Miguel Contreras

  1. XenDesktop Monitoring: Desktop Availability

    Monitoring is key in any environment.  IMHO, it is probably the most important part of managing and supporting an environment.  It allows us to react when things go wrong, and ideally, it also allows us to be proactive and address red flags before they become issues. Typically, when we think about monitoring, we think about network, hardware, performance, resource utilization, capacity, event logs, windows services, licensing ...

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  2. Hiding Applications on Web Interface (XenApp and Services sites)

    There are certain situations that require that certain applications be hidden from users, or maybe that only certain applications be shown to the user.  This is very common when providing remote access to users and you only want certain applications available when accessing the environment remotely, or you want to hide certain applications when accessing the environment via a mobile or tablet, or maybe there ...

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  3. Making Merchandising Server available on the Internet with NetScaler

    One of the most prominent issues that I see in many environments is client version inconsistency.  The root causes vary from environment to environment, but at the end it all boils down to not being able to check on the client version on each and every workstation and ensuring everyone is running the same version.  This is why I’m a big fan of Citrix Merchandising ...

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