Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 – What’s New

Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 is out and I have finally had time to play around with it in my lab. There are a lot of bug fixes and great improvements when it comes to Simplicity. In this post I will show you some new GUI screenshots and in my next blog post about Provisioning Services I will show you how to successfully upgrade to Provisioning Services 5.6 from previous versions.

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Use iPhone as a Mouse on iPad with Citrix Receiver

The Apple iPad doesn’t support a mouse, only a bluetooth keyboard. Citrix have been smart enough to include this in the Citrix Receiver for iPhone and iPad. They call it the Wireless TrackPad. I wonder why they didn’t show this at Synergy it’s super cool. Check out this Picture Tutorial on How To Set it up.

On your iPhone open Citrix Receiver and press the mouse icon in the lower right corner of the screen

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How to Load Balance Citrix Web Interface with NLB

Every Citrix Web Interface Server (WI) without any form of load balancing is a potential single point of failure in your environment. Network Load Balancing is available in both the Standard and Enterprise Editions of Windows 2008 so there shouldn’t be to many excuses for not implementing. This picture tutorial will take you through the process of creating a Network Load Balancing Cluster for your Citrix Web Interface Servers.

IP Address Overview :

winlb1.ctxlab.local    10.0.10.40
winlb2.ctxlab.local    10.0.10.41
nlb.ctxlab.local         10.0.10.42

Configure Citrix Web Interface :

  1. Assign static IP Address to both nodes in the NLB Cluster
  2. Install and create a Site on Citrix WI on Node A
  3. Install and create a Site on Citrix WI on Node B
  4. Customize, test and replicate WI Site from Node A to Node B
  5. RoboCopy c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Citrix \winlb2\c$\inetpub\wwwroot\Citrix /MIR

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