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2 XenApp documentation tools for Hotfixes and Printer Drivers

When doing Infrastructure Assessments of customer XenApp environments it happens very often that we find out that the servers are not consistent in terms of XenApp Hotfixes and / or Printer Drivers. This is, as everybody can guess, definitively not Best...

Published Jul 31 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 2,663 views, 2 comments

High Availability for XenApp

Does anyone care about having high-availability for their XenApp farms? I would envision many of you would say yes. But what does HA for XenApp really mean? On the server hosting side, you essentially have HA because you have load balancing at the application...

Published Jul 28 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 3,175 views, 0 comments

Microsoft's Channel9 Podcast with Simon Crosby

Citrix is all about virtualization. They have a suite of tools that enable IT departments to virtualize almost everything. Citrix is a Microsoft Certified Partner and, to some extent, a competitor. How does this Partner Competitor relationship work? Microsoft...

Published Jul 28 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,864 views, 0 comments

PowerShell and MFCOM - Let's get started

Microsoft Windows PowerShell command line shell and scripting language helps IT professionals achieve greater control and productivity. Using a new admin-focused scripting language, more than 130 standard command line tools, and consistent syntax and...

Published Jul 24 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 2,828 views, 0 comments

The Road to Orlando

No, the title of this post does not refer to a trip to the Mouse Kingdom. And it's not the lost Bob Hope/Bing Crosby movie. Project Orlando is the code name for the next release of Citrix XenServer. Companies don't just use code names because...

Published Jul 24 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 2,261 views, 1 comment

If You Could Wave a Magic Wand...

If you could wave a magic wand and have any one single feature in the next release of Citrix XenApp, what would it be? While XenApp has literally hundreds of features that have been added over the last 10 years as the product has evolved from MetaFrame...

Published Jul 18 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 3,120 views, 29 comments

XenDesktop VDA Configurator 2.0

I've used the spare time between two projects to create version 2.0 of the XenDesktop VDA Configurator. This version has a better Active Directory browsing mechanism (faster & more reliable), checks for GPO configurations of the Virtual Desktop...

Published Jul 17 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 2,071 views, 0 comments

Cloning a XenApp Server with XenAppPrep

One of my side projects these past couple of months has been XenAppPrep - a tool that will help you clone XenApp servers. This tool plays a key role in rolling out XenApp via Provisioning Server, XenServer, and other image-based deployment technologies...

Published Jul 17 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 2,963 views, 0 comments

Free BGP

Border Gateway Protocol, open-source and it's para-virtualized. No more proprietary software and hardware, you can run as many copies of this as needed on one physical XenServer machine. As a proof point, we used the Vyatta Open Source router to build...

Published Jul 11 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,220 views, 0 comments

First Virtual Router for XenServer

And it's FREE! Throw away those behemoths that suck power from every grid in the state and drain your budget. This baby is Free, Open Source and VIRTUAL, meaning you can run as many instances of this router as you want on your choice of hardware...

Published Jul 11 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 3,221 views, 0 comments

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