I recently spoke with someone and realized I hadn’t created a post for this yet – much to my disappointment, as it was a major accomplishment to have the issue solved. At my previous employer (K-12 education) the environment was setup as follows: Approximately 1100 pooled desktops from a single […]
PVS 7.6 made it’s debut with a rather large version jump for what seems like relatively minor changes but a host of fixes. The “What’s new” documentation boasts support for SQL 2014 and AlwaysOn, as well as PVD Test mode. The download can be found at www.Citrix.com, log in, click […]
XenDesktop and XenApp 7.6 come with a solid set of features behind them that make this a particularly exciting release. You can grab the files here. Among the more exciting features are: XenApp 6.5 migration utility Session Linger Session Pre-Launch Unauthenticated (anonymous) user access The full “What’s New” documentation is […]
As I’ve been working with RDS, I’ve been getting reacquainted with the fantastic product disaster known as SCVMM 2012 R2. While working on familiarizing myself with RDS VDI deployment, I noticed my virtual machines weren’t appearing in Virtual Machine Manager even after a refresh, when I came upon this article describing […]
I’ve seen some talk recently about updating properly sizing workloads and anticipating expected usage on XenApp – and all of it is extremely good – however the question still comes up often enough in IRC, I thought it was worth a mention: How large should I make my XenApp server? […]
Today Citrix announced that they are working hard to close the gap in missing features between 6.5 and 7.x, finally delivering anonymous login and session linger and bringing back the much desired, but swiftly-absent, pre-launch. You can read the whole press release, but the jist of it is below: Anonymous logins […]
For those of you using PVS, I urge you to take a look at CTX140875. This hotfix pack includes a number of fairly significant updates to problems that may be affecting your environment. In my mind, notably, are the fixes for the BDM/ARP issue, the SOAP server reliability, and vDisk […]
If you are looking to configure COM or LPT redirection in XenDesktop 7.x, you might be at a loss when you find the policies aren’t where you’d expect them. Fortunately, the functionality still exists, however its days are numbered. Citrix has officially deprecated the feature and now requires that you […]
Check out the Citrix Downloads section to grab NetScaler 10.5 and XenApp 6.5 HRP04. NetScaler 10.5 has a number of enhancements, including the elimination of java from the GUI, making the UI incredibly responsive and allowing easier administration as java security settings no longer block various portions of the UI. […]
There are a variety of devices that have a multitude of ways to backup their configuration, although often you find yourself needing to purchase additional tools from a vendor to do so, or be forever stuck with copying that pesky switch, router, proxy or other configuration to some TFTP server […]
