Citrix updates

Due to the recent complaints with Citrix performance,  I decided to take the plunge, even though risky, to try and apply some patches to the Citrix servers.

Unfortunately, after applying a few hotfixes to the Citrix servers, I found out that the Citrix license server is out of date, and apparently, the same hotfixes that are applied to the Citrix application servers aren’t the same ones that can be applied to the license server. As a result, the Citrix servers started reporting that the license server is unavailable.

Due to the fact that we don’t have Citrix support, and MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.0 has come to end of life back in September of 2009, I am unable to download any additional software for it, aside from what we currently have.

Since the updates failed I was forced to roll back the hotfixes. From this point forward, I think it is to our advantage to think of a serious, and quick path out of Citrix, and into a solution that is more viable and supported.

The infrastructure for VMware View is coming to fruition, and I am starting to work on getting some View workstations to run Aeries. However, this will only be running Aeries power users, the rest, may either have to try and put up with Citrix, move to a Terminal Services configuration (lots of work and resources required for this), or move regular users to Aeries .NET.

For the time being, I managed to install all the critical Windows updates on all the servers, at least this should help with security holes, and small bug fixes.

I have tested all 7 servers, and they are all functioning normally.  after the updates.

• This change was made on 03/31/2010 @ 23:30