series of social media webinars will begin June 11

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Caution Partners :. Citrix organizes a training session an hour on social media-led channel marketing expert Heather K. Margolis of IPED, school division of UBM Channel. Register now for this webinar built for this purpose free for counselors Solution

June 11 -. " The driving demand through engagement in online and social media "

Webinar Highlights:

  • Understanding why social is important :. See what you're missing without a social strategy
  • The foundation to start your social engagement media: See what platforms you should use you and how your profiles should illustrate your online presence
  • your online engagement building blocks. Strategy: know what things must be in place to develop a more effective strategy
  • Get over your traditional marketing programs :. toleverage Understanding how your LinkedIn profile, LinkedIn connections and to the company's page for email campaigns up to 26% more successful
  • steps to maintain momentum : .. Explorer tools and tactics to your everyday process to engage your prospects in the long term

Register now. Visit www.citrix.com/go/CSASocialMediaSeries

The next social media webinar will take place in September. More details will follow

Note :. Links require connection to Partner Central. This webinar is for CSA in the AMS and EMEA.

Neues NetScaler bietet mehr als 10.1 0 neue Funktionen - Überblick, Teil 1

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Das neue Release 10.1 kürzlich angekündigte Neuerungen nützlicher von eine Reihe NetScaler beinhaltet für die Unterstützung mobiler Benutzer, verbesserte und Sicherheitsfunktionen noch bessere Visibilität über Applikationen und das Netzwerk-Unternehmens. gehören Zu den wichtigsten Neuerungen: verbesserte Funktionen für das von Clustering Appliances, Support von Traffic Domains, AutoScale Integration mit CloudPlatform, automatisches Update von Signaturen, SAML 2-Faktor Authentifizierung, verbesserte Unterstützung und das neue mobiler Anwender NetScaler Insight Center. In diesem und werden die folgenden Blogs neuen Funktionen of the vorgestellt.

Clustering für NetScaler SDX Appliances
Die NetScaler technology into them TriScale unterstützt auch neuen output Clustering das von SDX Appliances. Es können jetzt Cluster NetScaler VPX innerhalb einer einzelnen SDX Appliance oder über mehrere SDX Appliances hinweg gebildet werden. Hierbei können bis zu 32 individual NetScaler Instanzen, die eine jeweils Cluster Knoten bilden, werden up correctly. Dabei kann eine einzelne IP-address virtual (VIP) pro SDX Cluster bis zu 32 Knoten unterstützen NetScaler. NetScaler Knoten und deren Instanzen hinzugefügt können oder entfernt werden, um die auf die NetScaler Kapazitäten entsprechend Echtzeit anzupassen traffic requirements.

Support von Traffic Domains Diffusion Layer
normalerweise arbeitet NetScaler auf Simple Low Domänen often put VLANs auf TCP / IP level Ebene. Um Grundlegende Mandantenfähigkeit bereitzustellen, ohne die Plattform SDX einsetzen zu müssen, wurde für die Traffic-Visibilität base Applikationen verbessert. Durch Nutzung von Traffic Domains kann nun NetScaler separate routing / traffic flow innerhalb einer einzelnen Appliance abbilden. Dadurch wird es möglich, eine logische Trennung innerhalb einer NetScaler Appliance mit mehreren Mandanten zu gewährleisten.

Optimal Unterstützung mobiler Anwender
In der neuen Version bietet eine Reihe von Funktionen NetScaler, um zu noch mobile Einsatzszenarien effektiver unterstützen. Darunter ist der der Protokolle Support TCP Westwood und sowie SPDY Multipath TCP. Des weiteren wurde das mit Zusammenspiel XenMobile verbessert: vereinfachte Konfigurations-Assistenten (Wizards) sorgen für die Integration von schnellere NetScaler in XenMobile Umgebungen. Die Funktionen im Detail:

Multipath TCP
Eine Herausforderung mobilen beim Arbeiten ist der Wechsel von ständige Netzwerken und zwischen dem Umschalten 3G / 4G Verbindungen und / oder WLANs. Im Zusammenhang mit dem Protokoll TCP führt das zu Hohen Latenzen, verzögerten Anwendungen und von ständigem Nachladen Inhalten. Mobile Endgeräte können mehrere Pfade Ressourcen zu verbinden, aber es gibt wenige gute Wege, diese zu nutzen optimal. Yesterday setzt Multipath TCP a, um die Übertragungrate erhöhen zu und zu schnellere Datenübertragungen ermöglichen. NetScaler religious hält einen doppelten TCP Stack zwischen dem Dienst und dem client, vor allem bei was 4G LTE-Netzen und kommt zum Tragen

SPDY -. Schnellere Übertagung von Inhalten
Eine weitere Neuigkeit für verbessertes Anwendungsverhalten und bei schnellere Datenübertragungen mobilen Endgeräten die NetScaler 10.1 enthält, ist die Unterstützung Protokolls of SPDY. SPDY ist ein neues für schnellere Protokoll HTTP Übertragung welches die Bandbreiten reduziert Internet Kommunikation und die beschleunigt. SPDY wird von einer Reihe von Browsern Applikationen und unterstützt, allerdings wird ein benötigt Gateway, Welches das Protokoll interpretiert. Der in NetScaler integrierte SPDY proxy stellt sicher, dass zu und sowohl NetScaler customers in HTTP Server sowie das Protokoll SPDY kommunizieren und kann entsprechend transformieren.

darüber hinaus versteht NetScaler TCP Westwood ab sofort ein Protokoll um TCP-typische Paketverluste vermeiden zu und die Leistung ideal in einem zu erhalten Mobilfunknetz. Mobile Anwender und profitieren von verbessertem Durchsatz stabileren Verbindungen.

und Mehr Transparenz Visibilität, verbessertes Monitoring mit Insight Center
Ein Wichtiger Baustein in modernen Applikationsbereitstellungs Infrastrukturen-ist auf und Visibilität Anwendungs- Netzwerkebene. NetScaler Insight Center bietet nun eine Sicht auf und wesentlich verbesserte Applikationsverhalten Traffic-Aufkommen. NetScaler Insight Center ist eine Software-Lösung, die als Maschine und läuft auf einen XenServer Virtual Data Collector ein und enthält reporting tool. NetScaler Insight Center hat zwei Hauptfunktionen: HDX Web Insight Insight und

HDX Insight - Visibilität und für XenApp- XenDesktop Benutzer
HDX Insight bietet Echtzeit historischen und Daten für alle XenApp-. Benutzer- Anwendungsdaten und und XenDesktop-Sitzungen. Darüber stellt es hinaus die Zusammenhänge und zwischen Netzwerk- Applikations-Daten und his erlaubt therefore schnelleres Troubleshooting Fehleraufkommen bei und durch bessere Kapazitätsplanung detailierte Berichte über den ICA-Datenverkehr. Somit wird zum NetScaler Front-End für XenApp / XenDesktop, über den alle Sitzungen laufen. Der Vorteil liegt darin, dass nicht nur das Applikationsverhalten - bis zum Endgerät beliebiger Art -. Sondern auch die Netzwerkperformance Überwacht wird

Web Insight für HTTP / S Applikationen
Web Insight Kernkomponente ist die, die End-to-End Visibilität unternehmenskritische über Anwendungen liefert. Es Bringt die Laufzeit-Informationen mit Web Client-Server und Informationen-layered relationship.

weitere Details folgen output zum neuen NetScaler in Kürze.

Solve system helps the University of São Paulo Price Citrix Innovation victory

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Solve system helps the University of São Paulo Price Citrix Innovation victory

- As a huge crowd of participants Citrix Synergy applauded the University of São Paulo (USP) for winning the Price 2013 Citrix Innovation, team members Solve system enjoyed some well-deserved satisfaction. Brazilian Advisor Solution Citrix Gold, working closely with Citrix chain, implemented a project deprived of $ 60 million cloud called "Nuvem USP" (Cloud USP) to enable USP to consolidate many "mini IT" installations several campus and strengthen the security of valuable data and intellectual property. This project leveraging Citrix CloudPlatform and manager of Citrix CloudPortal not only won a prestigious business but also serves as a model for the clouds of the company in Brazil.

virtuous circle Synergy

in a clean coincidence, the interest of the USP in a private cloud solution started during a previous Synergy event, where the acquisition of Cloud.com by Citrix announced. The university committed Solve system, which was successfully completed network and desktop virtualization projects before undertaking implementation of revolutionary private cloud. It is the largest cloud environment in Latin America.

