Category: Citrix

XenApp Application Isolation Environment (AIE) is an advanced and powerful application install mode available to manage various atypical application install cases: Conflicting applications Incompatible applications Unsociable applications More specifically When you cannot open Multiple Instances of an application When you cannot install the different versions of the same application on a single server When applications share a System resource/s (DLL, INI, etc) When applications use hard-coded File paths or settings When an application doesn’t integrate well with Presentation Server Below is a screen cast demonstrating a sample application install and launch from XenApp AIE. Login to the “XenApp Advanced Configuration” […]

AIE (Application Isolation Environment) and Application Streaming share some of the same files because Application Streaming was built on underlying AIE technology. Because of this, applying a hotfix or a hotfix rollup pack can cause stability issues with Application Streaming. Likewise, upgrading to a newer version of the Citrix offline plug-in can cause AIE stability issues. AIE support has been discontinued in XenApp 5.0 for Windows 2008. The best practice for isolating applications going forward is to use Application Streaming.   AIE: AIE allows an application to run in an isolated environment by installing the application files and registry keys […]

Launch the MSI installer “Citrix Streaming Profiler” from the Citrix XenApp Installation source CD. Location of the files are shown below: Installer starts as below Accept the License Change default install location to any other location if you need. Change default Start Menu Program files location to any other location if you need. Installer updates your system and once successful install you’ll see the install finish prompt as shown below Install needs a machine reboot. Choose yes to reboot or No to cancel the reboot.