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Wouldn’t it be nice to have your XenServer environment allways with you on a USB disk ?

Wouldn’t it be nice, if this USB disk would function with your own notebook ?

And that you don’t need a second machine to run XenCenter on it ?

That this is possible and how to achieve this, is documented in my last tutorial. In this tutorial we will install XenServer on a USB harddisk attached to a laptop, then install X server and GNOME on this disk and then run an RDP session to a VM running on the XenServer and providing us with XenCenter.

A “demo in a box”

The tutorial can be downloaded here: “XenServer_and_Gnome_on_your_USB_disk_EN.pdf”
For the moment, this tutorial is availabel only in German, but i will upload an english version soon, so stay tuned…
The english version is now available too…

Regards
Ecki

Not long ago, i had to implement the PNAgent Filter for Web Interface 4.6. It turned out, that the code itself of the modification didn’t need any changes from WI 4.5 to WI 4.6. To allow for an easy implementation, i nevertheless created an updated archive of the modification and updated the files for WI 4.6. Therefore all it needs is to replace one file, without the hassle to copy and paste code blocks to the right locations.

Download FilterApps4.6

This modification gives an administrator the power to hide Published Applications from the user. The only thing he has to do is adding a “#” sign in front of the application description. Very handy, if you use PNAgent to populate the Desktop and Start Menu and do not want the published Desktop to appear in the context menu of the PNAgent in the taskbar.

See also: PNAgent Filter for Web Interface 4.5

Regards
Ecki

It is a little known fact, that the Secure Access Client (4.2 and later, including net6vpn.exe) offers some interesting command line parameters. I will therefore present them here. The most intersting part is the ability to automate installation of the client via software deployment or simple batch script.

Note: These parameters are case-sensitive.

The following parameters are available:

• -C Configure the Virtual Private Networking (VPN) client–bring up the GUI configuration screen
  Example: “CitrixSAClient.exe –C”

• -H Connect to a specific server address and port (Syntax: -H SERVER_IP:PORT)
  Example: “CitrixSAClient.exe –H 192.168.1.1:443″

• -p Connect with a proxy IP address and port (Syntax: -p PROXY_IP:PORT)
  Example: “CitrixSAClient.exe –p 192.168.1.1:8080″

• -i Install the client. This is used in combination with other parameters for silent installations
  Example: “CitrixSAClient.exe –i”

• -D Sets the URL for the desktop icon for Advanced Access Control mode (Syntax: -D AG_AAC_URL)
  Example: “CitrixSAClient.exe -D https://cag.company.com”

• -Q Quiet mode parameter–this can only be used during an install (-i) or uninstall (-U). It must appear before all other parameters
  Example: “CitrixSAClient.exe –Q”

• -U Uninstall the VPN client and drivers
  Example: “CitrixSAClient.exe –U”

• -v Shows the version of the client you are launching
  Example: “CitrixSAClient.exe –v”

Below is a syntax example for a silent installation with Advanced Access Control integration:
CitrixSAClient.exe –Q –D https://AG_AAC_URL –i

A silent installation for Access Gateway Standard would look like that:
CitrixSAClient.exe –Q –H [AG_SYSTEM_FQDN]:[AG_SYSTEM_PORT] –i

From CTX108757.

Regards
Ecki