Citrix AppDisk News & Support Resources

Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.8+ Documentation Script Update Version 2.14

April 20, 2018

#Version 2.14 11-Apr-2018 Added the following properties to Application Details Application Type CPU Priority Level Home Zone Name Home Zone Only Ignore User Home Zone Icon from Client Local Launch Disabled Secure Command Line Arguments Enabled Add shortcut to user’s desktop Add shortcut to user’s Start Menu Start Menu Folder Wait for Printer Creation Added […]

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Citrix App Layering (Unidesk) – When it Works & When it May Not Work for You

April 14, 2017

Citrix released Citrix App Layering last week. The Citrix solution layers applications, and optionally the OS, to Citrix desktops and XenApp servers. We’d encourage every Citrix customer that has access to the solution to try it, after all most features are included in the Citrix stack while some advanced features are reserved for Citrix Platinum […]

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Citrix Buys Unidesk – What Customers & Partners Need to Know…

January 13, 2017

Citrix announced today that they’ve acquired Unidesk for layering. Full disclosure: we’re a leading Citrix Ready partner and a former competitor of Unidesk, with our FlexApp layering solution. I’d like to share Liquidware Labs’ perspective. Citrix briefed Liquidware Labs last week and we thank them for the official confirmation of the rumor that has been […]

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Citrix Acquiring Unidesk kicks out Citrix AppDisk and Fixes Citrix PVS Image Management

January 12, 2017

RobBeekmans.NET by Rob Beekmans

What a year this has been, seems that every amazing company has been acquired by some of the big ones in End User Computing. The last in this list is Unidesk that fell into the claws of Citrix. With their Norksale acquisition and now the Unidesk acquisition they got a lot of awesome tools in […]

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10 FACTS – FlexApp Competitors Don’t Want You to Know!

January 5, 2017

FlexApp is a leading Windows application layering solution for Citrix, VMware, Amazon WorkSpaces, and well-connected physical environments. Other competitors in this market include Unidesk and App Volumes from VMware. Citrix AppDisk is in this category as well, however Citrix has not treated partners that add value to their platform as competitors. Lately we have seen […]

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Citrix: Create AppDisks – Like a BOSS! – with PVS

August 4, 2016

By now, hopefully you have heard of—or even used!—Citrix AppDisks. Released as a part of XenDesktop 7.8, a bunch has already been written about them, including this excellent guide from George Kuruvilla: Citrix AppDisks How-To Guide: Administration Basics and Gotchas From my own experience testing AppDisks, creation with MCS was a breeze, but with PVS there […]

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Advanced Application Layering with FlexApp

July 11, 2016

Bill Moore, Senior Technical Enablement Manager at Liquidware Labs (and former Citrite), with Jason Smith, VP of Product Marketing (both also CUGC members) presented information about some of the new advanced features included with FlexApp Layering technology and how it can be used to complement the recently released Citrix AppDisk platform. In addition to the live demo of […]

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Citrix Synergy 2016 – Day 3

June 1, 2016

Wilco van Bragt

The last day of Citrix Synergy already arrived. This third day is based on breakout sessions only. My experience of this day are again blogged in this article. I started the day with the presentation Desktop Virtualization Round-up by Jarian Gibson and Eduardo Molina. They started of describing the architectures of Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, Microsoft RDS […]

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Citrix Synergy 2016 – Day 2

June 1, 2016

Wilco van Bragt

Already day 2 of Citrix Synergy 2016 in Las Vegas. Day starts with a general keynote, followed by a set of breakout session. My experience of day 2 are in this article.The keynote was opened by Tim again after a short video of day 1. Tim started with the innovation awards. After the innovation awards […]

Citrix Synergy 2016 Video – SYN106 – AppDisk and AppDNA; The unbeatable combination

May 30, 2016

Coupling AppDisk with AppDNA analysis delivers unmatched effectiveness and predictability for packaging and delivering applications. Learn how to effectively manage apps with AppDisk to vastly improve image management and reduce application deployment time. In this session, you will learn: How to utilize AppDisk for image management How testing efforts will be focused and predictive (and […]

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The Art Of The Possible, Citrix XenDesktop, AppDisks, Microsoft Azure and Turbo

May 17, 2016

Every now and again things just click into place, when Citrix released XenDesktop 7.8 with the AppDisk technology the ability to layer applications was introduced into the XenDesktop stack, couple this with the ability to provision MCS workloads on premises and directly into Azure and you have a pretty powerful application delivery platform. Now, add […]

Citrix AppDisk – Behind the Scenes

April 25, 2016

Citrix AppDisk brings integrated application layering to XenApp and XenDesktop. In addition, it also integrates advanced application compatibility and analysis capabilities. See how this works in the following video.

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Citrix AppDisks How-To Guide: Administration Basics and Gotchas

April 18, 2016

We kicked off 2016 with the launch of our new AppDisk technology that allows admins to package and manage applications independent of their master OS image, thereby alleviating the management complexity of multiple, departmental-based images. AppDisk makes it easy to install or update applications without impacting the golden desktop or server image. AppDisks—an application layering solution—was […]

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FSLogix Apps for Citrix AppDisk Reference Architecture White Paper

April 12, 2016

App Layering and Image Masking Combined for the Most Versatile Delivery Solution on the Market! Optimizing the way applications are delivered and managed has been an ongoing challenge in enterprise IT, and the variety of approaches over the years have been received with varying degrees of success. While every method has pros and cons, some […]

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