Results for: App Streaming - Isolation of Services
Provisioning Services – keeping your data persistent
OverviewThe most popular phrase of each and every consultant is “it depends” – we like this phrase and we use it a lot JHowever, the fact that you can say “it depends” doesn’t make you a good consultant of course – if consultant cannot give you any straight answers, he is kind of useless. Even though we usually say “it depends”, most of the time ...
NetScaler 10 – A Landmark Release with 100s of New Features
NetScaler 10 is a remarkable release which makes world’s best Internet delivery platform the most advanced Cloud Network platform. While Enterprises are transforming their Datacenters to Cloud they need the application acceleration and availability requirements to be taken care of. And beyond that there are several visibility, security and scalability aspects which need to be looked at while they move to Cloud.Talk about Cloud or ...
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 ...
App Streaming – Custom app dev guidelines
I received an interesting inquiry recently - we are writing applications specifically to be run under Citrix App Streaming and we want to make sure we don't do things that will cause complications at runtime. Can you tell us what to avoid in programming so we can ensure that our applications work well with Citrix Application Streaming?What a nice way to word this! Very positive. ...
Network segmentation on large XenDesktop deployments
I've been recently challenged on several projects by the networking teams on preventing possible broadcast flooding up the network. Their main vision on this topic is based on old fashioned hardware vendor recommendations for Windows based traffic networks. I wanted to give you some feedback from the field and explain the largest network subnets I have implemented with no issues, especially when talking of Provisioning ...
Digging into RingCube
Background As you've probably heard by now, we've acquired RingCube Technologies. I'm really excited about this acquisition because I spend a lot of time in the field working with some of our largest customers...and doing VDI the "right way" in the enterprise space has been difficult at best up to this point. I'll openly admit that. There's a reason that many of our large, production XD ...
Application Streaming – Profiling Tips
We have really good Citrix eDocs which explains how to get Application Streaming working, so my post is not a complimenting eDocs. This post will provide simple steps to do Application Streaming - Profiling and includes few steps and tips that we generally miss out with immenseness of eDocs.Pre-requisites: For using a machine as Profiler, that machine should have following pre-requites: 1. Clean Machine: Heard a ...
Desktop virtualization is a strategic conversation (Part 1)
Doing nothing does not mean NPV=0 I'm fortunate that I've been able to speak directly with several hundred customers across multiple vertical industry segments in my time at Citrix, ranging all the way from systems engineer to the C suite. A key observation that also reflects my own personal experience is a focus on strategy before consideration of hardware, network and device choices etc. This is ...
Delivering AppHubWhiteList and other installer Command-line using Citrix Receiver for Offline plug-in
With Offline plug-in 6.0.2 and higher, it has become easier to deliver AppHubWhiteList, now plug-in takes a command line parameter CTX_APPHUB_WHITELIST, which can be used to deliver AppHubWhiteList both using Receiver as well as Commandline arguments as in eDcocs. Merchandising server takes the parameter from its Web UI and passes the same to the Offline Plug-in installer.Merchendising server makes use of the Offline Plug-in's ...
The Architecture of Win-64 Baffles Me
Where are the Windows system DLLs stored?In the time of Windows 3.1, the system DLLs were stored in the \Windows\System directory. These are the DLLs that provide the foundation for the Windows system and application APIs. Then came Windows for Workgroups 3.11 with the first vestiges of 32-bit and Microsoft invented \Windows\System32. Okay, this makes sense. If a same name DLL exists for both 16-bit ...