Archive for May 30, 2011

XenZone – 6 reasons why to attend

Written by Thomas Poppelgaard. Posted in Citrix, Events

Citrix User Group Norway is helding their conference #XenZone next weekend 9-10 June 2011 at Lillestrøm, Norway.

Here are 6 reasons, why you should attend and listen to these cool presenters at XenZone:

Reason 1.

My collegue Bjarne Træholt, Product Manager (NetScaler, Branch Repeater)*CCI on all Citrix products.I call him “Verdens bedste” in danish translated its “World’s best”. Bjarne is a cool guy and i recommend you check out his session.

Reason 2

Another great norwegian hero/collegue and friend is Alexander Ervik Johnsen CTP, Product Manager. You might him from his famous webpage http://www.ervik.as.

Reason 3

The one and only David Hald CEO and one of the founders of SMS Passcode David is also known as the famous hacker Boris and a great friend of mine =o)

Reason 4

A true danish Citrix hero is the one and only first danish awarded CTP, Rene Vester, founder of DKCUG. Rene Vester also is the auther of his blog renevester.com

Reason 5

Daniel Wedel i attended his session at PubForum in Dublin last week and i recommend you check out his session he is an great presenter and knows how to tell the message out so you understand it nice and smooth.

Reason 6

Jeroen van de Kamp, CTO for Login Consultans and awarded CTP. Jeroen is one of my favorite presenters i have watched him several time at Synergy and BriFoum.

 

The XenZone Agenda
http://xenzone.no/agenda

RES Baseline Desktop Analyzer

Written by Thomas Poppelgaard. Posted in Windows 7

Service Information

Every IT project must first consider its impact on the user. It is therefore key to have an accurate insight into your current desktop infrastructure, before making any changes. After all, changes can impact the operating system and important applications. Even if you know what was installed on the laptop or desktop when it was delivered the user, it is often unknown what has happened since then.

How can you, the IT professional, make changes to the hardware, operating system or even application(s) for your users, if you don’t know what is installed and used today?

RES Baseline Desktop Analyzer is here to help

RES Baseline Desktop Analyzer is a free online service that provides insight into the current state of the desktop environment. This insight is a critical first step in any IT project.

RES Baseline Desktop Analyzer will give you a clear insight into your:

  1. Hardware Inventory
  2. Application Landscape
  3. User Population
  4. Location Layout
  5. Printing Topology

This information will help you assess and predict the impact of changes, such as an office relocation, hardware replacement or an upgrade to Windows 7, on your users.

More information can be found at http://resbda.cloudapp.net/Home/MoreInfo
(note: its still a closed beta, so you need an invite. In June 2011 the tool will be available to all public)

In this video at BrianMadden, Gabe Knuth joins RES Software’s Max Ranzau for a demo of their new, free Baseline Desktop Analyzer, or BDA at Citrix Synergy 2011.

Recent Comments

Thomas Poppelgaard

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Hi Steve normal I install the GRID driver to device and when its workin, I disable the default VGA device.

Have you applied latest hotfix to the XS6.1 there are some crucial hotfixes to the GPU pass-through, that could crash the GRID’s, when you power on a VM with GPU pass-through.

Steve

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Just a quick question on your setup. We just got a system similar to yours (R720, 2xGrid K2 cards, XenServer 6.1, XenApp 6.5). The GRID K2 driver installs (320.00), but the device shows up as stopped in device manager. Did you use any special options when installing the nVidia driver? Or somehow remove the default VGA device?

Dan

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Hi Thomas,
Some features in your screenshots (eg create appointments and contacts) seem to be missing from the iOS version of @WorkMail that got released in April, do you know if these features are still coming in a future release? The Android client is far more functional by comparison.
Regards
Dan

Christian Eilskov

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You can see the DHCP options here:

http://www.wyse.com/kb and search for 21501

You can transfer a image using Wyse Device Manager(WDM), the same goes for smaller updates like new ICA client and so.

Thomas Poppelgaard

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Thank you Barry =)
The deep compression codec for Citrix XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro will be intergrated for Citrix XenApp in Excalibur so there is a big difference with bandwidth consumption. This means that XenApp in Excalibur will be the best platform for user density and works great over WAN with high latency as HDX 3D Pro have been known to deliver for several years. Yes i know of cases with WAN optimization, I will gather these and share them.

Best regards
Thomas

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