[THIN] Re: MetaFrame XP upgrade to Presentation Server
- From: "Carl Stalhood" <cstalhood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 07:09:40 -0500
Mixing PS 3.0 and PS 4.0 seems to work without problems but I suspect that
mixing XP would require the creation of an
additional zone like we did when mixing XP and PS 3.0.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
BRUTON, Malcolm, FM
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:27 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: MetaFrame XP upgrade to Presentation Server
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
-----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
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