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Publishing applications with VMware Horizon View 6
So VMware Horizon View 6 has been released and it includes publishing applications via RDS pools which is a very welcome addition to the Horizon View stack. There are still a small number of caveats to...
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Installing a VMware Horizon View 6 connection server
Installing a VMware Horizon View 6 connection server is quite a nice and straight forward task in the build process of a VMware View deployment. I am creating a series of blog posts on installing and...
View ArticleInstalling a VMware Horizon View 6 replica server
This is the second post of a series based on installing and configuring VMware Horizon View 6. In this post I have created a video showing the steps necessary to create a replica server (a second...
View ArticleInstalling a VMware Horizon View 6 security server
In part 3 of my installing and configuring VMware Horizon View 6 we look at installing a security server. This servers role is to secure the View environment by proxying traffic which ensures SSL...
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Installing VMware Horizon View 6 composer
In this part of the installing and configuring VMware Horizon View 6 series we will be installing the VMware View composer database component. The composer component makes it possible for linked clones...
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Configuring VMware Horizon View 6 Connection server
So you have your connection server freshly installed and need to get some basic configuration into it. There are a number of things we need to do before actually deploying desktops and applications and...
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Configuring VMware View events database
Configuring VMware View events database is an important step in the security of your view deployment as it will give you an extra layer of visibility within your environment. To any Citrix admins out...
View ArticleCitrix XenDesktop VDA for Linux
This is an interesting nugget from Camp Citrix. They have released a technology preview of a XenDesktop VDA Virtual Delivery Agent for Linux. This has the possibility of extending the FMA architecture...
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Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 video highlights
Citrix have released a small number of videos outlining the “new” features in the upcoming release of XenDesktop 7.6. Some of these features existed in previous versions of XenApp but have taken time...
View ArticleCitrix NetScaler and VMware vSphere build 2143827 issues
Its recently been reported that Citrix NetScaler VPX networking fails on hypervisors running VMware vSphere build 2143827. The symptoms include a complete failure of any networking in or out of a...
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Authenticating into NetScaler GUI with LDAP
Authenticating into NetScaler GUI with LDAP credentials is very straight forward to configure and also increases security greatly. I’ve been to a lot of customers have the standard nsroot credentials...
View ArticleVMware App Volumes
VMware have acquired and interesting bit of technology recently and have rebranded it as VMware App Volumes. VMware App Volumes is a cool addition to the EUC stack as it enables the dynamic addition of...
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Dell Wyse PC Extender and VMware Workstation 10
I’ve been having a bit of a play with Wyse/Dell PC extender recently and hit a brief brick wall when installing it. My main lab is based on VMware workstation 10 and when installing the pc extender on...
View ArticleVMware Horizon View 6 agent installation order
This is something I preach about all the time but caught myself doing it when I wanted to “quickly” lab something up causing lots of head scratching for some time without realising what I had done. So...
View ArticleInstalling and configuring Citrix desktop lock
Citrix desktop lock is a great way of turning any pc into a thin client with no access to the explorer shell for any non-administrator. The basic idea is that desktop lock utilises Citrix Receiver in...
View ArticleA call to arms!
This is the first episode of hopefully a regular series of podcasts talking about everything EUC. We are looking for vendors, customers evangelists to come on the program to discuss their...
View ArticleThe lab question
The lab question. Ok so this comes up a lot in conversation “what are you running at home” now up until recently I had a whitebox pc with an AMD 4 core processor (an phenom or something I think it was...
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Why should you do DR like a coffee shop!
More often than not when I visit customers disaster recovery is still the elephant in the room. “Why is there never a big red button” Come on I’ve got to fit in a Doctor Who reference somewhere!...
View ArticleRobocopy script to replicate Citrix PVS vdisk store
Ok so this is a simple little script that replicates the vDisks from one PVS server in a farm to another. This is a great solution if the vDisks are stored on the PVS servers local disk and not for...
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Load balancing VMware View connection servers with Citrix NetScaler
Load balancing VMware View connection servers with Citrix NetScaler is a great way to provide high availability within your internal network. VMware view connection servers are your internal gateways...
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