Sridhar Mullapudi
Monitoring CloudPortal Services Manager with System Center 2012 Operations Manager and ComTrade
Citrix Service Providers use CloudPortal Services Manager to enable automation and customer self service for applications, data and desktops delivered from their Cloud. And several CSPs use Microsoft System Center Operations Manager for monitoring and ensuring 24/7 service availability. We have been receiving comments from our Service Providers like "We standardized on Microsoft System Center to monitor our Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, and othercloud services. What we ...
CloudPortal Services Manager v10 – Our Next Gen Portal for Cloud Services
You've probably read our announcement of CloudPortal Services Manager, the new name for Cortex Control Panel. CloudPortal Services Manager v10 is coming towards the end of this year and in this blog I will do a click down on the new features and platform changes. The key goals in this release areSimplified install and setup – A major release goal was to simplify install and ...
Top 10 reasons why Service Providers need to adopt XenApp 6.5 for delivering Windows desktops and applications – Part 2 of 2
In Part 1 of this 2 part blog on why Service Providers should be migrating to XenApp 6.5, I focused on Receiver & HDX. In this blog I will look at the management enhancements in XenApp 6.5 that help Service ProvidersXenApp policies have been enhanced to include settings like farm membership, zone and load evaluators. This should further help in automating and dynamically changing farm ...
Top 10 reasons why Service Providers need to adopt XenApp 6.5 for delivering Windows desktops and applications – Part 1 of 2
Yesterday you might have seen Scott Swanburg’s blog about why XenApp 6.5 is important for the Citrix Service Providers and their hosting businesses. In this 2 part blog I will review why it is important from a technical perspective and why I think Citrix Service Providers should start planning to migrate to XenApp 6.5.Any device story just got better – In addition to new Citrix ...
My experience with Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and why I think Desktop as a Device is Dead!
It’s been about 1.5 years since I began exclusively using a Cloud hosted desktop. When I say “exclusively”, I mean I don’t have a local Windows desktop! I have a Mac and for all practical purposes it’s my BYOC. Just like most Mac users, I started with a local Windows desktop VM (using Parallels) for my work related stuff. But eventually I decided to get ...
Mark your Synergy Berlin calendar with this exciting XenApp session
Mark your Synergy Berlin calendar with this exciting XenApp session that is packed with demos and the latest inside scoop. And here are the reasons to attend this sessionSession: SYN313: What's new in XenApp? The inside scoop Date/Time: 6 Oct, 15:30 - 16:20 Room: Raum 1See the latest new features and enhancements in XenApp 6 and beyond Learn how you can ...
Use XenApp to deliver IE 6 enterprise web apps to Windows 7 desktops
Companies migrating their users to Windows 7 desktops are facing the challenge of supporting legacy IE 6 enterprise web apps on Windows 7 OS. Since IE 6 is not supported on Windows 7, customers need to find a way to deliver IE 6 to these users. The supported and cost effective way of doing this is using XenApp. Several XenApp customers are doing this today ...
XenApp Connector for System Center Configuration Manager is almost here!
On June 16th we will be releasing to web our XenApp 6 Connector for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2. The XenApp Connector will allow Configuration Manager administrators to use one management console for all their enterprise apps including on-demand apps by XenApp. Customers can now:Install and publish applications, including App-V applications, to XenApp servers Use the same application package to deliver to both desktops and ...
Mark your calendars for the most exciting XenApp Synergy Session
I think the most exciting Synergy session on XenApp is "SYN304 - What's new in XenApp, the inside scoop". I & my co-speaker Modesto Tabares will not disappoint you and you will find all the great reasons why you should migrate to XenApp 6 yesterday! And if you are looking for a boring power point presentation, please don't come to this session. This session is ...
Migrating to XenApp 6 made easy!
Today we released a XenApp 6 migration tool beta. This tool enables customers to migrate their legacy XenApp farm to a XenApp 6 farm. It is a simple, fast and powerful tool built using PowerShell. Some of the features include:Leverage PowerShell commands to export all server and farm settings/policies, applications, folders, load evaluators and administrators Stage your migration without introducing instability to existing production environments - ...