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How To Reduce Storage with 80-95%

10/06/2013 - 17:50

In my previous post 7 Reasons Why You Need to Learn App-V 5 I listed the main reasons to go with App-V 5. What wasn’t in that list was that Citrix will no longer support Application Streaming in Windows 8/2012 on XenDesktop 7. When doing a VDI / Hosted Desktop project the storage cost will [...]

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Long Live App-V 5 – Application Streaming is Dead

27/05/2013 - 08:31

I’m just back from Citrix Synergy 2013 in LA Anaheim. It was awesome to connect with friends, customers and blog readers. There was a lot of exciting announcements, but in this blog post I will focus on XenDesktop 7 and the integration with App-V 5. During the keynote Citrix didn’t announce that its Application Streaming [...]

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App-V 5 and Provisioning Services

09/05/2013 - 13:41

In my last blog 7 Reasons Why You Need to Learn App-V 5 I talked about how important it is for you to start playing around with App-V 5. Since all Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop and RDS should be running App-V 5 with Shared Content Store it’s important to leverage Windows 2012 and SMB 3.0 [...]

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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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Best Practices Preparing a Provisioning Services vDisk

11/04/2013 - 14:17

In this blog post I will show you my Prepare for PVS script that contains Best Practices obtained after years of experience with Provisioning Services. Let’s say you’re going to run Windows Updates. Well since you’ve already launched the Target Optimizer tool, that services is disabled and you need to head into services, enable 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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GoToWebinar – SMS2 Free 2 Factor Authentication

21/11/2012 - 20:40

I’m very proud to announce my first webinar. To further add value to the Citrix community I’m going to host webinars with Industry Experts and exciting upcoming software. First out is Citrix Ready SMS2. Imagine a 2-factor solution where you can send an email to your users with a QR code which they scan with Google [...]

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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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Netscaler Certificate – The fastest way

13/09/2012 - 13:29

When working with Netscaler certificate you’ve probably been confused by all the articles around OpenSSL to convert exist or new certificates to be in a Netscaler compatible format. In this example I’m going to show you how you convert and import a Comodo Positive SSL certificate. This is a $7,95 certificate which are perfect for a [...]

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Pin Icons to Start Menu for All Users with GPO

23/05/2012 - 14:12

Pinning and unpinning icons to the Start Menu or Taskbar can be a pain on Windows 2008 or Windows 7. After doing some research I came up with an how to that I wanted to share with you today. The first problem I got was that the Pin to Taskbar / Start Menu was missing [...]

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