XenApp 6 just doesn't install on anything except Windows Server 2008 R2. XenApp 5 and MPS 4 servers refuse to join the Xen6 farms (they report no server farms found). I could create a separate legacy farm, but I was trying to avoid the added overhead...if that's the easiest way, though, it's not a problem.
On 5 May 2010 16:12, Tom Miller <tmil...@hnncsb.org> wrote: > Note sure if this is similar, but in my XenApp farm, Windows 2008 x64, I > have a single Windows 2003 server as part of the farm for our legacy > clinical application. That application has many components and is quite a > monster. I installed XenApp on that server, it calls itself XenApp, but > it seems like Presentation Server to me. That does not matter though. I > do all the admin from the 2008 servers though. This way users get the > application, it runs isolated on its own server, and I can patch/update it > as needed. > > I am running XenApp 5. You can't add an 2003 server to a XenApp 6 farm? > Sorry no experience there but can't you just in that case create a separate > farm and allow users to authenticate to both (I do this on older farms)? > > Tom > > >>> James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com> 5/5/2010 10:39 AM >>> > > We are in the process of migrating our Citrix 4.5 x86 Windows 2003 R2 farm > to a brand new, Windows 2008 R2 XenApp 6 x64 environment. All is going > swimmingly well...until a couple of departments remind us that they have > some old apps that are vitally important to them they'd like including in > the new deployment. All this after they forgot to mention it in the initial > systems analysis and only two days before go-live....the lack of > communication is an issue I'm not looking for advice on. > > The issue I am concerned with is how to get these apps into the new > environment. Naturally, they won't install on x64 servers or 2008. Because > we're using XenApp 6 we can't join either MPS 4.5 or XenApp 5 servers to the > farm, which would have been handy as we could have built an x86 server and > published these apps on it. So I thought I'd fire up another server, install > the Citrix Streaming Profiler and virtualize them as streamed applications > to the new environment. No dice there either. The first of these problem > apps uses a huge set of patches that have to be deployed through a > vendor-specific patching tool, and this causes the profiler to crash. Same > with the second app - it uses some strange installer procedures and the > profiler fails when running it. So I am kind of at a dead end. > > The only other thing I can think of is using App-V, but I'm worried that > this will a) put me back a few days as I learn how to use it, and b) could > possibly fail in the same way as the Citrix Profiler solution. There's also > the problem of learning how to integrate XenApp 6 and App-V, which I am sure > can be done but which I have no experience of. Either way, it seems a bit > tricky. > > Does anyone else have any bright ideas that might help out? Could I use RDP > connections to a virtual x86 server with these apps on and use Terminal > Services to "publish" applications in the same way as Citrix does, without > the hassle of the incompatible farms in Citrix? Or is there some better way > of virtualizing application access, or indeed any other way I could achieve > this in the small timeframe I have been left with? All ideas, hints, tips > and suggestions are gratefully accepted. > > TIA, > > > > JRR > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > > > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is > for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential > and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. > > > > > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
