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Profile Management – Whats the big deal?

Profile Management is a big subject; there are so many different solutions out there that cater to “profiles”. Before we get into it, let us discuss what a profile is. You are a user; you use Outlook, OneNote, Chrome and Excel. You select preferences within these products, you select windows preferences to organise your icons, choose which your default printer etc… is and these are your settin...

Profile Management is a big subject; there are so many different solutions out there that cater to “profiles”. Before we get into it, let us discuss what a profile is. You are a user; you use Outlook, OneNote, Chrome and Excel. You select preferences within these products, you select windows pre...

Citrix and HTML5 Video Players – What gives?

So many of us are being asked a simple question by our clients:-Please can we reuse our existing thin clients / PCs with the latest iteration of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. The answer is usually yes, with the latest tranche of changes in Web Technology and everything shifting away from Flash to HTML5 for video I have come across a few scenarios recently where this causes issues and I wanted ...

So many of us are being asked a simple question by our clients:-Please can we reuse our existing thin clients / PCs with the latest iteration of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. The answer is usually yes, with the latest tranche of changes in Web Technology and everything shifting away from Flash t...

Free Load Balancing with Citrix Netscaler

To start – This is aimed at Small to Medium businesses that need something better than Microsoft NLB but cannot afford an expensive enterprise solution. I want to add before I get into details that the paid version of Citrix NetScaler are awesome and worth the money you pay for them. They’re not just load balancers and Citrix remote access; the possibilities really are endless; here’s some off ...

To start – This is aimed at Small to Medium businesses that need something better than Microsoft NLB but cannot afford an expensive enterprise solution. I want to add before I get into details that the paid version of Citrix NetScaler are awesome and worth the money you pay for them. They’re not ...

XenDesktop Database Testing and Troubleshooting

XenDesktop and its database connection is a tricky one, back in the old days of 6.5 you had a single connection. Now you have each service instance registered in the database with multiple connections from these services. When you’ve complete a farm upgrade and you can no longer log into Studio or when a single service starts to flap and you see errors in the event viewer it can be a little na...

XenDesktop and its database connection is a tricky one, back in the old days of 6.5 you had a single connection. Now you have each service instance registered in the database with multiple connections from these services. When you’ve complete a farm upgrade and you can no longer log into Studio ...