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A common question I receive is how to convert existing workstations to thin clients, well….. there are solutions such as Igel Desktop Convertor, Thin Kiosk, Citrix Desktop Lock and Citrix Workspace Environment Manager Transformer; but what about a few windows tweaks to achieve a similar scenario? In my experience, desirable behaviour from a thin client …
If you are working with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.16 MCS in Azure, you will be using On-Demand provisioning. If you’re not sure what this means, check out this blog article from Citrix. https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2017/09/01/provisioning-xendesktop-on-azure-just-got-a-lot-faster/ It’s really important to understand the behaviour in the latest release as it is greatly different from previous releases when provisioning …
————–UPDATE————– Since this post was written I performed some work with FSLogix and drafted the below update. Please read that one. FSLogix O365 Container Sizing – The Final Word ————–UPDATE————– I’ve been doing some work with FSLogix, it’s a good product and it’s pretty simple to configure. The logs are quite easy to find but …
NetScaler is a great product, the Virtual Appliances share the same code base as the physical appliances and are still powerful Application Delivery Controllers. But what if you didn’t buy an ADC? What if you bought NetScaler Access Gateway Edition? This flavour of the appliance is primarily for Citrix ICA Proxy and is designed for …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …