Application delivery and virtualization news
Announcing the Remote Desktop Protocol Performance Improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 white paper
feb 8
With the growing trend toward desktop virtualization, it is Microsoft’s goal to provide enterprises with a flexible model for centralized computing, whereby the broadest range of client devices can help securely access company data and applications from any location on the network.
As with Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2, virtual machine-based desktop virtualization [...]
Hotfix Package 1 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Service Pack 1: January 2010
feb 5
Microsoft recently released a new Knowledge Base article documenting a hotfix package for January 2010 that contains the latest hotfixes for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
You can get all the details on the specific issues that are fixed as well as download the hotfix here:
KB978480 – Hotfix Package 1 for Microsoft [...]
Error message when you try to publish a Windows Installer package for a virtual application from a network share to an App-V Client: xxxxxx-xxxxxx0A-000001D1
feb 5
After you sequence an application that uses the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Sequencer version 4.5 or a later version, you have the option of generating a Windows Installer package to publish the application. If you try to publish a Windows Installer package that is located on a network share, you may receive the following error [...]
Deciding Between Blades and Rack Servers for XenDesktop Environments
feb 3
There are several pros and cons when choosing between blade or rack servers related to power consumption, consolidated networking, manageability and cost. These comparisons are readily available over the Internet, but what makes one preferable to the other in a XenDesktop deployment? Let’s take a look at a few of the differences.
Higher Density XenServer Resource Pools
Rack servers offer more quad-socket models compared to [...]
VIDEO: How to Install MS VDI on as Single Server using Windows 7 Guests
gen 28
Microsoft published a video about installing a complete MS VDI solution and how many servers does it take. Video showcases that you can setup a complete solution including backend, broker, and web publishing to provide virtualized clients on a single physical Windows Server 2008 R2 box. This sample uses Windows 7 for the guest. The complete 16 [...]
App-V 4.6 and applications sequenced using earlier versions
gen 22
With the release of Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 looming on the horizon, a question that seems to pop up over and over again is “Can I run all my apps that I sequenced using App-V 4.5 or 4.2 with the new App-V 4.6 client?” Another one is “Can I run my old 32-bit packages using [...]
How to detect RDS-specific application compatibility issues by using the RDS Application Compatibility Analyzer
gen 20
The Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Application Compatibility Analyzer is a runtime program analysis tool that enables administrators and users to determine the compatibility of an application with a Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) server before deploying it. The tool provides a summary of incompatible behaviour between the RD Session Host server and an [...]
Gourami releases another innovative new free tool called Farm Commander
gen 16
Farm Commander enables system administrators to execute file manipulations on several servers at once. This will save system administrators a lot of time. Copy a file to or from 100 servers can be done with one click.
From a Citrix XenApp point of view, Farm Commander can be started using two options:
-list all XenApp servers
-list XenApp [...]
Shared Storage for small XenServer Pools
gen 16
Introduction
How to create a pool of 2 (or so) XenServers without having to spend thousands of pounds on shared storage?
The simplistic answer is that you don’t need any shared storage in order to create a XenServer Pool, but without it you have export and re-import VMs if you want to “load balance” your XenServers. Of [...]
Publish RD Gateway on an ISA server using a script
gen 9
The Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway, formerly known as TS Gateway) ISA configuration script helps ease the process of setting up an ISA server for RD Gateway supported scenarios such as the RD Gateway-ISA core scenario and the RD Gateway-ISA OTP scenario. The script runs on the ISA server and completely eliminates the need to configure the [...]