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Citrix Receiver 4.3 now with ADMX support for Receiver group policy, well almost

Wed, 01 Jul 2015 17:53:36 +0000

Last night Citrix released Citrix Receiver 4.3 that includes ADMX templates to manage Citrix Receiver Group Policy settings. Microsoft introduced the ADMX templates when Vista/Server 2008 was introduced in 2006, so it was about time for Citrix to come up with template files in that format instead of the old ADM based files.

After installing the Citrix Receiver 4.3 that can be downloaded from here you’ll find the new ADMX/ADML files in the following location:

Windows 7 Search Connector for Citrix eDocs

Tue, 24 May 2011 20:33:58 +0000

Here’s another Search Connector for Windows 7 I’ve just created. Start your Citrix eDocs search directly from the Windows Explorer.

Installing the Search Connector for Citrix eDocs

Download the citrixedocs.zip from here.
Extract the citrixedocs.osdx from the ZIP file
Double click on the osdx file
Click Add to install the Search Connector

To remove the Search Connector simply click on the Citrix eDocs Search Connector in Windows Explorer and select Remove. Then open windows explorer and navigate to C:\Users<user>\Searches (where is your username) and delete the file Citrix eDocs.searchConnector-ms

ToolTip: Citrix Port Check (CtxPrtChk.exe)

Mon, 16 May 2011 15:22:37 +0000

Here’s a nice small and FREE utility from Citrix that allows you to test connectivity to a remote host on a specified port. In the example below I test if port 5900 (used for VNC) is open and listening.

Download CtxPrtChk from here

Head-to-head analysis of Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft VDI, Quest vWorkspace, and VMware View

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:27:49 +0000

Ruben Spruijt has published an updated whitepaper “VDI Smackdown” which provides you with an overview of today’s VDI solutions. More details here

WatchTip: History of Citrix

Mon, 24 May 2010 19:54:21 +0000

Those who are following my blog on a regular basis know that I am also interested in the history of IT. Since in these days Citrix (especially XenDesktop) has a high ranking on my personal list of interests, I spend some time today to find some information about the History of Citrix. So here we go:

A Deep Dive Into the 20 Year History and Technical Developments of Citrix Systems, a video from BriForum 2009 (Highly recommend this one, very interesting !).