Hotfix package name: DSCXACmd650WX64004.zip
For: Computers running XenApp 6.5 for Windows Server 2008 R2
Replaces: All previous versions
Date: December, 2014
Languages supported: English (US), German (DE), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Japanese (JA), Simplified Chinese (SC)
Readme version: 1.00

Readme Revision History

Important Notes about This Release

• Upgrading to this release disables the Citrix XenApp Commands Remoting Service. To continue using the service, set the service state to Automatic and restart the service.
• Caution! This release may require you to edit the registry. Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Citrix cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

Important Disclaimer - Limited Release Hotfix

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Testing of this release was targeted only at the affected functionality, and regression and stress testing were minimal. Introduce this release to a test environment for evaluation before deploying it to a production environment.

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Where to Find Documentation

This document describes the issue(s) resolved by this release and includes installation instructions. For additional product information, see Citrix eDocs, the Citrix Product Documentation Library.

New Fixes in This Release

1. With Fix #LA4682 applied, when setting the group policy filter based on worker group, if the user tries to select a worker group in the "Select a worker group" window, a subfolder with the same name as the selected worker group might be created automatically.

   [From DSCXACmd650WX64004][#LC1123]

Fixes from Replaced Hotfixes

1. This fix removes Help references to the deprecated Set-XAServerLoadEvaluator and Reset-XAServerLoadEvaluator cmdlets.

   [From DSCXACmd650WX64001][#LA0782]

2. The Get-XASession PowerShell command, used without the -full argument, incorrectly returns a 32-bit color depth.

   [From DSCXACmd650WX64001][#LA1126]

3. This release introduces a new Windows Store application called XenApp Manager. XenApp Manager is a lightweight XenApp 6.5 management app that allows XenApp administrators to monitor a XenApp 6.5 farm as well as to disconnect or reset active XenApp sessions. This release enables a new WCF endpoint in the Citrix XenApp Commands Remoting Service. XenApp Manager uses this new endpoint to communicate with the XenApp server using WCF. The new endpoint listens on the same TCP port, 2513, as the existing WCF endpoint.

   To use this application, install this hotfix on at least one XenApp 6.5 server in the farm, and then configure XenApp Manager to communicate with this particular XenApp server.

   The new endpoint is needed to overcome limitations in the WCF client framework available to Windows Store applications. A twin of the existing endpoint “net.tcp://{server}:2513/Citrix/XenAppCommands� but with the “Reliable Session� flag cleared, this endpoint listens at “net.tcp://{server}:2513/Citrix/XenAppCommandsAlt�.

   [From DSCXACmd650WX64001][#LA2778]

4. Attempts to publish certain applications using New-XAApplication can fail, resulting in the following unhandled exception:

   "System.NotSupportedException: Data is not in ICO format"

   [From DSCXACmd650WX64002][#LA2075]

5. Running the Get-XAFolder PowerShell command might return incorrect results.

   [From DSCXACmd650WX64002][#LA4682]

6. Attempts to publish an application that has a 64x64 bit icon by using the PowerShell SDK can fail and an exception occurs.

   [From DSCXACmd650WX64003][#LA5015]

Installing and Uninstalling this Release

Notes:

• This release is packaged as a .zip file containing the replacement Citrix.XenApp.Commands.Install_x64.msi. For more information about deploying msi files, see Microsoft article 884016 or visit the Microsoft Web site and search on keyword msiexec.
• Caution: Downgrades, also known as rollbacks, from this upgrade are not supported and might leave your systems in an unstable state. This upgrade does not patch the existing installation - it fully replaces it with a new installation. As a result, uninstalling this package removes the entire component from the computer. If the need arises to revert to an earlier version of the product, you must uninstall this package and then reinstall the earlier version of the product. Reverting to an earlier version of the product might result in the loss of settings you configure while this upgrade is installed.
• To install this package successfully, target computers must not have registry modification restrictions in place.
• This hotfix might or might not prompt you to restart the server when the installation or uninstallation is complete. You must restart the server for the installation to complete.
• If the need arises to restore the original settings and functionality provided by this hotfix, you must uninstall the hotfix before reinstalling it according to the installation instructions below.

To install this hotfix:

1. Copy the file to a shared folder on the network.
2. Extract the compressed file and save the Citrix.XenApp.Commands.Install_x64.msi file on the computer you want to update.
3. Run the .msi file.
4. Restart the computer.

To uninstall this hotfix:

1. From the Start menu, select Settings > Control Panel.
2. In Control Panel, double-click Add/Remove Programs.
3. Highlight the hotfix you want to uninstall and click Remove.
4. Follow the directions on-screen.