Archive for May, 2010

XenClient Express – local virtual machine desktops

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Citrix XenClient Express is a trial and evaluation package to help users experience the benefits of local virtual machine desktops. Please ensure that your laptop meets the technical specifications for running XenClient. Watch the demonstration videos and download product documentation to help you get started.
Citrix XenClient enables virtual desktops to go. Desktop virtualization is rapidly [...]

Performance benchmark RDP – PCoIP

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Last week I did some benchmark testing to find out what is exactly difference between the RDP protocol and the PCoIP protocol. We all know that PCoIP has a much better enduser experience than RDP but what is really happening in the back-end?
My lab environment is based on VMware View 4 and contains Windows XP [...]

Windows XP Logon Screen Saver in VDI disturbed Single-Sign-On (SSO)

Friday, May 7th, 2010

When you are using Windows XP desktops within a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) lots of desktops are often provisioned and started a long time before they will be actually connected to a user. By default, if you do not press a key for 10 minutes, the Windows logon screen saver (Logon.scr) starts. This behavior disturbed [...]