Communication Ports Used by Citrix Technologies *updated

Fred Donovan from Citrix have updated the whitepaper – Communication Ports Used by Citrix Technologies to version 1.5 (April 2011)

Overview

This document provides an overview of ports that are used by Citrix components and must be considered as part of Virtual Computing architecture, especially if communication traffic traverses network components such as firewalls or proxy servers, where ports must be opened to ensure communication flow.

References

The assignments are listed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), updated regularly, and revised when new information is available and new assignments are made. The specific location of the port numbers list is available at the following Web site: http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers.

Microsoft Article “Network Ports Used by Key Microsoft Server Products”.

Microsoft Article ID 832017 “Service overview and network port requirements for the Windows Server system”.

Download WhitePaper – Communication Ports Used by Citrix Technologies here

How to Configure Dazzle for Use with XenApp/XenDesktop and Provisioning Services

I noticed an great Citrix article that Alexander Ervik Johnsen (ervik.as) have pointed to: CTX124932, that i wanna share with you also but i have some thoughts i wanna add to it.

Citrix® Dazzle is the  first self-service “storefront” for enterprise applications. Dazzle  gives corporate employees 24×7 self-service access to a broad array of applications, desktops and content, allowing them to choose exactly what they need, when they need it.

My thoughts:
Citrix® Dazzle is the perfect match with Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop, the article was made, how to best practise implement Citrix® Dazzle in an XenDesktop enviroment. 

Citrix have made an article http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/index.jsp?topic=/dazzle-arran/daz-win-configure-xa-for-dazzle.html, how to “Configure XenApp for the Optimum Dazzle user Experience”,  but i think CTX124932 is also suitable  for configuring Dazzle with XenApp in a Citrix Provisioning Service environment.

Please note that Citrix Dazzle requires Citrix Reciever and the user behaviour is soon changed. 
Citrix release soon Citrix Merchandise 2.0 and Citrix Reciever 2.0, where its possible to distribute a Citrix Reciever without users have to be prompted, the current  Merchandise 1.2 and Citrix Reciever 1.2 requires the users to provide their credentials “first time”, Citrix have listen to the end customers and changed the behavior in the upcoming release.