Results for: App Streaming - Internet Explorer 6, Part 1
Citrix Profile Management and VDI – Doing it Right!
For anyone that has ever worked with XenApp or XenDesktop you know that user profiles can be one of the most difficult things to get right. This was one of the driving forces behind Citrix including a profile management solution as a standard component of all editions of XenDesktop.I am not going to go into the details of the various types of profile strategies nor ...
From Wow to How: Virtual Desktops, Networking and the Cloud
Thank you to those of you who joined us on Tuesday, November 15th for “From Wow to How 2: Virtual Desktops, Networking and the Cloud” webinar. I was excited to hear Citrix and Microsoft experts discussing the role of public, personal and private clouds, the power of virtual desktops and ways to provide a single point of authentication for users to securely access ALL applications, ...
App Streaming – CAB file format dissected
In the 6.0 release of Application Streaming, we moved away from storing Application Streaming content in CAB files, changing to an unzipped DIR structure. As noted in this earlier post, this was done to simplify "deploy" in offline scenarios and also to enable movement of the streaming targets into VHD files for layered mounting on pooled XenDesktop. This mounting stuff comes in the "soon" release. ...
App Streaming – 64-bit applications
When I get the question of running 64-bit applications under Application Streaming, I always respond with "which 64-bit application do you want to run under isolation"?The answer is usually "silence".Until that answer changes, there is no reason to build the support.Now let me go into some detail...Application Streaming isolates 32-bit applications and I'll say proudly that this has worked on both 32 ...
Securing application data through multiple logons
Crackers are changing. Don't think geeky kid at the end of the street, think organized crime, well financed with large teams of talented programmers. Don't think "senders of SPAM", think takers of your money. I've started to think this way and I find myself rather paranoid. Maybe they really are out to get me?I'm pondering the quickly improving capabilities of my adversary and ...
Vista UAC Dialogs are your friend
Microsoft Windows core OS folks get a bad rap for Vista and in particular, UAC dialogs. The UAC dialogs have been a source of great ridicule and humor; ads that I love watching even though I remain an ardent supporter of the UAC dialogs that produce the "allow or deny" messages. I maintain that UAC dialogs are your friends and that Vista was a necessary step ...
App Streaming – Internet Explorer 6, Part 1
I'm getting lots of inquiries lately about streaming different versions of Internet Explorer to a single machine and running them under isolation, concurrently. The common thread is "we're moving to IE8, but I have a bunch of these web applications that absolutely insist on IE6. I'd like to install IE8 locally and stream IE6, can you do that?"Isolating Internet Explorer vs. Streaming Internet ExplorerIn 2008, ...
Optimizing Windows 7 for FlexCast Delivery
IntroductionWith the release of XenDesktop 4, Windows 7 is now a supported operating system for XenDesktop. Since Microsoft announced the end-of-life for Windows XP many institutions are considering moving their user population to Windows 7. Since Microsoft and Citrix work closely together, I was assigned to work at their Enterprise Engineering Center on some preliminary scalability testing XenDesktop 4 on Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2. Out ...
XenApp – Recently Released Technical Articles & Hotfixes
Citrix Support is focused on ensuring Customer and Partner satisfaction with our products. One of our initiatives is to increase the ability of our Partners and Customers to leverage self-service avenues via our Knowledge Center.I will be writing a series of blog entries detailing recently released Citrix Knowledge Center technotes and hotfixes for Citrix products. The technotes are either newly authored or updated articles.This blog ...
XENAPP SNEAK PEEK – HDX MediaStream for Flash Tech Preview
A key component of Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop, HDX MediaStream technology ensures that users receive a smooth, seamless experience with multimedia content as part of their virtual desktop (VDI) or virtual applications. To accomplish this, HDX MediaStream determines when it is best to leverage the processing power of the endpoint device to render the multimedia content. Flash is one of the most pervasive technologies on ...