Here you can find some useful resources to plan and design Citrix environments. The following resources provide a best-practices based approach to designing virtualization environments based on Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop technologies: Windows XP Optimization Guide for Virtual Desktops Description: If Windows XP is still your desktop operating system of choice and it is going to be used within a
How often did you wish there was a way to change the GUID on a virtual desktop agent without manually going to the registry or running a repair on the VDA agent? Well Citrix Support team is pleased to provide you another useful tool to do that and more … It is called the XenDesktop VDA farm Changer! This tool
Citrix Support is focused on ensuring Customer and Partner satisfaction with his products. Citrix is working on multiple items to help make it easier to find answers and solve problems via self-service avenues, all of which are available to all his Partners and Customers to leverage. Last November Citrix launched the How To video initiative and to date have over
Citrix makes two announcements! The first exciting announcement is the launch of the new AskTheArchictect microsite that focuses on integrating XenDesktop with Microsoft technologies. The second announcement is the release of the long awaited XenDesktop Design Guide for Hyper-V. XenDesktop on Microsoft Hyper-V Citrix and Microsoft have quite a history together and Citrix is committed to supporting the Microsoft products
When you hear terms like “feature pack” or “service pack” or “service release,” usually you expect a few bug fixes, maybe a couple cool widgets here and there – but overall relatively minor stuff…right? In this case, XenDesktop 4 Feature Pack 1 may be the understatement of the year (and it’s only March!) This is a feature update that adds
Choosing a thin client OS for your desktop virtualization deployment can be tricky. Windows embedded thin clients offer the latest features, but they cost more and have additional security implications and maintenance compared to Linux based thin clients. Wyse ThinOS clients are often easier to secure and manage than Linux clients, but often lag in features. This has changed with the use
Citrix published a new architecture blueprint for its VDI platform XenDesktop. The 38-pages document provides guidance to design scalable virtual desktop infrastructures based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005, Citrix Provisioning Server 5.1 and of course XenDesktop 4.0 (which includes the hypervisor and XenApp 5). For more information, go to http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX124087
