The blog..

So a couple of days ago i clearly stated that i would have loved XenApp 5.0 to be ready for 2008 R2 on the release, did a post about it here. And i wish it was like that as i have many customers whom have been waiting for the R2 release before migrating from the Windows 2003 platform.

But today i came across a post and press release on the Feature Pack 2 for XenApp 5.0 and along with that also a link for a TechPreview signup for XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008 R2! top-nice:http://deliver.citrix.com/go/citrix/xar2techpreview 

Along with the announcement of the upcomign techpreview which should be available “later in 2009” there were also a lot of news on the content of the Feature Pack 2.

Vinny Sosa did a great blog post on the upcoming feature: What’s in XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 in plain English

On a headline layout the feature pack looks like this:

Dynamic Application Delivery – New options for Application Virtualization

• VM Hosted Apps
• Windows 7 and Windows Mobile Support
• Streamed application performance

Enterprise Class Management – Better management of your application virtualization solution

• Power and Capacity Management (we had a danish session on this at DKCUG – http://www.dkcug.dk )
• Provisioning Services
• Service Monitoring
• Workflow Studio 2.0

High Definition experience – Ensuring best performance and usability

• HDX MediaStream for Flash
• HDX Plug and Play Support for USB storage devices
• Profile Management
• EasyCall voice services

so it looks great, cant wait to get started on FP2

Rene Vester