Cloud USP offers virtual desktops hosted on Citrix XenDesktop, streaming applications via Citrix XenApp, secure file storage, sharing data via Citrix Sharefile and cloud networks with Citrix NetScaler. The implementation also includes 480 Cisco UCS and NetApp 7 data storage PBytes servers.

USP conducts 50 percent of all university research done in Brazil. Historically, different departments have developed their own servers to support research and teaching. This patchwork of infrastructure was poorly controlled and managed. Now, Cloud USP will help researchers streamline the procurement phase and reduce the time required for the provision of any type of infrastructure. In addition, by bringing these teams under one secure system, the university can protect its intellectual resources. Currently, USP deliver infrastructure as a service (virtual servers) to research laboratories, faculty and central administration.

Solution sales pays

This highly successful project highlights the effectiveness of the sales solutions. Solve system steadily increased confidence and trust of the USP in its solutions, expertise and advice. The team used every project with the University as a stepping stone to another, and continually expanded its portfolio and knowledge base, including research proactively training and certifications on new cloud solutions Citrix education services.

In recognition of his achievements, Solve System was honored at the recent summit event as 2012 Citrix Partner of the Year for Latin America and the Caribbean. Solve was also named 2012 Partner of the Year for Brazil for the largest total turnover generated by leveraging Citrix sales model in Brazil.

Mauricio Bettin, Solve System partnership manager, said: "It was a great honor to receive these awards, which show us that we are doing a great job and give us strength to keep the good work. The selection of Citrix as a partner is essential to provide virtual data center management with flexibility and security, backup, data replication and high availability. "

Citrix Partner Uproar: "With new features, Citrix ShareFile engages and secures enterprise data everywhere"

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As a member of the Citrix WW Channel Marketing Team I invite you to join the conversation through social media channels. The topics I'll cover each month are also presented in Citrix Partner News , but in order to stay on top of best practices, I find that the blog format is more interactive a newsletter. It gives each of you the opportunity to express your opinions, ask questions and pass on information to colleagues or clients. So l and create a buzz around how new ShareFile StorageZone connectors help enterprises provide secure mobile access to data behind the corporate firewall, extending the value of SharePoint and network drives into a world of BYO.

the latest enhancements to Citrix ShareFile directly support mobile workstyles trend. By mobilizing business data within SharePoint, network drives and storage in the public cloud on Microsoft Azure through the firewall, ShareFile StorageZone connectors help customers improve user productivity while protecting valuable information.

As stated by Jay Tomlin in his Blog "With the new functionality Citrix StorageZone Connectors, mobile users can connect from iOS or Android phones or tablets to ShareFile data, CIFS network shares and existing SharePoint document libraries. "

For more information on the news on Sharefile StorageZone Connectors, options with Windows Azure and integration with XenMobile, please read our press release.

To support product announcements ShareFile Enterprise, we have updated several sales tools, which are now available in the ShareFile Enterprise Product Kit

  1. ShareFile customer Presentation
  2. ShareFile Sales and positioning Presentation
  3. ShareFile Sales reference card
  4. General ShareFile competitive reference card
  5. ShareFile product Overview
  6. ShareFile datasheet

Read more on ShareFile Enterprise . If you have any questions about our listings or new marketing materials, please contact Angela Carducci.

Citrix Partner Uproar "Opportunity Registration Program Update"

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Today, I blog on the strong response to the new Opportunity Registration program for cloud network offers. I'm Blake Cotton, a member of the channel marketing team through the Citrix world and I encourage partners who used Opportunity Registration to talk about this new sales tool. How is it helping you succeed in cloud networking space? What are the benefits you earn to be certified in cloud networks? Please join the conversation and give your knowledge to their peers who plan to participate in this program.

Citrix partners have enthusiastically embraced the new Opportunity Registration program by submitting more than 4,700 registrations to date. They gain a competitive advantage in cloud networks sales.

Through this program, the partners become eligible to win an additional initial discount of up to 10 percent of their distributor, simply by being the first to submit a cloud network validated Opportunity Registration. The recording Opportunities Program is available for AGG, LAR, SIs and ISVs who are certified in cloud networks.

To participate in the program, the first certified partner network cloud to submit a recording opportunity for networking Agreement clouds. Use Leads tool and rewards in Partner Central to submit, manage and track your entries.

Please reach out to Ron Bauman for other questions and comments about the new Opportunity Registration program.

Be part of the agitation!

topics that I cover every month Partner Hubbub are also presented in Citrix Partner News , but I find that one format is more interactive blog effective in spreading the word. It gives each of you the opportunity to express your opinions, ask questions and pass on information to colleagues or clients.

I hope you will add your voice to the "Citrix Partner Uproar!"

Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter @CitrixPartners.

Desktops Citrix hosting the Amazon Cloud

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This is true. Run your XenApp NetScaler on AWS and AWS.

These capabilities have been around for some time, and over time, Citrix has worked to make installation and configuration even easier.

you are a large business, small business, or even a service provider, the deployment on the AWS cloud could give you many more benefits and operational benefits that you could get that deploying XenApp on your own hardware.

Is it for me?

there might be. If you answer "yes" to any of the following situations, you may want to take a closer look:

  • You Moving infrastructure to the cloud - if you want to take advantage of cloud infrastructures to accommodate - or for convenience, cost, capital expenditure avoidance, availability, or other attributes
  • you care costs -. Amazon EC2 cloud often provides customers with a significant reduction in hardware, networking and / or storage costs, notably because of the nature of pay-as-you-go capacity EC2. This helps prevent oversizing, and enables real-time matching of capacity to demand
  • you do not have a data center -. Many customers have chosen to avoid the construction of data centers premesis while remaining devoted followers in the Citrix software. They are agile small / medium businesses require - and often outsourced - infrastructure
  • You have knowledge administration / modest deployment - Many customers prefer not to invest in the skills necessary to maintain hardware in the data center, but insist on maintaining skills in the administration of the application. Leverage IaaS infrastructures in the cloud is the ideal approach so that the hardware configuration and maintenance is avoided
  • You have a dynamic company that needs to respond quickly to changes -. Companies with significant growth curves or seasonal too often provide the infrastructure for peak usage, locking up valuable fixed capital which is often slow.

tools, resources, economy

The Citrix community has provided scripts Amazon CloudFormation that greatly simplify the configuration, implementation and operation of large-scale XenApp instances. We also spent hours looking at the economics of managing your Citrix infrastructure on AWS. These include

  • XenApp on AWS Sizing and white paper Economics
  • XenApp on AWS Sizing and Economics calculation model

We also easy to use products / licenses on AWS. You simply bring your standard XenApp license (annual, perennial, CSP) to AWS. And for NetScaler, you can do or NetScaler leverage the AWS market -. further simplify your process

A Nod to service providers

If you are a service provider, providing desktop-as-a-service model is completely open to you. Just bring your Citrix Service Provider (CSP) licenses. And our mult-tenant CSP reference architecture is fully compatible with the AWS infrastructure. The economy and the benefits of variable capacitors are convincing

More Resources :.
  • XenApp on AWS
  • NetScaler on AWS
  • page of the Citrix AWS community
  • the Amazon page Citrix
  • Citrix Amazon page
  • additional Blogs about using Citrix on AWS
  • questions? Using AWS & Citrix already? Email AmazonAlliance at Citrix dot Com

Behind the magic of compatibility APPDNA applications Algorithms

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The engineering team for the Citrix AppDNA application migration software is in the midst of looking for the next version Microsoft Windows Blue, focusing on the discovery of the types of application compatibility problems that will occur in a typical business application portfolio. The R & D activities are numerous, but include things like manual testing applications in our test library, the digestion of information in the field of Citrix partners, and writing sample applications that demonstrate the issue subject of research. The objective of this process is to find the application compatibility issues, and to develop a model that can be applied to the universe of applications that identifies those affected by the issue. I thought compatibility curious application or as gurus of mind would be interested in a peek behind the scenes.

At its core, extracts and stores the DNA of a APPDNA application without having to install or run the application. This topic has been written about at length I will not go there, but for those of you new AppDNA remember that the building blocks of an application have been extracted and stored. In fact, DNA stored by AppDNA is so vast that the process and the scope of DNA extraction rarely changes.

Now it's time to see how these algorithms APPDNA come together to identify compatibility issues across thousands of applications. I thought it would be interesting to focus on an algorithm that was recently written for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.

Kernel-mode drivers not signed by a trusted publisher

on 64-bit versions of Windows 8 and Server 2012 or Windows 8 with Secure Boot enabled, drivers who are not signed by a trusted certificate authority fail to load. Depending on how an application uses the driver may not start or certain aspects of the application could simply not function properly. To develop an algorithm that detects this question there is a couple of key controls to be performed. First, identify the applications that install kernel-mode drivers. Second, ensure that the drivers are signed and that the signature was generated by a trusted certificate authority.

