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Yesterday I spend the day setting up a PoC for Citrix Provisioning Services (5.6.1 SP1) with XenDesktop, XenApp 6 and XenApp 5. But we discovered that all of the target VM’s would give a BSOD (0x0000007b meaning: inaccessible boot device) when booting from the vDisk while the master didn’t have…
Ronald Grass just posted a really good collection of reference material for XenDesktop: I don’t know how you feel about all the different sources of information around XenDesktop 5. To me it’s confusing where all the XenDesktop infos are stored and what are the keywords to find the right content.…
Citrix just released the XenDesktop Planning Guide – XenDesktop Scalability and these are the results (also from the PDF): Desktop Controller SQL Database Type Physical server Physical server Operating System Windows 2008 R2 Windows 2008 R2 Product Version XenDesktop 5 SQL Server 2008 SP1 # of CPU…
Citrix released another good read on how the logon process and logon optimization in Citrix XenApp and/or XenDesktop works and how to optimize this: How the Logon Process Works In order to better understand where time can be shaved from the user logon, we will first review the logon process as…
Citrix just put the CTX127030 online containing: Summary This article provides guidelines for configuring antivirus software in Citrix XenApp environments. This article also provides resources for configuring antivirus software on other Citrix technologies and features (EdgeSight, Provisioning…
Because one of our customers was planning to use the Citrix Desktop Appliance Lock, we needed to publish a Citrix desktop and start RES Workspace Manager after the launch of the desktop. While Microsoft has GPO’s for running a program after logging in, Citrix prohibits this. Upon installation,…
