LKBEN10719: Features and differences between Citrix Management Consoles (PS 4.5)

Symptom

With Presentation Server 4.5 Tasks of Citrix Presentation Server Console have been moved to Access Management Console

Cause

...however, not all of them.

Solution

With Presentation Server 4.5 Tasks of Citrix Presentation Server Console have been moved to Access Management Console - but not all...

Access Management Console:

create adminstrators for Presentation Server
configure administrative permissions for objects in server farm, application-, server- and monitoring profile - folders
publish applications, desktop and content (server farm or existing isolation environments in server farm)
publish applications for streaming
import application settings from a file
configure and manage farm properties (without zone-settings)
configure and manage server properties
manage user sessions and processes on servers
view (!) zones within farm
assign load evaluators
create Access Platform sites (to provide users access to published appl. through Webinterface)
create Program Neighborhood Agent (PNA) sites (to provide users access to published appl. through PNA)
configure monitoring propertiesfor ignored processes and metric summary schedule
create monitoring profiles for Suite Monitoring and Alerting (SMA) alerts.
set product version and edition on server
connect to a server desktop (console / rdp / ica)
configure and view Citrix hotfix information
create and package traces
generate, schedule and view reports
view server health information

Presentation Server Console

configure zones for server farm
add, manage and deploy Installation Manager (IM) packages
create, configure and manage policies for user connections
create isolation environments for applications
import, configure and manage printers and print drivers
configure resource manager (RM) and view RM logs for a server
configure Resource Manager (RM) applications
create reports (local-, summary- and data store database)
set reboot schedule for a server

! Presentation Server Console does not refresh automatically by default - make sure to refresh manually before changing anything and before checking for success.

! Presentation Server Console can only be used to manage one server farm at time / per instance

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.