EverardSingh
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Installing Citrix PS 4.5 in Existing 4.0 Farm
Hi,
I am looking for some suggestions for the following:
I have an existing CPS4.0 Farm with 2 servers with load balance running in Windows 2003 AD environment. I would like to install and test CPS4.5 in the same environment. How can this be done without affecting the production CPS farm. I have considered creating a new CPS4.5 farm and reallocating few CPS licenses into a different license server. Is this the appropriate way to go about doing this? Any thought or suggestion will be appreciated.
Thanks!
Everard
I am looking for some suggestions for the following:
I have an existing CPS4.0 Farm with 2 servers with load balance running in Windows 2003 AD environment. I would like to install and test CPS4.5 in the same environment. How can this be done without affecting the production CPS farm. I have considered creating a new CPS4.5 farm and reallocating few CPS licenses into a different license server. Is this the appropriate way to go about doing this? Any thought or suggestion will be appreciated.
Thanks!
Everard
BLipman
You can install a new farm and test it with an Admin account. I believe Admins can run unlicensed for testing. Or, get some NFR or eval licenses from your local Citrix rep. They will love the contact and ability to try selling you stuff.
ASKER
I did install a new farm and ported few licenses to the new PS4.5 farm. However, the new farm is somehow interfering with the old farm in production. I have ica clients specifically pointed to the main server in the old farm but still the client gets hung with error "can not find metaframe server, there is no metaframe server configured at the specified address". When I unplug the new PS4.5 server from the domain (lan connection) everything starts working fine.
The old farm has two citrix servers in load balancing and something new started happening since all this - Users are getting authentication prompt to log into the second citrix server when they access program that are published on the second server. ( I do have some programs that are published on just one server.)
Everard
The old farm has two citrix servers in load balancing and something new started happening since all this - Users are getting authentication prompt to log into the second citrix server when they access program that are published on the second server. ( I do have some programs that are published on just one server.)
Everard
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so can u have 4.0 and 4.5 servers coexisting under the same farm ?
Yes, I did this when I was upgrading my farm. I started with just one 4.5 server and moved some apps to it. Then, a week later, I upgraded the remaining boxes to 4.5.
Blipman, You said
"a week later, I upgraded the remaining boxes to 4.5"
Can you elaborate on how you did the upgrading of 4.0 boxes? How did you point the users to the new 4.5 server on a flat-network?
"a week later, I upgraded the remaining boxes to 4.5"
Can you elaborate on how you did the upgrading of 4.0 boxes? How did you point the users to the new 4.5 server on a flat-network?