Virtualization by Davis: “Access Gateway: CVPN support for OWA 2010” plus 13 more

Access Gateway: CVPN support for OWA 2010
Separate Servers for MGMT and PUB?
Error when installing client: Setup failed while installing the MSIs. Unspecified error
Red Hat Continues Storage Momentum with Key Milestones
Americas Partners – Download Your Cloud Gateway Partner USE Licenses Now
EMEA organizations are mobilizing the enterprise, but still have security concerns
Remote desktop mobile apps offer debatable VDI alternatives
A Better Way to Create Your Desktop Virtualization Architecture
Three key considerations for evaluating hosted virtual desktops
How to save money with application-level high availability
Connection Groups Internals(App-V 5.0)
Creating a custom Event Log to assist with troubleshooting
Appv 5 reporting error
Are you saying No(SQL) when you hear Cloud?

Access Gateway: CVPN support for OWA 2010

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 08:45 PM PST

Citrix Access Gateway announced support for CVPN access to OWA 2010 (Outlook Web Access) a few months back, starting with the 10.0-69.4 release. Access Gateway has long supported OWA 2007 and SharePoint 2007, and now with OWA 2010, adds a punch to Clientless access.

Separate Servers for MGMT and PUB?

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 03:53 PM PST

Hey,

I'm in the process of bolting together a new App-V 5 environment to replace our 4.6 environment. Whilst I will have the DB located remotely, is there any key differences between consolidating the MGMT/PUB on a single server vs separating the 2?

Cheers

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Error when installing client: Setup failed while installing the MSIs. Unspecified error

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 01:16 PM PST

I'm trying to get our environment ready for AppV 5.0, but I can't seem to even install the client. I had similar issues throughout the Beta, and was assured these issues would be addressed.

I am using the official release, not the beta client. After having to manually find and install the needed runtime (VC2010 x86) and PowerShell 3.0 (Why isn't the runtime at the very least a dependency of the setup that installs with it like it did on 4.x?), I attempted to install the client. Once I got to the install screen, I ended up with this message:

"Setup failed while installing the MSIs. Unspecified error"

No other information was provided by the dialog.

This is a newly imaged machine (with Visual Studio 2010), and had AppV 4.6.3xxx on it previously, which was uninstalled (trying to simulate upgrading the rest of the environment).

From the log:

[1488:1AC8][2012-11-14T15:03:44]: Creating a system restore point.  [1488:1AC8][2012-11-14T15:04:02]: Created a system restore point.  [1488:1AC8][2012-11-14T15:04:02]: Caching bundle from: 'C:\Users\mangumj\AppData\Local\Temp\{e29aab84-bbc1-42ba-a342-2ce63e63b1bb}\.be\appv_client_setup.exe' to: 'C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{e29aab84-bbc1-42ba-a342-2ce63e63b1bb}\appv_client_setup.exe'  [1488:1AC8][2012-11-14T15:04:02]: Registering bundle dependency provider: {e29aab84-bbc1-42ba-a342-2ce63e63b1bb}, version: 5.0.285.0  [10C8:0B40][2012-11-14T15:04:02]: Error 0x80004005: Failed to extract all files from container.  [10C8:13B8][2012-11-14T15:04:02]: Error 0x80004005: Faild to begin and wait for operation.  [10C8:13B8][2012-11-14T15:04:02]: Error 0x80004005: Failed to extract payload: a2 from container: WixAttachedContainer  [10C8:13B8][2012-11-14T15:04:02]: Failed to extract payloads from container: WixAttachedContainer to working path: C:\AppV\APPV_CLIENT_SETUP.EXE, error: 0x80004005.  [10C8:1998][2012-11-14T15:04:02]: Error 0x80004005: Failed while caching, aborting execution.  [1488:1AC8][2012-11-14T15:04:02]: Removing bundle dependency provider: {e29aab84-bbc1-42ba-a342-2ce63e63b1bb}  [1488:1AC8][2012-11-14T15:04:02]: Removing cached bundle: {e29aab84-bbc1-42ba-a342-2ce63e63b1bb}, from path: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{e29aab84-bbc1-42ba-a342-2ce63e63b1bb}\  [10C8:1998][2012-11-14T15:04:02]: AppvUX: Apply phase ended with failure.  Failure HRESULT: -2147467259  Failure Windows Error message: Unspecified error    [10C8:14D8][2012-11-14T15:04:02]: AppvUX: Failed to determine value of BundleVariable: 'IsBundlePatch'  [10C8:14D8][2012-11-14T15:04:02]: AppvUX: Did not detect install type: patch  [10C8:14D8][2012-11-14T15:04:02]: AppvUX: Showing finished page.

I have tried running from various different accounts, all which have admin rights. I also tried running the install from the same computer (as opposed to from NAS), same results.

If anyone has had this issue, and knows the answer, please let me know.

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Red Hat Continues Storage Momentum with Key Milestones

Posted: 13 Nov 2012 09:00 PM PST

Americas Partners – Download Your Cloud Gateway Partner USE Licenses Now

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 10:11 AM PST

Americas Partners – You can NOW download Cloud Gateway Partner USE Licenses. Use the Partner Use License tool on My Citrix to have access to and download Cloud Gateway Partner USE Licenses. License allocation is based on your partner level: Level # of Licenses Platinum 400 Gold 200 Silver 100

EMEA organizations are mobilizing the enterprise, but still have security concerns

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 09:55 AM PST

It has been about a month since I returned from Barcelona. I hope everyone had a wonderful and informative time at Synergy and that you saw how serious Citrix is about mobility. For me, it was great hearing from all our customers and partners about how they're using Citrix products to address their enterprise mobility initiatives. To that end, I'd like to share with you…

Remote desktop mobile apps offer debatable VDI alternatives

Posted: 13 Nov 2012 07:13 PM PST

If you really need Windows on a mobile device -- and that's a big 'if' -- remote desktop mobile apps can be cheaper and simpler than deploying VDI.

