Tag: Best Practices

Best Practice : Start your Citrix STA ID names with STA. :)

Best Practice : Start your Citrix STA ID names with STA. :)

Sam Jacobs sent over a quick best practice note reminding us verify that our STA IDs begin with the letters ā€˜STAā€™ for XenApp Plug-in Version ... Read More

Best Practices for Upgrading XenDesktop 4 Virtual Desktop Agent.

Best Practices for Upgrading XenDesktop 4 Virtual Desktop Agent.

Citrix has released a new whitepaper detailing some best practices when upgrading the Virtual Desktop Agent (VDA).Ā  Nothing too earth shattering in this paper though.Ā  ... Read More

Speed up those Citrix XenApp Servers!

Speed up those Citrix XenApp Servers!

Aaron Silber came across an interesting KB article that had some very impressive stats hidden in it!Ā  This particular KB article reinforces a pretty standard ... Read More

VMware View: Direct Connections or Funneled through the Broker?

VMware View: Direct Connections or Funneled through the Broker?

When using the Broker in View, you basically have 2 options for connecting to your desktops : Direct Connections or Tunneled SLL through the Broker ... Read More

Separate Virtual Disks for each volume in Virtual Machines.

Separate Virtual Disks for each volume in Virtual Machines.

Itā€™s a pretty solid best practice to create a separate virtual disk or VMDK/VHD for each volume in a virtual machine.Ā  The alternative is to ... Read More