Today I have received two new applications to play with; that's exactly what I did.

After installing and playing with both apps, I can say they do exactly what their respective developers advertised. Each can be very useful to deployments and day-to-day admin tasks.

Kudos to both developers. I hope you guys find these apps usefull, if not, let them know where and how they can improve.

Now that XenDesktop is out and about, you can certainly tell that users will be experimenting with multiple different settings and scenarios, exposing it to some unknown deltas.

Enabling verbose logging on XenDesktop can help you better understand what goes on behind the scene and troubleshoot issues.

There are three component to be enabled with verbose logging within XenDesktop: Delivery Controller, VM Manager, and Workstation agent.

The procedure is exactly the same for all three components, just follow these simple steps:

Desktop Delivery Controller

1) Create a new directory (ex. "C:\CDS")
2) Change security settings to allow Network Services and Local Service "Full Control" over the new folder.
3) Open the following ".exe.config" files in a text editor:
       C:\Program Files\Citrix\Desktop Delivery Controller\cdscontroller.exe.config
       C:\Program Files\Citrix\VMManagemenet\CdsPoolMgr.exe.config
4) Modify the following section, change the <logFilename> variable, specifying a file within your new directory:
      <appSettings>
      <add key="LogToCDF" value ="1"/>
      <add key="LogFileName" value ="C:\CDS\<logfilename>.log"/>
      </appSettings>
5) Finally, reboot your server to start logging.

Workstation Agents:

1) Create a new directory (ex. "C:\CDS")
2) Change security settings to allow Network Services and Local Service "Full Control" over the new folder.
3) Open the following ".exe.config" file in a text editor:
       C:\Program Files\Citrix\Virtual Workstation Agent\WorkstationAgent.exe.config
4) Modify the following section, changing the <logfilename> variable, specifying a file within your new directory:
      <appSettings>
      <add key="LogToCDF" value ="1"/>
      <add key="LogFileName" value ="C:\CDS\<logfilename>.log"/>
      </appSettings>
5) Finally, reboot your workstation to start logging.
 

I just came back from BriForum in Chicago and besides the awesome event that was, one more thing came to attention, half of the Notebooks being carried around by attendees and speakers were Macs.

Carried away by the energy of the event I decided build something for our Citrix Community. A dashboard app that makes easier for our visitors to read the latest posts and collaborate with their comments.

 Meet the Citrix Blogs Widget

 With version 1.0 you get:

• The latest 30 Citrix Blog posts
• Adjust view from Full to Summary
• Collaborate with your comments
• Open posts on Safari or Firefox
• Spotlight Search (Instant search)
• Push updates (no refresh required)
• Watch blogged videos
• Check for updates
• Send feedback

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4 or greater

Download via CDN:

Citrix Blogs Widget

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Special thanks to Chris Anthony group for designing our dashboard logo! Thank you guys so much!!!

From: blog.gotoassist.com

Here is a video of Nat Kunes, Product Manager for GoToAssist Express, doing a product demo. If you would like to learn more about individual features, you can sign up for one of our GoToWebinar trainings - we usually send out email invites two weeks ahead of time.

If you would like to comment on this post, please log in to the Beta Forum at forums.gotoassist.com.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-- Today, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, announced it has won the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year Global ISV - Infrastructure Special Recognition award. This award recognizes the global independent software vendor (ISV) for superior technology, delivering innovative infrastructure solutions based on Microsoft platforms.

Microsoft also honored Citrix with its Partner of the Year award for Citizenship for the company's collaborative work on behalf of the Traditional Area of Ashanti-Agogo, Ghana, Africa to provide an infrastructure and training, allowing local residents access to applications and the Internet for the first time.

Building on an almost 20-year relationship, the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year Global ISV - Infrastructure award is a testament to the strength and commitment the two companies have in bringing solutions to market that benefit their mutual and respective customers. Over the past year, Citrix and Microsoft have reinvented their already broad relationship in application virtualization to include server and desktop virtualization, creating a complete end-to-end virtualization solution from the datacenter to the desktop that leverages technology from both companies.