Identification of kernel-mode drivers is something AppDNA has been done for years and we have several well tested heuristic algorithms to make such identification. Sometimes DNA installer identifies a driver as kernel mode, sometimes a corresponding INF done as well. As a final check AppDNA look to see if a binary called Kernel Mode driver API. The DNA for installers, INF and binary files of API calls in our database in order to perform this check is a simple SQL query.

Each pilot identified in kernel mode, we then check to see if it is signed and if so by what certification authority. certificate information for all signed binaries is also stored in the database AppDNA. At this point, if a driver is not signed then the algorithm will report failure. If the driver is signed then AppDNA lies in the signing certificate authority for later.

In addition to storing DNA on applications, the database also has stores operating DNA AppDNA system that customers can load much the same way they load applications. As a part of DNA of the operating system, the database contains information describing AppDNA the certificate chain on the operating system image. Using the signature certification authority and the certificate chain of the operating system of the algorithm simply walking the certificate chain until it identifies the certificate as trusted or untrusted. Based on this finding algorithms can accurately report the success or failure as required. AppDNA even allows customers to upload multiple OS images in the same time, so if a company manages multiple OS images the algorithm can be run on all these images in a single pass.

So there you have it, an automated process to detect kernel-mode drivers not signed by a trusted publisher. Using AppDNA, this algorithm can run through thousands of applications and OS multiple images in minutes. So perhaps APPDNA algorithms are not magic once you get an understanding of how they work, very cool, but not magic.

XenCenter plugins v3

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XenCenter plugins v3 -

UPDATE: This version is obsolete, you can get the latest version of plugins here.

I like to eat my own food. When I develop something, it is usually not the artificial development (for example, "if someone could find a use for it"), but rather is driven by my own needs.

I apply this principle in my series of XenCenter plugins - and after my recent engagement with XenServer, I would like to introduce the latest addition to XenCenter plugins If you are not familiar with it, they are essentially plugins that extend the XenCenter and. adding new menu options

to quickly summarize the extensions already available :.

  • Ability to RDP to VM
  • Ability to open services VM
  • Can open log events VM
  • Ability to open C or D drive VM
  • Ability to connect using SSH to host XenServer
  • Ability to connect using Powershell to XenServer host

in v3, there are new additions and minor corrections.

List of fixes

When connecting via Powershell, the script will now detect that you talk to the slave (which is not supported) and it will automatically redirect you to share master. You need to do this process manually, it is fully automated.

When you download plugins, you will be prompted to unlock each command that you run. Unblock.cmd the script was added (under the ExtraTools directory) to automatically unlock all the scripts for you. Be sure to run high.

Minor visual adjustments (addition of "Connect using ..." contextual menu)

New additions

  • Opportunity to connect to VM using SSH (for those Linux VM)
  • Ability to connect to VM server using WinSCP
  • Ability to connect to VM using HTTP (http: // $ vmname)
  • Capacity Ping VM
  • Ability to get UUID server VM pool of storage

We hope you enjoy these new features and remember, if you think there is something missing, you can leave a comment

below you can see the plugin in action :.

plugins to host XenServer

Plugins for XenServer VM

As always, standard disclaimer applies here (download link below):

"This software application is provided to you" as is "without representation, warranty or condition of any kind . You can use and distribute it at your own risk. CITRIX DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, WRITTEN, ORAL OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES oF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS fOR a PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE aND NON-INFRINGEMENT. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that (a) the software application may have errors, design flaws or other problems, possibly resulting in loss of data or damage to property; (B) it may not be possible to fully functional software application; and (c) Citrix may, without notice or liability to you, cease to provide the current and / or future versions of the software application. In any case, the code must be used to support ultra-hazardous activities, including but not limited to life support or blasting operations. CITRIX, ITS AFFILIATES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT OR ANY OTHER THEORY OF LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OF THE APPLICATION SOFTWARE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL OTHER SPECIAL, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. You agree to indemnify and defend Citrix against any claim arising from your use, modification or distribution of the code "

UPDATE :. Suite version 6.5 is compatible with XenCenter:
Download

Installation instructions can be found in the original article here

Zugec Martin

Citrix Partner Uproar: "The Missing Link"

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Today it is all about connections. To Solutions Advisors, it is very important to be sure that your Citrix certifications are linked to your partner account. Why? Citrix certifications are your "ticket" to the important partners of benefits, including access to the new Opportunity Registration program for cloud networks. It really is worth taking the time to be sure they are related to your account. Read on to learn more about this process and join the conversation on the value of winning and document your certs via Citrix Partner Uproar.

Ensure your Citrix certifications are linked to your partner account is key advantages key partners. The certification is a requirement for the following benefits:

  • Citrix Advisor Rewards
  • Citrix Opportunity Registration
  • record Citrix Partner Locator

using Partner Certification Manager to monitor your company's certifications and compliance status. Encourage your colleagues to link their certifications via My Account My Certification Manager. The tool contains step by step instructions on completing this process.

Have questions or need help? We are happy to assist and guide you through this process. Contact programs Citrix partners and / or reach out to the Citrix Partner Operations team.

Add your voice to the Citrix Partner Hubbub !

Also, make sure to follow us on Twitter @CitrixPartners.

A spectacular Combo - NetScaler 10 Common Criteria certifications ICSA Labs full

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A spectacular Combo - NetScaler 10 Common Criteria certifications ICSA Labs full -

Like this spectacular view of Hong Kong where all the buildings are well aligned ! by water, it is impressive to see the alignments of engineering resources and the security team to complete these certifications simultaneously. Great efforts to NetScaler team in achieving this!

What it means to be Common Criteria Certification?

This means that NetScaler 10 has passed all the strict requirements of the profiles / protection to ensure that the software is really secure and uncover hidden vulnerabilities that can not find in normal driving cycles . In addition to this process of extensive testing, documentation are also required to show how a product will meet all the requirements of protection profiles and document the steps to achieving this. This is a simplified summary, but a lot of resources behind this broader effort. Here are links to the details of the process Common Criteria certification which will be displayed

http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org

http://www.cesg.gov. uk / Pages / homepage.aspx

What this means for NetScaler Application Firewall to be certified for ICSA?

As noted in the report of ICSA, "not all products can achieve ICSA Labs Web Application Firewall Certification. Only products that meet the criteria after undergoing rigorous testing by network security experts at ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, earning this distinction. " Although it was a long process and necessary technical support through the testing process, it will show the last NetScaler 10 need to be of the Firewall Web application laboratories ICSA certified. This is now complete using the latest NetScaler 8000 Series

ICSA Labs report for NetScaler Application Firewall posted here :.

https://www.icsalabs.com/sites/default/files/NetScaler -WAF_% 2021_Report_20130627.pdf

Can there be many the most impressive moments to share more complete projects!

Last chance to register! XenApp with Citrix Troubleshooting Diagnostic Toolkit

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This is your LAST CHANCE to register for this webinar month in popular support Citrix Secrets series. The webinar covers July XenApp with Citrix Troubleshooting Diagnostic Toolkit.

This webinar will be delivered by some of our best climbing engineers Citrix.

When problems arise, support engineers need data points, debug tracing and background information to help determine the root causes. Preparation and organization of commonly used tools has always been a challenge of time, especially during outages. Citrix box Diagnostics Tool (CDT) addresses these challenges by rapidly deploying a suite of tools and options in an easy to use structured

What you will learn :.

  • What Citrix Diagnostics tool box?
  • How and when to use the CDT?
  • How the CDT using Citrix provide better technical support?

When: Thursday 25th July 2013 @ 24:00 EST / 18:00 CET

How: REGISTER NOW

Looking forward to seeing many of you in line.

David McGeough
Program Manager, WW Marketing Services
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Top 10 Application compatibility issues that still affect Windows XP to Windows 8 Migration

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April 8, 2014 marks the end of Windows XP support. According to Microsoft.

"That means you have to take action after April 8, 2014, there will be no new security updates, non-security hotfixes free or paid assisted support options or updated technical content online. "

One of the first things you will do to fix your Windows XP to Windows 8 migration is test your existing applications for compatibility of the planned new Windows client platform. I have compiled a list of Top 10 questions that will be, and yet affect Windows 8 deployment in your organization. I used Citrix AppDNA Software 6.3 application compatibility to gather information on the basis of 35 randomly selected applications that work on Windows XP. Note that I have deliberately omitted the remediation actions to most of these questions, and only included those commonly known and obvious.

