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This just in! PCoIP is the cure to cancer, solution to world hunger, makes you look 20 years younger!!

Yesterday, Sumit Dhawan, the head honco of the Citrix Receiver and End Users Services Group presented at the Gartner Catalyst Conference along with Vittorio Viarengo, Vice President of End-User Computing for VMware in a session moderated by Gartner’s Chris Wolf entitled “Protocol Wars: What Matters”. Before I get to how PCoIP cured cancer and won the world cup, I wanted to reiterate the premise of ...

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App Streaming – Scripts and AIE_NAME

There you are, cranking some code after my introductory piece on scripts in App Streaming and you want to take it to the next level.  What interesting things can I do with scripts?Among the most important items that occurs with scripts is that a whole bunch of environment variables get created to assist the script.  To show this, I created a prelaunch script .cmd file ...

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Cache Matters

It almost sounds like I'm talking about personal finances. You better plan your cache appropriately or you will run out. I'm not talking about money; I'm talking about system memory (although if you plan poorly we will quickly be talking about money).It comes down to this... system cache is a powerful feature allowing a server to service requests extremely fast because instead of accessing disks, ...

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App Streaming – DACL Programming of RadeCache

I'm debugging a good one lately, Discretionary Access Control List (DACL) programming with Citrix App Streaming.  Recall from a previous post that Citrix App Streaming dynamically adjusts user access rights for the execution cache as a function of running applications in sandbox and as a function of terminating application isolation spaces.  This is very cool stuff - but it is presently creating some headaches.  This ...

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Understanding Inter-Isolation Communciation

You will soon have this tool called "Inter-Isolation Communication".  Great!  What do I do with it?Answer: You have less points of maintenance for Application Streaming while retaining isolation and centralized updates.Example scenario: 1 Big app + 1 small addition = single thing you want to publish.Lets call the big application "MS Office" because everyone knows that MS Office is big. Its also a convenient example ...

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