As we launch into our XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 to XenDesktop 7 upgrade project, a rather precarious situation has arisen. The environment is laid out as follows: 2 XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 DDC 2 Web Interface 2 Microsoft SQL Servers 2 Provisioning Services 6.1 servers 2 XenApp 6.5 application hosts (no desktops) […]
Our organization recently began deploying approximately 100 or so Microsoft Surface Pro. devices to users. One of the first groups to connect with it to XenDesktop noticed that the stylus, type cover (keyboard) and touchpad did not work. After acquiring a test unit the cause became clear right away: Upon […]
After a week or so on Windows Azure, I must say that I am impressed with Windows Azure. The Windows Azure portal is easy to navigate and is really fully featured for any service you’d care to offer. Initially, I had a case open for a over a month as […]
Today I was hit with a rather precarious scenario: I wanted to test my VDI image, which is streamed via PVS, with MCS on Atlantis ILIO. The plan to accomplish this was relatively straightfoward: Create a merged base of the PVS image, copy the VHD, create a VM in Hyper-V, […]
I wanted to point out that although I am anxiously awaiting support for Hyper-V 3.0, no Citrix products currently support it. Take a look at the hypervisor support matrix for an at a glance view for XenDesktop, or eDocs System Requirements for XenApp 6.5. :Edit 7/14/2013: For Server […]
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 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 […]
I’ve recently had the inclination to give Hyper-V a go now that it wasn’t only a release candidate. After a brief setup and install, I was impressed with the responsiveness of the MMC snapin. Compared to VMWare’s Infratructure Client (VIC) it is a huge difference. VIC has on often crashed, […]