Published Applications Utility

Product Details

Description

Download and try Published Applications Utility for free without registration!

Published Applications Utility is part of FASe, and can be downloaded on the FASe product page.

Features

Application management Disaster recovery Migration aid Detailed log Help file
Application management   All the options below can be applied to a large number of applications at once: Saving applications. Loading applications. Exporting icons. Export application details to CSV file. Export server details to CSV file. Renaming applications. Renaming application description. Find and replace in the command line. Find and replace in the working directory. Adding server(s) to applications. Removing server(s) from applications. Load server list. Save server list. Adding group(s) to applications. Removing group(s) from applications. Add/remove groups to or from applications. See what applications a group has rights on. Change application shortcut presentation. Change application client options. Change application appearance. Change access control.
Disaster Recovery Saving your applications regularly can avoid disaster. Is case of datastore troubles, your applications are back in no time!
Migration aid If you start PAU in farm A, export your applications to files. Run PAU in farm B, and import your applications. This can save your hours of work creating the applications manually. Saving your applications can be useful to migrate, or to set up a development/acceptance/test environment. This way you can easy generate a ‘production like’ test environment.
Detailed log Every significant action is logged to the log file. It’s very advisable to read the log before applying changes to the datastore. Sometimes actions are not possible because accounts are missing. Viewing the log is also a good way to determine your actions are carried out the way you have planned it before you save your changes to the datastore.
Help file Published Applications Utility comes with a extensive help file. The help file is categorized and searchable. Each operation is explained in detail, and it is highly recommended you read it. If you encouter problems not listed in here, you can allways visit the forums.

System requirements

• .NET framework 2.0 (comes with presentation server 4.5)
• Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 or 4.5 with rollup pack 1 installed.
• windows server 2003 32bit
• A domain/active directory
• A Citrix ‘full administrator’ account

Demonstration Videos

Click on the links below to get a demonstration movie on:

• Group manipulation
• Server manipulation
• Disable/hiding applications
• Exporting CSV
• Finding and replacing
• Saving applications

Testimonials

Currently many companies are using Published Applications Utility among those:

H.B. Haug:
We use PAU for administering two different farms and it saves us a lot of time and I really mean a LOT.

Just a small task (in talking) like removing or adding one or more servers to several published applications takes a lot of mouse clicks and a serious amount of time. Using PAU this is done very fast.

Creating a group of test applications is now piece of cake thanks to the ability to mass-edit applications.

This product is really great and definitely worth a try.

Notluf:
PAU rescue story.
I've been using PAU for PS 4.5 for a few weeks now and I really like it. It is nice to be able to recover a deleted application and not have to try to remember permissions, users, audio on/off, etc... It really is a nice utility.

I was tinkering with my Citrix farm at my house when I wanted to play with streaming an application from one server to another. Yes, server to server streaming is possible. So I installed SQL and did the usual "dsmaint /migrate" stuff and then changed the farm to point to the new datastore.

It all looked like it migrated okay until I logged into the web interface only to discover no applications. Crap, I had an empty datastore. No big deal, I'll revert back to the Access database. No such luck, for some reason it was now empty too. Go figure, I didn't back it up; it is just my 'play' farm I use for learning. Well, I learned some stuff today.

I changed the farm back to the SQL server and was about to begin the long process of redeploying my apps when I saw the PAU icon on the desktop. (Cue the icon of the light bulb over my head) I launched PAU and within five minutes had my new empty datastore populated with all of my applications, users, permissions, etc.... I didn't have to lift a finger. The farm is now working 100% as it was before but the datastore is SQL now.

Now I am off to play with server to server streaming. Thank you PAU!

Scott Hahn, Sr. Architect at Tri-Delta Resources:
I wanted to say thank you for an awesome tool. I am working on a project for a client (An international Food Producer) who runs their entire enterprise on Presentation Server. We decided to build a brand new 4.x farm to replace their XP farm, and were faced with dealing with Thousands of Apps to import, and change servers, Program neighbourhood Folder etc.
We used your tool to change the settings we needed. It worked awesome, and saved us DAYS of manual changes.
I look forward to the growth of the product, and future enhancements.

Reviews

W. Van Bragt made a nice review op Published Applications Utility: link.