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Quick and Dirty Performance Analysis, a video from BriForum 2009

briforum video — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT

Presented by Ian Parker, Senior Web Services Administrator, ThomsonReuters
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Performance analysis can be a complicated, difficult and even obscure topic. If you are faced with an urgent performance issue, it can be very difficult to gather relevant performance information and analyze it quickly. Performance base-lining is something that most of us know we should be doing, but that doesn't mean that we are actually doing it! The good news is there are some excellent free tools that can take a lot of the pain and difficultly out of the process. In this session Ian Parker, Senior Web Services Administrator for ThomsonReuters will focus on using free tools to identify performance problems and gather performance data for historical purposes. Some of the tools covered will include:

Performance Analysis of Logs
Server Performance Advisor
Performance Analysis Toolkit

By using these tools, even the performance analysis novice can quickly identify performance issues and develop a plan to eliminate them.

We'll be featuring several videos from BriForum 2009 each week leading up to BriForum. All videos from past BriForums are available at www.brianmadden.com/videos, or you can click here to see just the BriForum 2009 videos.

A Deep Dive Into the 20 Year History and Technical Developments of Citrix Systems, a video from BriForum 2009

briforum video — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT

Presented by Brad Pedersen, Citrix Chief Architect and Senior Fellow and Steve Greenberg, Founder, ThinClient
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This session will be a lively and interactive presentation with intesive Q&A. Join Steve Greenberg, Founder of ThinClient, as he sits down with Citrix Chief Architect and Senior Fellow Brad Pedersen for a truly unique opportunity to get an inside technical view behind the scenes at Citrix.

Topics to be covered include:

Citrix’s first product and how it failed
Citrix’s first successful product
How the ICA protocol really get created
The creation of web interface, secure gateway, published applications, IMA and more
What really happened with Microsoft in 1997

The All New, Totally Redone, Windows 2008 R2 Logon Process Chart, a video from BriForum 2009

briforum video — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT

Presented by Brian Madden, Industry Analyst and Blogger and Kevin Goodman, CEO, RTO Software
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This is the all new, totally revamped logon process chart for Windows 2008 R2. In this session, Brian Madden and Kevin Goodman document the steps of a logon to a Windows 2008 R2 Server all the way from a successful credentials negotiation to the displaying of a published application (RemoteApp). Each step will be described in detail, including how virtual channels, user profiles, and user sessions are initialized. The chart has been totally redone and is in an easier to read format. Even if you have seen previous charts you must attend this session.

A Complete Application and Desktop Delivery Solutions Overview, a video from BriForum 2009

briforum video — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT

Today's featured BriForum video was by far the most popular session at BriForum 2009--so popular, in fact, that we held the session twice (the first time in BriForum history). We'll be featuring several videos from BriForum 2009 each week leading up to BriForum. All videos from past BriForums are available at www.brianmadden.com/videos, or you can click here to see just the BriForum 2009 videos.

Presented by Ruben Spruijt, Solutions Architect, PQR and Shawn Bass, Independent Consultant; Citrix Technology Professional
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With a wide range of application and desktop delivery solutions available, determining which solution can best accommodate your requirements and desires is no simple matter. In this session Ruben Spruijt and Shawn Bass present a completely vendor independent overview of all of the current and upcoming application and desktop delivery solutions.

Topics include:

Server hosted VDI
Server hosted VDI GPU Accelerated
Terminal Services
OS Provisioning
Application Streaming and Virtualization
Local Desktop/Laptop
Web Application and Acceleration
BladePC
Display Protocols
Connection Brokers

Citrix Provisioning Server Strategies: From High Availability to Throughput and Reliability - How to Survive Demanding Customers, a video from BriForum 2009

briforum video — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT

This is a video from BriForum 2009 that has been made public along with all the other videos from BriForum 2009. All videos from past BriForums are available at www.brianmadden.com/videos, or you can click here to see just the BriForum 2009 videos.

Presented by Thorsten Rood, Principal Architect, Net.workers Corporation
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With the world moving towards dynamic data centers, many reasons exist for using Provisioning Server to deploy your XenApp workload. In some environments, this is easily accomplished with a straightforward implementation without too much thought or experience, but when your company or client requires baseline metrics based on service-level agreements, enterprise dependencies, throughput limits, or use density, things can get quite complicated. Since Citrix Provisioning Server relies on I/O strategies, proper system sizing and deep implementation design are crucial aspects to the success of the project from an end-user, systems administration, and management perspective.

