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Workflow Studio 2.5 Released

Workflow Studio 2.5 was released last week and is currently available for download to our customers on MyCitrix. You can get more information and find a link to the download page at http://www.citrix.com/wfs.This release includes the following new features:Expanded platform support (Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2; SQL 2008; PowerShell 2.0; .NET 4.0) New activity libraries for Hyper-V and SQL Numerous improvements to existing activity libraries Expanded security ...

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Workflow Studio 2.0.1 Released

I'm pleased to announce that Workflow Studio 2.0.1 is now available:Download Workflow Studio 2.0.1 (MyCitrix login required)This update only includes new activity libraries and does not contain any changes to the core Workflow Studio engine. Here are some of the key new features:New Activity LibrariesCitrix XenDesktop Activity Library Activities that create, delete, and retrieve desktop definitions and manage desktop groups.Citrix Provisioning Server Activity Library Activities that create, ...

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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, ...

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Workflow Studio 2.0 Released

I'm pleased to announce that Workflow Studio 2.0 is now available:Download Workflow Studio 2.0 (MyCitrix login required)This release has a number of great new features and is a seamless upgrade from version 1.x. Here are some of the key new features:Native XenApp activity libraries (and many other additional activities) Remote runtimes Simplified management interface Enhanced security features Simplified installation and configuration Improved SDK Simplified workflow Designer Globalization supportI will post some more ...

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SaaS and the Cloud – Making money with applications, Phase I

I was on a webinar with Goldman Sachs last week and their most technically astute analysts were talking about the future of virtualization in relation to Public and Private Clouds as well as the ability to deliver next generation applications using Web 2.0 technology.  I posed the question to them, "What about the tens of thousands of applications that have been written in Windows that ...

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The Three Audiences of Workflow Studio

***Update: As of the 2.0.1 release we now include over 200 activities with the product, including libraries for XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer, and Netscaler. We keep adding more, and if you have specific requests, please email me...Alex posted in our forums that he was extremely disappointed in the 1.0 release of Workflow Studio because of a lack of libraries/templates for use with Citrix products. We are ...

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Citrix Provisioning Server – The Power Behind Many Citrix Tools

From what I've heard and read in the past few weeks, one of Citrix's competitors has made it clear that they are now very focused on desktops. Not that we needed announcements from them to learn that, given how they responded to the Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 release earlier this year.But let's be frank about VDI. Let's not act like it's more than it really is. ...

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