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If You Could Wave a Magic Wand...

Written on Jul 18 2008 224 views, 29 comments


by The Official Citrix Blog

If you could wave a magic wand and have any one single feature in the next release of Citrix XenApp, what would it be? While XenApp has literally hundreds of features that have been added over the last 10 years as the product has evolved from MetaFrame Read More...

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Comments

d carey wrote It's all about the client
on 07-19-2008 3:14 PM

For me, rather than going on about new features here and there, I'd be happy if the features we had were a little bit more robust.  Number one

d carey wrote Re: It's all about the client
on 07-19-2008 3:16 PM

No 1,....Other than me typing properly would have to be a stable ica client.

Guest wrote Higher user density
on 07-19-2008 8:45 PM

Each release of Metaframe, CPS and now XenApp takes up more and more memory. How about more users? Remember the original goal? Lower TCO! What happened to that?

William Kellogg wrote Live migration -
on 07-21-2008 6:08 AM

of active sessions

Guest wrote Administration feature
on 07-21-2008 8:04 AM

Live migration of individual sessions would be an incredible feature for administrators but it wouldn't help sell the product to the end users.

Guest wrote Voting in this poll
on 07-21-2008 8:43 AM

If you would like to vote in this poll, you need to visit the original post at the Citrix blog.community.citrix.com/.../p>Barry Flanagan

Guest wrote Move users
on 07-21-2008 8:59 AM

An ability to move user's live sessions between servers

Mark Prigg wrote Re: Live migration -
on 07-21-2008 11:25 AM

Yes, that would be my choice too  ...from an administrator perspective.

Mark Prigg wrote Re: Administration feature
on 07-21-2008 11:28 AM

Couldn't you dress it up as a performance \ stability feature of some kind that directly impacts users?  If you had a user hogging server resource, to the detriment of the other users on the server, moving that session elsewhere would improve user performance.

Guest wrote Repair feature
on 07-21-2008 5:33 PM

Citrix Universal Printer Driver online repair tool

Norvin L wrote Live Migration of User sessions and...
on 07-22-2008 12:35 AM

server cloning utility (perhaps a cloning prep and post-cloning utility), and a built-in User-Profile Manager.

Guest wrote Re: Live Migration of User sessions and...
on 07-22-2008 12:51 AM

A server cloning utility will be released next week by Shannon Ma of Citrix.  Also Citrix just aquired technology from Spegato so give it time on the profiles.What I would like to see is Citrix fix all the little nuances... The need for multiple console to setup something simple like a new load-balance is wierd.  Or better yet, how about the ability to publish and unpublish multiple applications from the GUI. (that has to be the most hated non-feature of PS).  How about true USB redirection?  Stable ICA Client.  Better documentation on troubleshooting hooks (multi-monitor for example). Joe Shonk

Guest wrote Better QA
on 07-22-2008 5:21 AM

Not just XenApp....but better quality code across the product range, specifically Access Gateway (Advanced and Enterprise), ICA Clients and XenApp.Make sure the current stuff is more stable rather than adding new features which rock the whole boat!!!

Dennis Smith wrote Intergrated Powerfuse
on 07-22-2008 9:20 AM

I've build many environments, and I've seen a few customers throwing out virtualization.So when Citrix bought Xen, I was amazed, because even with todays hardware its not really a logical combination. Hosting a XenApp server with 50 users on a hyperfyser just doesn't perform. Things I would do when I was CEO of Citrix:<br />-Sell Xen<br />-Buy RES (PowerFuse, Wisdom)<br />-Foces less on product presenation and sales, and more on technical quality of the products.<br />-Stick to names of products for longer than two years.<br />-Start with a complete new, non-backward compatible, build of XenAppBut hey, who am I :)

Dennis Smith wrote agree with this:
on 07-22-2008 9:24 AM

And I totaly agree with this:"Make sure the current stuff is more stable rather than adding new features which rock the whole boat!!!" 

Guest wrote Network independence
on 07-23-2008 6:24 AM

The ability to maintain a good quality, responsive ICA connection, independant of network latency, network disconnects or any server performance issues.  This obviously does not fit the architecture of Terminal Services, but....you asked for magic.

Guest wrote Printer nameing customization
on 07-23-2008 10:26 AM

When dealing with software like PowerBuilder, you are limited to 32 character name lengths for printers, otherwise you can't print.  It would be nice to be able to set the naming format of the UPD client printers when they are created on the server.  I know you can us "Legacy" naming format, but from what I understand that breaks other things, like SmoothRoam.On the subject of printers, why did they change it so that every user can "see" every other users printers.  If you are like us, each user has like 5-10 printers.  That's a lot of printers to see when you got 40 users on a server.  I long for the old days of Metaframe XP when each user only saw his/her own printers.So I guess that it TWO things I would change, not one.  I guess my magic wand has 2 charges in it.

Guest wrote Right click -> Create ICA file
on 07-23-2008 4:45 PM

Bring back the ability to create ICA files from the management console

Guest wrote suspicious
on 07-24-2008 7:50 AM

Brian:Why are you limiting your poll to these specific categories? This sound slike something Citrix would do.Are you getting paid from Citrix to do this?Citrix needs to quit marketing hype for the half baked features.

Guest wrote User profile management
on 07-24-2008 8:31 AM

Some kind of built-in user profile management functionality would be ace. Citrix might argue that its Microsofts job to come up with a decent profile solution but that hasn't stopped a host of 3rd party WTS offerings...

Guest wrote Re: suspicious
on 07-24-2008 1:09 PM

This is a poll on the Citrix site, Brian is just providing a link to it. Got to the actual Citrix post and you will see that additional items are being added as contributors suggest them.

Guest wrote Re: Printer nameing customization
on 07-24-2008 5:51 PM

If you give everyone admin rights on the box of course you are going to see everyone's printer...  Otherwise you should NOT see everyones printer.  Sounds like a environment specific issue and not a citrix issue.

Guest wrote Re: Right click -> Create ICA file
on 07-24-2008 5:52 PM

Why?  That methodology will take you back the dark ages.  Time to move forward.

Guest wrote Re: User profile management
on 07-24-2008 5:54 PM

Are you not up on the latest news?  Citrix bought SpegatoProfiles.