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How tired are you of waiting for your profile to load?
The version 3.x release of Profile management enables streaming of your users' profiles. Version 3.1 (available May 18, 2010) provides the same feature set as the v3.0 release (available back in March 2010) but has a number of fixes in it. Basically the same concept you see in our Application Streaming capability now exists for profiles. Also in this 3.x release is the new ...
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Why Profile management moved away from mandatory based profiles
While a mandatory based profile solution was the original approach (something we leveraged in the earliest releases), we are not going to return to that method. Let me explain why and get your thoughts and opinions on this. One request that has been commonly voiced has been around a mandatory style implementation. While previously we had leveraged a mandatory profile as the base, for ...
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HOW AWESOME IS HDX? Part 3 of 3 – Secure Clipboard Control
Citrix XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 has a very cool feature called Secure Clipboard Control. The technical folks may know this feature as "Read-Only Client Drive Mapping and Clipboard", but the end results are the same: it further mitigates risks of data leakage. Granting remote users CDM access is great because they can open local files with server published apps. ...
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HOW AWESOME IS HDX? Part 2 of 3 – HDX Plug-n-Play for USB storage
I was away for a couple of week, but I'm back and very excited to tell you about the HDX Plug-n-Play for USB storage device. HDX Plug-n-Play for USB storage is another HDX/High Definition eXperience feature introduced in XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2. I believe this new feature will really eliminate many headaches for XenApp administrators and end users alike. So imagine, users now have ...
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Extend Power and Capacity Management with WMI Events
The most common request we get for Power and Capacity Manager is the support for other power management APIs... With XenApp 5.0 Feature Pack 2, we only support Wake-on-LAN and XenServer API. We will extend this list in upcoming versions. In the meanwhile, your only option is to use WMI events to trigger power-on commands to your computer management infrastructure. I've tested the following using Powershell ...
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Provisioning Services Packs a Punch in XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2
Hey did you hear, XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 released and boy does it pack some punch! Two features especially stick out for me... VM hosted apps - enables customers to host and deliver applications from centralized virtual machines running desktop operating systems for the fastest rollout of apps and 100% app compatibility. Power and capacity management - introduces policy-based server workload management and maintenance enabling ...
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Power and Capacity Management Configuration Part 2 – Policies
Yesterday I've posted Part 1 of this series, talking about Capacity Estimation. Today I will describe the Power Management schedule policies. PCM use these policies to determine how many servers should be powered down, how sessions will consolidate or spread among the online servers, and when to power on additional servers to handle unexpected load. The load policies for a workload vary during the day - ...
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Power and Capacity Management Configuration Part 1 – Capacity Estimation
Power and Capacity Manager (PCM) is a feature of XenApp 5.0 Feature Pack 2. In this multi-part post, I will deep-dive on PCM configuration and trade-offs. I will assume you have basic understanding of the feature, please look here for an introduction. To use Power and Capacity effectively, you will have to define the power management and load characteristics of your workloads. You have to strike ...
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EdgeSight updates for XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2
With the release of Feature Pack 2, the EdgeSight team has made some updates to both EdgeSight and EdgeSight for Load Testing. The key updates include; EdgeSight 5.2 (for XenApp, Endpoints, and Virtual Desktops): • Additional support for XenDesktop - Farm-wide monitoring and troubleshooting of virtual and physical desktops • Support for the latest Citrix Receiver - Service Monitoring plug-in • Microsoft Systems Center Operation Manager (MS SCOM) Support ...
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Citrix XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 – an embarassment of riches…
I heard a great phrase recently "an embarrassment of riches" . I thought to myself...that is definitely what XenApp has become. There's nothing you can't do with it now. When it comes to virtualizing applications, you can deliver from a Windows Terminal Server, you can stream to a server or a client, and now with VM Hosted Apps, you can deliver ...