Citrix Provisioning Services & Cisco UCS Blades
By Jacques Bensimon: I recently had to make a provisioned XenApp 6.5 vDisk boot on Cisco UCS B-Series blades outfitted with a Cisco VIC network interface card (probably…
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Upgrading to VMware Tools 5.1 can cause log spew
It’s not everyday you get a KB article with LOG SPEW in it’s title … This particular one was spotted by Aaron Silber after upgrading VMware Tools on…
Citrix XenApp Edition: Changing the version
By Aaron Silber Not sure if there is another way, it seems like this should be a policy setting, but I could not find one. In any case,…
The Mystery of the Disappearing Pinned Shortcuts
Here is another great article by my Colleague Jacques Bensimon. Be sure to follow him on Twitter. (@JacqBens) I don’t know if many of you have run…
Multiple Versions of Word (Same Machine) via Aaron’s App tip!
If you are not using ThinApp or some other Application isolation technique, here’s a great way to get multiple versions of Word running on the same XenApp or…
PowerShell Tutorial – How to Keep Tabs on XenApp Printer Queues
Sam Jacobs posted a great PowerShell script and tutorial on IPM’s corporate blog that I wanted to share with everyone. A few weeks ago, a client of ours…
Quick Tip: Pin to the Start Menu or NOT…
Here’s a quick tip I learned by sitting next to Jacques Bensimon today. If you want to control whether an application is ‘allowed’ to be pinned to the…
Can Akamai help speed your VDI implementations? I think so.
Akamai was one of these companies that I knew about but didn’t really think much about. I work with VMware, Citrix and Microsoft technologies. I help deliver solutions…
AppSense Environment Manager issues
I recently completed an AppSense implementation for a XenApp 6 farm running on VMware vSphere. XenApp 6 servers that were running Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 which were being…