Post Contributions from ‘Dane Young’

• Enhanced Access Gateway Enterprise Edition 9.x White Theme for Cleaner Integration with Web Interface 5.4 Design

  Posted May 23 2011 by Dane Young with 3 Comments

  Citrix Web Interface 5.4 was released in correlation with XenDesktop 5 back in December of 2010. This new release featured a newly redesigned white theme promoting Citrix’s any device campaign. With the switch from white (nFuse) to black (Carbon Fiber) and now back to white …

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• Internet Explorer 9 and Citrix Web Interface ICA Launch Failures

  Posted May 20 2011 by Dane Young with 3 Comments

  I ran into an interesting situation today with IE9 and WI that I felt I should share.  For those that have already read CTX129082, this goes along with that article. Troubleshooting this issue for a client, I followed the recommendations in the article including Disabling ActiveX …

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• Windows 2008 Server Core: My First Choice for Role-Based Infrastructure Services

  Posted Apr 14 2011 by Dane Young with 1 Comment

  If you haven’t evaluated Windows 2008 Server Core, now’s the time!  Server Core is the ultimate choice for infrastructure services that are role based, utilizing any of the following: Active Directory (Including LDS and Certificate Services), DNS, DHCP, File Services (Including Distributed File System Replication), …

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• 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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• Deploy Windows 7 Virtual Desktops or Windows 7-like Virtual Desktops (XenApp Published Desktops vs XenDesktop VDI)

  Posted Mar 4 2011 by Dane Young with 3 Comments

  Although Windows 7 has been released to market for nearly a year and a half, it comes as no surprise that Windows XP to Windows 7 migrations are still one of the most significant information technology undertakings for corporate environments.  With that in mind, Gartner …

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