continue to see the application they are using until network connectivity resumes. The user continues to access the display during … Continue reading

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