Application, Desktop, and Server Virtualization
March 17, 2010 1 Comment
Using EdgeSight in provisioned XenApp environments can be tricky if you don’t follow the proper installation steps. Monitoring provisioned XenApp servers is pretty straight forward and easy to setup with minimal requirements. In this blog post I am going to go over what the requirements are for provisioned XenApp servers and how to setup the EdgeSight for XenApp agent.
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January 12, 2010 7 Comments
Over a month ago I was in some conversations with some fellow Citrix consultants on Twitter about how they use XenAppPrep when updating provisioned XenApp servers. There has also been some forum postings on this subject as well. This is also a topic of conversation with customers who are testing Provisioning Services with XenApp. In this blog post I am going to go over some XenAppPrep options when updating provisioned XenApp server images.
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November 12, 2009 10 Comments
This week Helge Klein started a Citrix products 2010 wish list. Tim Arenz expanded on Helge’s wish list on his blog earlier today. I want to expand on both Helge’s and Tim’s additions with my own wishes as well. I’m sure they both don’t mind since Tim encourages other bloggers to continue adding to this list. Like Tim, I encourage other bloggers to keep this wish list going. Helge’s are in black and Tim’s are in red. So here on are my additions in orange.
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September 29, 2009 Leave a Comment
Citrix has changed licensing for Provisioning Services with the release of Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1 and XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2. The license change comes from the new VM Hosted Applications feature in XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2. With this change I can see how XenApp Enterprise and Platinum Edition licensed customers can be confused on Provisioning Services licensing and what XenApp workloads they can provision. In this post I will go over the differences in Provisioning Services licensing for XenApp Enterprise and Platinum Editions.
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September 18, 2009 12 Comments
Citrix has recently released NetScaler VPX. NetScaler VPX is the XenServer virtual appliance version of a NetScaler hardware appliance that is installed on the XenServer platform. With the release of this XenServer virtual appliance, NetScaler VPX Express is must for all XenServer environments. In the following post I will go over NetScaler VPX and why the Express edition is a must for all XenServer environments.
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September 16, 2009 Leave a Comment
Citrix has finally announced that XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 will be released on September 29th. XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 will be bring new features such as VM Hosted Apps, Power and Capacity Management, and HDX to XenApp 5. Read more to see what all new features are included in XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2.
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September 1, 2009 Leave a Comment
Citrix XenApp 5.0 Windows 2003 Hotfix Rollup 4 has new feature enhancement that allows you to give precedence to session sharing over load balancing. Now with this enhancement you can decide to have session sharing override load balancing in your XenApp farm.
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September 1, 2009 15 Comments
When having a mixed environment of seamless sessions using hosted applications and streamed applications, file type associations (FTA) and content redirection won’t work for streamed applications. The FTA isn’t recognized and prompts you to select an application to open it with when you click on the streamed application FTA. In full desktop session that have the XenApp Plugin for Hosted Apps (formerly known as the PNAgent) installed, FTAs and content redirection work properly and the correct streamed application launches fine. So how do you get around this in a seamless session? Have the XenApp Plugin for Hosted Apps run within the seamless session. Below are the steps for setting this up.
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July 21, 2009 Leave a Comment
Since the release of Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, I have had the pleasure of working with Application Streaming in many different customer environments. Here are some of the things I have learned from those engagements.
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