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A First Look At Citrix Web Interface 4.5

Saturday, 07 October 2006 by Michel Roth

Thomas Koetzing has put up a preview of the upcoming Citrix Web Interface 4.5: Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 (due out next year) will have an updated version of Web Interface (It's also possible, that WI 4.5 alone will be released at the end of this year). What has changed, and what are the goodies you�ll get, if there are any?

Quite some things have changed but there is no complete turnover as in the last versions of Web Interface. The Access Suite Console (ASC) is now called Access Management Console (AMC) and will become the central management console with the 4.5 Access Suite. The real downside with the AMC is that Citrix will probably not make a 100% move from the CMC to the AMC and you have to use two consoles for configuration. Web Interface 4.x is fully configured through the ASC and it�s still the same with the AMC.

In the new version of Web Interface the core components are updated to the current version of dotNET Framework 2.0 and Jsharp (J#) 2.0 and might even be updated to the 3.0 versions at the release time. Citrix continues to building Web Interface on their Framework (WING � Web Interface Next Generation), which was introduced with Web Interface 4.0
This means that existing 4.x custom code (modifications) can be used without a complete re-development, still some things need to be changed.

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