These questions concern not only the migration to a new Windows client platform. Companies currently using Windows XP and deploy Citrix XenApp or Citrix XenDesktop meet sooner or later, these questions and more. For XenApp 6.5, we must ensure that the application runs on Windows Server 08 R2 (which is 64 bits by adding another layer compatibility problems are not addressed in this article), and the ability to operate in a desktop remote / TS capacity. For XenDesktop, we must consider that the application should be able to run on the Windows platform target that will be used and whether this platform will be 64-bit.

They are here (full article)

Configure Citrix Director with Director Configuration Tool GUI

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Configure Citrix Director with Director Configuration Tool GUI -

Currently, to set the parameters required by the Director, a command line tool is provided and the plant manager. With the release of XenDesktop 7 director, who has an additional network panel using NetScaler HDX Insight to provide a network for virtual applications and office, the importance of this tool has further increased as the director does not come with the default settings for the machine and Netscaler this tool is the only way to configure these settings. Without these parameters above mentioned panel will remain disabled. However, use the command line tool for administrators may be a bit heavy as they must remember the different arguments that are required for the configuration of different parameters. This problem can be solved by a graphical tool that allows administrators a simple and intuitive way to configure Director. So the goal here was to develop a GUI Configuration Tool Manager that is easy to navigate and use and simplifies the configuration process and Director

Requirements :. Director is installed on the machine where the tool is run

Design and use: screen of our user interface tool appears as shown in the figure below: -.

We decided to divide the various actions that can be performed in three logical sections. They are described below

Using the user interface tool: -.

  • Select 'Director Set option to configure the address of XenDesktop controller or to configure IIS Web site. The user will be able to enter the DDC (Desktop Delivery Controller or linens broker) IP / name or the name of the site (IIS site name for the default manager is the manager) in their respective input fields .One can also provide multiple comma-separated IP SDC as well if the manager is running on a multi XenDesktop Environment.
  • Select option 'Configure NetScaler to configure settings associated with Netscaler machine. If ConfigNetscaler selected, a console window will open where the user will be prompted to enter the Netscaler Machine name, user name and password. UnconfigNetscaler choose option will delete all related parameters Netscaler machine.
  • Select "Other actions" option if you want to perform operations of maintaining the house. The following four operations can be performed: -
  1. Uninstall : All files and folders that contain the previously saved changes made by the user are deleted. These files and folders are not removed during uninstallation so user must remove them using this tool
  2. Update :. Read the user's application settings and save them to the new web.config. file
  3. RegisterDotNet : Records asp.net with IIS if not already registered
  4. EnableRA :. This command is used to enable remote assistance.

More details on these commands can be found here or in the Help Guide Manager Configuration Tool.

I attach the tool and source code in the position to try. Just copy the tool to a machine that Director is installed and you are good to go

Also attached are the design documents and the Guide

Note: This is .. private tool written by me, Citrix assumes no responsibility for any loss of data.

Citrix Partner Uproar: "In announcing the release of XenClient Enterprise 5"

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Citrix XenClient Enterprise 5 officially released today, marking the first step in unifying local and hosted virtual desktops using personal vDisk and Citrix management profile. The XenClient team produced a video to show you how this pillar core XenDesktop can help you develop customer environments and win new business.

Citrix XenClient Enterprise extends the benefits of desktop virtualization to mobile business computers and transforms PCs into virtual appliances also for non-contact management. XenClient also allows your customers to work from anywhere, at any time access to network slow or intermittent - or not at all

New XenClient Enterprise 5 (included in XenDesktop Enterprise Editions and Platinum) offers :.

  • profile synchronization between local virtual desktops and hosted so users can perfectly work from any device using their hosted desktop or be productive on the road with their laptops
  • Personal vDisk technology, allowing users to install their own applications while administrators continue to update and manage the base image
  • flexibility and productivity for users to work irrespective of the quality of the network connection with a complete centralized control for IT

XenClient works seamlessly with XenDesktop and with tools like ShareFile and can help lead to larger transactions, the highest rate of gain and faster consumption of existing XenDesktop Enterprise or Platinum licenses.Contact the XenClient sales specialist team to support at any time. See the short video to get information on the key benefits of the product that will help you differentiate your business from the competition.

Watch the new XenClient Enterprise 5 video and read the blog of Dan Cote on release.

Stay tuned to the team XenClient:

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Learn more about Citrix VDI-in-a-Box and Endpoint Security by using Security for Virtualized Environments

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Learn more about Citrix VDI-in-a-Box and Endpoint Security by using Security for Virtualized Environments

- See Citrix / Bitdefender Webinar.

Join Richard Khan, Senior Solutions Engineer Citrix and Shaun Donaldson Bitdefender to learn about Citrix VDI-in-a-Box and endpoint security using Security for Virtualized Environments (SVE). Watch the Webinar On-Demand: http://enterprise.bitdefender.com/site/Downloads/businessSecurityLibraryRegister or coming soon to YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/bitdefendersecurity.

VDI - in-a-Box provides companies with greater agility with its support of any mobile device, while enjoying all the financial benefits and scalability of virtualization technology. But what about endpoint security? While traditional security is an option, traditional solutions, over time, will hinder performance and financial benefits of VDI-in-a-Box. When you invest in virtualization, enterprises should consider solutions specifically built for this environment.

Bitdefender SVE is the first security solution verified Citrix Ready for VDI-in-a-Box. the safety of traditional terminals duplicates the resources in each virtualized instance. This leads to bottlenecks, especially when updating or perform scheduled scans. While VDI-in-a-Box provides expertise for Citrix virtualization simple desk, flexible and scalable, Bitdefender eliminates the bottlenecks of traditional security using innovative, specific to virtualization, technology that is unique to Bitdefender .

And be sure to download the complementary whitepaper, "the impact of virtualization on the security of your VDI environment" .

Tipps für eine CIFS erfolgreiche Optimierung von und verschlüsselten MAPI Datenverkehr

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Seit der Firmware Version 6.1 Branch Repeater unterstützt wird Kerberos. Damit ist es möglich signierten CIFS verschlüsselten MAPI und die Kerberos authentifiziert werden zu optimieren.

Aber was ist überhaupt Kerberos?

  • Kerberos ist ein für offene und verteilter Authentifizierungsdienst unsichere Computernetze. Bei Kerberos sind drei Parteien beteiligt: ​​
    - Major customer
    - key service
    - Kerberos Dienst
  • Der Kerberos-Dienst authentifiziert sowohl den server gegenüber dem client, als auch den customer gegenüber dem Server. Auch der Kerberos server sich selbst gegenüber dem authentifiziert customer und dem und deren verifiziert server selbst Identität.
  • Entwickelt vom MIT (RFC 1510)
  • bietet leistungsfähige, sichere und Heterogene Authentifizierung

Um eine zu erfolgreiche Implementierung gewährleisten sollten vorbereitend folgende Dinge sichergestellt bzw. vorhanden within

  • TCP / IP Netzwerk Konnektivität zwischen Client, Server, AD, Repeater
  • Repeater muss DNS erreichbar within
  • DC muss by reverse lookup erreichbar within
  • syncron Time Service
  • Directory active area
  • Einrichtung eines Delegate User
  • Konfigurieren eines SPNs für den Delegate User

Eine der Anleitung Detaillierte einzelnen Konfigurationsschritte finden sie im Guide user, den sie unter folgendem Link herunterladen können.

https://www.citrix.com/content/dam/citrix/en_us/documents /downloads/netscaler-branch-repeater/users_guide_6.2.0_121114.pdf

Besten Gruß!

Van Phuc Tran

NetScaler 1.0 Insight triggered GA !!

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NetScaler Insight 1.0 Beta has been received with great enthusiasm and with a large number of responses from a range of customers and in the field.

Some waited a product like NetScaler Insight for years, some wanted to see what AppFlow can do, some were taken away by the ease of configuration, while some ended up writing about it http: / /blog.itvce.com/?p= 3101 & http://blog.itvce.com/?p=3167 .

With the support and detailed feedback received from integrated 1.0 beta participants, we bring you the NetScaler insight 1.0 GA !!

NetScaler insight 1.0 brings along the main characteristics of the table:

  • Centralized Dashboard
  • real-time and historical statistics
  • layer 3 to layer 7 stats
  • Complete stats app
  • measure response time
  • customer Statistics /
  • server
  • level URL stats with Waterfall
  • [analytics
  • HTTP request / response
  • debugging and troubleshooting
  • Shortly click installation and configuration
  • support the automation API NITRO
  • Add NetScaler under Inventory with SNIP
  • Access NetScaler Insight using the address hostname / IP

people were captivated by what it can do. Do not miss the chance to experience yourself

Download Link:

NetScaler Insight 1.0 GA

Do not hesitate to contact Abhilash.Verma@citrix.com & Neha.Harit2@citrix.com for information on NetScaler Insight.

