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7 Reasons Why You Need to Learn App-V 5 Today

29/04/2013 - 08:53

We’ve been doing server virtualization for years and hopefully most businesses run the majority of their servers on a hypervisor from Citrix, VMware or Microsoft by now. With the release of Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 the same is going to happen to the application space. I remember back in the days when VMware took off, those consultants [...]

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Citrix XenServer – Make your network 10x faster

01/04/2013 - 09:46

When putting most of your workloads on a Hypervisor you should not take for granted that you automatically get the maximum performance out of the box. You as the administrator need to perform additional tests to verify that the network performance are at it’s best. Last week I upgraded my Citrix XenServer Home Lab and [...]

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ControlUp – Terminal Server and VDI Management

20/02/2013 - 08:17

My favorite IT management console is just released in version 2.0 with a great bunch of new features and enhancements. This is a sponsored review, but I love this product and have been using it at all my customer since the first release. In this blog post I’ll cover what’s new in this release. I’m [...]

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Configure an Authoritative Time Server with Group Policy

02/11/2012 - 10:39

An Authoritative Time Server is a must in every environment. This is one of topics covered by CTP Carl Webster in the presentation “10 things in AD that can hurt XenDesktop or XenApp and how to fix them“. Make sure you clear a half day and go through the presentation and your Active Directory to make [...]

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Why You Shouldn’t Redirect Favorites to Home Folder

09/10/2012 - 08:54

During Citrix Synergy 2012 in San Francisco it was argued numerous times by Shawn Bass that redirecting Favorites to the home folder is a very bad idea. Shawn mentioned that Internet Explorer causes an extensive number of calls on your file server when browsing so I wanted to dig a little bit deeper into this topic. Folder redirection to [...]

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PHD Virtual Backup and Exporter

12/03/2012 - 11:26

PHD Virtual Backup is a fantastic piece of software that I highly recommend. I’ve been running this backup solution in my xenapptraining lab since June 2011 and it has saved my ass many times. It also made it very easy for me to setup my new lab in Brasil – Citrix XenServer The Optimal Cheap [...]

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SMB 2.0 Tuning for Citrix XenApp 6.x

10/11/2011 - 01:03

More and more people are moving their file servers to Windows 2008. For this reason it’s essential to do some SMB 2.0 tuning in the registry to get the best possible performance with Citrix XenApp 6.x. SMB 1.0 was originally designed 15 years ago and was introduced with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. Since the fastest [...]

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ControlUp Enterprise IT Management Console

02/11/2011 - 16:50

ControlUp has in the last month become my favorite free monitoring application. The tool is extremely powerful and I’m constantly adding it to all my customers. There’s simply so many cool features to cover that you’re better of trying it out yourself, seeing is believing. My most commonly used ControlUp features are : Refresh Machine [...]

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Recommended Citrix and Microsoft Hotfixes for XenApp 6

27/09/2011 - 17:08

Keeping up to date on all Recommend Citrix and Microsoft Hotfixes for XenApp 6 can be a time consuming job. A perfect way to get notified is to add CTX129229 to Google Alerts. We’ve just released a complete Downloadable ZIP file with all the current recommended Citrix and Microsoft hotfixes as well as an unattended installation script. If you [...]

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Citrix GoToManage – iPad Remote Support

16/08/2011 - 18:20
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The Citrix GoToManage iPad App that was announced at Citrix Synergy 2011 is now available on the App Store. This app will make it much easier for administrators to support end users from anywhere in the world. You can try the app today by signing up for an account at the GoToManage website. The current [...]

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