Citrix Receiver

Where's the one for BlackBerry? Seeing as how that's the phone most corporations use, don't you think that would make sense??

I agree with the previous comment.... Citrix should put a little more effort in developing applications for the enterprise such as the blackberry.. which is the standard across many organizations.. the iphone is a nice toy that is not yet a completely secure and manageable enterprise device.

Same comments as the above users - we support hundreds or Blackberry's across the enterprise but leave the iPhones out there as entertainment devices.

We have over 800 Blackberries deployed throughout our company, and exactly ZERO WinMo or IPhone devices...ditto on the previous comments...this should have been the target of the product out of the gate, not the "consumer" devices.

Don't worry, it's thoughts such as those that left Microsoft picking their noses and later playing catch-up with the Enterprise sector.  For all of you Blackberry owners out there, let me tell you something.  In the Medical field Blackberries do not rule!  For years it's been Palm, now many of us are moving to Apple and the iPhone.

In regards to security, perhaps one of you can prove how insecure the iPhone actually is.  Perhaps you can show us how Apps, confined to a Sandbox, can actually compromise the workplace.  Don't delude yourselves, the iPhone is as elegant as it is useful; refined as it is ruthless and produces a much more enjoyable end user experience when compared to the Blackberry.  If you doubt this, perhaps you should take a look at the various "emulators/pretenders to the throne" devices that even Blackberry has begun to make.

Richard Atkinson, M.D. 

Being both a Blackberry and iPhone user, yes it would be nice to have something for the BB, but realistically, what BB device would be work on? Their "latest and greatest", the Storm doesn't even scratch the iPhone and most users I have spoken with prefer the Storm as an executive paperweight rather than enterprise tool.

By making this app for the iPhone, Citrix are backing the enterprise device of tomorrow, today. Don't get me wrong, I think BB are great - in their element - outside of e-mail, telephone and calender they're nothing compared to Apple's iPhone.

Apple's touch technology, user friendly interface (not to mention it's a product that works and is reliable) makes it streets ahead of the competition and realistically the only device that can currently handle Citrix Reciever in such a way that it is a pleasure to use.

 Ed

Forget blackberry. Go for Iphone. Yet i still hate mac book air because the Outlook 2007 did not bundle together with office 2007. Entourage sucks big time.

kn

want smooth deployment of mobile user? Ban the Black Berry and Entourage cuz it sucks big time.

Iphone or Windows mobile 6 will be best choice.

Cslim

Hello, boys!
I don't want to disappoint all you Blackberry fans out there, but the fact is that yes, the Blackberry is big in US companies. -But it has not really gotten its breakthrough here in Europe as of yet. In addition to that, I believe most Blackberry owners are somewhat ignorant as to what kind of phone they have. It is company standard, and that's it. With iPhone, on the other hand, the ballgame is quite different. Almost NO companies have standardized on iPhones, which means that those who own iPhones are more likely to be technology enthusiasts, who would appreciate apps like the receiver. -Which again is more likely to create the marketing fuzz that Citrix are trying to acheive with the iPhone receiver. -Just my 2 cents worth...

Will the citrix receiver work with the citrix access gateway?

I think people are ignoring the essential point here... this isnt a debate about which device is better!

The point is that many organistaions have massive investment in Blackberry's and associated backend infrastructure and are not about to abandon them in favour of iPhones. 

 (however if i was to get drawn on the point, the iPhone is pretty and adaptable but is too big for us non handbag carrying blokes, blackberry is IMHO an bloody awful phone but comes in a variety of shapes and sizes to suit all tastes and needs.)

A Citrix Receiver for Blackberry will be very helpfull in Blackberry environments.

A Citrix Receiver for Blackberry will be very helpfull in Blackberry environments.

the only drawback to an iphone in the american enterprise environment is the contract apple has with at&t. once that ends, RIM will be in trouble.

I agree, the contract with AT&T is the drawback with the iPhone.  Their bloated service plans are priced out of the range of the normal consumer who needs to use his phone for work but doesn't have service provided by his company.

The other killer on the iPhone is the touchscreen.  Too hard to work with compared to a keypad, especially in very sunny environments.

This is a grat example of going against a reasonable logic. It just does not make sense when Blackberry is the choice of enterprise and there is not a Citrix appliation for it while iPhone as a more consumer based phone has an application as such from Citrix. It just doesn't add up.