Migration to vDesk FlexCast

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With 2012 drawing to a close, I saw a slight increase in requests from clients about the migration options for their former vdesk RingCube deployments. For those of you not familiar with this product, it is a workspace virtualization solution that fundamentally separate Windows installation in two parts - the host part and the part of the workspace. The workspace has functioned as a "light VM" in the sense that he behaved like a single machine had its own host name and the Active Directory identity, and could be managed much like a regular VM (application installations, etc.). Unlike a virtual machine, however, he used the Windows installation on the host machine and does not need an additional deployment of the operating system and associated patching concerns.

Initially vDesk has been adapted to run on physical parameters (later, we added support for running in a VDI environment). Over the years, improved protocols, increased bandwidth, and data center costs declined. When Citrix RingCube joined last year, VDI deployments were common, and it was one of the reasons RingCube had in the meantime developed a specific product for VDI (now known as the Personal vDisk, a feature built into XenDesktop and VDI-in-a-box).

Like their maintenance contracts expire vdesk, customers are now reaching their sales teams to upgrade and migration options. When a replacement exam (there really is not a direct channel of migration to workspaces vDesk) solution, I heard common concerns:

  • The new solution must be secure - no data on the parameters (or data encryption to endpoint)
  • the new solution must provide high performance (video / voice / multimedia)
  • the new solution must be scalable (thousands of users) and easy to maintain (especially updates and upgrades)

I was headed to XenDesktop and XenApp customers for options to upgrade, and suggesting that they also take a look at Excalibur because it has support for applications and workstations (and also includes the personal vDisk feature for customers who need it). Of course, all the above recommendations address the above concerns in an easy to understand format. Customers who have deployed vDesk on physical parameters (or used workspace check-in / check-out capability vDesk) XenClient Enterprise would probably find a good fit today because it offers / experience based setting off similar line. If the planned migration of a customer is due to occur in the immediate short term, there are already good solutions we can offer in the existing XenDesktop, XenApp and XenClient products (in case the client can not afford to wait Excalibur).

Of course, this is not a one-size-fits situation and each client has unique needs, but between XenDesktop, XenApp today, and solutions that XenClient and Citrix on tap in Excalibur, we were able to offer compelling recommendations for the migration away from vDesk.

New - "Tech News" for Americas Partners

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Americas Partners -. Check your inbox for your Tech News in December

Tech News contains up -to the minute information on products, patches, tools, training and more.

Tech News December the many information about Project Avalon Excalibur, Windows 8, provisioning services, and tools such as Citrix Accelerator Project automatic support, and the Virtual Computing Demo Center. In addition, you can discover how partners can get a free year of Sharefile services.

If you receive Tech News, and you want the December issue, click here to contact the editorial team Technical News.

Benefits Citrix XenClient Series - Limited

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Benefits Citrix XenClient Series - Limited - network environments

In the fifth installment of our six-part series benefits XenClient we discussed how Citrix XenClient - VM option local XenDesktop and FlexCast delivery technology - could be used to Reuse PC thin clients . In this section, we will examine how XenClient can be used to manage laptops and PCs in the limited network environments.

Virtual offices have gained adoption among users and IT organizations and continue to be a top IT priority. This is not surprising given that virtualization is the top priority for CIOs in 2012, according to a survey by IDC. Virtual Desktops (VDI) aka hosted server provides a solution that benefits both end users and the business. VDI reduces the cost and complexity of managing desktops for IT while allowing end users to access their desktops from any device with a seamless experience.

However, sometimes the organizations can not deploy VDI due environments that are disconnected environments or have an inconsistent or limited network connectivity. The IT challenge is only expected to grow as rapidly changing workstyles lead to a number of employees working from locations with network connections disconnected or unreliable growing. Organizations are increasingly scattered and employees are increasingly choosing to work from anywhere, in any environment. A poll by Ipsos / Reuters in 2012 found that almost one in five workers worldwide telecommute frequently. Furthermore, IDC research published in 2012 forecasts that mobile employees represent almost 40% of the workforce by 2015

Citrix provides another option to provide virtual offices in areas with little or no network connectivity: XenClient. Citrix XenClient, offered as part of XenDesktop extends desktop virtualization to laptops and computers offline and provides companies with centralized management, increased reliability and high security. Users can work offline and online via a virtual desktop solution hosted on the client that runs locally on laptops and PCs - with or without a network connection. For example, an educational institution now use XenClient to ensure 100% uptime for their PC from frequent network failures led to disruptions in their learning laboratories.

Another advantage of XenClient is the ability to patch and desktops update users regardless of network connectivity or location of the user. 100% success rate patches and updates and integration with NetScaler 4.5 XenClient to ensure that users receive the latest updates to the information they are connected to the corporate network or not. Whether in the office, on the road, working from home, or working in a remote office, XenClient will give you a user experience while delivering value to the business. If you want to know more about how XenClient can better manage PC, XenClient give it a try and see how it can help you work from anywhere, in any environment!

Join the conversation by connecting with Citrix XenClient team online!

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Launches new websites for customers and Citrix partners - replacement My Citrix

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Launches new websites for customers and Citrix partners - replacement My Citrix -

On February 28, 2013, Citrix will launch a new Partner Central website for partners and a new Citrix .com My account section for customers. These two new destinations will replace My Citrix.

At Citrix, we believe in innovation, improvement and adaptation to provide the best possible experience for our stakeholders. We asked our customers and partners to give us feedback, we tested new approaches and designs and are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of our new and improved properties.

What will happen to My Citrix?

The My Citrix site you are currently logged in to be going away. For customers, all account management basic functions will be easily accessible from my account on citrix.com. The partners will have access to tools and resources in a dedicated area called Partner Central. Do not worry, login and password are the same ID and users will still have access to everything they have access to today. It's just better.

What is changing?

My Account will be a new area connected on Citrix.com where guests can easily access the tools they need to manage on behalf of their business with Citrix. The My Account link will be located in the upper right corner of Citrix.com. Enhancements in the new My Account area include:

  • A unique place to view and manage all interactions with Citrix
  • A simplified view in the tools and the most frequently accessed features, thus classified. It is easy to use. Whether clients need to perform licensing tasks, see active service requests or manage support tickets, each section is clearly labeled and grouped with related services.
  • Direct access from www.citrix.com so customers have immediate access to the tools they need to manage their account from anywhere on the site.
  • content and promotions targeted high value
The new My Account area of citrix.com
new My Account area citrix. com

Partner Central is a new website exclusively for partners to help partners easily access all information and program resources to sell successfully solutions and Citrix products. The link Partner Central will be accessible from www.citrix.com/partnercentral

Mark your calendars for February to these exciting changes and stay tuned for more details on the new Partner Central and My account.

transparent collaboration with Cisco and Citrix

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A Synergy Barcelona it a few months ago, Citrix and Cisco announced an expanded partnership in the areas of networking, cloud, and mobility. Our objective is to jointly develop solutions and bring them to market on a regular basis to meet the needs of our mutual customers.

As we all know, instant messaging, audio conferencing, and live meetings have become an integral part of how we work and how we communicate - not only professionally, but even with our friends and family . In a world increasingly mobile, we are looking for seamless means to communicate across devices, time zones, and people.

Which is why we are delighted to extend our partnership with Cisco to integrate Jabber for virtual environments in Citrix Cisco VXI-successful desktop virtualization initiative. Cisco takes a unique approach by looking at collaboration as going beyond the standard productivity applications to include voice, video and collaboration tools as an integral part of a complete solution of the virtual workspace. By setting Jabber for virtual environments, the goal is to make the transition seamless physical and virtual environments. Coupled with the experience of the end user in rich high definition Citrix XenDesktop offers on all devices, we aim to offer users a rich collaboration experience, regardless of where they are.

What is particularly compelling on Cisco VXI with Citrix XenDesktop is that it is a validation, end-to-end solution that both companies continue to improve to support a wider range of requirements, use cases and the challenges it must address now and in the future. For example, by deploying Cisco VXI with Citrix XenDesktop today workgroups requiring basic productivity and business applications, it can simply scale the same VXI platform to support the working groups such as more sophisticated mobile workers and executives who need space more complete virtual work on a wider range of devices.

For more information on the latest announcement VXI, read the blog Phil Sherburne and Cisco press release. And stay tuned for more innovation of the solution on this front.