This session with Thorsten Rood is about the high availability and write-cache strategies for CPS in enterprise environments. These strategies are based on business needs, and you’ll be able to use them to measure the performance of your environment and ensure your project’s overall success. Thorsten will also cover how to customize applications at boot time and how to ensure XenApp application publishing remains bullet-proof and reliable when your server footprint is dynamic and the workload is unpredictable.

How to tune a desktop OS to run in VDI, a video from BriForum 2009

briforum video — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:58:47 GMT

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Presented by: Tim Mangan, Founder of TMurgent Technologies

One of the most often overlooked challenges in VDI environments is that most people don’t know how to tune a desktop OS so it can run as a VM on a remote server. Sure, we know all about server sizing and VM monitoring and SLAs. But when it comes time to actually build your XP or Vista image, what options should you choose? What hidden registry keys do you need to know about? What little “gotchas” did you later learn that you wish you first knew?

The problem is that there is not comprehensive “best practices” guide out there. So Tim Mangan wants to fix that. In this session, he’ll lead a discussion and gather ideas and best practices. So if you’re planning on rolling out any central image managed virtual desktop environment, this session is for you!

A Geeks Look at How Application Virtualizaton Works Under the Hood, a video from BriForum 2009

briforum video — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:35:49 GMT

Presented by Randy Cook, Chief Architect, Symantec Endpoint Virtualization
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Most application virtualization or application isolation products work the same way. They install some sort of driver or wrap an executable in a “shim” and then redirect file system reads and writes to a special area or package. It all seems well and good. But have you ever wondered how it actually works? I mean how it REALLY works? How can a driver redirect all writes from one folder to another? How can a shim virtualize a registry key? This session will be led by Randy Cook, creator of the product that ultimately became Symantec’s application virtualization solution. In this session, Randy is NOT going to tell you about Symantec or why one product is better than the other. Instead, he’ll explain the voo-doo and tricks that these things all use behind the scenes to do what they do. While this session may not be too high on the “practicality” list, it sure will teach you some neat things you can use to impress your geek friends!

App-V: Sequencing and Deploying Using MSI and Active Upgrade, a video from BriForum 2009

briforum video — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:31:00 GMT

Presented by Tim Mangan, Founder, Tmurgent

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A recent survey of Network Operations Personnel by Network World revealed that over 39% of their time is taken up dealing with applications, as opposed to servers, WAN, security and storage. Application virtualization reduces application issues by eliminating application conflict and allowing for easier centralized deployment, management, and compliance.

In this session, Tim Mangan, using Microsoft App-V to prepare an application for the simplest form of application virtualization deployment without back-end streaming servers, will demonstrate how he customizes the deployment such that the applications can be upgraded without loss of user personalization.

Behind the Scenes: Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Exposed, a video from BriForum 2009

briforum video — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:21:48 GMT

Presented by Benny Tritsch, CTO, Immidio
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As an IT professional responsible for remote desktop services and remote application delivery, you need to dig beneath the surface if you really want to understand how the technology works. So let’s go on a journey right down to the core.

This session introduces you to details about the system components required for remote sessions and RemoteApp programs. Learn how the negotiation sequence with the server works when a remote desktop client connects. Get in-depth information on application compatibility, in particular about Microsoft Remote Data Services (RDS) installation and execution modes, their impact on file system and registry, and changes introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2. Discover how to modify system settings in order to fine-tune user experience and remote desktop performance.

Comprehensive demonstrations and comparisons will help you to improve your technical and professional skills in mastering the Windows Server 2008 R2 remote desktop services platform.

Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services: Honest Opinions One Year Later, a video from BriForum 2009

briforum video — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:18:09 GMT

Presented by Claudio Rodrigues, Senior Technical Architect/Consultant; Terminal Services MVP
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In this session, Claudio Rodrigues will lead a discussion with Microsoft regarding what they learned from the original 'Honest Opinions' session at last year's BriForum. Nelly Porter from Microsoft will join in to talk about changes that have been made since then and listen to your questions, comments and concerns about Remote Data Services or RDS (formerly Terminal Services) on Windows Server 2008. This session is no-holds-barred, and attendees are invited to speak honestly about the problems that they're having. After all, if you don't bring it up, Microsoft may never know!