Citrix Application Streaming is or was hyped as a major selling point for our Citrix implementation. The idea that one can “package” or “containerize” applications once so that they do not need to be installed multiple times sounds like an excellent plan. It even allows for isolation if multiple versions […]
Recently I ran into an issue no Citrix XenDesktop or XenApp admin wants to face – license exhaustion. Users were having trouble logging in. At first glance, it wasn’t quite clear why, either. We had 45 Virtual desktops powered on and ‘ready’, only 22 were ‘In use’, and only 16 […]
Have you ever completely blown off some really good advice only to feel silly about doing so later? I know the folks in #Citrix on Freenode are some very smart people, but it seems when I was new there I didn’t pay enough attention to their words. [2012-05-14 09:49:00] Well, […]
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 […]
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 […]