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Tag: ask the architect
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XenMobile Lessons Learned From the Field
I'm really excited about this article - I've been working with CloudGateway (our MAM solution) since its inception and I was elated when we closed the Zenprise acquisition right after the New Year, providing us with MDM capabilities. And I've had the great opportunity to be involved in some of our first large Consulting projects involving XenMobile MDM and the Mobile Solutions Bundle (MSB). And ...
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XenApp Farm and Zone Design (v2013)
This used to be a very popular topic back in the day, so I'm sure "old school" MetaFrame and CPS admins will appreciate this article. It also makes me happy to write about good 'ol XenApp, because it seems like I spend most of my time these days working with newer products like XenDesktop, Provisioning Services and XenMobile. And the reason I am writing this ...
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Simplified VDI Architecture
There’s a perception that VDI is complicated. I’m far from being a rocket scientist, and I’ve managed to implement many successful VDI projects over the past ten years. I truly believe that VDI is one of those things that is only as complicated as you make it. It’s like saying that driving is complicated. You’d have to be crazy to take your first lesson in ...
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XenCenter plugins v2
Not a long time ago, I wrote about XenCenter and ability to extend the console using plugins. The goal of this blog post was to show that XenServer GUI is actually quite flexible and if you’re missing some functionality, you can easily add it. I love the principle of extensible GUI and I think that every product should support it. Ability to write the scripts and ...
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How to put XenApp servers to maintenance mode
Introduction “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” - Bill Gates Many people know that I am a big supporter of laziness in IT (and I wrote about it before, too). Lazy approach is actually very hard – it requires a lot of effort to learn how to minimize the amount of work ...
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Session Reliability, Frozen Screens and The Hourglass of Death
Introduction I'll start by saying I should have probably published this article a long time ago. But I didn't because I usually only get this question about twice a year...and it was easy enough to dig up the last email from my archives and send it to the person who was asking about Session Reliability this time. But then just this past week, I got asked ...
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XenApp 6.5 Hosted Shared Desktop sizing example
In this blog series I’m taking a look at scalability considerations for XenApp 6.5 Hosted Shared Desktops, specifically: How to estimate XenApp 6.5 Hosted Shared Desktop scalability What’s the optimal XenApp 6.5 VM specification? XenApp 6.5 Hosted Shared Desktop sizing example My last post provided guidance on the optimal XenApp virtual machine specification. Now in the last post of the series, I’m going to walk through an example sizing ...
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What’s the optimal XenApp 6.5 VM configuration?
In this blog series I’m taking a look at scalability considerations for XenApp 6.5, specifically: How to estimate XenApp 6.5 Hosted Shared Desktop scalability What’s the optimal XenApp 6.5 VM specification? XenApp 6.5 Hosted Shared Desktop sizing example My last post provided guidance on how to estimate XenApp density based on processor specification and user workload. In the second post of the series, I’m taking a look at the ...
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Which Receiver Should I Use For Windows Smartcard Authentication
Updated: 2012-12-22 Which Receiver Should I Use For Windows Smartcard Authentication? Well, the answer that we all hate but which is probably the most correct one is that it depends, however if you are not satisfied with that answer please continue reading as I would like to explain a few things that can make a difference to your current choice. I should probably also state that information ...
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How to configure a Windows 7 end-point for Smartcard pass-through
Updated: 2012-11-30 There have always been rumours (if you didn’t know) that PIN pass-through was not possible when using a Vista/Windows 7 operating system rather than Windows XP. The difference is more thoroughly explained in the provided Citrix article (reference section), hence I am not going to deep dive into this part. But what I want to highlight is that it is actually possible to get ...