Updates

 October 2012

Having trouble with your flashdrive? Try the following steps:

Insert your jump drive before an app session (not an app) is started otherwise your Flash drive may not be seen.

Citrix creates a session when you start an app if one is not already present. The session is basically a pipeline to an app server. The session stays connected even after you close the app. Citrix does this to speed up the start of the next app. When you start up succeeding apps they use this existing session (pipeline) because it is faster than creating a new one. If the jump drive is not inserted before creating the session (pipeline) it may not appear to any apps afterwards.

There are two ways to close a session used by the last person.

Method #1:

Right click the receiver in the system tray.

Select online sessions (if it is not present then there are no sessions).

Select connection center and disconnect any active session.

Plug in your Flash/jumpdrive.

Start the app.

Method #2:

Press Alt+Ctrl+Del then log off.

General Problems Accessing Programs, etc.

If you have a problem with a virtualized machine try:

Right Clicking the black Citrix receiver icon at the bottom right and selecting 'preferences.' Then right click 'online plug-in' and click 'refresh applications.'  This should show any missing icons on the desktop.

If a PC doesn't have a virtual desktop try alt+ctrl+del and then log off, it will auto logon.

 

 

Previous Updates

August 2012

Approximately 180 applications have been added to the virtual server; 550 classroom PCs have been virtualized.

About 15 employee work stations have been virtualized as of August 13, 2012.

July 2012

Approximately 406 classroom desktop machines have been virtualized; over 100 applications have been virtualized as well. Most of the classroom PCs in the Cason-Kennedy Nursing Building are completed.

June 2012

Rollout for University employees and instructional learning PCs commenced in April, and the remote access schedule is set to be activated on August 25.

As of June 2012, the following rooms have undergone the virtualization process:

CKNB N119, KOM 124, PH 327, WPS 305, HONORS 118, Monahan 219, Cummings 107, Corlew Smith Hall 149, Ezell 120, MGB 303, AMG 214, VET 242, JUB Dinning, COE 104, COE 110, KUC, and SAEC.

 

MTSU Implements Largest Desktop Virtualization Solution in use throughout Tennessee Higher Education