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CBC Cribs – Welcome, come in, take a seat.
Welcome to CBC Cribs, the blog that takes you into the exciting world of the new Chalfont Briefing Centre, here at Citrix in the UK. So, why am I writing about a briefing centre? Previously when we wanted to demonstrate our products to customers we would scrape together some servers, usually acquired from friends in Engineering or kit we had lying around at home. We'd then ...
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Podio & Giving ‘Gifts’
"Social collaboration." You've probably heard of this and rolled your eyes because it's a term that gets thrown around as much as "Cloud" nowadays. It can mean a dozen different things depending on the time of day or the alignment of the planets and would only be relevant to those who put Twitter in their weekly reports. Or so I thought... I'd like to talk to ...
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A Field Guide to XenApp 6.5 Session Pre-Launch
A new feature, regardless of how stunning or life changing it may be, is only useful if you can put it into practice. I had this issue with one of the new features of XenApp 6.5 and I thought you might like to see how I've put this together in my own deployments and why I think it should be one of the first things ...
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XenDesktop vs The Pint Glass
Working in a lab and building those oh-so-clean systems is a nice way to work. Everything is generic, there are no GPOs we cannot change or systems we can't power off and most of all we get to control the use-cases for each and every technology in our toolbox. It's stress, and thought, free. We can demonstrate anything and always show it's the way forward ...
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XenDesktop can save your skin!
Are you sitting comfortably...? Working remotely can cause harm to your person. A report came out today on the BBC News website which caught my attention and will probably resonate with a few of you guys too. If you've ever worked from home with a laptop you will no doubt have gravitated to the sofa to continue your work. Comfort, a ...
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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 ...