Over the past couple of years I’ve been collecting a lot of chromebooks. As of the 13th of Feb, I now own 6, mostly Acer and Samsung devices. As much as I love the concept of a low cost, ultra portable and secure thin client with excellent battery life & then leveraging Citrix for my…
Citrix acquires Unidesk: Here’s why customers should care!
Application layering has been a hot topic in the End User Computing space, specially the last 24 months or so. Layering allows you to decouple applications or groups of applications form the underlying operating system thereby enabling you to manage them indepedently. There are quite a few players in this space including AppVolumes by VMware…
How to enable Local Host Cache in XenApp/XenDesktop 7.12
Local Host Cache (LHC), which was a key feature of the IMA architecture in XenApp 6.5 and earlier was reintroduced for the first time in the FMA based XenApp/XenDesktop 7.12 release. You can learn more about LHC in detail in my previous blog on the topic. Prior to 7.12, users were able to access resources…
XenApp/XenDesktop 7.12 Local Host Cache Explained
With the release of XenApp and XenDesktop 7.12 Citrix brought back one of the most requested features from the XenApp 6.x days – The Local Host Cache (LHC). For those of you new to this term, it essentially provided a way for users to connect to their XA/XD published resources while the SQL based database…
Citrix Monthly Newsletter – September ’16
General Announcement and News Citrix Acquires Norskale: Making the Industry’s Best App & Desktop Delivery Performance Even Better Throughout our history, Citrix has been a leader in delivering the best secure app delivery user experience available, a key reason customers choose our products and services. That commitment to provide the best experience possible continues with…
Getting Started with the Citrix HDX Pi – A step by step walkthrough
LUMA SURROUND WIFI SYSTEM – MY INITIAL THOUGHTS
Back in February, I noticed Luma on Kickstarter. What made it compelling to me was the concept of a mesh network, which could in theory remove all deadspots around the house and guarantee excellent network throughput everywhere. As most engineers out there, I have a large number of wireless devices throughout the house…
Breakout Sessions That You Dont Want To Miss This Year At Citrix Synergy!
Citrix Monthly Newsletter – March ’16
General Announcement and News Synergy Session Catalog Is Live “Citrix Synergy is the premier industry conference on digital business transformation. Synergy provides attendees with the tools and confidence they need to say yes to workforce mobility, security and compliance, BYO, workplace redesign, hybrid cloud infrastructure—and whatever comes next. This year Synergy is in Las Vegas…
Citrix Appdisks How To Guide – Administration Basics and Gotchas
AppDisk, an application layering solution was part of XenApp/XenDesktop 7.8 released in late February this year. This post is not meant to cover the basics of application layering or image management as a whole. You can refer to my blog for a quick overview. My goal in this post is to cover the administrative aspects of…