So.. have you ever tried to find the registry setting for a specific group policy setting, or just tried to actually find the group policy setting you needed and couldn’t quite remember where it was? Well help has arrived Under MSDN Microsoft has launched a new site called http://gps.cloudapp.net this site is awesome! The site [...]
Citrix and Microsoft has kicked of a virtual lab which enables it-professionals to try out the process of building a Virtual Desktop environment based on Citrix XenDesktop 4 and Microsoft Hyper-V. This is GREAT news, i think it is just what we need.. a hands-on lab with guided exercises to give everyone a better understanding [...]
I am getting a lot of questions about whether or not RDS(Remote Desktop Services in 2008 R2, previously known as Terminal Services) is ready to kill the need for XenApp in our modern server based, centralized computing environments. The truth is i get this question every time there is a new release of Windows Server [...]
A while back a document was created and maintained by our all time favorite Rick.. the man Dehlinger! The idea was to share experiences and knowledge on how to update and tune Terminal Services and XenApp workloads. The document has been used by a lot of people and sadly, like with many things the rate [...]
So there has been a couple of cool announcements from the RDS(formerly Terminal Services) team at Microsoft these last few weeks, i want to mention a few of them as i find them pretty great. Will Windows XP ever really die? Maybe this is the primary platform for VDI even in the future? Microsoft announced [...]
Microsoft seems to have simplified the approach to CALs a bit in 2008 which we can only be grateful for Up until now it has pretty much been a question of new CALs when upgrading your TS/XenApp environment. However that seems to have changed with 2008. In Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 TS [...]
Hey folks, Alex finished publishing videos and presentations from Pubforum in Dublin 2009! You can now go visit the pubforum site here to access the materials: http://www.pubforum.info/welcome/PFResources/tabid/55/Default.aspx On another note i would like to mention a new initiative which Alex is launching in Europe. The RDS999.. you can find more information here: http://www.rds999.com I will [...]
Hey guys, for a while i was battling with slow logons after upgrading to Internet Explorer 7. For a while i simply disabled internet explorer branding but for some customers it seemed important with the internet explorer branded. I got an email from Martin Jensen a really competent Citrix system administrator at a customer with [...]
Well i think we have all been working with users with large monitors, several monitors and it has always been a huge problem to administrate. Some products dont support it, and one thing is for sure, the monitors are not getting smaller or fewer any time soon.. Wouldnt it be cool if you could use [...]
Alot of people are looking at virtualizing Terminal and Presentation Servers, but performance on virtualized hardware have not been what we all hoped for. I have done a small article trying to bring together the options we have to optimize the performance on these systems. Virtualization is perhaps not ready to become the new platform for [...]
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