Mark Vinokur
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VMware agrees with Citrix – User Experience is Key, to focus on End User Computing!
One thing to announce it or promise it - another to do it. Citrix has been focused on End User Computing since its inception in 1989. Today it delivers from one website access to: * Desktops * Server Based Apps / Shared Desktops * Remote-PC (to physical workstations) * Blade PC's * Native Single Sign On (SSO - SAML) to Web Apps - and outside Web Services When I log ...
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Get your VDI project off the ground, attend a Desktop Transformation Workshop
Find a Workshop near you: http://www.registerandcompute.com/2012DTM/EventListing.asp Pre-Read: (get the most benefit from attending the workshop - please read the description of what's covered below) Who: Citrix Consulting and SE's created and present the content, just the facts! Why did we put the workshops together? * Talking with customers we realized that a lot of deployments plateau once they hit 200-500 or 1000 desktops, or never get off the ground ...
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Citrix Provisioning Server Gets Virtual with SR-IOV
Hi Folks, I wanted to share the excitement buzzing around the Intel booth with you, with regard to the SR-IOV announcement, and a follow up to Simon Crosby's earlier post. VMWare and Hyper-V don't have SR-IOV support yet, Citrix XenServer supports it in the shipping code of XenServer 5.6 Why It's Important: NO SR-IOV (all network traffic is handled by VMM or Dom0) then: Users see slower performance, because ...
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Install XenServer from USB Drive
Hi Folks, I was rebuilding my LAB over the weekend, and in an effort to make the new iteration better than the last, I duct taped 2 more SCSI arrays into my server. Having done that, I realized that I ran out of power plugs - necessary to power up my CD-ROM. My First Thought was to go run out to Fry's and get another Y power ...
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XenDesktop Windows 7 colors or resolution artifacts
Presenting Windows 7 through XenDesktop, you may notice that there may be something off with the graphics (specifically, I've only witnessed it on the background graphic Windows 7 uses by default.) A quick way [THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED] to correct it is to create a policy that turns off Compression on the Desktop Delivery Contorller, then apply that policy to whatever group you have hosting ...
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Citrix User Profile Manager (UPM) OS Version Setting
Hi folks, I was playing around with automating settings for Profile Manager today and realized that profilever doesn't get automatically set by OS. You could go into Properties of my computer and try to set System Variables manualy, here is an automatic way to do that, something you can add to the onStartup script by GPO: NOTE: You have to reboot the computer once after the ...