Results for: Secrets for Optimizing Flash Performance - Part 2
If You Could Wave a Magic Wand Follow Up Part 1
In a previous post I posed the question "If you could wave a magic wand and have any one single feature in the next release of Citrix XenApp, what would it be?". It is clear many of you would like to wave that magic wand. There have been just over 650 votes and 26 comments so far. This post has been in the Top 5 ...
Secrets for Optimizing Flash Performance – Part 5
I've been spending quite a bit of time digging into the topic of how to optimize the performance of Adobe Flash content (animations and videos) when using a web browser hosted on Citrix XenApp (see Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this series). Here's a secret for optimizing Flash performance that will seem totally counterintuitive. Actually, this one took me by complete surprise...From my ...
Technical Sessions at Citrix Synergy
The lineup of technical session content as part of the Citrix Synergy conference in Houston is starting to come together. If you are a technical person looking to put together a business justification for your trip to Synergy, this post should help.Below is the technical breakout session lineup for SynergyID Title Product Session Type Day Date Time ...
What customers say about their graphics and video needs
A key part of my job as Product Strategist for Multimedia Virtualization is to stay tuned in with the evolving needs of our customers for graphics and multimedia technologies. Citrix has many different ways of collecting such market input, and your comments on my blog posts are one source that I particularly appreciate. Another highly valuable source of input is the Citrix Customer Advisory Community, ...
Secrets for Optimizing Flash Performance – Part 4
Several hotfixes to support new versions of Adobe Flash when using SpeedScreen Flash Acceleration have recently been released in hotfix rollup packs. Here's a summary of the most current hotfixes, handling Flash versions up to 9d:HRP2 for XenApp Presentation Server 4.5 for Windows Server 2003 32-bit Edition: PSE450W2K3R02 (see KB article CTX116289) HRP2 for XenApp Presentation Server 4.5 for Windows Server 2003 64-bit Edition: PSE450W2K3X64R02 (KB ...
Secrets for Optimizing Flash Performance – Part 3
As I noted in my first blog post about optimizing Flash performance on XenApp, SpeedScreen Flash Acceleration currently checks for specific binary file names such as flash8b.ocx or flash9.ocx. Therefore, new versions of Flash require the creation of hotfixes to accommodate different binary file names. After reviewing this issue, I challenged our Engineering team to come up with an improved design. They devised a creative ...
Secrets for Optimizing Flash Performance – Part 2
I'm back from my 7-day Eastern Caribbean cruise and of course the first thing on my mind is my Multimedia Virtualization blog! We've just migrated the Citrix blog site to an updated system so I had a few transitional issues to work through, but now I'm ready to share with you Part 2 of my series on optimizing Adobe Flash performance on Citrix Presentation Server. ...
Secrets for Optimizing Flash Performance – Part 1
In my conversations with customers at our iForum App Delivery Expo in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, the topic of Adobe Flash came up several times. It became apparent to me that many Citrix system administrators are looking for guidance on how best to configure Presentation Server to support access to web sites with Flash content, and they're wondering what future enhancements Citrix has ...