Application, Desktop, and Server Virtualization
January 19, 2012 3 Comments
I have recently come across an issue with HDX Flash Redirection in a few customers environments. The issue would cause Internet Explorer to completely lockup in an HDX/ICA connection to the desktop. In this blog post, I am going to go over what I have seen around this issue and the possible workarounds and fixes.
May 18, 2011 21 Comments
With the recent release of XenServer 5.6 Service Pack 2, you have two ways to upgrade depending on which version of XenServer you are upgrading from. In this blog post I am going to go over upgrading from XenServer 5.6 Feature Pack 1 and XenServer 5.5/5.6.
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January 18, 2011 2 Comments
With Citrix’s recent XenDesktop trade up program announcement and adding concurrent user licenses for XenDesktop Enterprise and Platinum, will XenApp licenses no longer be sold in the future? Will we soon see the end of XenApp being sold as separate product and only sold with XenDesktop licenses? In this blog post I am going to go over why I think XenApp will start being sold only as part of XenDesktop licenses.
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December 21, 2010 31 Comments
Last year I blogged about using VMware with XenDesktop. That article was focused on XenDesktop 4 and VMware integration. With the recent release of XenDesktop 5, it’s time for an updated article. In this blog post I am going to go over using XenDesktop 5 with VMware.
December 21, 2010 3 Comments
In December of 2009 I wrote about Upgrading Provisioning Services vDisk Target Device Software, Virtual Machine Tools, and Network Drivers. In that blog post I wrote about using the Reverse Imaging, Hyper-V Direct VHD boot, and XenServer Direct VHD boot options for updating Provisioning Services vDisk Target Device Software, Virtual Machine Tools, and Network Drivers. With the recent releases of Provisioning Services 5.6 SP1 and XenServer 5.6 FP1 I decided to test out using XenClient to update the Provisioning Services images. In this blog post I am going to go over another option for updating Provisioning Services vDisk images using XenClient.
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December 20, 2010 10 Comments
I recently enabled VPN in Access Gateway Enterprise for another way to get into my corporate environment since myself and a handful of engineers support the environment. We already had the Citrix Receiver setup and working through Access Gateway. Once I began testing my access (before rolling out to others) after enabling VPN by testing the different methods of access, I started getting errors and wasn’t able to logon using the Citrix Receiver. In this blog post I am going to go over Access Gateway Enterprise with AAA Groups and the Citrix Receiver.
December 20, 2010 1 Comment
I was recently working with Doug Brown (@douglasabrown, DABCC) and Shane Kleinert (@shanekleinert, CitrixIRC) on converting a VMware VMDK to VHD for use with XenClient. Using XenConvert to convert the VMDK to VHD completed without errors but when following Citrix Knowledgebase Article CTX127075 – Attempting to use a Virtual Hard Disk on XenClient 1.0 Created Using XenConvert or From a Pre-Release XenClient System Fails with Error Code 199 and using the vhd-copy script, the size of VHD file didn’t look right. In this blog post I am going to go over the process of converting a VMDK to VHD for use with XenClient.
December 6, 2010 2 Comments
October 6, 2010 8 Comments
Citrix Synergy has been going on this week in Berlin. A lot of good announcements were made this week at Citrix Synergy Berlin. On of the biggest announcements was XenDesktop 5. On Citrix TV you are able to watch some of the sessions from anywhere. This morning I was able to watch the What’s new in XenDesktop? The best desktop virtualization solution is now even better. I took lots of notes during the session so in this blog post I am going to go over the new features in XenDesktop 5.
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October 6, 2010 2 Comments
Citrix Merchandising Server and Receiver 2.0 were recently released. Some nice new features have been added and. Merchandising Server and Receiver 2.0 are nice but still have room for improvement on the administration functions and the user experience.
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