Archive for XenDesktop

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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XenDesktop 7, the unattended installation..

XenDesktop 7As an IT Consultant I’m all about automation and orchestration so with the Release To Web of XenDesktop 7 we have a new installation to automate. Luckily the installation of XenDesktop is improved, it’s 7 clicks from start to finish as Stephane has blogged about on Archy.net.

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Application compatibility.. No longer an issue?

AppCompat

The last couple of weeks I saw a lot of discussions on application compatibility for the Hosted Private Computer Infrastructure (HPCI)/ Hosted Shared Computer Infrastructure (HSCI). I was wondering if application compatibility still is an issue as we have plausible alternatives.

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