Citrix XenDesktop 7 Announced
During Citrix Synergy, what was Project Excalibur was announced as XenDesktop 7.
Welcome to the Blog of Jason Conger. Here, we will focus on Server Based Computing environments including Microsoft Windows Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server, Application and Server virtualization, Application streaming and delivery technologies such as Microsoft Softricity, and many other server-centric topics. Also, I will point out tools and tips to help you with your Terminal Services environments.
During Citrix Synergy, what was Project Excalibur was announced as XenDesktop 7.
At Citrix Synergy last week, the focus was clearly on mobility and how virtualization technologies can help achieve enterprise mobility. One of the cool things introduced/demos was Worx Apps.
Hyper-V Replica provides protection to VMs by tracking and replicating changes to the virtual hard disks (VHDs) of the VM. Hyper-V Replica runs 24 hours, 365 days in a year; for any VM that has been enabled for replication it ensures that the data on the primary site and the Replica site are kept as closely in sync as supported.
In Windows Server 2012, Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) enables authorized remote users to connect to Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) accessible resources on the corporate network, from any Internet-connected RDP client that supports RD Gateway. This whitepaper details how to architect RD Gateway to adequately meet capacity.
I'm a big fan of ThinKiosk and the feature set keeps getting better and better. The preview of version 4.0 looks promising.
Sometimes it is necessary to launch a process within an App-V virtual application environment. This is a big help with troubleshooting processes. To make this process easier a free tool that uses PowerShell is now available.
Storage performance is important for VMs. Not letting one VM hog all the storage performance is important to maintain a consistent experience for all. This article will show you how to accomplish this in a VMware enviroment.
VMware uses a file system called VMFS. VMFS is a scalable and high performance symmetric clustered file system for hosting virtual machines (VMs) on shared block storage. A lot of people know that. But, do you know the inner-workings of …
From my experience, I have seen the majority of VDI workloads as Windows XP. Windows 7 did not perform so well for VDI due to high disk traffic. So, how does Windows 8 compare? Andrew Leibovici wrote and article recently …
What do you get when you combine a powerful Virtual User Environment Manager and a powerful PC-to-Thin Client solution? You get Transformer. Transformer instantaneously converts any PC into a thin client, with top performances, kiosk modes and full reversibility to a classic PC.