Citrix XenDesktop 5 has arrived!!

I wrote a post last night about the release of Citrix Web Interface 5.4, and that the most exciting part of it’s release was that it meant XenDesktop 5 would be released soon.  Well less than 24 hours later Citrix has officially released XenDesktop 5 and it is now available for download!! When you select

Citrix Web Interface 5.4

It looks like Citrix has slipped out the latest release of their Web Interface product, version 5.4.  There are some necessary bug fixes and new features but none of them are what really excites me about this release.  The release of a new Web Interface means the release of XenDesktop 5 is right around the

Citrix OpenCloud Access

During the XenDesktop 5 announcements recently Citrix also announced that Dazzle will no longer be a standalone product.  As you know Citrix has been trying to make the “Citrix Receiver” an all in one agent with a plug-in framework to add additional functionality.  Following the Receiver model Dazzle was re-architected as a Citrix Receiver plug-in

XenApp 6 Install Fails

When installing XenApp 6 on Server 2008 R2 it continued to fail no matter which server I tried to install the XenApp Role to. It would simply show the error seen in Figure 1 below. The Event Viewer showed errors that can be seen in Figure 2 below, but they did not show any real information