General Announcement and News XenApp 7.8 & XenDesktop 7.8 Available for Download Customers with active Software Maintenance (SWM) or Subscription Advantage (SA)–effective February 17, 2016–can download XenApp 7.8 and XenDesktop 7.8 on Citrix.com. The XenApp and XenDesktop 7.8 release greatly simplifies application management, delivering a 90% time savings over traditional methods. It enhances the user…
XenApp/XenDesktop 7.8 – A Big Step Forward In Image Management
Citrix released XenApp and XenDesktop 7.8 on 02/25 and with it came numerous feature enhancements. In this post, I want to focus on two of these features as it addresses a major challenge most Citrix administrators have to deal with today. The Problem It is safe to say that every enterprise customer that I work…
Step by step guide on configuring the Rasperry Pi to deliver Citrix Apps and Desktops to your End Users!
Citrix Monthly Newsletter – January ’16
General Announcements and News Citrix Appoints Kirill Tatarinov as President and CEO Citrix announced that Kirill Tatarinov has been appointed President and CEO, effective January 25, 2016. A veteran Microsoft executive, Mr. Tatarinov will also join the Citrix Board as a director at that time. Citrix Acquires Comtrade’s SCOM Management Packs IP The acquisition of…
Citrix Newsletter – September ’15
General Announcements Citrix Unveils Free Cloud-based Service to Migrate VMware Horizon View Customers to Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop For VMware customers under pressure to improve their app and desktop experience, gain greater infrastructure flexibility and simplify end user computing management, Citrix is introducing a free cloud-based service to migrate VMware Horizon View virtual app and…
Citrix Lifecycle Management: A step by step walk through of an automated deployment on ANY cloud!
Geo Maps for HDX Insight (NS Insight Center 11) – Overview and Configuration
NS Insight Center 11 was released earlier this month, and with this release Geo Maps is now available for HDX Insight. It was earlier available for Web Insight only. For those of you not familiar with HDX Insight, it is a tool from Citrix that provides end to end visibility from an end user experience perspective…
Chromebook + Citrix Receiver For The Win!
The IT landscape has changed a lot the past 5 years. Security is the top concern of most enterprises that I deal with, some being constantly attacked/hacked on a daily basis. IP theft is a major concern with executives and top engineers travelling around the world with highly sensitive data. Up until recently, the options…
Synergy 2015 – A condensed recap of everything you need to know!
For those of you who were not able to attend Citrix Synergy this year & dont have the time to sit through the key note recordings, I decided to put together a condensed version of some of the key announcements. So here goes! Citrix Workspace Cloud Citrix hosted control plane that enables customers to deliver…
Citrix Newsletter – April ’15
General Announcements Citrix Offers Customers the Key to Securing Their Confidential Information Citrix announced it is simplifying the way sensitive documents are shared. Citrix ShareFile customers can now send encrypted emails from Microsoft Outlook to secure the content of messages in compliance with industry regulations such as HIPAA. Since the capability works from within the…