Patrick Carey
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User-centric application delivery with Microsoft System Center and the XenApp Connector for Configuration Manager
This week we are happy to announce the release of the XenApp Connector for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (a.k.a. Project Thor), marking the culmination of several months of collaboration between Citrix and Microsoft. System Center 2012 Configuration Manager helps IT empower people to use the devices and applications they need to be productive, while maintaining corporate compliance and control. It provides a unified infrastructure for ...
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What’s new with Provisioning in Excalibur
The Excalibur Technology Preview provides an early glimpse at some of the upcoming improvements to XenApp and XenDesktop. While the unification of XenDesktop and XenApp into a single deployment and management architecture and the added support for the next generation Windows operating systems are undoubtedly the most obvious changes, we've made a number of other improvements throughout the product. Among those are improvements to both ...
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Which provisioning solution, PVS or MCS, is right for you? Come to Synergy to find out!
Earlier this year I presented at Synergy San Francisco, providing attendees to my session with information to help them decide which of the Citrix provisioning solutions, Provisioning Services or Machine Creation Services are right for their deployment. That was a very popular session so we're bringing it to Synergy Barcelona, October 17-19. In session SYN113 I cover the following: What do we mean by single image management and ...
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The answer to an age old question
"What provisioning solution should I use for my XenDesktop deployment?" As they say, if I had a dollar for every time I've heard that question. If you have that question then check-out my Synergy session SYN103 Best Practices for Provisioning XenDesktop. If you are already here in San Francisco at Synergy you can come see it live Wednesday the 9th at 8:00 AM or Friday the ...
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Monitoring Citrix deployments with System Center 2012 Operations Manager and ComTrade
A few weeks ago I wrote about some of the new features in XenDesktop 5.6 and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager that streamline configuration management across physical and virtual desktops. We want to make it easy for administrators to leverage the same tools for image management, configuration management, and compliance monitoring for both their physical and virtual desktop environments. It just makes sense. Why force ...
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Seamless Physical and Virtual Desktop Management with XenDesktop 5.6 and Microsoft System Center 2012
For many IT organizations, the move to desktop virtualization, with all its benefits, can be a bit daunting. There's a lot of new "stuff" to learn; new storage and networking infrastructure to manage, new types of end-point devices, and new ways to build and manage desktops. Although these new ways to manage desktops have many advantages, they are nonetheless new and that means that IT ...
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Provisioning Services Intro Session at Synergy Barcelona
Are you wondering whether Provisioning Services will work in your environment? Are you confused about what all this "dynamic provisioning" and "streamed VHD" stuff is about? If so, then I encourage you to come to session SYN320 at Synergy Barcelona, on October 26th from 15:30-16:15. In this session you'll learn: The Basics: What is Provisioning Services and how does it work? How does Provisioning Services fit into ...
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Provisioning Services 6.0: From Single Image Delivery to Single Image Management
I am happy to announce the availability of Provisioning Services™ 6.0. This release is significant as it moves beyond single image delivery into single image management. Users of Provisioning Services already know the huge impact streaming a single shared disk image has on the cost and effort of managing virtual desktops and XenApp farms. Ask any of them and they will tell you that having ...
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Automated image management for desktops and servers: watch it and try it!
If you were able to join us in May for Synergy 2011 San Francisco, you'll probably agree that this was probably the most information packed show we done to date. That probably means you left the show with a few sessions you wanted to attend but couldn't. If one of those was "SYN204: Automate server and client image management with Citrix Provisioning Services" you are ...
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Provisioning Services 6.0 Beta Now Available!
The Provisioning Services 6.0 Beta provides an early opportunity for citrites, customers and partners to try the new features in this release. This release focuses on providing tools to streamline the image management process, including: Integrated vDisk Version Management: Allows you to create and manage versions directly within the Provisioning Services Console. Versions can be targeted specific groups of devices facilitating the image lifecycle flow through ...