Archive for the ‘xendesktop’ 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 »
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 »
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Citrix has recently released a very helpful tool called HDX Monitor for XenDesktop to help you make sure that your users get the best user experience. The tool as you can see above is organized into sections that cover the various HDX technologies. Printers telling you about which client printers ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
I recently downloaded Windows 7 Enterprise N from MSDN because it was on the top of the list and N means Norwegian, right! No, the Windows 7 N version is another EU thing, which means Windows 7 without Media Center / Player. If you are going to install XenDesktop on ...
Posted in windows, xendesktop | 1 Comment »
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 ...
Posted in xenapp, xendesktop, xenserver | No Comments »
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 | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in web interface, windows, xenapp, xendesktop | 14 Comments »