New mobile devices are being developed and hit the market one after the other, as a result the software able to manage all these devices is constantly being updated and or tweaked as well. It’s even though by Citrix that by the time we hit 2015 there will be four times more mobile projects than Windows, 37% of the global workforce will be mobile meaning that a total of around 15 billion mobile devices will be connected and thus need to be managed, at least that’s the assumption.
Citrix XenMobile
As you’re probably well aware, Citrix offers us XenMobile to help manage our mobile workforce. During the past year or so XenMobile has matured to an enterprise ready platform and is continuing to be under constant development, it’s one of Citrix’s most comprehensive products within their portfolio till date. Of course other vendors haven’t sit still as well, but I know XenMobile best so I’ll stay within my comfort zone for now.
A struggle even if you know how
During the past year and a half XenMobile has been implemented by hundreds, if not thousands, of consultants and system admins, I guess we’ve all seen the blogs and other articles handling the subject over an over again, but to be honest I have still to come across the first summary stating that it all went smoothly. That’s the downside, it can be very complex to implement and manage if you don’t exactly know what you’re doing and even if you do it’s no walk in the park and you’ll run into some issue every now and again!
Lessons learned, best practices and common pitfalls
I thought it would a good idea to aggregate some of the lessons learned and best practices documented so far. There are several blogs and support articles out there, including my own, which talk about best practices, lessons learned, common pitfalls and other related tips and tricks, either written by community members or Citrix employees. Also see the ‘Resources and reference materials used’ section at the bottom of the document.
I took my own notes and those of others, rewrote them slightly where I though necessary with this guide as the result. So chances are that you have come across some of these notes before, never the less I still think it will be valuable addition to the already extensive library of documentation which exists around XenMobile. Keep in mind that this guide isn’t about new features or releases, it is about installing, configuring and troubleshooting XenMobile and the ‘pain’ that others have experienced in doing so, and as a result helping you to smoothen your XenMobile installation as much as possible! Hopefully it will.
The guide
The guide consist out of 80 + notes which include general tips, lessons learned, several how to’s, recommendations and a bunch of Citrix best practices, and although some might be described in more detail than others that doesn’t mean that they are less important. It’s over fifteen pages long and consists out of 5600 + words, hopefully this guide can, and will, assist you in deploying Citrix XenMobile by highlighting some of the most common pitfalls, which unfortunately, are not known by everybody. Be aware that this guide is far from complete, it is work in progress so to speak. Also, most ‘Notes’ are random, meaning that I didn’t categorized them, not really anyway, since it all tightly integrates and this way you’ll at least browse through the whole document, who knows what you may find. As always, if you have any additions, suggestions, questions, you feel like I left something out etc. just let me know and I’ll see what I can do.
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