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App Orchestration: Provisioning Machines Part 1

To help ease the trouble of bringing up Citrix XenApp Controllers, Citrix XenApp Workers, and Citrix Web Interface, App Orchestration provides easy to use PowerShell scripts to automate the process.  These PowerShell scripts are referred to as App Delivery Setup Tools.  I will give you a quick overview on these scripts and point you to more information when available.  This will help you get through ...

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Managing application access within published Desktop with Citrix CloudPortal Service Manager and Citrix App Studio

My first post will describe a solution that can help service providers to use Citrix CloudPortal Service Manager (CPSM) together with Citrix App Studio to manage the visibility and usage of installed applications within published Desktop.For those of you who have been working with Citrix App Studio and integration with CloudPortal Service Manager before probably know that the current integration of these great products has a limitation that they can "only" enable automation ...

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App Orchestration: Architecture

With the recent release of the Cloud Provider Pack, our app orchestration technology (a.k.a. Project Rainmaker) is now available for immediate download and use. You can find more information about the many benefits you get from this technology in several recent blogs. Suffice to say – we have reinvented the way to manage complex multi-tenant, multi-farm deployments of XenApp with a minimum of ...

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App Orchestration: Concepts

About three weeks back, we released the App Orchestration technology as part of the Cloud Provider Pack.  App orchestration enables Citrix Service Providers to manage multi-tenant, multi-farm deployments of apps and desktops as a service efficiently. To get you jump-started with app orchestration, I am starting a 10-part blog series to which key engineers of the app orchestration team will be contributing over the next few ...

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Citrix App Studio Quick Deployment Guide

This article describes how to install Citrix App Studio using a very simple configuration. It includes an brief overview of Citrix App Studio’s basic deployment architecture followed by a guided walkthrough that shows how to set up the simplest possible configuration so you can get started using Citrix App Studio right away. Basic Deployment Architecture A Citrix App Studio basic deployment consists of an Active Directory domain, ...

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CloudPortal Services Manager and Rainmaker – Better Together

There has been some excellent feedback about Project Rainmaker from those who have had a chance to see it.  I am very happy with the response so far and hope that we can get more people involved and excited about this new technology.One question that has come up from several people is: how do CloudPortal Services Manager (formerly known as Cortex) and Rainmaker fit together? ...

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Announcing CloudGateway 1.0 – industry’s first unified service broker

I am pleased to announce the CloudGateway 1.0 - industry's first unified service broker.Every enterprise is facing two major trends - consumerization of IT and cloud-sourcing of apps. These two trends are driving an explosion of devices and apps within the enterprise. Devices brought into the enterprise by the users themselves, and apps brought into the enterprise by LOBs. Both a demand for mobility ...

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Citrix NetScaler Cloud Gateway – A product tour

The core belief of the NetScaler Cloud Gateway is ONE application access point, with ONE login for all applications, for users - while providing enterprise IT teams ONE centralized way of controlling all applications, enterprise or cloud based. This user experience and IT control is available for ANY application, across ANY device, on ANY network, by integrating with the Citrix Receiver.ANY applicationCitrix Receiver seamlessly integrates ...

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Designing XenDesktop 5 User Experience

Here at Citrix we've recently added a significant user experience and design team, and I think you'll agree, it shows. I've been with Citrix now for 7 years (yes I joined right out of high school) and XenDesktop 5 is the first product I've managed where we had the freedom to design from a clean slate. Both the end user and administrative experience for ...

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Seattle Children’s Hospital Takes Desktop Virtualization to a New Level with Citrix and Wyse

On November 4th we heard Seattle Children's Hospital talk about the challenges they faced and why they chose Citrix and Wyse to help overcome them.  Following is the Q&A from the event.  The on-demand version can be found here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/959833433Q: Is it possible to deliver a Windows 7 virtual desktop (hosted in the datacenter) with XenApp alone?A: No, XenDesktop is needed to deliver a Windows ...

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