A Better Way to Create Your Desktop Virtualization Architecture

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 09:20 AM PST

As part of any desktop virtualization project, you always need a great architecture design that takes current and future needs of your organization into consideration. A bit of advance planning goes a long way (So take a tip from our woodworking brethren: measure twice and cut once!) How would you go about creating the best possible reference architecture? Read through tons of white papers (ya,…

Three key considerations for evaluating hosted virtual desktops

Posted: 13 Nov 2012 02:08 PM PST

Don't forget to take integration, end-user access, control and other factors into account if you're evaluating Desktop as a Service.

How to save money with application-level high availability

Posted: 09 Nov 2012 11:31 AM PST

Enterprise-level high availability is complex and costly. Using application-level HA could actually save you a buck.

Connection Groups Internals(App-V 5.0)

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 06:34 AM PST

written by – Yash Harsha Kumar (SDET)

Introduction

Connection Groups group one or more APP-V packages to enable member applications in these packages to interact with one another while maintaining isolation from the rest of the system. This gives sequencing engineers the flexibility to maintain packages independently and removes the redundancy of adding the same application several times onto a machine.

Connection groups can be deployed using the APP-V management/publishing servers or using the PowerShell Cmdlets on the Client machine.

Order of Packages in a Connection Group and Package Content Merge

This order determines the way in which registry and file system data of these packages are merged for the Connection Group.

Merge

Consider a Connection Group MyConnectionGroup with 2 Packages: Package1 and Package2 in that order.

Registry Merge

Consider Value "Bar" under key "HKCU\Software\Foo".

Package1 has "Bar" with REG_SZ value data: "Package1_Data"

Package2 has "Bar" with REG_DWORD value data: 12345

The registry data for the group MyConnectionGroup will have "Bar" with REG_SZ value data: "Package1_Data" as Package1 has precedence in the merge.

File System Merge

Only fully VFS'ed files are merged for Connection Groups. These include files under Root\VFS in the package directory.

Package1 has:

Root\Foo\Foo.exe

Root\VFS\Bar\Bar.exe

Package2 has:

Root\Foo\Foo.txt

Root\VFS\Bar\Bar.txt

In this case, contents of Root\VFS will be merged, contents of Root\Foo will NOT. Hence,

- If Foo.exe were to access Foo.txt using relative path (.\Foo.txt), it would NOT find it.

- If Bar.exe were to access Bar.txt using relative path (.\Bar.txt), it would be found.

Determining the Order of Packages in a Connection Group

When enabling Connection Groups with PowerShell Cmdlets

In the above picture, package "Package1" has precedence over "Package2" and "Package2" has precedence over "Package3".

When enabling Connection Groups from Server

In the above picture, package "App1" has precedence over "App2" and "App2" has precedence over "App3".

Virtual Environment (VE)

Once a Connection Group is enabled, applications from the packages forming this Connection Group are launched in the Virtual Environment of the Connection Group. The VE of the Connection Group is identified by the Group ID and the Group Version ID.

Connection Group Priority

Packages can exist in multiple connection groups. The VE that an app from such a package belongs to is determined by the priority specified in the connection group descriptor document. Connection Group priority is identified by the "Priority" attribute of the "AppConnectionGroup" element in the Connection Group Descriptor document.

Launch Order

A virtual application is launched in the VE of the connection group it belongs to, even when the parent process is a virtual process belonging to a different connection group or package. When the package belongs to multiple connection groups, the app is launched in the connection group with the lower number for priority.

Example:

· App1.exe in Package App1: Writes to console

· App2.exe in Package App2: Writes to console

· App3.exe in Package App3: Writes to console

· App4.exe in Package App4: Writes to console and launch App1.exe via shortcut on desktop

· Connection Group Group1 (Priority: 1): App1, App2, App3

· Connection Group Group2 (Priority: 2): App3, App4

1. Launch App1.exe: Launches in VE of Group1

2. Launch App2.exe: Launches in VE of Group1

3. Launch App3.exe: Launches in VE of Group1

4. Launch App4.exe: Launches in VE of Group2. Child process App1.exe launches in Group1

Note: If Group1 and Group2 had the same priority, launching App3.exe would fail.

User Settings

User settings from member packages will not be propagated to Connection Groups. Similarly, once the Connection Group is disabled, user settings from the Connection Group will not be propagated to the member packages.

Example: Consider a Connection Group with Firefox, Silverlight and Adobe Flash as member packages. Add/Publish the Firefox package. Start Firefox and set www.bing.com as the homepage. Add/Publish Silverlight and Adobe Flash packages and enable a connection group containing Firefox, Silverlight and Adobe packages. When you start Firefox again, www.bing.com will not be the home page unless it was set during sequencing. Set www.Microsoft.com as the new homepage. After disabling the connection group and re-launching Firefox, the home page will be www.bing.com.

Creating a custom Event Log to assist with troubleshooting

Posted: 14 Nov 2012 06:13 AM PST

This post describes how to use the Windows Custom Event log option to create an event log that shows only events from Citrix components; very useful during troubleshooting scenarios.