New Year, New Budget, New Tools to simplify the compatibility of applications

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Looking at your 2013 calendar and the new budget, do you know how you will successfully manage the migration of applications with a limited amount of time and money? did your short budget allocation of initial application? Stumped how to reach your XP migration or virtualization project with time and staff currently listed on your worksheet? Inhale companies that have chosen to automate application compatibility testing, remediation and management and found huge savings in both budget and staff hours.

Either the Citrix AppDNA application migration software automate the working time around application testing, remediation and preparation. Then you can use your personal wisely on the strategic aspects of the project instead of repetitive tasks. With the management of automated applications, you can bring your project ahead of schedule and money to spare

2013 Objective :. Full compatibility of applications and preparation for XP Migration

last week I heard of a Fortune 50 company who felt they did not provide enough budget in 2013 around application tests XP migration and now need to try to move forward with budget constraints. Last month, I learned of a Fortune 100 company that has chosen the application manual test for XP migration and spent $ 1 million more than expected. Budget planning for application compatibility is difficult, even for the big players, but if you use the right tools, you can solve the problem. If you feel confident in your budget planning or you are unsure, it is actually quite possible to measure the accuracy of your estimates of management applications 2013.

You can easily and precision needs of the budget of the migration of reach applications with not a teacher of AppDNA application migration testing. Without spending money, use the AppDNA application migration test to test an unlimited number of applications, check the compatibility of the current global applications and modeling aspects of time and budget with calculator AppDNA Effort (see AppDNA Effort Calculator video here). Because AppDNA analyzes your application problems and your operating system configurations, the calculations are based on your real environment, not a generic estimate. For no cost, the scope of your compatibility status of current applications and really see an accurate view of the time and costs involved in a physical or virtual migration.

accurately estimate the compatibility of application costs with AppDNA software

2013 Objective: Combining Windows migration and virtualization application compatibility

Then maybe you think the amount of work on your plate for XP migration, it is actually possible to also focus on virtualization. Since AppDNA actually testing all technologies at the same time, you can limit the scope of a virtualization project along with your migration XP. In some cases, the best option to provide an application for end users may be through a virtual office.

With the same AppDNA free trial, you can prepare virtualization within reach and Windows 7 or Windows 8 preparation. At the same time, test applications for physical delivery or virtual.

Take a pulse check on your budget planning application compatibility. Download the trial AppDNA software and start modeling your application testing, remediation and preparation of the virtual application. See if your current budget responds -. Or exceeds Do you really need for application compatibility

CloudPlatform Master Class FAQ

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Last week we demonstrated the capabilities of our product CloudPlatform to more than 1,300 people living on our Cloud 101 Master Class. In these webinars, we not only live demonstrations of a complete installation and configuration of a base area of ​​CloudPlatform, we also answer hundreds of questions on the fly to help people get up and running with technology . We had a number of questions that have been raised many times, so I thought I would take a little time to answer the main questions of our Master Class.

Is this recorded session?

Probably the most asked question on a webinar out there today, especially those that cover a large amount of technology in a relatively short period of time. Yes, we store all of our Master Classes if they are on CloudPlatform, XenServer and NetScaler; and we make them available on CitrixTV. You can find the recording of our CloudPlatform 101 class here: http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/7530

What is the difference between CloudPlatform and CloudStack [1945003?]

Sometimes with these two products, it seems that their names are used interchangeably. So what is the difference?

Back in April 2012, Citrix announced the first building block of its platform strategy of aggressive cloud submitting its open source platform CloudStack market leader in the Apache Software Foundation, home of the world's most successful open source projects. While Citrix is ​​still a contributor to CloudStack project, it is completely open source and managed by the Apache Foundation.

Citrix CloudPlatform system is the first commercially supported cloud orchestration based on Apache CloudStack. It aims to ensure that organizations can build cloud production environments on an open source platform designed for economics, elasticity and scale - with a commercial commitment and support of Citrix. With premium support offering, CloudPlatform also includes the right to XenServer Advanced that allows customers to leverage the advanced features included in the hypervisor level.

Can I migrate to CloudStack to CloudPlatform?

At this time there is no upgrade path for Apache CloudStack to the current version of Citrix CloudPlatform. While CloudStack and CloudPlatform both share the same open source core platform, they press cycles. These different release cycles mean faster development time, but also create a situation where the two code bases will naturally diverge and converge again to release a release. In order to present the shortest path to a commercially supported solution, it is recommended that users who are interested in a commercial engagement with Citrix begin their evaluation with Citrix CloudPlatform 0 day trial.

Can be mixed multiple hypervisors in a cloud of CloudPlatform?

Of course! In the opinion of Citrix is ​​the future of the cloud is all about openness, so we designed CloudPlatform to support as much as possible hypervisors. While all hosts in a cluster (also known as the farm or at the pool in terms of server virtualization) must be virtualized on the same hypervisor, you can mix multiple clusters with different hypervisors in a pod or zone . Today, we support XenServer, KVM, OVM and vSphere.

What are the options for storage?

With CloudPlatform there are two types of storage, primary and secondary. Primary storage is where virtual machines live while the secondary storage is where your templates are hosted. primary storage medium varies depending on the hypervisor you use to build your cloud environment, but typically includes local, iSCSI, NFS and Fibre. For secondary storage NFS or we support OpenStack Swift.

How do I start?

Yes, believe it or not, after a few hours on one of our Master Classes people were ready to dive into the product themselves. For those of you who are ready to begin evaluating the CloudPlatform solution we have a trial and a lot of free documentation to get you started:

  1. Download trial CloudPlatform 0 days
  2. Read our product documentation, including the installation Trial Guide, release Notes, developer's Guide
  3. Find all the resources of our CloudPlatform Master Class

Like I mentioned, there were hundreds of questions about the webinar last week and I have covered some in this post. If you are interested in attending a future Master class cloud so you can ask questions of your own, register now for one of our upcoming sessions.

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[Announcing] ShareFile for Android 2.0

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I am pleased to announce the new version of ShareFile app for Android tablets and phones. ShareFile for Android provides secure mobile work styles by giving users a rich experience follow-me-data while providing the management and control necessary to ensure that sensitive corporate data is secure at all times. In 2020, the workplace will evolve to the point where there will be 7 to 10 office clerks, each person accessing the computer network of their business from an average of 6 different devices.

According to a new Forrester report, an estimated 258 million workers around the world choose their own laptops and 129 million purchase their own smartphones. Currently 37% of all BYOD smartphones running on Google's Android platform. Citrix balances suite of mobile applications for connectivity and personal freedom, allowing employees to access everything they need to safely conduct business regardless of whether they are working from home or on the road.

New features

Passcode Pin

Jail Detection Break

gives users easier access to their data instead of having to type the password each time they start the application. Allows administrators to prevent their users from accessing their Sharefile data from broken appliances prison.

Another added safety feature for this release is the local device encryption for enhanced security of sensitive data.

ShareFile action

The Deputy Chief Salinas Police Department has challenged his team to improve their police reports submission process. They used cassette recorders with a standard tape, which proves to be difficult to manage. The department now uses Sharefile mobile applications to easily file field reports.

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Five customer demands from a EMM solution - all hosted by a vendor

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Five customer demands from a EMM solution - all hosted by a vendor -

During the past year, we have spoken with hundreds of clients who are to struggling with the same problem: enabling, managing and securing mobility in their organizations. The problem often is that, to meet the different needs of IT and employees, he was forced to cobble together a different vendor solutions - each of which responds to different challenges. In general, the challenges we hear most often are:

  • "We need a firm's quality MDM solution" To support the choice. of the device, it must be able to ensure compliance of the assets of the business and enterprise content security on the device. to do this, it needs depending on the management role, configuration and the security of corporate devices and employee-owned.
  • "Our employees need e-mail secure, browser and application data sharing" . users mobile can not leave home without their e-mail, Internet access, and access to their documents. This means that it must provide these secure users, applications that provide a rich user experience for mail electronics, calendar, contacts, browser with full access to intranet and extranet sites, and documents from anywhere.
  • "The number of mobile applications is growing too fast ... we need the management of mobile applications" . With the increase of mobile applications requires IT management, security and control of these applications and their associated data. Specifically, it must be able to obtain any third party or custom developed mobile BYO, with global policies based controls, including the ability to remote lock, wipe and encryption applications and data.
  • "Our employees need access to * all * of their applications to be productive" . To be productive, mobile users need a single place to access all of their mobile , web, SaaS and Windows applications. This place should allow users to select the applications they need and have available instantly on their device. and, as users move between their favorite devices, their chosen applications must follow to ensure that they are never without them.
  • "We need an easier way to control user access and simplify the user experience" . IT manages thousands of applications and therefore they need a simple way to provision, de-provision and ensure the security of applications based on user identity. This is especially true for SaaS applications, often forgotten because the user credentials can be managed separately in the cloud.

