Monthly Archive for: ‘March, 2011’

• Automated Migration to VMxNet3 Network Adapters and Paravirtual SCSI Controllers for vSphere 4.x Virtual Machines

  Posted Mar 18 2011 by Dane Young with 43 Comments

  VMware vSphere 4.x was released for general availability nearly two years ago and now vSphere 5.x is rumored for release later this year. In June 2009, virtualization master Scott Lowe wrote a blog post illustrating the roughly 16 manual steps to upgrade virtual machines to …

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• RES Workspace Manager: Launch after Citrix published desktop

  Posted Mar 18 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  Because one of our customers was planning to use the Citrix Desktop Appliance Lock, we needed to publish a Citrix desktop and start RES Workspace Manager after the launch of the desktop. While Microsoft has GPO’s for running a program after logging in, Citrix prohibits …

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• Citrix: Profile Management Cross-platform Settings Beta

  Posted Mar 15 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  Citrix just released  Profile Management Cross-platform Settings Beta available for download at MyCitrix: Cross-platform settings is not creating a singular profile but enables application specific settings to roam across OS versions – applications like Office.  Any support, questions or feedback should be submitted in the support …

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• Citrix XenApp on VMware Best Practices

  Posted Mar 15 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  Recently I found a blogpost from Alex Fontana at the VMware community blogs with the following information: Desktop application delivery and management can be tedious and time-consuming. Many organizations have chosen to leverage application virtualization and take a software as a service (SaaS) approach to …

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• Desktop Appliance Lock:Windows 7 Embedded, Citrix and log off local client #2

  Posted Mar 9 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 3 Comments

  After posting RES Workspace Manager: Windows 7 Embedded, Citrix and log off local client I got pointed to the Desktop Appliance Lock by Michel Helderman on Twitter. This is an MSI on the XenDesktop DVD which can be installed on a thin client with Windows …

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