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Read "Best Practices for Upgrading the Citrix XenDesktop 4 Virtual Desktop Agent" White Paper

The following Citrix document provides administrators with best practices for upgrading the Citrix XenDesktop 4.0 Virtual Desktop Agent to Service Pa...

Posted on 7/26/2010 4:01:00 AM

Citrix Releases Receiver for iPhone 4.0 - includes multitasking virtual desktop with iPhone Apps – Cool…

Citrix just released the Citrix Receiver for the iPhone 4 update. Due to the enhancements found in iOS4, such as multitasking and video out, Citrix i...

Posted on 7/20/2010 4:12:00 AM

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Gartner - Citrix XenDesktop 4 SP1 is the First Enterprise-Ready SHVD Platform
With today’s update to the XenDesktop 4 Platinum edition suite, Citrix became the first vendor to meet all requirements in the Burton Group Server Hosted Virtual Desktop evaluation criteria.
Friday, July 30, 2010 2:01:00 AM

Citrix: Desktop Virtualization is Snowballing
Citrix reported a better-than-expected second quarter in part because of its XenDesktop virtualization software. The news is yet another datapoint that desktop virtualization is here and CIOs are ramping up adoption. VMware also indicated that it was having high level conversations with technology executives about desktop virtualizations. Citrix, however, appears to be booking the revenue.
Friday, July 30, 2010 12:25:00 AM

Windows 7 Registry Optimizations for Virtual Desktops
In another blog, I discussed Windows 7 services that you might wish to disable when going down the path of desktop virtualization. In this article, I'm now focusing on registry modification you will want to make to optimize Windows 7 for virtual desktops. I've broken it down into Recommended configurations, Standard Mode configurations (for Provisioning services), and Optional configurations.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 2:04:00 AM

Read "Best Practices for Upgrading the Citrix XenDesktop 4 Virtual Desktop Agent" White Paper
The following Citrix document provides administrators with best practices for upgrading the Citrix XenDesktop 4.0 Virtual Desktop Agent to Service Pack 1 or any specific Hotfix version on both pooled and assigned desktops. Citrix Consulting recommends that administrators adhere to the best practices documented in this paper to avoid any risks of environment corruption.
Monday, July 26, 2010 4:01:00 AM

PowerShell Scripts for Citrix XenDesktop Part 5
In an effort to finish publishing the PowerShell scripts I use for scalability testing, today's GenVMs.ps1 PowerShell script demonstrates how to create basic virtual machines on Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 hosts through the SCVMM PowerShell interface. The exciting part about today's script is that when combined with the scripts I have previously released on this blog, it can be used to almost completely replace all the functionality of the XenDesktop Setup Wizard.
Thursday, July 22, 2010 4:51:00 PM

Citrix Releases Receiver for iPhone 4.0 - includes multitasking virtual desktop with iPhone Apps – Cool…
Citrix just released the Citrix Receiver for the iPhone 4 update. Due to the enhancements found in iOS4, such as multitasking and video out, Citrix is able to do some really neat and amazing things with Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop and your iPhone.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 4:12:00 AM

ThinPrint Offers Free Desktop Extension Toolkit - ChannelPro-SMB
The free add-on enables use of “.print 8.0” print management solutions in such VDI environments as Citrix XenDesktop or Microsoft VDI Suite.
Monday, July 19, 2010 1:07:00 AM

Citrix Expert Session Part II – XenApp and XenDesktop High Availability & Disaster Recovery
Join Steve Benton & Lee Bushen in this interactive webcast featuring XenServer 5.6. Discover best practices for high availability and disaster/site recovery in virtualized environments for XenApp or XenDesktop.
Monday, July 19, 2010 12:55:00 AM

ThinPrint Enables Seamless Virtual Desktop Printing
ThinPrint, the leading provider of printing solutions for Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, is now offering its free Desktop Extension toolkit to optimize VDI environments. The new Desktop Extension enables existing and future ThinPrint customers to seamlessly integrate VDI printing into their printing environment.
Friday, July 16, 2010 2:57:00 PM

Building Custom Citrix EdgeSight Reports Part 2 - The Database
Understanding the database schema is the key to building a custom report for EdgeSight. In this article you will learn about important tables and views as well as the relationship between them. This article explains the purpose and layout key tables in the EdgeSight database schema as well as the relationships between them.
Friday, July 16, 2010 2:53:00 PM

How do I get Login VSI and Citrix XenDesktop to work together?
The Solution Center and Citrix Consulting Solutions have been involved in several projects where Login VSI Pro or Express has been utilized to either validate hardware configurations for a specific XenDesktop architecture, assess the performance of XenDesktop on varying hardware configurations, or generate XenDesktop load to assess the bandwidth requirements for papers such as the Performance Assessment and Bandwidth Analysis for Delivering XenDesktop to Branch Offices.
Thursday, July 15, 2010 4:06:00 AM

