Archive for the ‘xenapp’ Category
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Do you remember the old days when we used the hide drives.adm template to hide specified drives along with some kind of hide drives calculator to get the proper value ? So if we wanted to hide drives for Domain Users but not the Domain Admins, we had to create ...
Posted in group policy, provisioning services, terminal services, xenapp, xendesktop | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
I have posted a new Tuning Policy for Citrix XenApp 6 available in the Download section of this blog. Most of the registry keys have been imported from the previous Terminal Server & XenApp Tuning Tips Group Policy v1.1. There are some Group Policy Best Practices templates around, but the power ...
Posted in group policy, terminal services, xenapp | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Pierre Marmignon is the man behind CitrixTool.net and he has recently popped onto my radar again with a new upcoming product call Virtual User Environment Manager Agent (VUEM). I'm a big fan of his products so this new VUEM tool got me curious so I hit him up today with ...
Posted in xenapp | 1 Comment »
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Microsoft recently released a new free tool called Remote Desktop Connection Manager. I'm not going to cover this here, but you should take a look at this post and I highly recommend this article Dynamic Remote Desktop Connection Manager connection list. This is a super cool PowerShell script that makes ...
Posted in terminal services, xenapp | 12 Comments »
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
People new to the virtualization space could get very frustrated when they find out that their Hypervisor of choice preforms much worse than a bare-metal installation. Haven't the vendors and independent analysis like Project Virtual Reality Check stated that there is no longer any excuses for not running Citrix XenApp ...
Posted in provisioning services, xenapp, xendesktop, xenserver | 9 Comments »
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
The Apple iPad doesn't support a mouse, only a bluetooth keyboard. Citrix have been smart enough to include this in the Citrix Receiver for iPhone and iPad. They call it the Wireless TrackPad. I wonder why they didn't show this at Synergy it's super cool. Check out this Picture Tutorial ...
Posted in xenapp, xendesktop | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Managing printer drivers in Citrix environments have been a pain for a long time. Luckily the Citrix Universal Printer (CUP) solves all these problems. I have big customers relaying only on this one printer.
To configure CUP open XenApp Advanced Configuration and right click Policies to create a new policy
HDX Plug-n-Play ...
Posted in group policy, xenapp, xendesktop | 2 Comments »
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
I'm really looking forward to going to Citrix Synergy in San Fransisco. There will be a lot of great tracks and workshops. I decided a long time ago that I would buy the Apple iPad both for personal and business usage.
Well, last week I was on my way back from ...
Posted in xenapp, xendesktop | No Comments »
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
The new CCEE and CCIA for Virtualization exams are starting to pop up. I have already signed up for the beta exam and I do have all the necessary hands-on experience on the different products. To learn the theoretical part I prepare by reading the Admin and Exam Preparation Guides.
I've ...
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Most customers have delayed the upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8 as long as possible. The reason is memory / CPU usage especially on Terminal Servers, but this applies to personal computers and VDI as well. Some of the biggest web pages in Norway have been promoting upgrades similar ...
Posted in terminal services, xenapp, xendesktop, xenserver | 2 Comments »
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