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Virtual Router / Firewall / VPN for XenServer & VMware

08/09/2009 - 20:46

I have to admit that networking is not my strongest side, I relay on the network folks for FW rules, NAT and so on. The reason why I have installed and configured the Vyatta Virtual Router is that I need to have more control and make my own configurations. My XenServer lab is located on [...]

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Prepare a Provisioning Services Private vDisk for Shared vDisk

01/09/2009 - 16:37

This post will try to list some of the Best Practices I’m using when preparing a Provisioning Services Private vDisk for Shared vDisk usage. First of all I always use XenApp Cloning Tool from CitrixTools.net. This tool are not supported by Citrix, but it’s much more powerful and will save you a lot of troubleshooting. [...]

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Thin Client PC the old school way with ICA DOS

25/08/2009 - 16:00

[youtube Wz-CDNod_t0] Way back we converted old computers to Thin Client PCs using ICA DOS. We created this funny Jackass style video for promotion and I thought it would be fun sharing it. For the new school way of converting take a look at this post : Turn old PC into Thin Client for Free

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Provisioning Services Personality.ini for XenApp & XenDesktop

25/07/2009 - 13:15

Have you ever wonder what the function of Personality.ini file located in the System Drive of your vDisk? According to the Citrix Provisioning Services Guide 5.1 the Target Device Personality feature allows you to define data for specific target devices and make it available to the target device at boot time. This data can then [...]

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HDX MediaStream for Flash – User Experience Demo Video

23/06/2009 - 14:28

[youtube wEiYNWVeD98] I tried to capture a video with today in my lab, but the GoView didn’t work through Proxy. As you now Twitter is a powerful tools, and I quickly got 4 responses on Screen Capture software, thanks to timarenz, nboevink, michael_keen & virtualprouk. I tried the uTIPu but this program did not support [...]

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Real World Experience with HDX MediaStream for Flash Trial

17/06/2009 - 18:49

I saw a demo of this at Synergy 2009 but haven’t had time to play with it before today. The HDX MediaStream for Flash can be downloaded here. The nice thing with the new Tech Previews coming from Citrix these days are that they are very easy to test in your lab environment. The Pre [...]

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Citrix Dazzle Configuration Pictures

16/06/2009 - 16:07

The Citrix Dazzle Technical Preview has been released and you can download it here. It’s required to install the Citrix Receiver before the Dazzle Tech Preview. This version support Windows XP & Vista on x32, but it also works on Windows 7 with some minor bugs. Note that this version doesn’t support Mac OS like [...]

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Terminal Server & XenApp Tuning Tips Group Policy v1.1

02/06/2009 - 17:55

All credits go to Pierre Marmignon for his excellent post this weekend listing up all the Terminal Server & XenApp Tuning Tips. I have created a Group Policy based on these tips with OS W2K3/W2K8 and XenApp 4.x/5.x. The following is included in the policy : Operations System Tuning & XenApp / Terminal Services Additional [...]

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Citrix XenApp Power and Capacity Management Technology Preview

01/06/2009 - 21:33

Citrix just released the Technology Preview of the XenApp Power and Capacity Management. The XenApp PCM management feature can help administrators reduce power consumption and better manage XenApp server capacity by dynamically scaling up or scaling down the number of online XenApp servers. Consolidating sessions onto fewer online servers improves server utilization, while providing sufficient [...]

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Unattended : Citrix Health Monitoring & Recovery (HMR) Test Pack

25/05/2009 - 14:45

The latest versions of XenApp also come with a Health Monitoring and Recovery (HMR) agent – Citrix recommends leveraging the default health check tests and the additional HMR tests that can be downloaded for free on Citrix‟s website here. The recommended settings is taken from a presentation held at Synergy 2009 by Citrix. After the [...]

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