Project Mobius Beta 2.1 includes some visual enhancements as well as some bug fixes. The main bug fixed in Project Mobius Beta 2.1 addresses an issue when migrating applications from a Citrix MetaFrame XP farm to a Citrix Presentation Server 3.0 or above farm. You may receive an error that states:

Failed to copy published application ({App_Name}).

Details: Unable to cast COM object of type ‘System.__ComObject’ to interface type ‘MetaFrameCom.IMetaFrameApplication4’, This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID’{ED62F58D-63C2-11D4-94D8-00C04FB0F326}’ failed due to the following error: no such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 {E_NOINTERFACE)).

This issue has been resolved in the latest code.

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While we’re on the topic of Project Mobius, let me quickly address Project Mobius Beta 3. Project Mobius Beta 3 will include a “best effort” policy migration. What does a “best effort” policy migration mean you may ask? To explain this, I first need to tell you about my adventures with policies in MFCOM. Let’s just say that the stability of policy manipulation in MFCOM is, um, less that 100%. I consistently received errors on certain methods when trying to manipulate polices programmatically that, according to the documentation, should have worked. That being said, I almost scrapped Beta 3 of Project Mobius altogether.

Fast forward to BriForum Europe 2007. I was chatting with Shawn Bass and Thomas Koetzing during a break and relaying my frustration concerning the roadblocks I was running into with programmatically manipulating policies via MFCOM. Then, a suggestion was made to me. Why not migrate everything you can in code. Then, create a report on anything that failed during the process. That way, you can get 85% - 90% of the way there programmatically on the policy settings and only have to do 10% - 15% manually. That sounded good to me, so I resurrected Beta 3 and started to implement this “best effort” policy migration. Look for this in Project Mobius Beta 3.