The last couple of days there is a lot of positive but also some negative commotion in the twittersphere about the announcements made at Citrix Summit/Synergy in SF.
Some of the announcements made:
- Server hosted VDI
- XenClient Enterprise (Citrix’s acquisition of Virtual Computer)
- Project Avalon
- a new release of AppDNA
- Project Aruba
- HP’s HDX SoC
- ShareFile, Podio and Receiver integration
- FP1 for XA
- The HTML5 Receiver
- CloudGateway 2
- GloudBridge 2
And much more..
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A couple of weeks ago Microsoft came to Inter Access to give a Windows 8 Demo Mania event, they mentioned the Scenario based RDS deployment so that triggered me to look into it and the result is this video. I hope this clarifies how scenario based deployment works:
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After installation you can browse to the installation directory and start the Generator, this provides a couple of options:
- Create a settings location template
- Edit a settings location template
- Validate a settings location template
I was helping out on a project with XA.65 and RES WM 2011 in combination with mandatory profiles. The customer wanted to pre-define some settings in Office using the Run-Once option but after some tests we noticed that these settings weren’t preserved, obviously the files and registry settings modified to make these changes weren’t in the Global Settings Template for the Office installation we’re using.
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As the Customer Preview of Windows 8 was released yesterday and I had some additional time today I wanted to install the VDA in the Windows 8 CP. I already tried it with the Windows 8 developers release but that wouldn’t work, it came up with the Windows 8 version of a BSOD. So with this new release and the release of VDA Version 5.5.100 I thought why not just try again.
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