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Martijn Bosschaart just posted CTX128909 on twitter, this article contains the following information on XenDesktop 5 Logon Process and Communication Flow: The user device submits credentials to the Web Interface site. Web Interface passes the user credentials to the controller. Controller…
Microsoft is publishing a lot of information about Hyper-V and VDI, last week they did a three day “Jump Start: Microsoft Virtualization & Hyper-V” online event. There was a lot of information about the hypervisor, vm’s, user density, manageability and of course VDI. The description from the…
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…
