Archive for April, 2008
Are you wondering what lies ahead for Thinstall?
Friday, April 25th, 2008It has been an incredibly exciting 2.5 months since VMware completed the acquisition of Thinstall in late January. We have been moving at an incredible pace; we’ve already released our first public beta, announced several major new features intended for GA of the product in early 2H2008, and have been meeting with customers, partners, and [...]
Feature Analysis Citrix XenApp vs Windows Terminal Services
Friday, April 25th, 2008There is a new White Paper (april 2008) available for download on the Citrix website that compares the base-level features of Terminal Services within Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 to the features of Citrix Presentation Server running on Windows Server 2003. Citrix XenApp will be the new product line name for all [...]
User Profile Best Practices for MetaFrame Presentation Server
Friday, April 25th, 2008An effective design of user profiles can make a significant difference in the performance and manageability of a MetaFrame Presentation Server environment. Many of the issues commonly seen in large or complex MetaFrame Presentation Server environments—including slow logon, loss of user settings, profile corruption, and excessive administration effort–are often the result of sub-optimal user profile [...]
The next step in virtualization; RTO Virtual Profiles (Streaming Profiles)
Thursday, April 24th, 2008After you have configured RTO Virtual Profiles you’ll notice that your roaming profiles logons will be much faster. It’s actually quite hard to find out what made this speed improvement come about. When viewing the logs files you will find out what RTO Virtual Profiles actually does. I think it is best described as “streaming”. [...]
InstallFree enters application virtualization market with Bridge 1.0
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008InstallFree Inc., a provider of next generation virtualization products, launches its first in a series of patent-pending application and desktop virtualization products that give IT directors an easier, more secure way of managing and deploying virtual applications while providing end‐users the autonomy they require to be more productive.
Read more on: virtualization.info
When login to Citrix, Applying Internet Branding Policy takes 20 seconds (KB941158)
Monday, April 7th, 2008In an Active Directory directory service domain environment, you configure the Internet Explorer Maintenance Group Policy settings. A user logs on to the domain from a Windows XP-based, or a Windows Server 2003-based client computer that has Internet Explorer 7 installed. However, the user experiences a 20-second logon delay compared with a client computer that [...]