Archive for the ‘xenapp’ Category

Why Internet Explorer will kill your memory – Part I

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 ...

How to Virtualize Citrix XenApp 5.0 on VMware vSphere 4

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Many reports have showed that Citrix XenServer 5.5 scales better and optimizing for Citrix XenApp is done in a second. With VMware it has been, and still are more complex to tuning the guest OS. VMware claims 30% improved performance for Citrix XenApp hosted on vSphere 4. Feedback from customers ...

How To Fix problem with SAP Gui 710 and Citrix Universal Printer

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

I have been working on many Citrix / SAP implementation, but never printing via Citrix Universal Printer (CUP). If you use SAPLPD because your environment is not at the necessary patch level to use the recommended control printing the printer name has a limitation of 40 characters. This becomes a problem ...

The Best of XenAppBlog 2009

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Year 2009 is long gone and I am starting of this new year with a lot of excitement. I started seriously blogging 1 year ago and now the blog have 7000 unique visitors and growing 10% per month. The poll states that you guys like this blog and the content ...

Technology Preview of Citrix XenApp for W2K8 R2

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

The Technology Preview of Citrix XenApp for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is now available for download. New features : More users, faster logons - Get up to 20% more users per server with XenApp on the R2 platform and faster logons with new Profile management streaming technology that improves user profile ...

Turn old PC into Thin Client for Free – Version 1.1

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Turning old PC's into Thin Clients are very much alive and a lot of you are downloading the ThinClientPC ScriptFrameWork. I recently came past 2 very good articles discussing these matters The fundamental flaws of thin clients and Converting PC's into thin clients - a rundown of a suddenly crowded ...

Upgrade to Citrix XenApp 5.0 Feature Pack 2 on W2K3

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Installation of Citrix XenApp 5.0 Feature Pack 2 have a lot of prerequisites and they all have to be installed in the right order. The easiest way is to download the XenApp 5.0 Feature Pack 2 ISO from Citrix and run the wizard. This will install all the other prerequisites ...

How to stay up to date on industry news

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Staying up to date on news on a day to day basis is pretty easy with Twitter, but after a longer vacation this is almost impossible or to time consuming. I just returned back home after 3 weeks in Brazil and was up to date on emails and news in ...

Upgrading to Citrix Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

The Provisioning Services 5.1 SP1 is available for download and I would like to share my upgrade experience. If you read the install documentation you will see many upgrade scenarios. I first tried upgrading the Target Device software using Hyper V, but this resulted in blue screen x7B (Works perfect ...

Video Demonstration of ThinClientPC

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Music : Beatles vs James Brown MashUp. Drums and additional instrumentation by DJ Prince