There are a lot of really cool features in the new release i cant wait to test them out:

One feature i am really missing is pass-through, for many customers it is not really acceptable to have the users type in username and password more than once, and i guess implementing Password Manager to solve this is not really an option

With the new release of the Receiver for windows the supported list of plug-ins has also grown:

I hope to find time to write a full hands-on review after i get back from Florida, but for now it is available from the download-section of MyCitrix. You can find it here: https://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/results.asp?productID=1689163 (You need to log in to MyCitrix)

Will do a hands-on review at first possible opportunity.

Rene Vester

Another major problem with this memory leak is that even when the service is no longer working as intended the service still listens on port 443, so a load balanced setup will not be able to detect the problem.

Read more on Shawn’s blog here: http://www.shawnbass.com/Blogs/tabid/58/EntryId/164/Beware-of-Secure-Gateway-v3-1-1-it-has-a-major-memory-leak-that-will-take-down-your-WI-SG-environment.aspx

Also if you need to downgrade be aware of the known security vulnerability in 3.1.

Rene Vester

So what is inside the Paint by numbers kit for webinterface customization? Well there is a description on how to turn your webinterface into en easier on the eye colorscheme. What i did was to take my standard normal 5.0 webinterface and paint it white. So now it looks like this:

I added my company’s logo through the standard management console and i now have a more neutral webinterface. It is in my oppinion a lot easier on the eye and alot easier to get in sync with the company colors and branding. Citrix provided new graphics for the animated loading page so that everything fits the same scheme.

As always everyone wants their webinterface to fit their personal needs, so this means that Webinterface is constantly in focus when it comes to nationalizing. And earlier Brian Madden updated a list of language-packs supplied for Webinterface, but i couldnt seem to find it when i was looking just now.

However i did a simple danish translation of the first major things, and i am leaning towards not translating the error messages as it will mostly confuse the administrators and the supports.

The files needed to edit and create your own language files are all placed in C:\program files\citrix\Web interface\languages.

The end result for me is this, when it comes to danish, this could be in any language that makes more sense to you

Give it a try, if you guys are interested i will gladly host a list of files with reference to the translator for each set of language files.

Rene Vester

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References:

PimpMyXenApp
My Home Lab

I do not know if Citrix could tell the future and wanted to support the upcoming President Obama, or whatever their reason was, but as many of you might already .. the webinterface is now black! its been given a great new and updated look and feel, but very few customers actually use blue and black as the corporate colours. So, as part of the new strategy to help the community share what they learn Citrix did a new website called www.pimpmyxenapp.com.

So what is PimpMyXenApp?

PimpMyXenApp.com is really community platform when you can get a glimpse of what others have done with Webinterface, you are able to download the Paint By Numbers Kit so that you yourself can work with your webinterface, or even better have a professional Webdeveloper do magic for your corporate webinterface.

At the site there is also a link to the Webinterface SDK support forum so you share and discuss with other members of the community who are looking to change the webinterface.

And i must say.. Webinterface can be tweak in alot of ways, and one of the most crazy i have seen is from Jason Conger, have a look at this video.

I just wanted to show that the Webinterface can be a lot more than just the black elegant look which is the standard, but it takes a bit of time and effort. Hopefully we will see alot of templates for Webinterface. It would be cool if we could have a template frenzy like it has been seen on opensource blogs like wordpress and what not.

Maybe Citrix will make it even easier to distribute the templates, we will see..

Rene Vester

Daniel Feller at Citrix made a set of Visio stencils and they can be downloaded here:

http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/danielf/2008/07/03/Visio+Stencils+for+the+Citrix+Dynamic+Delivery+Center

/René Vester

I was happy to find that Citrix has recently released the fix for Webinterface 4.5 as well, so good job Citrix ?

I have used the fix for WI 4.0 several times and without bugs or issues and today also implemented the fix on a Webinterface 4.5 and it seems to be just as easy to implement as the previous versions.

/René Vester

 Citrix has updated the KB article about this with a usable Work around for this problem.

 The Problem is that the Access Suite Management console isnt working with the create site and other options when .Net Framework 2.0 is installed on the server running the console.

This is the new solution from Citrix:

Symptoms

The Access Suite Console is no longer able to properly communicate with Web Interface. The option to Create Sites is no longer available in the Common Tasks Pane of the Access Suite Console, and running discovery reports a warning which states “Could not contact any Web Interface configuration servers.”

Causes

This is caused by installing Microsoft .NET 2.0 on a Web Interface 4.0 server.

WorkAround

Remove .NET version 2.0.

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Create a file called “mmc.exe.config” in the \Windows\system32 directory and add the following lines to the file. You should be able to open the Access Suite Console without any further problems.

Please refer to: http://knowledgebase.citrix.com/article/CTX108104 for updates.

Nicely found Khaos!

 /LamerSmurf

In Webinterface 4.0 there has been a small change, the template.ica has been changed to default.ica. The Format of the file has also been changed however we can continue to use our old legacy files with the note that all sections named [NFUSE_XXX] will not be read.

/René