Implementing Desktop Theme Look and Feel for XenApp 6.5 Applications on Windows Server 2008 R2

Its is very common requirement for Application Service Providers who host customer applications on their XenApp infrastructure as a cloud solution. It’s very often your customers request you to enable a Windows desktop (in particular Windows 7) theme (look and feel for Window frames). Here are quick steps to achieve this requirement using Citrix Enhanced Desktop Component: Enable Citrix Enhanced Desktop: Citrix Enhanced Desktop is a component which is installed by default with the XenApp Server role installation.  To enable Citrix Enhanced Desktop component for your users manually in case of restricted environments by temporarily disabling the restrictions: login to […]

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Microsoft released RemoteIE built on RemoteApp in Windows Azure

MSFT yesterday announced the RemoteIE: Test the latest IE on Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and Android You can subscribe for it from https://remote.modern.ie/subscribe  Upon successful registration, you’ll get an email like below: Then download the app for your device. It is supported on below Mac iPhone and iPad Android Windows x86 Windows x64 Windows RT Launch “Microsoft RemoteApp” > Get Started and login with your Windows ID. In the background, you’ll find two processes running RdClientLauncher.exe and rdclient.exe. Upon launching Visio 2013, you’ll see the default diagram portraying < p>

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Evaluating GoToMeeting in XenApp VoIP

I’ve earlier explained how to unlock GoToMeeting (GTM) to support Audio capability using VoIP in a Citrix XenApp session, you can refer to the article here:  Application Behaviour Analysis – Citrix GoToMeeting for Application Virtualization environments like XenApp  In this article, we’ll see the use case and limitations of GTM using VoIP in a Citrix XenApp ICA Session. Essentially, this explains why was Citrix locking down VoIP by default in XenApp ICA session. Evaluating GoToMeeting in XenApp VoIP:   Scenario Environment: Single XenApp 6.5 server with FP4 GoToMeeting 6.3.0.1468 installed under Program Files (x86) for all users.  No other versions […]

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