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An introduction to VMware View 3, Part 3 of 3 – Special Considerations and Best Practices

In this three-part article series, Roland van der Kruk, a freelance consultant in The Netherlands, takes a look at the new features of VMware View 3, as well as best practices learned while doing a deployment for a customer. Part 1 provides information...

Published Jan 26 2009 by Guest Bloggers , 5,515 views, 4 comments

An introduction to VMware View 3, Part 2 of 3 – Linked Clones

In this three-part article series, Roland van der Kruk, a freelance consultant in The Netherlands, takes a look at the new features of VMware View 3, as well as best practices learned while doing a deployment for a customer. Part 1 provides information...

Published Jan 18 2009 by Guest Bloggers , 7,203 views, 14 comments

An introduction to VMware View 3 features and best practices, Part 1 of 3

In this three-part article series, Roland van der Kruk, a freelance consultant in The Netherlands, takes a look at the new features of VMware View 3, as well as best practices learned while doing a deployment for a customer. Part 1 (this article) provides...

Published Jan 15 2009 by Guest Bloggers , 10,368 views, 18 comments

How to Deploy the XenApp Web Plugin (ICA Web Client) v11 via Web Interface 4.6 and Web Interface 5.0

For those who would like a quick “Google-able” article on how to deploy the new XenApp Web Plugin (formerly known as the web client) this is the article for you. To do this, you basically follow the instructions from CTX114097, “Deploying...

Published Nov 10 2008 by Guest Bloggers , 7,337 views, 3 comments

Vista Aero Glass for VDI: What's real today

In this article, Glenda Canfield looks at how HP and Citrix are delivering Vista Aero Glass to thin clients today, and why such a solution requires a Blade PC or Workstation Blade....

Published Feb 24 2008 by Guest Bloggers , 6,646 views, 16 comments

VB Script to Backup / Restore CPS policies

In response to several requests in our forums, Mark Elliott has written a couple of VB scripts that backup and restore policies stored in a Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 or 4.5 farm....

Published Dec 06 2007 by Guest Bloggers , 18,891 views, 37 comments

How to Automate the Backup of a SQL Server 2005 Express Data Store

Citrix Presentation Server uses Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express instead of MS Access these days for small environments. SQL Express is cool, but automating backups for it isn't necessarily intuitive. In this article, Katie Koepke shows you how to do it....

Published May 07 2007 by Guest Bloggers , 39,652 views, 24 comments

Login Consultants releases free tool for converting MSI packages to SoftGrid sequences!

Now that Softricity has been acquired by Microsoft and its price has been decreased so much, interest for SoftGrid is rapidly growing. Most enterprises have invested in MSI-based application packaging, and converting these packages into SoftGrid sequences can be laborious. To address this, Dennis Damen and Rodney Medina have created the SoftGrid Migration tool (SMGT)....

Published Mar 06 2007 by Guest Bloggers , 12,673 views, 6 comments

Updated: Lanmanserver and Lanmanworkstation Tuning

Due to the feedback that received on this article from readers, my colleagues, and Microsoft, I felt it was time to update it to try to provide more of a best practices guide to implementing LanManServer Tuning. The major update is in the Tuning section where I explain how "overtuning" can introduce other performance problems. I've also modified the .adm templates that, when applied, help prevent the file server from running out of NonPaged Pool....

Published Feb 19 2007 by Guest Bloggers , 32,865 views, 35 comments

How to use hot-pluggable client USB storage devices with Citrix Presentation Server

Terminal Server's RDP protocol has long supported the dynamic creation of client drive mappings as users insert or remove USB storage devices on their clients. Unfortunately, Citrix Presentation Server and their ICA protocol have lagged behind and do not support this feature. However, Dennis Damen did some digging and found a pretty novel solution to this problem....

Published Feb 14 2007 by Guest Bloggers , 18,663 views, 13 comments

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