A question came a couple of days ago, to do a refresh on this blogpost since this is a topic that appears frequently on Twitter from time to time so therefore I decided to do a rewrite of this blogpost. So why should we choose Citrix over Microsoft RDS? Isn’t RDS good enough in many …
This is a recap of the webinar me and a fellow CTP Dave Bretty, had earlier today on MYCUGC “Delivering and Optimizing Citrix from Microsoft Azure” since the webinar itself only covered a big overview of the big picture I decided to do some more work in-depth of the webinar. So therefore I’ve started on …
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There is alot of interest around Citrix these days with the upcoming releases with XenDesktop Essentials and XenApp Essentials, and also with all the investments in the latest release with 7.13 as well. The purpose of this blog is to summurize the differences between the different offers that Citrix has now moving forward and of …
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After speaking with Stephen Vilke (One of the brains behind Framehawk) the other day, he elaborated on what Framehawk actually is and what it actually isn’t. You know I have been caught up thinking about Framehawk as a simple display protocol and ran a bunch of comparisons between it and ThinWire and also with PCoIP …
So this is part two of my securing XenApp enviroment, this time I’ve moved my focus to Storefront. Now how does Storefront need to be secured ? In most cases, Storefront is the aggregator that allows clients to connect to a citrix infrastructure. Im most cases the Storefront is located on the internal network and …
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Now I had the pleasure of talking PCI-DSS compliant XenApp enviroment for a customer. Now after working with it for the last couple of days there are lot of usefull information that I thought I would share. Now PCI-DSS compliance is needed for any merchant who accepts credit cards for instance an e-commerce size. Or …
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Earlier today, Citrix released their updated System Center Configuration Manager connector to XenDesktop 7.5. It can be downloaded from here –> http://www.citrix.com/downloads/xendesktop/product-software/xendesktop-and-xenapp-75-connector-for-sccm.html note that it requires an mycitrix account in order to download it. So what does it do ? well a couple of things. Mostly it’s about pushing software out to regular clients and …
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Having been involved in a case for a long time now where a partner wanted to use SCVMM with XenApp 6.5 and PVS 7.1 for a customer and it has not been quite as successfull. Now I wanted to share some notes with PVS and Hyper-V and what the limitations are there at the moment. …
This is huge news! Microsoft Azure has for some time now had a solid IaaS platform with suppor for most of the different Windows Server roles and features, except the most importent one RDS. Since Microsoft until recently didn’t allow for use of RDS or other options like Citrix to run against Azure, (because of …
Citrix has released a number of training videos regarding Project Excalibur, you can find them in the links below. Part 1, Excalibur introductionhttp://bit.ly/PN7vHD Part 2, Excalibur installationhttp://bit.ly/Q5Cq3o Part 3, Citrix Studiohttp://bit.ly/ZnP5z1 Part 4, Master Imagehttp://bit.ly/Z847K3 Part 5, Citrix Storefronthttp://bit.ly/UvDMFG Part 6, Machine Cataloghttp://bit.ly/Z83Oi5 Part 7, Deliver Groupshttp://bit.ly/RQdI3K Part 8, Delivering Applicationshttp://bit.ly/WT60vN Part 9, Citrix Receiverhttp://bit.ly/SUzWTz …
