Archive for the ‘xendesktop’ 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 ...

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 ...

Video Demonstration of ThinClientPC

Friday, September 25th, 2009

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

Virtual Router / Firewall / VPN for XenServer & VMware

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

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 ...

XenDesktop Tuning Tips Group Policy v1.0

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

All credits go to Pierre Marmignon for his excellent post listing up all the XenDesktop Tuning Tips and Helge Klein for Additional Windows Explorer Tuning. I have created a Group Policy based on these tips. The following is included in the policy : Operations System Tuning for XenDesktop Additional Windows ...

Turn old PC into Thin Client for Free

Friday, August 7th, 2009

This blog post will tell you how to turn an old PC into a unmanaged thin client, either you want to use VDI with VMware View / Citrix XenDesktop or e.g. login through Citrix Web Interface. Actually Thin DesktopĀ® 2.3.2 was released in June, but they charge $26 pr device. ...

Provisioning Services Personality.ini for XenApp & XenDesktop

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

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 ...

HDX MediaStream for Flash – User Experience Demo Video

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

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 ...

Real World Experience with HDX MediaStream for Flash Trial

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

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 ...