Recently, three new articles related to planning and deploying Citrix XenDesktop have come out to help you with getting a XenDesktop environment up and running with VMware vSphere. Two come from Citrix Consulting services; a Planning Guide incorporating Citrix Consulting best practices from the field and the lab, and a Deployment Guide with step-by-step instructions to help you get your base configuration up and running.
Allen Furmanski, Citrix, published a nice article about XenDesktop or VDI-in-a-Box choice. In this article Allen discusess some points here to compare and contrast the two products. Kumar Goswami, VP for our VDI-in-a-Box product, briefly talks about the topic in a blog post at http://blogs.citrix.com/2011/12/01/citrix-vdi-in-a-box-v5-is-now-here-%E2%80%A6-give-it-a-go/. He writes that “If you need simple VDI use ViaB. Otherwise go with XD with its
James Denne, Citrix, published another nice article regarding XenDesktop 5 and “tainted” Active Directory accounts. In this article James explains you why some Active Directory accounts could be showing as “Tainted” in Desktop Studio, and how you could fix this. wwhat is a “Tainted” Account? An Active Directory account will be marked as Tainted if the Active Directory Identity Service loses
James Denne, Citrix, has published a nice article about error “The provisioning task is already running on the catalog” that you can receive when you add a small number of machines to a XenDesktop catalog. What is a Provisioning Task? When an administrator decides to use Machine Creation Services to create virtual desktops, Desktop Studio will create a ”provisioning task” which is
Citrix has made available in a new white paper from Citrix Consulting which details the new HDX features & optimizations available in XenDesktop 5.5. To validate the recommendations for the new HDX features, a WAN emulator was used to simulate different scenarios, varying from a high latency DSL connection to a trans-pacific branch office. The main goal of XenDesktop 5.5
Mick Glover, Citrix, published a nice article about VM-hosted apps configurations. What is VM-hosted apps feature? XenDesktop feature first introduced with XenDesktop 4 Designed to support applications which cannot be installed and published on Server operating systems (XenApp) Alternative to application streaming technology which also supports applications which cannot be installed on Server OS’s Uses XenDesktop VDI technology to allows users launch published
Tired of the quaint Windows 7 Basic Theme of your VDI desktop? Looking to deliver a modern experience on your capable Windows XP devices with zero effort? Check out the new Aero Redirection feature in XenDesktop 5.5. HDX RichGraphics Aero Redirection delivers the full Windows 7 Aero Glass experience for VDI desktops. It provides an immersive look-and-feel like the local Windows 7
HDX server rendered audio enables two primary use cases: Unified Communication applications like VoIP, and server rendered media. In XenDesktop 5.5, we have made tons of improvements around supporting multiple audio devices and delivering low latency and high quality audio over any type of network connection. Supporting multiple audio devices with HDX Plug-n-Play In XenDesktop 5.0 and XenApp 6.0 or
Citrix has announced the immediate availability of XenDesktop 5.5. Citrix continues to innovate in the desktop virtualization space and build on the on the market leading trajectory established with first with XenDesktop 4.0 — the industry’s first VDI offering to provide integrated app and desktop delivery in a single product – and extended with XenDesktop 5.0 — focused on simplification
This post blog explains you how to enable USB redirection on XenDesktop 5: 1) Open Desktop Studio on XenDesktop 5 Server, Start –> All Programs –> Citrix –>Desktop Studio 2) Expand HDX Policy, Select Users, Click on Edit –> Settings 3) In the Policy console, scroll down to USB Devices, Click Add on “Client USB device redirection” 4) Select Allowed and click on ok
