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On March 11th 2009 Citrix announced XenServer Enterprise will now be included with XenApp 5.  With shrinking budgets and the pressures of ‘doing more with less,’ Citrix is making it easier for customers with this move, and in my opinion gain a bigger foothold in the Virtualization space.  

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Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization: Advantages

• Accelerate the upgrade path to new Desktop OS - legacy applications continue to run in a virtual environment with a previous OS version

• Simplify IT integration of new subsidiaries by running two IT environments concurrently—i.e. the corporate one and the acquired company's one

• Drive business continuity by rapid reconstitution of corporate desktops

• Speed user adoption of desktop virtualization by making Virtual PCs "invisible" to users

• Centrally create, manage and deploy virtual PC images throughout the enterprise

• Provision and control user policies according to business affiliation and requirements

Read more about MED-V features in the datasheet (PDF, XPS) or in the Architecture White Paper

XenApp Application Export Manager from CitrixTools.net

 This time saving Tool allows you to export and import XenApp Published applications.  The Export feature allows you to select all or some of your current XenApp published applications and export them to a file, essentially backing up the application properties.

There are specific situations where a single farm design is not a suitable solution and a multiple farm design is more appropriate. In this article, the design considerations for selecting a multiple farm design will be presented.

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Inventory your Citrix Servers for free using SpiceWorks . This Free software sounds too good to be true, but it is true. We have been using SpiceWorks in our 200 Citrix Server environment to inventory all of our Citrix Servers and our 300 Windows Servers using SpiceWorks network scan feature, that scans all Servers on a regular schedule. SpiceWorks is AgentLess, and does NOT require you to install anything on your Servers.

NComputing Virtual Desktop solution for under $100 per user. After visiting NComputing's website and reading about their product offering, I'll have to say I'm impressed. NComputing offers small to large scale Virtual Desktop solutions for those interested in cost savings of upto 59%.

There are a few benefits of using WildCard SSL Certificates for your Web Interface/CSG servers. 

Microsoft has released for Beta the Mesh.com site for remote desktop access and to sync all apps and files from one online location.

Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) to deliver 3D Graphics and rich multimedia with Windows Server 2008 R2. Microsoft demo'd full-motion video running in Windows Media Player over RDP at WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference).

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Introduction: This article is directed at introducing several key features of the Altiris Deployment Solution for Servers.

For those of you that have never used the product and thinking about adding this type of automation to your env. or those who are just getting started with it and wish to understand what it can really do for them in the real world.