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Céad Mile Fáilte… That’s Irish for welcome btw – Well, it actually means a hundred thousand welcomes but that’s just how the Irish roll Get to the point already I hear you say.. ok ok, just wanted to share a couple of observations on the funky new welcome screen that you get with XD5 (one of the new featuers of the new VDA v5). See below: 1. It is enabled by default but... (more...)
If you are considering VDI or any kind of Desktop Virtualization solution, chances are you have heard about HDX, ICA, RDP, PCoIP, VNC, etc etc. Perhaps however you have not had a chance to use HDX first hand or at your location. Or you may be a solution provider, reseller, consultant or knowledgeable IT Pro that knows the benefits of HDX and ICA over the alternatives but have not been... (more...)
With the XenDesktop 5 release, we introduced the new way to provision desktops – Machine Creation Services (or MCS). As Kevin explained in his introduction blog, Machine Creation Services is about more than just provisioning desktops though. MCS enables full life-cycle control of desktops. Those of you familiar with XenDesktop know that we have an existing technology, Provisioning Services (PVS),... (more...)
Did I just read that! On February 9th, there was an interesting press release from VMware that was brought to my attention over the weekend. After reading it, I was rather perplexed as VMware makes the following statement: “The TCO of an SBC deployment used to deliver all applications to users is 8% to 13% lower than that of a locked and well-managed PC deployment, and up to 44 to 47% lower... (more...)
While I’ve blogged on the mechanics of upgrading from UPM 2.x to UPM 3.x, I’ve not yet addressed the other aspects of planning and configuration. This came up recently in-house, where we’d decided to upgrade an XD4 farm to XD5. The original request came in as: “We are creating a new CPM environment for XD5 Pooled in Showcase. We would like to take the contents of the existing... (more...)
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Following my blog post last month discussing the January edition of the FREE XenDesktop monthly technical newsletter I am pleased to announce that the February edition of the newsletter is now available. Check out the archive page, where you can access both the current and past issues, as well as subscribe to the FREE monthly newsletter. The February edition of the newsletter is packed with great... (more...)
Great news for all you planners out there. The session catalog for Citrix Synergy in San Francisco May 25-27 is now available! Why the excitement? This means that you can peruse the session line up and determine which sessions about virtualization, networking and cloud technologies you MUST attend this year to maximize your learning opportunities. There are lots of great sessions to choose from... (more...)
VMware responds with scripted PR Yesterday I pointed out how VMware was inappropriately trying to infer that a quote showing substantial savings from a Gartner Server Based Computing (SBC) research report was somehow applicable to VMware View which offers no such solution. VMware responded with a scripted PR statement on the CRN site that is geared towards VARS and technology integrators in response... (more...)
