Citrix Cloud Provider Pack for Citrix XenApp 6.5

Citrix Cloud Provider Pack for Citrix XenApp 6.5 is now available

Citrix Cloud Provider Pack for Citrix XenApp 6.5 is a powerful collection of enabling technologies, available exclusively to certified Citrix Service Providers (CSPs), makes it easy to set up “Windows-as-a-Service” hosting businesses that are simpler to run, less costly and better optimized for mobile devices.

App Orchestration Technology This groundbreaking new capability automates the design, configuration, deployment and lifecycle maintenance of Windows apps and desktops hosted by CSPs for multiple tenants, across multiple farms. App orchestration is a requirement in order to attain cloud-scale and cloud-economics. From a single interface, cloud provider admins can define a workspace, performance characteristics, network configuration, and isolation requirements, and have the orchestration engine complete the deployment – hands-free. When it comes time to update apps or desktop images, the admin simply points to the new image, and the app orchestration engine handles draining servers and migrating subscribers without manual intervention. In addition, a new update to Citrix CloudPortal Services Manager provides out-of-the-box support for App Orchestration, enabling the hosted desktop infrastructure to autonomically respond to account provisioning requests via CloudPortal. For additional information regarding this technology please visit Citrix eDocs. Please be sure to review the Quick Deployment Guide.

Seamless App Technology For decades, Citrix has led the industry in “seamless apps” – making an application that’s running in a remote datacenter integrate with a local desktop environment – where we make it practically impossible for an end user to tell whether an app is running locally on their device or virtually in the datacenter. The Cloud Provider Pack moves this technology forward for the future with new capabilities designed specifically for the cloud. With this latest technology, end users can now have their personal, local apps alongside private-cloud business apps from their employer, all seamlessly presented in a cloud-based desktop with standard productivity suites. This unique ability to stitch together personal, private and public cloud components is unprecedented and not only improves the end user experience, but also simplifies customer on-boarding for cloud providers. It is no longer necessary to migrate every app in the entire customer desktop environment to the cloud prior to rolling out cloud desktops; providers can move the easy ones first, transition more difficult ones later, and even leave some apps local as deemed appropriate by the business owner. Please be sure to review the Local App Access Readme and Local App Access guide.

Mobility Pack With millions of mobile devices and millions more Windows apps and desktops in use, everyone is looking for a way to bridge the gap – and have the experience be intuitive and friendly. While there are many ways to view a Windows desktop from a tablet device, making the experience usable and touch-optimized is another matter altogether.  The Mobility Pack for XenApp 6.5 accomplishes this by transforming the standard Windows PC experience into a more touch-friendly interface, with larger icons, iOS and Android-native menus and options, and auto pop-up keyboard for text entry. There are dozens of clever enhancements in the Mobility Pack, as well as a complete SDK for customizing specific apps for mobility.  These customizations can even extend to allowing hosted apps to interact seamlessly with mobile device features such as GPS, Camera, or SMS. (The Mobility Pack was first introduced in December 2011; the Cloud Provider Pack includes important updates.)

Download Citrix Cloud Provider Pack for Citrix XenApp 6.5 (requires a valid mycitrix.com account with CSP account rights)

Citrix Receiver for HTML5 - Tech Preview now available

Citrix Receiver for HTML5 Technical Preview enables users to access hosted desktops and applications provided by XenApp and AppController from the Google Chrome browser. Desktops and applications are aggregated in a Receiver Storefront store and made available through a Receiver for Web site.
To access desktops and applications using Receiver for HTML5, navigate to the Receiver Storefront URL from a Chrome browser. Desktop access requires a connection through Citrix Access Gateway.

System Requirements
User Device w Google Chrome browser (version 17)

Server
Receiver for HTML5 supports access to hosted desktops and applications provided by XenApp and AppController through Receiver Storefront 1.0. Receiver Storefront stores must be accessed through Receiver for Web sites.
Receiver Storefront can be used in conjunction with the following product versions.w Citrix XenApp 6.5 for Windows Server 2008 R2

Securing User Connections
Receiver for HTML5 enables user access to desktops and applications from public networks with the following version of Access Gateway.

Citrix Access Gateway 10.x, Enterprise Edition
Receiver for HTML5 supports all authentication methods provided by Receiver Storefront. Connections through an Access Gateway require only one logon for application access.

 Please note that Google Chrome is the only browser supported for the Tech Preview.  Please read the Release Notes for other requirements and configuration details.

Click here to download Citrix Receiver for HTML5 - Tech Preview (may require a valid mycitrix.com account)

Citrix App Studio version 1

Citrix has released some Technical FAQ answers to App Studio.

 

General Questions

 

1. What does the term Overallocated mean?
2. When do farms and workload machines get "Allocated"?
3. How can I rename a tenant, advertisement, or catalog?

 

Install and Setup

 

1. Why does the user account running the New-Cam* scripts need to have admin access to SQL Server?
2. Why do I get prompted to enter the name of the database user during execution of New-CamFarm.ps1 script?
3. Can I setup a tenant in a separate domain?
4. Can I use a Domain Controller version other than Windows 2K8 R2?
5. Can the console service, the configuration manager and the database be installed on different machines?

 

Farms and Workloads

 

1. How is the allocation (such as "Allocated: 150%") calculated for a farm or workload catalog?
2. Will old workload machines be drained if a recently updated Workload Catalog is overallocated?
3. What happens when a new farm gets imported into a farm catalog?
4. What causes a workload machine to become invalid?
5. My machines are not being imported into the system after I dropped them to the import OU. How can I find out why?

 

Advertisements and Subscriptions

 

1. Can farms and workload machines be reused if the associated subscriptions are deleted?
2. Can I modify the default icon of an advertisement? What about a subscription?

 

Click here to read the full Article from Citrix Support

 

 

Dynamic Printer Discovery Demonstration in XenApp 6.5 and XenDesktop 5.5

This video demonstrates the dynamic printer discovery features available for both XenDesktop and XenApp.