Manu Chauhan

  1. Synergy L.A. – Your Ticket to What’s New in XenClient

    XenClient, the local FlexCast deployment technology within XenDesktop, has been building momentum among customers over the past year and this year’s Synergy event will keep it going with exciting new announcements that make client virtualization even more compelling. If you’ve been following Citrix, you know that XenClient is a key pillar of its unique FlexCast delivery technology behind XenDesktop. XenClient enables virtual desktops to run locally—regardless of slow, intermittent ...

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  2. Citrix Announces XenClient Enterprise 4.5

    Earlier this year Citrix announced the acquisition of Virtual Computer and shortly after introduced XenClient 4.1. That release introduced a host of new features that greatly broadened hardware compatibility, delivered a simplified user experience, and enabled larger, more complex production deployments of XenClient. To continue that momentum, today at our Citrix Synergy™ conference in Barcelona we are announcing the Technology Preview of XenClient Enterprise 4.5 for availability ...

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  3. What’s New with XenClient – Find out at Synergy Barcelona 2012

    XenClient is Citrix’ client virtualization solution built to extend the benefits of desktop virtualization to laptops and to make PCs more manageable, reliable and secure. In an effort to innovate faster and accelerate our ability to meet these objectives we recently announced that Virtual Computer was joining the Citrix family in our client virtualization group.  Thousands of users have since downloaded the new version of ...

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  4. XenClient Best Practices Series – Image Preparation

    At Citrix, we have a team called ‘Citrix on Citrix’ within the IT organization that is responsible for deploying Citrix technologies internally – ‘drinking our own champagne’ as the saying goes. The Citrix on Citrix team have deployed a managed Synchronizer for XenClient that includes images available for users to download (see Figure 1 below). Citrix® Synchronizer for XenClient™ enables laptops with XenClient to download ...

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  5. Take Your XenClient Deployment to the Next Level – Learn How at Synergy 2012

    If you’ve been following Citrix and its product offerings recently, you are likely aware that XenClient represents a key pillar of Citrix’ unique FlexCast model.  Through its inclusion with XenDesktop Enterprise and Platinum editions, XenClient addresses key use cases that complete Citrix’ desktop virtualization portfolio.  XenClient represents the extension of desktop virtualization and all its associated advantages to the disconnected laptop use case which, prior ...

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  6. Using XenClient’s over-the-air upgrade feature

    As mentioned in Peter Blum’s blog, XenClient 2.1 has released to web.  Many of you may be using XenClient 2 in your environment and if you are, we now provide a simple way for you to upgrade the client hypervisor from XenClient 2 to 2.1  The feature is called ‘over-the-air upgrade’.  It means that we’ve enabled simple and secure upgrades of the XenClient software from ...

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  7. You want to put WHAT across the network?!?!?

    That’s the reaction some of you may get from your network operations team as you deploy VM images across the network from the Synchronizer for XenClient to your XenClient devices.  I know because it’s the first thing I heard from the Citrix Network Operations folks in the process of rolling out  XenClient 2.0 internally at Citrix.  Now that we’ve got XenClient 2.0 out in the ...

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  8. Delivering a Native Windows Experience to XenClient Users

    Many customers have expressed the need for their end users’ (the non-IT Pro crowd) XenClient laptop experiences to be as familiar as those of laptops running Windows natively.  In one instance we spoke with an enterprise customer that wanted to provide its users with all the capabilities of a rich client laptop with all the administrative and manageability benefits of XenClient.  They also wanted to prevent users ...

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  9. XenClient’s Autoboot Feature Explained

    You may have seen the recent announcement of the availability of XenClient 1.0 SP1.  There was a line item in that post regarding the autoboot feature that deserves a bit more explanation.  The autoboot feature was developed in response to customer requests to address these key XenClient use case challenges: There are XenClient UI's (XenClient splash screen and Citrix Receiver for XenClient) that are new to the ...

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