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First experiments with Win8/RT Receiver Preview v1.0.0.56
Recent release of Microsoft Windows 8 and availability of Citrix Preview of Win8/RT Receiver makes it tempting to check out this new Receiver. Without testing all possible scenarios I have looked at just a few: WebInterface 5.4, both traditional WI as well as XenApp Services, i.e. PNAgent CloudGateway 2.0 Express CloudGateway 2.0 Express front-ended with AccessGateway on NetScaler 10.0-71.6nc 2-factor authentication with CloudGateway 2.0 Express front-ended with AccessGateway on ...
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How to Create an SSO Friendly Window Caption: SSOHelper Utility
Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions are quite popular including Citrix own SSO offered with XenApp and XenDesktop. As such there is no surprise that sometimes SSO implementations run into unforeseen challenges when it is quite difficult to use a simple "canned" recipe for SSO to work. This post presents application SSOHelper successfully used alongside with leading SSO solutions to facilitate proper SSO action when window caption is ...
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VDI in a “pizza” box
Thoughts on VDI Write-Cache Storage Alternatives. It is quite common that the overall cost of VDI implementations is over 80% dependent on the cost of shared storage, especially when dealing with single-tenant VDI instances. Const-effective purchases hinge on bulk storage acquisition, thus impeding possibility for incremental growth. At the same time short and long term system scalability is largely bound to storage design which has to be revisited during VDI implementation life-cycle. It ...
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Management of Citrix PVS Write-cache Partitions
Introduction: Citrix Provisioning Services delivery of standard images to target machines relies on write-cache. The most common write-cache implementation places write-cache on the target machine storage. Independent of physical or virtual nature of the target machines this storage has to be allocated and formatted to be usable. At the same time storage dedicated to write-cache needs occasional maintenance such as formatting and possibly reallocation to accommodate changes ...