Category Archives: Citrix XenApp

Basics of vDisks and Provisioning desktops

In XenDesktop, MCS is one of the options for provisioning virtual desktops on the underlying Hypervisor, Host Infrastructure. The other method is PVS. Before XenDesktop 7 these virtual machines were based on client operating systems. From XenDesktop 7, MCS can … Continue reading

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Basics of Citrix Netscaler

There are 2 NetScaler editions; Citrix NetScaler and Citrix NetScaler Gateway. Although these two seem similar, there are some distinct differences depending on the licenses used. Citrix Netscaler refers to their Application Delivery Controller (ADC), while the Netscaler Gateway, formerly … Continue reading

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How Connection Leasing and LHC Works?

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

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Anonymous Authentication in Citrix StoreFront

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

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Difference in Client Drive Mapping between XenApp versions

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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