January 27, 2011 4:42 PM
Posted by: Jason Tramer
Citrix,
Q4,
Xen,
Xenapp,
Xendesktop,
XenServerhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/27/citrix_q4_2010_numbers/
Looks like Citrix is doing quite well. Particularly with XenDesktop which seems to be eclipsing XenApp (there flagship product) in revenue. Funnily enough all this was before Xen Desktop 5 came out which in my mind was a huge...
January 23, 2011 2:46 PM
Posted by: Jason Tramer
Citrix,
Desktop Director,
Machine Creation Services,
VDI,
view,
vmware,
Xen,
Xendesktop,
XenDesktop 5So as a consultant who holds both certifications with VMware and Citrix and working for a company which specializes in Virtualization I often find myself being asked, so which is better XenDesktop or View for VDI. The answer of course seems to depend on the time and date you are being asked....
December 23, 2009 8:02 PM
Posted by: Jason Tramer
Blackberry,
Citrix,
client,
recieverCheck it out:
http://crackberry.com/citrix-receiver-arriving-month-blackberry-smartphones
All I can say is it's about time. This has been available for the iPhone for quite awhile now. Given that Blackberry tries to position itself for the enterprise workspace you would think this would have...
December 1, 2009 12:52 AM
Posted by: Jason Tramer
Citrix,
Desktop,
license,
licensing,
trade,
Xen,
Xen AppIn Xen Desktop 3.0 Enterprise edition you got to use Xen App server. However the Xen App functionality was stripped down so that it would only function within Xen Desktop machines. Citrix has now changed their policy to allow Xen App for Xendesktops to be fully functional meaning you can use it for...
October 9, 2009 9:35 PM
Posted by: Jason Tramer
Citrix,
not working,
outlook,
Terminal Services,
vbscriptOk so this is a known issue I encountered that I wanted to post about. I found a MS support article with a fix for this.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302003
So in situations where you are running Outlook on a TS(or Citrix) box, VBScript will not work and you will need to apply the fix in...
October 9, 2009 3:27 PM
Posted by: Jason Tramer
3,
4,
Citrix,
unveils,
Xen Desktop,
XendesktopYou can check this out here:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Virtualization/Citrix-Unveils-XenDesktop-4-Virtualization-Offering-684945/
This is great and awesome and all that, nice job to Citrix for constantly updating their product but can they slow it down a little? I am going to be writing my...
July 7, 2009 8:34 PM
Posted by: Jason Tramer
Citrix,
force,
uninstall,
XenappSo to uninstall Citrix you have to have the Citrix IMA service running properly. Which of course begs the question of what you do when you are trying to uninstall because the IMA service ISN'T working properly in the first case?
Open command prompt, navigate to the directory that has the Xenapp...
June 16, 2009 10:42 PM
Posted by: Jason Tramer
Citrix,
dsmaint,
password,
userid,
XenappIf you need to change the userid and password that control the DSN access for Xenapp here is what you need to do.
From command prompt on the citrix server (you will need to do this from each one)
dsmaint config /userid:*username* /pwd:*password* /dsn:"C:\program files\citrix\idependent...
June 16, 2009 10:40 PM
Posted by: Jason Tramer
Citrix,
client auto deploy,
XenappI had trouble with this today. Make sure that when you copy the contents of the client folder from the installation media into the Citrix\Webinterface\*version number\clients folder, you keep the exact file structure the same. Also just sopy the contents of the client folder, not the whole folder...