Although many of these needs have been met to date with CloudGateway, Citrix did not have an MDM solution. This was one of the many reasons that Citrix acquired Zenprise earlier this year. And today we have great news. Not only have we announced XenMobile MDM, our new MDM solution based on the Zenprise market leading technologies, we also announced the powerful combination of CloudGateway and XenMobile MDM to deliver a comprehensive mobility management business via our new Solutions mobile Bundle.

Mobile Solutions Bundle meets all user requirements above with a comprehensive enterprise mobility management solution designed to give users the flexibility they need combined with the necessary control by IT. The MDM solution provides secure productivity applications such as e-mail, enterprise application store for users to access all their applications and SSO to all applications. The solution eliminates the need to purchase point solutions from multiple vendors to meet user needs for flexibility and the requirements of information security and compliance.

Whether your organization replaces BlackBerry devices with BYO, find a good replacement because of poor user experience technologies, the initiation of a mobility initiative and seek a leading management solution mobile devices, or looking for a mobility solution that offers more than just mobile applications, Mobile Solutions Bundle provides a comprehensive set of capabilities that meets every mobile requirement.

Give it a try, tell us what you think!

Plan, implement, manage and promote customer events with Citrix janitor marketing!

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Partners are running your own now live or virtual events? What is your strategy? How do you plan, execution, management and promote your seminar or webinar? Do you do all the above? And if not, why?

With Citrix Concierge marketing you can, and if toll to you as a Citrix partner. While the zero cost may seem the best part, it's not! Citrix Concierge marketing not only offers co-branded materials to support your event, it gives you a step by step plan that causes the execution of e-mail, manages and hosts the time, date, location, and registration, from beginning to end.

  • want you send return [ your record to make sure they attend? Citrix Concierge Marketing has reminders built into the process in place that allows you to set a reminder the day before or the hour before.
  • Want to make sure your have registered directions to the place or the right line of information for the webinar? Directions and maps are built to the page of the platform and recording so that your partners know where they go when.
  • Want promote your event or events through social media from within the Platform? Concierge Citrix marketing allows you to promote your event directly from the platform on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and more.
  • NEW! Would you like to promote all of your assets and webinars seminar together ? You can do it! Citrix Concierge Marketing has added a bit.ly URL specific to you. The URL is hosted directly within the platform and drives to a single web page with all your partners led events and is co-branded with your logo. Customers can register for an event, or all of them at the same time!
  • Want send a follow up email your customers after the event? Citrix Marketing Concierge can do it, too. By adding your list of participants at the event to your email blast, you can thank your guests for coming and invite them to follow up event

The bottom line -. Whether you're shooting a live or virtual event, Citrix marketing a concierge Event Center with all the necessary tools to ensure the success of your event! Check it out today! For more updates follow me on twitter @ctxmkgconcierge

Citrix XenServer - Champion, Value Leader and Cloud Ready

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It is no secret that the server virtualization market is heating up again as cloud computing offers a new value to enterprise and SP data center. In the future, application virtualization and workload is less on the consolidation and provide the basis for new levels of IT automation being embraced by innovators focusing on IT activation as- a-Service (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS ... XaaS).

Citrix is ​​once again proud to be recognized as a leader Champion and value info-Tech in the virtualization server Vendor Landscape. Recognition of Citrix XenServer This year is going beyond the recognition of the product for delivery of engineering effort and high functionality provided in XenServer 6.1 in 2012, but resumed on the Citrix strategy to connect the virtual datacenter based on XenServer with the cloud-based XenServer.

"Citrix target on the Cloud is unmatched by other providers. Therefore, Citrix has become the go-to vendor when looking at solutions for cloud-ready. "

I know I take every time I get to remind people of this, but ... XenServer is probably (I'm too busy to do the math) the most popular virtualization platform in the cloud, providing the platform for clients Citrix CloudPlatform, most CloudStack deployments and the largest cloud-based OpenStack the world. In addition, open source Xen and XCP dominate the public cloud space as a base to Amazon and others.

If you are looking for an alternative to VMware that provides the functionality you need, the value you deserve and a clear path to the private or public cloud, XenServer is the champion you been looking.

Want to know more? Join one of XenServer Cloud MasterClass and webinars or download free XenServer and start working with it today.

Results CRM is Citrix Ready

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Results Software helps protect and build on the investment of their customers through services including consulting, systems analysis, custom programming, data conversion, custom reports and training.

Results offers a comprehensive and flexible approach to enterprise information management and automation of business processes with a focus on relationship management, sales and marketing, service delivery, schedules, customer service, project management, resource management, timesheet, time billing, renewal billing, invoicing, order tracking, payment history and control stocks.

Results seamlessly integrates with key business applications, including QuickBooks, Outlook, Constant Contact, ShareFile, SmartVault, SharePoint and Crystal Reports to simplify workflow, eliminate data entry duplicate and allow users full visibility of data across the organization

product Name :. Results CRM

Unique Feature (s):

with Results CRM Business Suite, you'll be able to: access information using a centralized database. effectively manage your customer, prospect, supplier and other contact information Improve marketing effectiveness and increase sales Automate company standards, processes and procedures Measure your results with powerful analysis and reporting tools. Link your email communications Expedite billing contact records and collections across all accounts. Improve service and build better customer relationships Integrate with QuickBooks to synchronize customer data, suppliers, employees, invoice, payment and inventory (optional) complete time sheets of assigned activities

value proposition:

Results offers a comprehensive and flexible approach to enterprise information management and automation of business processes with a focus on relationship management, sales and marketing, services, schedules, customer service, project management, resource management, time sheets, billing time, renewal billing, invoicing, order tracking, the payment history and inventory control. Results seamlessly integrates with key business applications, including QuickBooks, Outlook, Constant Contact, ShareFile, SharePoint and Crystal Reports to streamline work, eliminate data entry duplicate and allow users full visibility of data across the 'organization. Results can be customized to meet your specific needs at an affordable cost and in a timely manner. Custom changes are part of the base product and not a patch or add-on - offer a seamless interface and flawless performance. We welcome your budget and cash flow by offering a single purchase price from $ 295 per user and Rent-to-Own monthly subscription, which does not require a long-term contract from 20 $ per user per month. Results supports any combination of traditional desktop models, remote and virtual. Results is sold as a OnPremise Windows and browser-based Web solution for anywhere, access anytime. It is also offered as In-the-Cloud (hosted) solution. We are committed to providing the resources you need to get good results. In addition to the online help and unlimited access to training videos, our deployment of instructor-led sessions and training materials are included with each new system

Technical Contact (s ) :. Mayya Saab, MSaab@Results-Software.com

Link (s) to the documentation:

  • Results CRM Business Suite
  • Results CRM In-the-Cloud

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Last chance to register! Citrix Support Secrets Webinar March 21st

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This is your LAST CHANCE to register for this webinar month in popular support Citrix Secrets series. The webinar covers March Implementation and EdgeSight Troubleshooting.

The webinar will be delivered by Citrix EdgeSight top supporting SMEs, so make sure you pop along to the best troubleshooting tips.

The webinar takes place Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 10:00 EST / 16:00 CET

What you will learn :.

  • The architecture side agent
  • SQL objects and where to find the data
  • Troubleshooting and resolving performance issues EdgeSight
  • custom reports

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Execution of desktop virtualization projects successfully

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A fundamental project management principles is that project success occurs when it is delivered on time, respecting the budget and with a quality level which is satisfactory for the customer. Of course, these dimensions are valid for any desktop virtualization project as well

Although much information on budget planning and TCO / ROI for virtual desktop / application delivery projects can be available on the Internet (eg http .: //flexcast.citrix.com/analyzeandcompare.html), the amount of information on planning time and success criteria is very low.

Since this lack of publicly available information causes each client to "reinvent the wheel" and thus add some delays in their projects, we thought it is time to provide some guidance on these topics

the result of our efforts became part of the new version of Citrix Virtual Desktop Handbook (http :. //support.citrix .com / article / CTX136546). Version 1 of this white paper focuses on the analysis phase that identifies the necessary information before beginning the design phase and describes the project management tasks I mentioned earlier.

But instead of simply discussing topics from a theoretical point of view, give advice and tools that can be used for all your projects in detail later. For example, you will get a sample project plan (Microsoft Project), which describes and provides estimates of the duration for each step of a desktop virtualization project (example below).

