Web Interface 5.2 Client deployment

Posted on February 24th, 2010

Web Interface 5.2 uses a different folder structure for auto client deployment.

During the installation of Web Interface it asks for the clients folder and copies this to the website location however if it copies from the clients folder on an older XenApp CD/DVD the copied structure is wrong and must be changed to work properly. Also if WI is upgraded from a previous version the structure is not changed.

However, If copied from the XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 CD the structure is correct, but most users would be upgrading from a previous version and therefore have to fix this afterwards.

The new folder structure is as follows:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\Web Interface\Version\Clients

* \de\Unix
Place the Clients for UNIX installation files (solaris.tar.Z, sol86.tar.Z) with German language support in this folder.

* \en\Unix
Place the Clients for UNIX installation files (solaris.tar.Z, sol86.tar.Z) with English language support in this folder.

* \es\Unix
Place the Clients for UNIX installation files (solaris.tar.Z, sol86.tar.Z) with Spanish language support in this folder.

* \fr\Unix
Place the Clients for UNIX installation files (solaris.tar.Z, sol86.tar.Z) with French language support in this folder.

* \ja\Unix
Place the Clients for UNIX installation files (solaris.tar.Z, sol86.tar.Z) with Japanese language support in this folder.

* \Java
Place the Client for Java files in this folder.

* \Linux
Place the Citrix Receiver for Linux installation file (linuxx86-11.0.140395.tar.gz) in this folder.

* \Mac\Web Online Plug-in
Place the Citrix online web plug-in for Macintosh installation file (Citrix online plug-in (web).dmg) in this folder.

* \Windows\Offline Plug-in
Place the Citrix offline plug-in installation file (CitrixOfflinePlugin.exe) in this folder.

* \Windows\Online Plug-in
Place the Citrix online plug-in web installation file (CitrixOnlinePluginWeb.exe) in this folder.

The following resources are useful:

Citrix Document Library:  To copy the client files to the Web Interface on Microsoft IIS

CTX123420: How to Deploy the CitrixOnlinePluginWeb.exe Client 11.2 on Web Interface 5.2

Innitech Blog: Web Interface 5.2 ICA Client Auto Deployment

Citrix Forum posts: Thread: How to auto deploy client from WI 5.2

Tags: 5.2, Client, deployment, plug-in, web interface
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Citrix ICA client build version numbers

Posted on May 18th, 2009

The Citrix Access Management Console gives the ability to show the client build number version for connected sessions and this is useful to see if you have any old clients out there. The version number displayed, however, is not how we would want to see it. It only displays the final build version and not the full client version. This is a list that I have derived from seeing these sessions and collating them:

• 7.0.17534.0
• 7.100.20497.0
• 8.0.24737
• 8.100.29670.0
• 9.0.32649.0
• 9.100.36280.0
• 9.150.39151.0
• 9.200.44376.0
• 9.230.50211
• 10.00.52110
• 10.100.55836
• 10.150.58643
• 10.200.2650
• 11.000.5357

If anyone has anymore to add to the list, please submit a comment.

UPDATE:

hmmm.. only a day after posting this, Citrix have provided an Article with the same information – CTX112613. Were they watching!.. Here is the pasted table from their doc:

Tags: AMC, build, build version, Citrix, Client, client build number, ica, ica client, report, version, XenApp
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New naming convention: XenApp Plugin for Hosted Apps v11 (i.e. client)

Posted on September 15th, 2008

The following table provides an easy guide to the new client software names introduced in the latest release of the Access Gateway and Citrix XenApp 5.0.

This is based on the naming convention for v11 of the XenApp Plugin (new name for the client).

Tags: Client, name, naming convention, v11, XenApp plugin
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