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.
Jesse Wright, Citrix, published another article about XenClient Best Practices. Citrix’s vision is to empower people to work from anywhere, on any device. For example, a mobile executive might use XenDesktop while at the office and XenClient while on the road. Citrix ShareFile ensures that whatever device a user is on, all their documents will always be there with them.
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
Abhilash Verma, Citrix, published a very useful article related to some utilities for diagnostic and troubleshooting NetScaler. On the Netscaler user interface, you have a Diagnostic page with a section called “Utilities” : you can use them to troubleshooting issues in Netscaler. Here a description of the utilities you can use: Batch configuration: this utility provides the way to run batch
Jesse Wright, Citrix, published an article about XenClient best practices related to customizing the user interface. XenClient has several VM icons to choose from. Here a simple procedure to customize the user interface : 1.1 If ssh is not already enabled, enable it. 1.2 Open a terminal Window by pressing ctrl-shift-t while on the Receiver for XenClient screen. 1.3 Run
Bill Hackley, Citrix, published a very useful article about managing multiple citrix consoles. In this article, he proposes to use a taskpad view to have all the Citrix consoles close at hand. A taskpad view is simply a custom look and feel that can be created with any MMC console. This post is going to show how to create a
James Cannon, Citrix, published a nice article about keeping XenServer up to date. Applying hotfixes is the way to keep your version of XenServer up to date. The important thing to remember, is that hotfixes do need to be applied in sequential order. If you have held off on hotfixes, and then a hotfix number 8 comes out, you will
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 Cannon, Citrix, published a nice short article about troubleshooting XenServer licensig. XenServer has been using the standard Citrix License Server since version 5.6: with the standard license server you have an external license verification. The first thing to ensure is that the license file has been uploaded to the Citrix License Server by accessing it via the web page
Citrix Support published Top 10 Technical articles for December 2011. Find below the Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 for December 2011. Top 10 Technical Articles Article Number Article Title CTX238200 Troubleshooting Client Drive Mapping CTX101644 Seamless Configuration Settings CTX106192 Access Gateway Software Updates CTX368624 Troubleshooting Citrix Pass-through Authentication (Single Sign-On) CTX129229 Recommended Citrix and Microsoft Hotfixes for XenApp 6 and Windows Server 2008 R2 CTX711855 Common SSL