In addition, the white paper discusses a general methodology of the project, describes how business priorities can be identified and provides detailed information about the roles required during ' a corporate quality project (example below).

This and more can be found in the Virtual Desktop Manual new Citrix (http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX136546).

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Register today! Citrix Support Webinar Secrets - Top 10 Troubleshooting Tools

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Thank you to all who attended our Citrix Support Secrets March webinar covering The implementation and troubleshooting EdgeSight . The registration of the application in here.

Each month, we will choose a topic that is hot in the support department, as a burning issue / town, new Citrix product or tools that make troubleshooting much easier.

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  • March 2013 - implementation and troubleshooting EdgeSight
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  • Nov 2012 - troubleshooting Tools - How to isolate and resolve problems in your XenApp and XenDesktop quickly

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I am pleased to announce details of the webinar April 2013

The webinar will cover April 2013 :. . Top 10 troubleshooting Tools for your Citrix environment

This session will provide an overview of the 10 best troubleshooting tools used by our customers, partners and support engineers. These are essential tools to help solve the root cause of problems in your Citrix environment

During this session you will learn :.
· Why troubleshooting tools are crucial in a Citrix environment
· Presentation of each troubleshooting tool
· When should I use a tool?
· Issues and resolutions

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Get practice with Excalibur on Microsoft Hyper-V @CitrixSynergy!

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Are you interested to learn about the next generation architecture of delivery of Excalibur with Microsoft newest system operating and System Center 2012? Would you like to be the first to see and test drive Excalibur with more new features and functions than ever before? Then you're in luck! Citrix Synergy will be your first chance to practice laboratory built by Citrix and Microsoft and designed for you! -In This laboratory SYN614: Implementing Excalibur on Microsoft Hyper-V students will experience the following Microsoft products first hand:

  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7
  • System Center 2012 SP1
  • Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V 3
  • App-V 5

students in this class will also have the first-hand experience by taking advantage of the latest features including Excalibur following:

  • virtual delivery agents for desktop OS and OS Server
  • Apps virtual
  • Provisioning services
  • Storefront
  • Director
  • NetScaler VPX

This laboratory is designed to give students an understanding on how to implement Excalibur on the latest Microsoft platform. If you are already registered for the event, log into your My Account and register for this lab today! Do not miss your chance as space is limited.

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Explaining Citrix Pass-through Authentication

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Introduction

The authentication is a simple concept. the user's credentials are passed to a Web Interface and XenApp / XenDesktop servers, preventing users from having to explicitly authenticate at any time during the process of launching the Citrix application. Although this authentication method seems simple, there are few moving parts, and this article aims to break these down to provide a more detailed understanding of how the process really works within Citrix

Authentication Pass-Through -. Web Interface site

The first step of the transition process occurs on the Web Interface site. Users are able to browse the site for the Web interface, and their powers are passed through and they are presented with their Citrix resources delivered. Web interface is built on Internet Information Services (IIS). For pass-through authentication to work, the IIS Windows Integrated Authentication must be utilized. Formerly called NTLM, this authentication method hashes the user credentials before they are sent over the network. When this type of authentication is enabled, the client browser proves that it is authenticated by a cryptographic exchange with the Web Interface server, involving hashing. Because of this, the Web browser is responsible for authentication with the Web Interface server (IIS). It is important to note, however, that the powers are never actually exchanged. Instead, the signed hash is provided for IIS, prove that said user has already been authenticated on the Windows desktop. The user of the Web interface uses the AD user context (sometimes called a token) to recover membership in an AD group to the user and to transmit this list of groups directly in XML service for authentication. At this point, the user has passed the Web Interface site and can now see his / her Citrix resources.

  • The WI server must be in the same domain as the user, or a domain that has a trusted relationship with the domain of the user.
  • If the WI server and user are in different domains, and resources are published using domain local groups in the AD domain user, WI will not be able enumerate these, even with appropriate AD trust (because of the nature of domain local groups).
  • WI site should be added as a trusted site or intranet zone in Internet Explorer. In addition, the security settings must be changed so that the authentication user Logon is set to 'Automatic logon with username and password'.
  • Pass-through authentication is not supported on the Web interface for NetScaler
  • http: // support.citrix.com/article/CTX130153
  • please Note: SSO and Kerberos authentication are not interchangeable and have different requirements
  • Through authentication -. XenApp / XenDesktop session

    One of the biggest misconceptions with pass-through authentication Citrix is ​​that it occurs only when a user browses the Web Interface site and he / she is automatically passed through. As mentioned above, the IIS authentication method that is used does not work actually exchange the user password. In other words, the web interface is not in control of user credentials. This brings us to the question: How are the users went through the current session XenApp / XenDesktop ICA

    While Web browser has a role in the authentication of the user? website, the Citrix client (Citrix Receiver) plays an essential role in ensuring that the user is completely gone through the application or desktop. Citrix Receiver installs a process called ssonsvr.exe, which is the single sign-on client component (no, not password manager SSO, but rather unique identification-authentication information SSO). This process is fully responsible for passing user credentials to XenApp or XenDesktop. Without this piece, pass-through authentication will not work. In non-Enterprise versions of Citrix Receiver, the room SSON is not automatically installed, and must be performed during a client installation command line. For more information, see http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/receiver-windows-34/receiver-windows-cfg-command-line.html.

    Resources

    the links below include information on enabling Pass-through authentication to Citrix Pass-through common troubleshooting steps and errors, as well as Microsoft documentation describing the different authentication methods in IIS:

    http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/web-interface-impington/wi-enable-pass-through-authentication-gransden. html

    http: // support. citrix.com/article/CTX135588

    http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/receiver-windows-34/ica-sson-enable.html

    http: // support.citrix.com/article/CTX118736

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa292114 (v = vs.71) .aspx

    HP reduces chaos with new mobile services based on Citrix Mobility Solutions

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    Mobility is all around us. Go to a café, airport, even on a school football field during a big game, people are on their phones and tablets. Yet this is not enough. According to a recent study by Forrester Research, 70% of IT decision makers said they are either implementing or expanding their implementation of smartphones for employees - 57% said they do the same with tablets (note 1). Moreover, if you look at the mobile requirements of the user side, employees want choice in their mobile device, as indicated by the 72% of information workers in a recent Forrester study who said they care to choose their own tablet (note 2).

    The benefits of productivity for BYOD and enterprise mobility programs are obvious and companies are hard ROI engine with their mobility initiatives. Some examples of companies in all industries and sizes that go mobile include a national restaurant chain using iPads in their restaurants to optimize guest seats; Government agencies use the secure distribution of documents to mobile devices to help lawmakers review draft legislation; and large healthcare and financial institutions empower their employees anytime, anywhere access to applications and data. However, like other IT organizations expect to increase their support to mobile workers combined with the fact that workers expect the opportunity to choose their own device and still access all their applications and corporate data, chaos is inevitable.

    Citrix XenMobile MDM, a mobile device management solutions addresses leaders on the market chaos of the device and enables organizations to finally take control of their mobile devices. This solution provides a computer-grained control while providing end users the choice of device and application freedom they expect. MDM includes XenMobile based on management roles, compliance and security for both corporate devices and used employees - very important for organizations deploying mobility initiatives, including allowing users to shoot from their personal devices. With enterprise mobility evolving at a rapid pace, the number one request from our customers is to understand the best practices for managing these devices. Specifically, they ask questions about the types of policies that should be in place for devices belonging to employees vs. business, when do they make a full report selective wipe of a device, forcing the password must -they need for device used in their industry ... the list continues. Really, what they need are specialists who can help them make the right decisions

    In our view, this is why the new HP Enterprise Cloud Services -. Mobility is so powerful for organizations. This new service delivered from HP's cloud infrastructure includes Citrix XenMobile and Sharefile MDM solutions, and provides a fully managed mobility solution that enables secure at all times, where access to applications and data from any mobile device. And since HP manages your devices for you, it takes the guesswork out of implementing a secure mobile device strategy and compliant as a world-class HP Services team has the expertise to ensure that the right policies mobile devices are in place and enforced.

    And further, in collaboration with Citrix gives HP access to the most comprehensive mobility solutions on the market. With solutions for mobile device and application management, federated identity and SSO, synchronize corporate file sharing, access control to the network, collaboration, desktop and application virtualization and more, HP believes that the needs of their customers will be satisfied with a partner who was deliver anywhere access for more than 20 years at any time.

    1. Source: Survey Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker, Q4 2012 and Forrsights Business Decision Makers Survey, Q4 2012, Forrester Research, Inc., 2012

    2. Source: Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey, Q4 2012, Forrester Research, Inc., 2012