By Theresa Miller Citrix held their annual partner conference last week called Citrix Summit (Jan 13-15, 2015), and while I did not attend the conference there were many announcements during the event that Citrix customers can look forward to learning more about. After taking a closer look at these, here are some that I am […]
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What’s New in Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.6?
by Theresa Miller Virtualization of applications and even desktops (VDI) is not a new thing, and organizations have been able to implement technology that will do this for over 20+ years. Although in time technology changes and improves. Not only that our end-user expectations of what they can and cannot do evolves and forces us […]
XenDesktop 7.5: How to Update an MCS Virtual Desktop Image
Recently I wrote a couple of articles that will help you get started with using MCS to deploy virtual desktops within your XenDesktop environment. These write-ups can be found here: MCS Deployment Part 1 and MCS Deployment Part 2. Once an image is built; in time, it is likely that your users will require an […]
How to Deploy a XenDesktop 7.5 Virtual Machine Using MCS: Part 2
In Part 1 we took a look at how to create a snapshot with VMWare, then use Citrix XenDesktop 7.5 and MCS to create a virtual machine template. In this second part we will look how to present this new machine to a user or group to users. This is done by creating a Delivery Group […]
How to Deploy a XenDesktop 7.5 Virtual Machine Using MCS: Part 1
Despite what was once believed, MCS is a scalable and realistic option for XenDesktop VDI deployments. This document will show you how to deploy a XenDesktop 7.5 virtual machine using VMware and Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS). This documentation also assumes that the published desktop will be a non-persistent desktop. First, create what you would […]
How to Apply SSL Certificates to a Citrix Netscaler Firmware version 10.1
Recently I posted an article on how to Apply SSL Certificates to a Citrix Netscaler where the Netscaler is running the 9.3 firmware. While the process is very similar there are some differences in the 10.1 version. This time around we will review how to apply SSL Certificates to a Citrix Netscaler running firmware version […]