Tried Receiver on XP platfrom, with merch server, disappointing results, al the hallmarks of a work in porogress rather than a completed product. Countless hours wasted trying to get it to work. Free doesnt always mean good value

The Citrix Receiver product seems to be a great solution to centralized management of the many citrix clients that may need to be deployed and managed on desktops.  However; after researching, it seems the real value of the product will only be realized when it supports all of the available Citrix clients that can be downloaded independently including, end point analysis clients and the SSL VPN clients that support Citrix Enterprise Access Gateways (version 8 and 9) and Netscalers.

In addition, there seems no point of installing the Receiver client unless you also implement the highly recommended and dependent Merchandising server which pushed the required plug-ins to the workstations with the receiver client installed.

I also noticed that the Merchandising Server download is only for Citrix Xen Server.  In my environment we use Hyper-V. 

If anyone, has successfully tested the Citrix Receiver product please let me know your results.

Citrix, please let us know what improvements we can expect in the near future to address the items I listed above regarding available plug-ins and the merchandising server dependency on Xen Server. 

According to the documents, many functions with the Receiver client do not work if the merchandising server is not installed also.  Is there any reason to install the Citrix receiver client without the merchandising server?

Thanks in advance for everyones comments. 

Has there been any effort for the blackberry? I see some of these post are several months old.

I am a small business owner. I have downloaded citric receiver for my iPhone because I want simply to access gotomypc on my iPhone. What am I supposed to type in? It keeps telling me I have no apps to access!

Why will the Blackberry Receiver be only the Curve and Bold. To me this is so worthless considering the screen size. There are more of us Storm business users than you think.

Release it already .

our management wants to bring iphones in the company because of the citrix receiver .. 

And once you go MAC , you NNnever go back ! careful guys

Hello? Bueller? Bueller?

Citrix Receiver for Blackberry = VAPORWARE!!!!!!!    

The client was released late Monday night as a Tech Preview.  Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to support two-factor authentication...

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Citrix is pleased to announce the Receiver for BlackBerry Technology Preview is now available. Citrix Receiver enables secure access to Windows apps and business information from any smartphone - now including BlackBerry.
- Work from Anywhere - Instant, real-time access to Windows applications from any location.
- Safe and Secure - Data is encrypted and stored on the company network, not on the device.
- High Definition Experience - Hi-speed performance of multi-media content including 3D graphics and Flash-based websites.
Download now at www.citrix.com/blackberryinstall from your blackberry device
Requirements
- Supported BlackBerry devices:
        - Touch models: Storm2 9520, 9550
        - Non-Touch models: Bold 9000, 9650, 9700 / Curve 8350i, 8520, 8530, 8900 / Tour 9630
        - OS Version 4.6 or later. For Storm2 devices, OS Version 5.0.0.436 (Platform 4.2.0.189) is required. For optimal performance, a minimum of 128MB memory is recommended.
- Citrix Receiver and Citrix XenApp or Citrix XenDesktop infrastructure.
Additional Resources
- Online Support forum at forums.citrix.com/blackberry
- Demo from the Cloud at citrixcloud.net
- More information about Receiver for PC, Mac, Smartphones and tablets at www.citrix.com/receiver

I hate the fact that users need to accept and download the receiver client for windows, and on top of that they need to login to it. It should be single sign-on like the program neighborhood agent.

How am I going to get 6,000+ users to go through these steps, this bunch isn't exactly patient and everything to them needs to be seamless. Our users move around a lot and sit at different desks.

If I push the receiver using sccm then we lose functionality. I mean come on. How is this supposed to be enterprise friendly?

We are thinkig of just scrapping this and sticking to just pushing the citrix program neighborhood to the desktops.
We were so hopeful as this would have been a godsend on updating the different plugins we have out there.

Should have made it easier instead of more complex.

YOU ARE ALL DUMB

I have Citrix for iPad and it runs the demo cloud account just fine. How do I open a .ica document so I can connect to a Citrix service? I can open the .ica document directly from a Windows Mobile device, and the iPad software seems to work fine but won't allow me to directly open a document. Help!

Have installed Citrix client on my HTC HD2 but when I try and launch one of my applicaions I get a screen that is headed "launch .ica and asks open,save or cancell. if I open I get SSL 61 Error you have not chosen to trust "xxxxx" the issuer of the servers security certificate. I have spent many hours and nothing seems to work. Any suggestions please

Can somebody tell me, how to secure the Citrix Receiver solution on our BlacbBerry's?
Only username en password is not acceptable for our organisation.

Can somebody tell me how to uninstall citrix receiver on my imac? I have just downloaded from the apple store (after the recent updated software) and tried to run it. I would like to re-install it because I have lost he initial settings provided for the demo.
Can anyone help me in this regard?