Archive for July, 2009
« Previous EntriesBriForum 2009 Chicago ends up
Friday, July 24th, 2009 After three wonderful days with lots of high-level technical sessions BriForum 2009 Chicago comes to an end. We have learned a lot and talked to many people to share knowledge with and hopefully have created a better look at what is going on in our market today!
Thanks to Brian Madden for [...]
VDI vs TS – The battle
Friday, July 24th, 2009At BriForum 2009 in Chicago Brian Madden and Benny Tritsch were in a battle against Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) versus Terminal Services (TS). In this battle there comes up a lot of quotes about the pros and cons of VDI vs TS. Some of them are: “TS is old school technique, VDI is so 2009”, [...]
Demo Microsoft APP-V 4.6
Friday, July 24th, 2009Today at BriForum there was planned an extra session about the new Microsoft APP-V 4.6. But…five minutes before the session starts the marketing department of Microsoft decide to prohibit to tell anything about the new Microsoft APP-V 4.6 version while they earlier agreed with! That is to be fed up!
So there was a session about [...]
Microsoft Windows 7 RTM available on August 6th for Partners & OEMs
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
The Windows Team Blog post an article about the RTM release dates for Microsoft Windows 7. They split up into some groups with all having different release dates. The Partner Program group is one of them with the first available release date on August 6th.
Microsoft Partner Program Gold/Certified Members will be able to download [...]
Managing User Profiles in Terminal Server and Virtual Desktop Environments
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009When you talk about user profiles, you touch a very emotional aspect of people’s experience when interacting with Windows; it’s about individual workspaces, each one reflecting its owner’s personality. As an IT professional, you had better not try to reduce workspace flexibility, or your users will make your working life harder every day. Once upon [...]
RDP7 blows away ICA!
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009On the second day at BriForum 2009 in Chicago Nelly Porter, Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft, shows us what the new Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP7) can do for us, and it’s amazing! RDP7 is a core element of the Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution and Remote Desktop Servers. This protocol provides users access [...]
First public demo of Microsoft APP-V 4.6 at BriForum given by Tim Mangan
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Tomorrow at BriForum, for the first time in the world, there will be a public demo of the brand new Microsoft APP-V product version 4.6. I will be there and hope to share all the information on my blog later. In anyway there is one really big new feature we all waiting for. Microsoft [...]
Container based machine virtualization becomes application virtualization with native .VHD boot without a Hypervisor!
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009The Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk file format (VHD) is a publicly available format specification that specifies a virtual hard disk encapsulated in a single file, capable of hosting native file systems and supporting standard disk operations. VHD files are used by Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Server and Microsoft Virtual PC for virtual [...]
Getting Ready for W2k8 and 64-bit
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009At the BriForum event, Citrix Consultant Nicholas Rintalan, discussed how to prepare your SBC environment for x64 architectures from a security and optimization standpoint. He talked about the 2GB kernel memory limit in 32-bit x86 environments and how to tune your Pagefile Table Entries (PTE’s).
Also he presented the new profiles.V2 best practices with Windows 2008. [...]
First day BriForum 2009 Chicago
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
On July 21 at 07:30 the registration for BriForum 2009 Chicago gets open! People from all over the world coming in to join the next and seventh BriForum. BriForum is all about desktop virtualization and application virtualization. For this year its focus is especially on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Who could better open the event [...]