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Get your VDI project off the ground, attend a Desktop Transformation Workshop
Find a Workshop near you: http://www.registerandcompute.com/2012DTM/EventListing.asp Pre-Read: (get the most benefit from attending the workshop - please read the description of what's covered below) Who: Citrix Consulting and SE's created and present the content, just the facts! Why did we put the workshops together? * Talking with customers we realized that a lot of deployments plateau once they hit 200-500 or 1000 desktops, or never get off the ground ...
Desktop virtualization is a strategic conversation (Part 3)
Going from strategic to implementationPart 1 and Part 2 described a strategic framework to think about your desktop strategy. This final part completes that framework and extends the discussion from strategic framework to implementation.As you build a strategic approach to application delivery, adaptive service-oriented connections between applications and people are created. These connections make IT a core enabler of business evolution. You can then ...
Project Foundations – Focus on XenDesktop – Part III
Design PhaseConceptual Drawing/Design Documents Once you have completed your assessments and gathered all required information for your environment you will begin to layout the components in your design into a logical drawing. This drawing is called the Conceptual drawing and is a high level of the components that will be used in your design.This drawing will also be the basis for more technical design drawings. ...
XenDesktop, Hyper-V and System Center Resources
Citrix and Microsoft have been working together on our joint solution for desktop virtualization for about three years. We have seen the interest in the solution steadily grow. The announcement of the new global V-Alliance program at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference this summer has increased the interest in this solution dramatically.Both Citrix and Microsoft have invested in field sales resources specifically tasked with working with ...
XenDesktop Masterclass – Lesson 01 Q&A
So, what's all this about then?Last week we started our first XenDesktop Masterclass from the UK hosted by myself and Patrick Irwin from Product Marketing. I'm the technical guy (Systems Engineer in the UK) with too much enthusiasm for my own good and he's the level headed one that tells me to hurry up. That's our dynamic. SeriouslyWe've done a bunch ...
Seven Things I Learned Testing XenDesktop with Hyper-V
If you have read some of my recent blogs, you know that I have been spending time testing XenDesktop 4 and Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V. I thought I would take a moment and highlight the top seven things I have learned during this testing. Some of these items I briefly mentioned in my previous blog Optimizing Windows 7 for FlexCast Delivery posted a few ...
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 ...