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I've been working on the ICA on iPhone project recently and I had to move a new build from my development machine to my test server frequently. At first I tried RDP. But it is painfully slow to copy my binary to the test server for me. Then I tried ICA and it worked much better. The experience made me appreciate the efficiency of ICA more.
Seeing is believing, I've captured my experience in a video. If you use client drive mapping, you might be interested in checking out this video.
To start with, here is a short demo video of how to install AutoCAD Map3D 2009 on XenApp I created.
I've been working with AutoDesk for a while to ensure AutoDesk products can work well with Citrix products and create new solutions.
I'd like to share what I learned with the community. Thus I am creating this tips and tricks series to cover all things that are related to AutoDesk and Citrix. I will try to cover mainly technical information, tips and tricks. But I may include other useful information as well.
Many thanks to everyone who helped with this on-going effort!
If you would like to hear more about certain aspects of AutoDesk and Citrix related solutions, please leave comments on my blog. I'd love to hear from you.
Ray Yang
If you are interested in running ICA client on Linux, I've created two short videos showing the step by step instructions. Unlike windows ICA client, installing Linux version of ICA client requires more steps although it is relatively straight forward after you watch the video I hope. I used Ubuntu Linux as an example. Other Linux distributions may work slightly differently.
How to install ICA client
Citrix PowerSmart Utility is created to help XenApp users conserve energy. To learn more about this project, please visit the project site.
To try out the utility however requires access to physical servers with certain capabilities, such as HP ILO2 support for example. I understand not everyone has easy access to these machines. To make it easier for people to understand the utility, I created a short demo video. The video shows how to configure this utility and see it in action.
Are you interested in running Autodesk products on Citrix XenApp (previously known as Presentation Server)? If you do, please read on.
Citrix and Autodesk have been working together to make sure our products can work well together. It's exciting to work in this project because both Autodesk and Citrix users can really benefit from such efforts.
AutoCAD Map3D 2009 is now Citrix-ready for XenApp. It is the first fruit of this effort. And if successful, you can expect more Autodesk products to become Citrix Ready. If you like the direction we are going, I'd appreciate your help by giving us feedbacks.
The joint site is at http://www.citrixandautodesk.com/. You can find useful information such as installation guide, FAQ, sales contact etc.
There are some post-installation changes you will need to make after installing Map 3D on XenApp. To make it easier, I wrote a script to automate such steps. The up to date script can be found here.
I created a short video demo of map 3D running on XenApp.