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HP reference configuration for Citrix XenApp: 1,500 Microsoft Office 2003 users on HP ProLiant BL460c G6 server blades

Just like London Buses, you wait around for ages, and then they all turn up at once? (Whitepapers, that is?) HP reference configuration for Citrix XenApp: 1,500 Microsoft Office 2003 users on HP ProLiant BL460c G6 server blades This document illustrates...

Published Jun 29 2009 by Dave Caddick , 866 views, 0 comments

New Whitepapers from HP about how to Automate Citrix XenApp on XenServer with Powershell scripts, etc.

Essentially there are two PDF’s, the first is the Overview and the second contains the detail with the scripts embedded in the PDF document. One key take-away from the Overview is this graph of how many users *you might* get from an x64 installation Read...

Published Jun 29 2009 by Dave Caddick , 891 views, 0 comments

Planning a Desktop Virtualization project? – it might be worth making sure you investigate if the Business needs a Remote Protocol that can deliver a “High Quality User Experience”? Is RDP7 up to it?

So just as we headed in to the weekend I noted Brian Madden’s post – Microsoft’s RDP host-side rendering (Calista) plans include optional GPU offload hardware & custom chips. (Oh, and Hyper-V is required!) as well as Alessandro’s post Is Microsoft...

Published Jun 28 2009 by Dave Caddick , 722 views, 0 comments

Getting Citrix XenDesktop Receiver working on Windows XPe Thin Clients

If installing Citrix XenDesktop Receiver on any HP Thin Client with Windows XPe *prior* to the most recent release (Build 710) you may get an error, even after removing the original Citrix Client, that it is unable to install because of a previous Citrix...

Published Jun 22 2009 by Dave Caddick , 803 views, 0 comments

Getting Citrix Printing working with the T5735 Thin Client

Essentially, the printer needs to be configured locally first, pretty much the same way you have it now. There’s additional information, with screen shots on how to configure this for ICA starting page 22 of the attached guide: http://bizsupport2.austin...

Published Jun 12 2009 by Dave Caddick , 664 views, 0 comments

Want to update your HP XPe Thin Client to SP3?

For those who want to update their existing XP embedded Thin Client to SP3 – here are the links depending on which model you have? 5730 & 5630 (also supports 5720): http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc...

Published Jun 12 2009 by Dave Caddick , 1,353 views, 0 comments

Hints on Travel to/from London and around Europe

I was at a conference with some other HP Colleagues a couple of weeks ago and we got to chatting about travel and it turned out that one of the chaps had travelled plenty around Asia and the US but hadn’t been to Europe or UK at all and was now going...

Published Jun 11 2009 by Dave Caddick , 589 views, 0 comments

Updated performance testing for BL685c G6 in x64 Terminal Server/XenApp shows minimal overhead for Virtualization

I just wanted folks to know that there’s some new testing results out that would appear to indicate that with XenApp being virtualized on XenServer there is minimal overhead so long as you are not pushing the XenApp servers above 80% CPU <snip>...

Published Jun 02 2009 by Dave Caddick , 636 views, 0 comments

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