[THIN] Re: 4.0 to 4.5 questions
- From: "Matthew McComas" <mmccomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:35:11 -0600
Great post...thanks a lot. Our implementation may be easier than for
some others since we do not publish a desktop but just seamless
applications through the WI, but just the same, I will surely have a
test farm before I begin to deploy things.
Thanks,
MM
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of M
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:20 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [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 <mailto:mmccomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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