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What’s New in XenDesktop 5.6
On Friday March 9th, 2012 XenDesktop 5.6 was released to the web for general availability. This new release fully integrates personalization technology acquired last year with Ringcube, as well as integration with the upcoming release of Microsoft System Center 2012.Below, is a summary of new features and enhancements contained in this release:Citrix Personal vDisk technology - Drives down the cost of implementing desktop virtualization by allowing IT to supply even ...
Using PowerShell to Create a Catalog of Machine Creations Services Machines
This article walks though the process of using the XenDesktop PowerShell SDK to create a Machine Creation Services based catalog.Although the article is written referring to XenDesktop 5.5, it should work in any version 5.0 or later.Why might you want to do this?There are several reasons why you might want to script a catalog creation;The type of catalog you want to create is not available ...
Desktop Transformation Done Right
We're excited to have an increasing number of customers who own Citrix XenDesktop. Unfortunately, we see some of them struggle at times with the implementation of the technology and it appears that some of you take more time to provide value to your end users than you anticipated in the beginning.The good news is that there are some relatively simple steps you should take in ...
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, ...
XenDesktop 5 and Hyper-V – Lessons learned
In an effort to support the Citrix Desktop Transformation booth at Synergy 2011 in San Francisco we built a XenDesktop 5 and Hyper-V (R2) infrastructure able of hosting 1.000 desktops. While building this environment we encountered a couple of challenges which might be seen in other similar infrastructure as well. Therefore we’d like to share our lessons learned as part of this blog, which is ...
To-Tolly wrong (har har)
So after a long fireside chat with my boss, we decided to go for it and post our response to the VMware sponsored Tolly report comparing VMware View 4.6 Premier and Citrix XenDesktop 5 Platinum. Now, if for any reason you think our response might be biased (or wordy), former Gartner analyst (now esteemed independent virtualization gun for hire), Simon Bramfitt has written up an ...
VDI in a Day!
Citrix Synergy 2011 is just around the corner and you can already feel the energy in the air! Like every year, exciting news and information will be heard and shared by all, interesting discussions will take place and informative articles and blogs will be written, ensuring that Citrix Partners, VARs and customers around the world are brought up to speed on the latest and greatest ...
We have now entered the 3rd generation of VDI
In just over a month from now, we will see each other in San Francisco at Synergy 2011. As you might imagine, we are busy making preparations, from building demos to showcase our latest products and technologies to working out our presentations. Here's a sneak peak of where I'm heading with the session, "What's new in XenDesktop: The inside scoop." As the product marketing manager ...
Getting a Quicker Start with XenDesktop 5
As part of the Americas Strategic Alliances team at Citrix I spend a lot of my time working with partners and customers on desktop and server virtualization proof-of-concepts so in this blog I thought I would bring together a collection of "goto" XenDesktop 5 resources and a dash of guidance for those getting started with a XenDesktop 5 POC. So not to waste time ...
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 ...