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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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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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XenClient and Microsoft SCCM integration toolkit from Login Consultants
We recently released XenClient 2 and customers are recognizing the advantages both IT and end users can achieve under the client hypervisor paradigm. Customers want to enjoy all the client hypervisor benefits of hardware independence, image backup, multiple VM’s and enhanced client security. As a result, we’re seeing a swell of interest in XenClient as a better way to address the disconnected laptop use case. At ...
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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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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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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 ...