During our initial implementation of our pilot project we did not include Edgesight deployment in our scope of work. After using the XenDesktop, XenApp solution for some time I decided it was time for some measurable metrics to answer some questions that are key to our pilot. Those questions included: […]
Perhaps the best resource (or at least the most fun for me!) has been working with the people in #Citrix (on IRC, not twitter!) on irc.libera.chat. If you don’t know about IRC, perhaps you’re ultra young or you lived under a rock, but Wikipedia can help you out. I invite […]
Today I was trying to replace my hard disk in my laptop with a solid state drive. I have usually done quick images with ImageX, which was introduced with Windows Automated Installation Kit back with Windows Vista. I loaded up my trusty WinPE and attempted to use ImageX to capture […]
This is part 5 of an ongoing series of posts to document and describe my journey implementing Citrix VDI with XenApp. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5. Another pain point for our users has been just how dreadfully slow our ancient machines boot. Between 1-4 minutes to get a to a […]
This is part 5 of an ongoing series of posts to document and describe my journey implementing Citrix VDI with XenApp. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4.It wasn’t all so rosy and perfect going from Proof-of-concept to pilot, and we knew things might not be. During our PoC we relied solely […]
After waiting 1 month I can finally say I am relieved that the RSAT for Windows 8 is available. I look forward to using my desktop again rather than working from remote desktop. Phew 🙂
This is part 4 of an ongoing series of posts to document and describe my journey implementing Citrix VDI with XenApp. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3.Early on we set out with a number of problems we wanted to solve and see if VDI would be a good fit to resolve them. […]
This is part 3 of an ongoing series of posts to document and describe my journey implementing Citrix VDI with XenApp. Part 1 Part 2.Once our hardware was selected, we worked with our Citrix partner for implementation to ensure we followed established best practices. We used the recommended hotfixes list when […]
This is part 2 of an ongoing series of posts to document and describe my journey implementing Citrix VDI with XenApp. View part 1. After our selection of Citrix as the VDI solution of choice, an architecture was drafted with assistance from a Citrix partner to implement a VDI solution […]
Over the past year I have worked to establish a proof-of-concept and now pilot implementation for virtual desktops in an effort to create a host of new functionality for our users. The guiding principles of the implementation have been to expand user access to computers, provide any-time, any-where, any-device access […]