Sanbolic Clustered File System and Citrix Provisoning Server 5.0

Sanbolic created a guide to provide readers with the steps necessary to implement a highly scalable and highly available Server and Desktop Provisioning solution using Citrix Provisioning Server 5.0, Sanbolic Melio FS 2008, Sanbolic LaScala, and Storage Area Network (SAN) storage.

Posted by Ruben Spruijt on August 25, 2008 -

Citrix Provisioning Server 5.0 Beta2 review

Upcomming time will be a great time for the Citrix Provisioning Server team, with the release of the 5.0 version of PVS. Before my vacation I spend some time on the PVS 5.0 beta code. Wilco van Bragt, also a CTP, spend some time on the PVS 5.0 Beta 2 which results in a nice article.

Posted by Ruben Spruijt on August 19, 2008 -

APP-V 4.5 Management Pack for SCOM review

Tim Mangan, the fifth Microsoft App-V MVP, created a nice whitepaper about the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) management pack for App-V 4.5. The whitepaper describes the installation, configuration and (health) monitoring capabilities.

Posted by Ruben Spruijt on August 19, 2008 -

Xtreaming Technology releases VHD CMS Professional 1.0 of its diskless OS-streaming product

Xtreaming Technology Inc. is a new US-invested start-up company working out of Shanghai, China investing in building diskless related products. Their Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) product uses OS-streaming and allows any PC to boot up a full version of Windows XP or Vista from across a network and run it locally. Last weeks I spend some time investigating their solution, the technology seems to be promissing. I just want to share the information with the community.

Posted by Ruben Spruijt on July 31, 2008 -

Understanding all the Application and Desktop delivery solutions in 30 minutes

The “Application and Desktop Delivery solutions” diagram has been developed in order to be able to provide a complete overview of the various applications and desktop delivery solutions. This article was written by Ruben Spruijt in order to introduce the highlights of the delivery solutions in 30 minutes. There are so many delivery solutions that the functionalities can be confused through incomplete knowledge. The point of this article is not to describe all of the application scenarios or the technical advantages or disadvantages, but purely as a high level, vendor dependent overview of the start of technology in the applications and desktop delivery segment. Hopefully this overview will be helpful!

Posted by Ruben Spruijt on July 17, 2008 -

Microsoft will release Application Virtualization 4.5 on 8 september

At Microsoft's WorldWide Partner Conference in Houston Microsoft announced that App-V will be released at 8 September. Microsoft Application Virtualization, short term is App-V 4.5, will give alot of new functionalities and is current in Release Candidate phase.

Posted by Ruben Spruijt on July 17, 2008 -

Visio stencils for Citrix Delivery Center solutions

Daniel Feller created a really nice set of visio objects for the Citrix Delivery Center solution set. This is very usefull for everyone who is involved in designing Citrix solutions.

Posted by Ruben Spruijt on July 03, 2008 -

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5, Virtual Fantasy or Actual Reality?!

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 is the new name for Microsoft SoftGrid and is Microsoft’s application virtualization solution. In this article, Ruben Spruijt explains what the essential advantages of application virtualization are, and more specifically, what the new functionalities and application scenarios of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 are. Sooner or later, later everyone will be using this form of virtualization. Ruben is enthusiastic about sharing his knowledge with you and exclaims, “Application Virtualization is the way to go!”

Posted by Ruben Spruijt on July 02, 2008 -

BriForum 2008 "Tomorrow's news today"

"Tomorrow's news today" that's BriForum 2008. Together with 20 other speakers I joined the BriForum crew this year. It's really an honor to be part of this impressive list of awesome experts and it's great to learn from these guys! This year I gave three presentations: Hyper-V unleashed, Streaming Smackdown 2008 Edition and Top10 challenges with SoftGrid (and other application virtualization solutions). These presentations can be downloaded from Virtuall, hopefully that makes sense!

Posted by Ruben Spruijt on July 02, 2008 -

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Deep Dive

Chris Lord, Sr. Program Manager at Microsoft presented a Sequencing Deep dive @ Tech-ed 2008. The presentation describes 'inside the virtual file system', the sequencing process, volume management, Dynamic Suit Composition, State Management and Sequencing process. Last year when I visited Microsoft in Boston Chris presented this great information to a small group, I really think this information is usefull for every App-V die-harder.

Posted by Ruben Spruijt on June 30, 2008 -