Years ago when I migrated this blog from the old “unNetwork.blogspot” to AtumVirt.com, I decided to use WordPress. And why not? Azure had a slick “deploy” feature for the website from the gallery, which promised to do the web hosting, configuration, securing, and updating. Couple that with WordPress having update […]
There are definitely pros and cons to using the various PVS boot options. If you aren’t familiar or need a refresher, here they are: TFTP (with DHCP or PXE options) Create a Boot Device (BDM) using the included utility Let PVS XenDesktop Setup Wizard create a BDM partition/drive For the […]
The much awaited improvements to StoreFront have arrived shedding the moniker “StoreFront 3.1 Tech Preview” and instead opting for StoreFront 3.5. This release brings significant UI improvements as well as a gaggle of enhancements including optimal gateway routing for zones. Kudos to Citrix to delivering these much desired features and […]
A shout out to the greatest KB article in a long time – finally an all-in-one (or just about) pack of the best support tools for your XenApp or XenDesktop environments. http://support.citrix.com/article/203082 Check out the description over at the Citrix blog announcement.
When working with RDS VDI scenarios using VMM, it may be helpful to have a view of which users are assigned to persistent desktops. Using the extensible power of Virtual Machine manager, you can easily provide this information to all of your virtual machines. The script below can be run […]
XenApp and XenDesktop XenApp and XenDesktop 7.7 brings a number of enhancements that have been asked for since the inception of 7.x, including the (re)introduction of zones. It is important to note that they are not identical to zones in 6.5 (IMA) but they will be improved overtime. Another much […]
If you’re like me, you enjoy a good challenge. One thing I’ve always been interested in with regard to PVS is exactly what is in the .PVP file. From various whitepapers and blogs I’ve read over the years, I understood it to be a collection of outside of the VHD, […]
XenApp does a decent job distributing users out of the box, but one of the things that can catch users off guard is receiving a server that is very busy that is still accepting new connections, or worse, not accepting connections at all, despite having plenty of free resources. Both […]
I spend a lot of time thinking about and discussing Citrix, VMware, RDS, and other end-user computing topics with people from across the world. It’s one of the things that gets me all warm and fuzzy, because there are a thousand different ways to do it and they range from […]
Lots of stuff today, so I figured I would combine some handy links for what I’m lovingly calling “release-ageddon”. NetScaler 11 55.20 – Download – Release notes XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 Feature Pack 2 – Download – What’s New – Citrix Blog XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 3 – Download […]
