Archive for April, 2010

Personal blogs about VMware ThinApp and View

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Many times I am searching the Internet looking for personal blogs specifically about VMware ThinApp and VMware View. There are lots of blogs about VMware vSphere and related stuff such as PowerShell scripting, DRS and SRM.
Application and desktop virtualization is a different specialism then server virtualization in that case that you have more to [...]

Updated Training Courses

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Our training courses at Ictivity Training have been updated to the latest product upgrades. From Application and Desktop Delivery perspective you may be interested in one of the following courses:

VMware ThinApp 4.5
RES PowerFuse 2010

Moreover we have added the following new courses about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI):

VMware View 4
Citrix XenDesktop [...]

InstallFree Bridge 2.0 released

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

InstallFree, a leading developer of desktop application virtualization and management solutions, today announced the general availability of Version 2.0 of its flagship product, the InstallFree Bridge.
The new release helps customers speed migrations to Windows 7 by using InstallFree’s unique application virtualization technology to eliminate desktop and web application compatibility issues, including the ability to run [...]

VMware View mouse pointer disappears from Wyse PCoIP Thin Client

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

After login to a virtual desktop from a Wyse PCoIP enabled Thin Client my mouse pointer disappears from the display. This only happens when using the PCoIP display protocol while connecting to Windows XP or Windows 7 virtual desktops. When using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) everything works fine.
In my case the Wyse Thin Client [...]

Bug found: Citrix XenDesktop 4.0 Browser Acceleration – Image compression level ?

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

While configuring Citrix XenDesktop VDI and trying to get the best end-user-experience I decided to apply the “Browser Acceleration – Image compression level”. After configuring the image compression level to “High” and verifying my settings in the “Read-only Properties” I saw that my setting was configured to “Low”. Again I did a reconfiguration to “Low” [...]