Citrix Certified Administrator

Well, after a few weeks of long study, I passed the Citrix Certified Administrator Exam (1Y0-259) Presentation Server 4.5 Administration.

The bizzar thing about it is that I completed the exam thinking that I failed, but when the “Congratulations You Passed” appeared on the screen I was extatic!!  Like most Citrix documents and practice exams that I have read, this exam suffered from being vague in a lot of areas which lead to my lack of confidence.

All that aside I passed and now I have to start studying for (1Y0-327) Password Manager 4.5.  This one will be more difficult as I have never installed it in a real world situation and I don’t think I ever will…….

Enabling Remote Citrix Access Management Console Connections

It is often useful to remotely manage your Citrix server farm from your desktop or a management workstation, the only issue is that in a Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 farm installed on Windows Server 2003, remote connections are disabled by default.

The Citrix Access Management console used COM+ to communicate to the server farm as as such Network COM+ connections need to be enabled.  To enable this follow these steps on each of the Citrix servers you will connect to:

1. Click Start then select Control Panel
2. Double click Add Remove Programs
3. Select Add Remove Windows Components
4. Highlight Application Server and click Details
5. Tick Enable Network COM+ Access and click OK then Next to install
6. Once installed click Finish
Now that Network COM+ is enabled on the Windows Server you will be able to successfully run discovery from your management workstation.