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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, ...
Load Balancing TFTP – Anything But Trivial
Background In order for Provisioning Server (PVS) to boot a target device, a "bootstrap file" needs to be made available when the device is turned on. The bootstrap file in this case is called "ARDBP32.BIN" (the Ardence Boot Program...gotta love our roots!). This bootstrap file contains the information needed to communicate with PVS so it can initialize the streaming process and ultimately mount the vDisk. The ...
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. Seriously We've done a bunch ...
Preparing the troops to support XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2
Planning is done, content is ready, now we are in the middle of rolling out the XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 training to the support teams worldwide. By Sept 29th, the date in which XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 will be available for download as mentioned in the Official Press Release, we plan to have a majority of Support engineers trained. The 2 1/2 day XenApp 5 ...
App Streaming – RadeCache Secret Decoder Ring
Have you ever looked into the App Streaming execution cache and said, "good grief! What are all those GUIDs!"? GUIDs are great, for the programmer. For the administrator, they can be a bit more mysterious. I recently wrote a utility to decode the GUID data of the Application Streaming execution cache, displaying the decoded information to the console, but neater than TTY, it also updates the ...
HOW AWESOME IS HDX? Part 1 of 3 – HDX MediaStream for Flash
In case you missed it, on September 16, 2009, Citrix announced our much anticipated release of XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2. My colleague, Vinny Sosa, did an awesome job detailing the three categories of focus for the release in his blog post. Over the next few days, I will be sharing more of my thoughts about the HDX (High Definition Experience) features that will lay ...
XENAPP SNEAK PEAK – XenApp for Windows Server 2008 R2 Tech Preview
You may have seen our announcement today on XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 and Vinny Sosa's blog post. One of the things that Vinny mentioned is that we have opened up pre-registration for the tech preview of XenApp on Windows Server 2008 R2. You should definitely check it out and provide us feedback. I am the Product Manager for this release and I wanted ...
What’s new in XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 in plain English
You likely saw the official press release for XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 come across the wire this morning. I thought I'd follow that up with a plain language breakdown of Feature Pack 2 (albeit a long-winded one). Here's a list of features and an explanation of each. It's important to note that we group features into 6 categories: Dynamic Application Delivery, Single Instance Management, ...
TechTalk Q&A – Implementing a Virtual Desktop Solution with Citrix XenDesktop
If you attended the live TechTalk, there were more questions than I could answer in the time allotted. If you want, the recording of the webinar can be found here. Also, don't forget to check out the guides and reference architecture for the end-to-end virtual desktop solution: Implementation Guide Reference Architecture But now it is time for the Q&A... Q: So I have Presentation Server 4.0 and can publish ...