"It is a privilege to be honored by Microsoft with these prestigious awards. It is clear evidence that the strength of our relationship and joint go-to-market strategies are benefiting our mutual customers across an increasingly broad set of product lines," said Mark Templeton, president and chief executive officer of Citrix Systems. "After almost 20 years of building and nurturing our relationship with Microsoft, we remain more committed than ever to creating IT infrastructure solutions that leverage Microsoft technologies as platforms for innovation."

Continue at Source: Citrix.com

You have probably seen the latest buzz on the street, an iPhone "running" Windows XP. This topic made big news this week as a story published by ZDNet Australia landed on the home of Digg.com.

The word "running" was loosely mentioned and that sparked a lot of controversy around visitors, but if we take a minute to explain the "phenomena", you will see there's nothing behind the curtains nor up the magician's sleeve. It's purely a high performance remote desktop (HPRD) being delivered via ICA, Citrix remoting technology protocol.

The demo mentioned above was delivered by our fellow Citrites in Australia, very similar to the one Mark Templeton showed us during his keynote early this year at the Citrix Summit.

So for those outraged with the Windows XP "running" on a "slow" processor like iPhone's, I say - you can all relax, the actual processing was done on a back-end virtual desktop and remotely delivered via Citrix XenDesktop.

Also the article mentioned above only posted a still image of the entire demo; so for those who are interested to see the full demo - here it is, the 5 minutes and 20 seconds-long XenDesktop demo "running" on an iPhone.

BriForum has been a great model of community-driven effort to help share and dissiminate knowledge with its participants, specially because it's hosted by geeks for geeks.

Brian and team have put their hearts into this event and I'm sure it will be an exciting one for our App and Desktop Virtualization community. We are trully proud to be sponsoring this year's event.

BriForum will be hosted in Chicago from the 16th- 18th of June - next week!

There will be over 70 technical sessions, many of them delivered by some of Citrix most notorious technologists.

If you're attending BriForum, feel free to stop by the Citrix Communities booth, you will be able to meet and "geek speak" with some of Citrix top bloggers - Rich Crusco, Barry Flanagan, Joe Nord, and Jeff Muir...

For more information visit BriForum.com

See you in Chigaco.

Citrix has released a new version of the ICA client for Mac OS X users.

As pointed out by our colleague Danny Wannagat, this release includes fixes for XenDesktop connections.

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Summary

This article describes how to run Web Interface 5.0 in a 64-bit Internet Information Services (IIS) process.

Background

This article applies to Citrix Web Interface 5.0 running on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 or 7.0 with an appropriate version of Visual J#.NET 2.0 Second Edition on a 64-bit computer.

Web Interface 5.0 is a .NET application that is compiled so that it can be used on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of ASP.NET. Web Interface makes use of Visual J# and 64-bit support is added by Visual J#.NET 2.0 Second Edition. This allows the Web Interface to run inside a 64-bit IIS process.

The ability to run inside a 64-bit process can prove particularly useful on IIS 6.0, where the entire IIS Web site is either a 32-bit process or a 64-bit process. This makes it easier for the Web Interface to coexist with 64-bit Web applications on the same IIS site.

Procedure to allow the Web Interface to run as a 64-bit process on IIS 7.0

1. Open the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) IIS Manager snap-in on the server running the Web Interface.

2. In the left pane, click Application Pools and, in the Features View, select the application pool that your Web Interface site uses (usually called CitrixWebInterface5.0.xAppPool).

3. In the Actions pane, click Advanced Settings.

4. In the General section, change the Enable 32-Bit Applications setting to False.

To allow the Web Interface to run as a 64-bit process on IIS 6.0

1. When you install the Web Interface, allow the installer to switch IIS to 32-bit mode.

2. To switch IIS back to 64-bit mode and register the 64-bit version of ASP.NET, click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.

3. From the command prompt, type the following command to disable 32-bit mode:

cscript <systemdrive>\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 0

4. Type the following command to install the version of ASP.NET 2.0 and to install the script maps at the IIS root and under:

<systemroot>\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\version\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

where version is the build version number of ASP.NET.

5. Open the MMC IIS Manager snap-in on the server running the Web Interface.

6. Click Web Service Extensions under the server running the Web Interface and ensure that the status of the appropriate ASP.NET version is set to Allowed in the details pane.

• More Information

For more information about ASP.NET on IIS 6.0, see Microsoft Support Article 894435

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