Citrix released Web Interface 5.2, here is a short overview of the new features:
XenApp VM hosted apps. XenApp now has the capability to deliver online applications from virtual machines. This enables you to publish applications that are incompatible with or not yet validated for Terminal Services, or applications that are not supported for installation on Windows Server operating systems.
XenDesktop user roaming. You can associate user groups with specific XenDesktop farms to provide a consistent experience for users, regardless of their current location or the server to which they are logging on. This enable users who travel abroad on business, for example, to log on to a local Web Interface server and automatically receive desktops in their native language from a XenDesktop farm in their home country.
Disaster recovery. You can specify XenApp and XenDesktop server farms for emergency use when users cannot access any of their production farms, perhaps due to a power failure or network outage. This enables you to make provisions to deal with the loss of access to all production servers so that line-of-business applications or desktops do not suddenly become unavailable.
New management console. The Access Management Console snap-in for Web Interface for Microsoft Internet Information Services is replaced with a standalone Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0 snap-in. The new Web Interface Management Console is installed automatically when you install the Web Interface on Windows platforms.
Secure Ticket Authority redundancy. You can configure multiple redundant Secure Ticket Authorities (STAs) for users accessing their resources through Access Gateway or Secure Gateway. This enables you to mitigate against the possibility of the STA becoming unavailable midway through a user’s session, preventing reconnection to the session. When redundancy is enabled, the Web Interface attempts to obtain and deliver to the gateway two tickets from two different STAs. If one of the STAs cannot be contacted during a user session, the session continues uninterrupted using the second STA.
In Web Interface 5.1 Citrix introduced alot of new features which included:
Smart Card Support with XenDesktop - XenDesktop users with Windows endpoint devices can use smart cards to authenticate to XenApp Web and XenApp Services sites hosted on Microsoft Internet Information Services.
Virtual Desktop Restart - XenDesktop users can restart virtual desktops running on virtual machines using a control on their XenApp Web sites or through the Desktop Receiver.
Simplified Plugin Detection and Deployment Process - The number of steps in the plugin detection and deployment process is reduced for the most common user scenarios, improving the experience of downloading and deploying an appropriate Citrix plugin.
Discontinued Support for Centrally Configured Sites - All support for centralized configuration, which was deprecated in the previous version of the Web Interface, is removed in the current release.
In Web Interface 5.1.2 the only change is the expanded langague support:
Expanded Language Support - The Web Interface end-user experience is localized for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and Korean.
To download Web Interface 5.1.2 click here and login using your MyCitrix account
If you like me have had several encounters with slow times when contacting the Citrix Web Interface 5.1 servers here is a method of getting quick respons time again.
Check in IIS for the ASP.net version that is in use with the Web Interface site. Modify Aspnet.config in the following directory -> C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 (If Web Interface uses .Net framework v2.0.50727)
Add the following lines to your ASPNET.CONFIG or APP.CONFIG file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <configuration> <runtime> <generatePublisherEvidence enabled="false"/> </runtime> </configuration>
The just to be sure that Internet Information Server has it's config restarted, do a iisreset on each of the Web Interface servers.
