Monthly Archive for: ‘March, 2011’

• Citrix: Citrix PVS and BSOD when booting target VM from vDisk

  Posted Mar 31 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 2 Comments

  Yesterday I spend the day setting up a PoC for Citrix Provisioning Services (5.6.1 SP1) with XenDesktop, XenApp 6 and XenApp 5. But we discovered that all of the target VM’s would give a BSOD (0x0000007b meaning: inaccessible boot device) when booting from the vDisk …

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• Citrix: Collection of XenDesktop 5 Documents, KB Articles, Whitepapers etc

  Posted Mar 29 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  Ronald Grass just posted a really good collection of reference material for XenDesktop:   I don’t know how you feel about all the different sources of information around XenDesktop 5. To me it’s confusing where all the XenDesktop infos are stored and what are the …

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• Citrix: XenDesktop Planning Guide – XenDesktop Scalability

  Posted Mar 23 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  Citrix just released the XenDesktop Planning Guide – XenDesktop Scalability and these are the results (also from the PDF):   Desktop Controller SQL Database Type Physical server Physical server Operating System Windows 2008 R2 Windows 2008 R2 Product Version XenDesktop 5 SQL Server 2008 SP1 …

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• Citrix: Logon Optimization

  Posted Mar 22 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  Citrix released another good read on how the logon process in Citrix XenApp and/or XenDesktop works and how to optimize this: How the Logon Process Works In order to better understand where time can be shaved from the user logon, we will first review the …

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• Citrix: Guidelines for Antivirus Software Configuration

  Posted Mar 21 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  Citrix just put the CTX127030 online containing: Summary This article provides guidelines for configuring antivirus software in Citrix XenApp environments. This article also provides resources for configuring antivirus software on other Citrix technologies and features (EdgeSight, Provisioning Services, and so on). These antivirus guidelines are …

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