Citrix AIE: Bringing Back The (Virtually) Dead

Tuesday, 05 February 2008 by Michel Roth

Citrix AIE, Application Isolation Environments, was Citrix' first attempt at "application virtualization". It wasn't extreme popular since it was like a 0.9 version. With the coming of Citrix Application Virtualization, Application Isolation Environments have been superseded and will disappear from ~~Presentation Server~~ XenApp Server all together. However, Joseph Nord knows of a way to bring is back. Kind of.

Joseph discusses a method to use Citrix Application Streaming in a AIE way to start local processes. Joseph's method achieves AIE style execution of locally installed applications and this can be applied to both client side systems using PS 4.5 and the Streaming Client as well as server side execution on PS 4.5 and beyond. Since AIE will "go away" in a next PS release, this technique can be used to keep AIE around.

Read his entire post here.