Co-op to build 3000 virtual desktops, ditches VMware for Citrix and Hyper-V - Computing
The Co-operative Group will fit its new Manchester headquarters with 3,000 low power thin client devices and laptops running desktop virtualisation software rather than desktop PCs and workstations over the next two years.
Friday, July 09, 2010 3:01:00 AM

Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop - Application and Desktop Virtualization are Better Together
Since launching XenDesktop, one of the most common questions I have heard from XenApp customers is "Why would I use XenDesktop with my current XenApp implementation?" Well, there are a lot of reasons and this white paper helps answer them. According to the document's description:
Thursday, July 08, 2010 4:03:00 AM

Read "Citrix Technical Guide to Application Delivery Option(s) for XenApp and/or XenDesktop"
Determining the best technical solution for delivering applications to users can initially seem overwhelming, especially for organizations that deliver hundreds or thousands of applications. Citrix provides many options for application delivery. This document focuses on the options that are available, as well as the criteria that should be used by architects and administrators when making these decisions.
Wednesday, July 07, 2010 4:36:00 PM

Download Optimizing Windows XP for Citrix XenDesktop Group Policy (ADM) Template and REG Files
Citrix SE Gareth James just created a Windows Group Policy (ADM) Template to help you with optimizing a Windows XP desktop for Citrix XenDesktop.
Wednesday, July 07, 2010 3:55:00 AM

Citrix Posts “XenDesktop Design Handbook”
Citrix guru Daniel Feller just posted an amazing piece project of How Tos and best practices called the Citrix XenDesktop Design Handbook. The XenDesktop Design Handbook is a conglomeration of planning guides, best practices and reference designs to help architects design their XenDesktop infrastructure. This kit will be updated with the latest best practices based on field projects such as:
Wednesday, July 07, 2010 2:55:00 AM

Building Custom Citrix EdgeSight Reports Part 1 - Kick Off
For quite a while now, Citrix is offering EdgeSight for performance analysis and historical reporting. It started off for endpoints and XenApp (still called Presentation Server at that time) and now includes virtual desktops as well. EdgeSight is offering a huge number of reports seemingly covering all possible aspects of performance analysis.
Tuesday, July 06, 2010 5:03:00 PM

Citrix XenDesktop Scalability Webinar Q&A Part 2
This is the second blog in a two-part series to respond to the remaining unanswered questions from my Citrix, Microsoft, HP: Best Practices for Scaling Virtual Desktops webinar on June 17, 2010. I covered the first half of the questions in XenDesktop Scalability Q&A Part 1. Some questions with similar content have been combined into a single question and others have been adjusted for typing errors.
Tuesday, July 06, 2010 1:58:00 AM

PowerShell Scripts for Citrix XenDesktop - Part 4
Two days ago I provided a PowerShell script that could be used to generate an import CSV file for Provisioning Services (PVS). However, after importing the devices, a vDisk still needed to be assigned (if you didn't configure a template) and more importantly, an account still needed to be created in Active Directory for each device. These extra steps increased the complexity of the import process.
Friday, July 02, 2010 2:48:00 AM

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	Citrix XenClient: Client Virtualization / Hypervisor Deep Dive Podcast with Peter Blum from Citrix - June 23, 2010 - Episode 129 PowerGadgets Mobile for Citrix XenApp Introduction Podcast with Chris Fleck from Citrix - May 8, 2010 - Episode 120 Citrix Project Independence: Client-Side Hypervisor Podcast with Citrix CTO Simon Crosby - February 5, 2009 - Episode 69 view more podcasts


	Citrix and AppSense: Desktop Virtualization (VDI) and User Personalization Video Podcast - Episode 26 view more videos


	Related Media Virtualization Community Videos: How To: Create a Delivery Rule in Citrix Merchandising Server view more media


	White Papers Best Practices for Upgrading the Citrix XenDesktop 4 Virtual Desktop Agent Posted on July 26, 2010 - 04:01 Citrix Technical Guide to Application Delivery Option(s) for XenApp and/or XenDesktop Posted on July 07, 2010 - 16:36 Delivering 5000 Desktops with Citrix XenDesktop Posted on February 09, 2010 - 15:43 "Desktop Virtualization with Citrix XenDesktop" White Paper Posted on January 06, 2009 - 15:58 view more whitepapers


	Downloads Citrix Technical TechTalk Webinar: "Next Generation Desktop Virtualization with Citrix XenDesktop" Posted on January 13, 2009 - 18:13 Citrix Podcast: Sumit Dhawan Explains Why Desktop Virtualization is Not Enough Posted on January 13, 2009 - 04:49 view more downloads


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