Archive for Citrix

Creating a Load Balanced Citrix StoreFront 2.0 Server Group with Citrix NetScaler 10.1

Citrix NetScalerA while ago Dane Young posted an excellent blogpost on the ITVCE site on how to create a load balanced multi-node Citrix StoreFront 2.0 server group with the Citrix NetScaler 10.1. You can find the blog post over here: http://blog.itvce.com/?p=4605

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Hyper-V CSV Cache competing with VMware CBRC?

Yesterday I got intrigued by a tweet from Andre Leibovici linking to this article stating that Citrix employees (sales) are leaving Citrix for VMware, in the article he explains why they’re swapping Citrix for VMware. Andre states ‘ The main reason for the vendor move according to these new VMware employees was the vSphere stack’ and goes on about features in the vSphere stack that are only leveraged by Horizon View. Read more

E2EVC: VMware EUC, a real competitor to Citrix?

VMware EUCAs some of you may know Alex Juschin organizes an event called E2EVC. E2EVC VirtualizationConference is a non-commercial, virtualisation community Event and I recently did a presentation on the VMware EUC productportfolio.

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Citrix Personal vDisk, a registry key break down

While preparing for the 1Y1-200 and 1Y1-300 exams based on the Exam Preparation Guides released by Citrix I realized that my knowledge of the Personal vDisk was a little bit rusty as I don’t use Personal vDisk (PvD) that often.

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The Citrix Universal Print Server and its limitations?

Citrix Universal Print ServerMy inspritation for this blogpost comes from a tweet from Barry Schiffer asking if there’s some roadmap material for the Citrix Universal Print Server, as the feature set is limited. So I asked myself, what features are missing..?

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Citrix PVS and PowerShell: Registering McliPSSnapIn

If you haven’t noticed yet Carl Webster is building a script selection to document your Citrix environment on his website: CarlWebster.com and he was looking for testers for his scripts. I volunteered to run some scripts for Carl to complete them and make sure Carl got the input he needed.

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