There is no dispute to the advantages virtualization brings to organizations. As compute and storage technologies improve; through virtualization organizations are seeing better resource utilization with reduced operational and capital expenditure in t…
Updated: 2012-11-27 There have always been rumours (if you didn’t know) that PIN pass-through was not possible when using a Vista/Windows 7 operating system rather than Windows XP. The difference is more thoroughly explained in the provided Citrix ar…
The XenDesktop Availability Problem Over the last several years I have been actively involved in helping many of our enterprise customers deploy large VDI environments. A reoccurring theme is that most, if not all, have experienced outages in their X…
I’d like to announce a new tool that I’ve been working on to compliment the upcoming update to the ‘XenDesktop Site Checker’. As part of the escalation team, I often come across issues with desktops that can be difficult to trac…
Project Avalon – ExcaliburのTech Previewが公開されました。 10月のSynergy Barcelonaで発表されたものが、いよいよテスト可能になりました。 http://www.citrix.co.jp/company/press/releases/20121120_2.html http://www…
As part of any desktop virtualization project, you always need a great architecture design that takes current and future needs of your organization into consideration. A bit of advance planning goes a long way (So take a tip from our woodworking bret…
This post describes how to use the Windows Custom Event log option to create an event log that shows only events from Citrix components; very useful during troubleshooting scenarios.
I was working on a script last night to help track power actions in a 10K+ machine environment, and felt compelled to share some scripts I put together to track power actions in a XenDesktop 5.x environment. The goal of this script is to display a real…
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I just wanted to update everyone on my progress with the XenDesktop site checker, and am planning to release v1.7 this week. This release has been focused on speed and functionality of the tool. Some of the major changes are: Added Catalog and Desktop …