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- AboutDane Young is an aspiring technothusiast specializing in application, desktop, and server virtualization technologies. Dane’s educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Bus. Admin/Management Information Systems from Sacramento State and a Masters of Business Administration from the Univerisity of Phoenix. Notable certifications include Citrix Certified Integration Architect for Virtualization, VMware Certified Professional for vSphere 4 and Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator. Dane’s technical experience includes: – mentoree of Bill Alderson, PMG (Pine Mountain Group, acquired by NetQoS and later Computer Associates) – technical entrepreneurship and consulting for small and medium size businesses – program manager and infrastructure engineer, K-8 education – field consulting and engineering, managed services provider, and – most recently field systems and solutions engineer, M7 Global Partner: Entisys Solutions. Location: Sacramento, Ca Technical Inspirations: Brian Madden (www.brianmadden.com) Doug Brown (www.dabcc.com) Eric Haavarstein (www.xenappblog.com) Pierre Marmignon (www.citrixtools.net) Scott Lowe (blog.scottlowe.org) Thomas Koetzing (www.thomaskoetzing.de)
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Merchandising Server 1.1 and XenServer Tools Update
Citrix has recently released Merchandising Server 1.1. Merchandising Server is a XenServer virtual appliance that allows you to centrally manage the setup of the Citrix Receiver, enables Citrix plug-ins and updates, enables access to web-based user support services, and has management reporting features. I recently …
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Provisioning Services Database Redundancy – Mirroring or Replication?
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”
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
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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Upgrading to Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1
Now that Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1 has been released, I am going to go over the upgrade process. Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1 has added some new features, fixes, and removed some features. For a complete overview of the changes in Provisioning Services 5.1 …