[THIN] Re: MetaFrame XP upgrade to Presentation Server

Actually, that's not true. I've mixed PS 3.0 and PS 4.0 in several farms now 
with no issue. This really is no different
than previous upgrades and if you find a Citrix support person that has thought 
this through he or she will tell you the
same thing. This all started with an incorrectly written readme. The readme has 
now been updated but it is still a
little misleading:

 

MetaFrame Service Pack 2005.4 Required on Servers Running MetaFrame 
Presentation Server 3.0 

Citrix supports mixing servers running MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 and 
4.0 in the same farm. Citrix recommends
that you update your servers running MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 to 
Service Pack 2005.04. If all servers in the
farm cannot be updated with the service pack, update the data collector and the 
farm metric server, in that order.
[#109701]

http://support.citrix.com/kb/entry.jspa?entryID=6211
<http://support.citrix.com/kb/entry.jspa?entryID=6211&categoryID=619> 
&categoryID=619 

 

It makes absolutely no sense to update all servers to 2005.04 and not enable PS 
4.0 if you already have the licenses
since they are the same binaries. What makes an admin decide to install 2005.04 
but not PS 4.0 since they are the same
thing? Like I said, it is a poorly written readme.

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
DMelczer@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 10:56 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: MetaFrame XP upgrade to Presentation Server

 

Thanks for the response, Chad...this was the way we were leaning and your 
confirmation puts it over the top...and I did
some additional research, and multiple farms can be accessed through the old 
NFuse interface.

 

-Dave Melczer

dmelczer@xxxxxxxx

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Schneider, Chad M
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 11:44 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: MetaFrame XP upgrade to Presentation Server

PS 4.0, should not co-exist with even ps 3.0, unless it has the SP on it, which 
basically makes 3.0 into 4.0, without
the features.

 

I would, and am, creating a new farm for  PS 4.0.

 


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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
DMelczer@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 10:18 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] MetaFrame XP upgrade to Presentation Server

Been away for a while due to changing responsibilities, but recently I have 
been tasked with taking an existing Windows
2000, MF XP 1.0 FR2 server farm and upgrading everything to new boxes, Windows 
2003, and Citrix Presentation Manager 4.0
(the latest and greatest available).  

 

From what I have been reading, if I want to drop the new PM 4.0 servers into 
the existing farm, I would need to upgrade
the existing XP servers to FR3 first.  Is this recommended, or would it be 
better to create a new datastore and a new
farm?  

 

The big problem here comes in that whatever solution is selected, the machines 
would have to be available through our
current NFuse 1.1 interface (running an old copy of Columbia for the "enhanced" 
functionality).  Would our current
secure gateway implementation be able to access multiple farms?

 

Thanks in advance for any insight anyone can provide.

 

-Dave Melczer

dmelczer@xxxxxxxx

 



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