Monthly Archive for: ‘October, 2009’

• Provisioning Services Database Redundancy – Mirroring or Replication?

  Posted Oct 22 2009 by Jarian Gibson with 3 Comments

  Awhile back I wrote the blog post Provisioning Services 5.1 Specifiy Database Mirror Failover Partner…Huh? and got some good feedback from Pete Downing the Principal Product Manager for Provisioning Services.  In his comments on my blog post he mentioned that he would like to discuss my …

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• XenDesktop 4 should have “Flex Licensing”

  Posted Oct 19 2009 by Jarian Gibson with 0 Comments

  When Citrix XenDesktop 4 was announced I was very excited about all the new features except for one – Per Named User licensing.  I thought all the new features were great and they would make XenDesktop 4 the front runner in VDI solutions except for the licensing …

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• Using XenDesktop with VMware

  Posted Oct 13 2009 by Jarian Gibson with 26 Comments

  Using XenDesktop with VMware Infrastructure 3 or vSphere 4 require a few extra steps to set up and configure.  VMware Infrastructure 3 and vSphere 4 both have a few different steps for XenDesktop Delivery Controller and XenDesktop Setup Wizard communication along with the proper permissions for …

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