Archive for XenDesktop

Citrix: Virtualization Best Practices for XenApp

Daniel Feller posted another great blogpost on Virtualization Best Practices for XenApp at the Citrix Blogs

 

One of the first questions when virtualizing XenApp is how many VMs to put on a server. Well, that was discussed in the Virtualize XenApp blog. Once you figure out how you plan to carve up the physical server, one of the next common questions is deciding which features of the hypervisor to enable/disable. For example, if I use XenServer, should I use the “Optimize for XenApp” setting? What about vSphere’s Transparent Page Sharing feature? And the big whopper, how should I allocate memory to my virtualized XenApp servers? Is it safe to use dynamic memory or am I safer to stick with fixed memory?

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Microsoft: Windows Thin PC goes RTM

Windows Thin PC is RTM, the following anouncement was made on the Windows Team Blog

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UEM: VirtuAll User Environment Manager is released

Pierre Marmignon just send out the message on Twitter that VUEM is released:

 

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Bring/Buy your own (device).. Or Choose your own device

I’ve been to BriForum London this year and one of the sessions I attended was led by Claudio Rodrigues and Louise Taylor with the subject of BYO(D). The first thing that was mentioned was that the concept of BYOPC isn’t up to date anymore. It should be BYO or BYOD. Claudio even questioned if it should be Bring your own device or Buy your own device, he did a lot of interviews with customers and they said that most of them provide budget to their employees to buy a device to bring to work.

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Citrix: XenDesktop, artifacts and display errors

I recently helped building a PoC containing Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp with RES Workspace Manager and Microsoft APP-V, while testing the applications on the different platforms we discovered that a certain application had some strange looking artifacts and display errors when started on XenDesktop. These artifacts didn’t show up when started on XenApp or when using the VMware Console and start this specific application. After some research I found the following posts on the Citrix Forums:

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Citrix: How to Configure Access Gateway 5 Standalone for Use with XenDesktop 5

I just found the following article which is helpful when configuring a Citrix Access Gateway 5 with XD5; http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128869

 

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