[THIN] Re: 4.0 to 4.5 questions

My little bit of input .....

As well as what has been mentioned and depending on your Farm components / 
design.

Always test first before introducing to your live Farm. Have you got a test 
farm to test with ?

The majority of the CMC functions have moved to the AMC and this can be quite 
confusing if you havent used it before.
Some functions still remain in the PS 4.5 CMC - Installation Manager Package 
deployment, Load Evaluators, Printer settings,RM Summary Database settings, 
Isolation Environments , Some Zone settings remain as well.

If you use Resource Manager update your RM server before your application 
servers.
Also be aware of the following with PS 4.5 RM 
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX113003&printable=true

Keep the PS 4.5 servers in seperate Zones from the PS 4 servers. Dedicate ZDCs 
if you can ( depends on farm size / design etc etc)

Test your Applications first with PS 4.5 Rollup 1. Rollup 1 breaks some 
applications and you may get issues with applications that cover the taskbar. 
Post Rollup 1 patches fix these issues. The Citrix foums have lots of 
interesting posts about broken applications. Review the Post Rollup 1 hotfixes.

Installation Manager is broken with PS 4.5 . Rollup 1 also needs a private 
hotfix if your pushing MSI files with transforms and / or you have an IM 
account with a large number of characters or the password has non std 
characters (this didnt get fixed properly in rollup 1). Read the Rollup 1 read 
me as well.

Applications published in the PS 4.5 Access Management Console cannot be 
modified by the PS 4 CMC. You also cant drag a published app created in the PS 
4.5 AMC to a server in the PS 4 CMC.

PS 4.5 Policies have new features that arent visible in the PS 4 CMC. Check out 
the Speedscreen options (lossy compression).

Make sure you check the PS 4.5 Load evaluators in the PS 4.5 CMC. These have 
Load Throttling enabled and this isnt visible in the PS 4 CMC. 
The default load throttling settings can cause some interesting results at 
logon time.

If your using 64 bit 2003 + PS 4.5 the hotfixes release dates can lag a bit 
behind the 32 bit versions.

Have fun.... i did


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Matthew McComas 
  To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:21 PM
  Subject: [THIN] 4.0 to 4.5 questions


  Greetings:

   

  According to the Citrix web site upgrading from CPS 4.0 to 4.5 appears to be 
very seamless.I have a few questions however that perhaps one of you can answer:

   

  1.       When you install CPS 4.5 on a server and join it to the CPS 4.0 farm 
does it upgrade the CPS 4.0 database in any way?

  2.       Rather than having a big upgrade weekend, I was considering building 
a 4.5 image, and just rolling it out to our servers a few at a time, until all 
are converted.  At what point should the ZDC be upgraded, or does this even 
matter?

  3.       Are there any other "gotchas" we should be aware of when planning 
the deployment?  (BTW - our farm is running on Server 2003 R2 / fully patched 
up)

   

  Thanks,

   

  Matt McComas

  Information Technology

  Westdale Asset Management, Ltd.

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