[THIN] My upgrade of Citrix Presentation Server Web Interface 4.5 to Xenapp Web Interface 5.01
- From: "Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms" <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: THIN <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 20:19:35 -0500
Hi All,
Just wanted to pass along my experience today of upgrading our external
Citrix web interface from PS 4.5 to XA 5.01.
For the most part I was pleasantly suprised with the ease of it and how well
it went. I am still figuring out some of the new file structures and
customizations but I will pass those tidbits along as I figure them out.
I started by downloading the Citrix Xenapp 5.01 Web interface file from
Mycitrix.com and then made a backup copy of my program files\citrix folder
and my Inetpub\www folder just in case things went terribly wrong.
Needless to say the documentation for 5.1 was rather lacking. There was a
paragraph in the XA 5 admin guide saying you could upgrade from 4.5 to 5 but
good luck finding anything else out there. So I gave it a whirl, I closed
all apps on the server stopped the antivirus and my WI website in IIS and
ran the WI 5.01 executable. It immediately crapped out because it did not
find the Xenapp 5.01 console installed on the server. So I had to go back
out to MyCitrix and find the Web Interface Console installation files.
After some searching I finally pegged them down. I downloaded and had to
unzip them to run the executable. I ran the Console installation, nexted
through it with defaults and all seemed well.
Next I ran the WI installation executable. I chose defaults on all that and
nexted through the prompts. Went back to IIS restarted my website and
restarted my antivirus and jumped on another machine to see how it looked.
Well WI came up and it is a simple black login screen. So I ran the WI
console and went through the choices, played around a little bit and made
some modifications. This version of WI doesn't use the include files in the
same way as 4.5 and has a little bit different directory structure but the
new version of the console setup for the website does allow for some
additional configurations of color and html links in it. This weekend I
will poke around and check on Thomas' site to see what I need to do to get
my headers and footers back and pretty it up but the site is running just
fine.
It was an easy upgrade, no problems except for the console surprise. WI 5
seems to load the apps faster and I tested it out on my Tmobile dash to see
if it detects the mobile version and it indeed does. Now I just got to get
the ICA client working on my dash and I can have my office with me in my
pocket wherever I go!
Jim Kenzig
Blog: http://www.techblink.com
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