Book Review: Instant Citrix XenDesktop 5 Starter

Packt Publishing has released a new e-book about Citrix XenDesktop 5: “Instant Citrix XenDesktop 5 Starter” . The author, Mahmoud Magdy,  is a senior architect with almost 10 years’ experience in the IT field. He was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for 2010/2011/2012 (Exchange Server) and Symantec Backup Exec BExpert for 2012. He is also MCITP, CCA, CCAA, NetApp ASVP,

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Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 – February 2013

Citrix Support published Top 10 Technical articles for February 2013. Find below the Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 for February 2013. Top 10 Technical Articles Article Number Article Title CTX129229 Recommended Hotfixes for XenApp 6.0 and Later on Windows Server 2008 R2 CTX132875 Citrix Receiver Error 2320 CTX129082 Application Launch Fails with Web Interface using Internet Explorer 9 CTX804493 Users Prompted to Download ICA File, Launch.ica, Instead

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Book Review:Citrix Access Gateway VPX 5.04 Essentials

In a previous post, I have blogged about a new book released by Packt Publishing : “Citrix Access Gateway VPX 5.04 Essentials” . I was involved on the technical review of this book during the writing process: now, it is time to review it from the point of view of a standard user The author, Andrew Mallett,  has worked in the IT

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Packt Publishing releases Citrix Access Gateway VPX 5.04 Essentials

Packt Publishing has published an interesting book about how to manage secure access using ICA-Proxy to your Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop hosted environments. The book is a complete administration companion guiding you through the complexity of providing secure remote access using the Citrix Access Gateway 5 virtual appliance. More info here: http://www.packtpub.com/citrix-access-gateway-vpx-5-04-essentials/book I will provide you with a review of the book in the next days so stay

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Citrix XenServer – Intel 55×0 Chipset Errata – Interrupt Remapping Issue

Citrix has published a Knowledge Base article regarding XenServer and an issue regarding Interrupt Remapping. Intel 5500/5520/X58 chipset revision 0×13 has an errata (#47 and #53) which makes the IOMMU interrupt remapping unit unreliable. This erratum causes interruptions and the interrupt remapping invalidations become unresponsive. Refer to the link in More Information for details about Intel errata. XenServer versions newer than XS6.0

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Configuring Multipathing for XenServer

Citrix has released a new guide explaining you how to configure XenServer multipathing. This guide applies to the XenServer 6.x family. The guide also provides procedures to help you validate your configuration, especially in relation to creating Storage Repositories for use with multipathing. You will find also This guide also iSCSI HBA configuration, Fibre Channel zoning requirements, preliminary troubleshooting information and list of

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40 Secrets of the Citrix Support Ninjas

Citrix has published a nice free ebook named “Secrets of the Support Ninjas” collecting a bunch of tips’ to help administrators like you run better Citrix environments. The book is organized by four products: XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer and NetScaler. You can download it here .

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Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 – December 2012

Citrix Support published Top 10 Technical articles for December 2012. Find below the Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 for December 2012. Top 10 Technical Articles Article Number Article Title CTX129229 Recommended Hotfixes for XenApp 6.0 and Later on Windows Server 2008 R2 CTX129082 Application Launch Fails with Web Interface using Internet Explorer 9 CTX132875 Citrix Receiver Error 2320 CTX804493 Users Prompted to Download ICA File, Launch.ica, Instead

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Merry Christmas

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VDI Performance Testing with Windows 8 and Server 2012 now supported by Login VSI 3.7

Login VSI B.V. announces Login VSI 3.7; the newest version of the industry standard performance and scalability testing tool for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures and Server Based Computing environments. Support for latest relevant technologies The main focus of Login VSI 3.7 is to support the latest relevant technologies in the desktop virtualization market. Login VSI 3.7 introduces out-of-the-box support for simulating

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