[THIN] Re: MetaFrame XP upgrade to Presentation Server
- From: "BRUTON, Malcolm, FM" <Malcolm.BRUTON@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:27:01 +0100
Again I concur
Citrix apparently supports running any version of XP and MPS3 and PS4 in the
same farm. Personally I think that not the best idea in the world but they
do support it. I would migrate all servers over a short period of time to
the same version.
Malcolm
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Carl Stalhood
Sent: 09 June 2005 00:27
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [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 <mailto:dmelczer@xxxxxxxx>
-----Original Message-----
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 <mailto:dmelczer@xxxxxxxx>
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