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Download windows 10 preview version ISO from the following link  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/preview-iso System Requirements Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit) Free hard disk space: 16 GB Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

Download adm template -- credit to Andrzej Golebiowski for creating adm template as citrix doesn't provide adm Templates Link to download adm template https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3ybcgimyNgIa2dKWWNyeFMyNFU/view?usp=sharing Steps: Download adm template and add it to Group Policy editor under Computer Configuration node. Verify if Connection Leasing settings are available in Classic Administrative Template folder Create a new policy and configure all requited settings Assign new policy to the OU containing XenApp ond/or XenDesktop server accounts On Delivery Controler refresh GPO – run command:   gpupdate /force Verify if configured settings were applied to HKLM\Software\Policies\Citrix\DesktopServer\ConnectionLeasing Delete all current lease files – run command:   Remove-BrokerLease  Restart Citrix Broker service Login to StoreFront and open any available application Verify if lease file with new settings has been created – run command:   Get-BrokerLease

open  web.config  i.e, normally  C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Citrix\StoreWeb . Open this file in your text eand Save ditor and locate the following segment: <userInterface ...>       ...       <receiverConfiguration enabled="true" downloadURL="ServiceRecord/GetDocument/receiverconfig.cr" />       ...     </userInterface> Change value from  enabled  to be  false 

There is no difference if you select XenApp or XenDesktop selection while installing, all the features are controlled by license file. so don't worry it makes no difference which option you select when you install. I think citrix should combine into single option

follow the below link from citrix to get free one hour training on XenApp 7.6 http://training.citrix.com/mod/ctxcatalog/course.php?id=926

  By default, VMware offers Extra Small, Small, Medium, and Large configurations during installation. You can size the environment according to the existing infrastructure to be monitored. After the vRealize Operations Manager (formerly known as vCenter Operations Manager) instance outgrows the existing size, you must expand the cluster to add nodes of the same size. Characteristics/Node Size Extra Small Small Medium Large vCPU 2 4 8 16 Memory (GB) 8 16 32 48 Single-Node Maximum Objects 100 2,000 6,000 10,000 Single-Node Maximum Collected Metrics (*) 50,000 1,000,000 3,000,000 5,000,000 Multi-Node Maximum Objects Per Node (**) NA 2,000 4,000 8,000 Multi-Node Maximum Collected Metrics Per Node (**) NA 1,000,000 2,000,000 4,000,000 Maximum Objects for 8-Node Maximum (**)

Citrix AppDNA 7.5 can be used to assess application migration compatibility with Microsoft App-V & Windows OS as part of citrix upgrade project System Requirements The following configuration for AppDNA to support up to 200 applications OS: windows Server 2012 R2 RAM: 6 GB HDD: OS Drive + 100 GB CPU: 4 CPU Note: In a complete AppDNA installation, the AppDNA server, website, database, and desktop client are installed on the same machine. Provided a full IIS-based web server is in use, users on other devices that are connected to the local intranet can use the AppDNA web client to view the reporting results in their browser. This does not require the installation of any AppDNA software Software Requirements:       1)      .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 2)      .NET Framework 4.0 3)      SQL Server 2012 Express Edition (built-in 10GB database size limit)             4)      IIS             5)      Internet Explorer 10 or 11 with JavaScript and unencrypte

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1) Download Web interface package from Citrix downloads 2) Download OPEN JRE Package from citrix Downloads 3) log into netscaler 4) click configuration and select web interface 5) click "install Web interface" 6) select the JRE and web interface package 7) click install and web interface will be installed Now you can install web interface for xendesktop or xenapp for web or mobile devices

Watch webcast on demand for next version of windows desktop OS windows 10 http://news.microsoft.com/windows10story/

Citrix products progress through three distinct lifecycle phases: Mainstream Maintenance, Extended Maintenance and End of Life. please refer to following link to know the status http://www.citrix.com/support/product-lifecycle/legacy-product-matrix.html? Below is the links of troubleshooting tools available from citrix http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX107572

Pre-requisite: 1: Download the vRealize appliance. Below the link to download appliance. http://www.vmware.com/go/download-vrealize-suite 2: Take Backup  of VCOPS UI and analytic's server 3: The Version of VCOPS should be 5.8.1 , if not install PAK file to upgrade to 5.8.1 version 4: 2 temporary IP’s to install the vRealize operation management Steps to configure and migrate 1: Login to vCenter and import vRealize appliance (IP pools are not required for vRealize) 2: Click on File and chose an option deploy from OVF template 3: Once deployed then OVF start up the VM and wait for it to complete its boot process then navigate to the temporary IP given to vROps to begin the deployment/configuration 4: Click on new installation and click next 5: Set the password as old VCOPS server and click next 6: Click on default own certificates 7: And then in next window enter the product key 8: And then choose your import source from the existing vCOPS 9: Post i

Procedure 1 From the vSphere Client Home page, select  Customization Specifications Manager . 2 Click  New . 3 In the Guest Customization wizard, select Windows from the  Target Virtual Machine OS  menu. 4 Under Customization Specification Information, enter a name for the specification and an optional description and click  Next . 5 Type the virtual machine owner’s name and organization and click  Next . 6 Enter the guest operating system's computer name and click  Next . The operating system uses this name to identify itself on the network. On Linux systems, it is called the host name. Option Action Enter a name a Type a name. The name can contain alphanumeric characters and the hyphen (-) character. It cannot contain periods (.) or blank spaces and cannot be made up of digits only. Names are case-insensi