Deptive Solutions Consultant Paul Warren is our resident Microsoft expert – and this year saw him speak not once, not twice, but FOUR times at Microsoft’s […]
Every good organisation knows that its people are its biggest strength – and that building strong teams is vital to building a strong business. The hard […]
We’re constantly hearing from CIOs that they want their team to spend more time with the people in the business – understanding their needs, their challenges, […]
The concept of working productively from anywhere and on any device is becoming increasingly popular – but that’s not all that the modern workplace is.
A pretty basic need of organisations (especially large ones) is for employees to be able to find others in the organisation. Whether it’s looking for who […]
Having visibility over your all IT environments, from desktop virtualisation to web apps to storage and networks, is vital for every IT team. Yet so many […]
Hear how NVIDIA Grid benefits both high-end GPU intensive virtual desktop workloads, along with the benefits to standard task and knowledge workers. Now anything you need […]
In this sneak-peak interview, Roger Cao – Director of Solutions Development, Citrix reveals how a Raspberry Pi with built-in Bluetooth beacon, Citrix Receiver and HDX will give us location-aware power computing that’s good for […]
Is this a gimmick, or the future of personal computing? Deptive Technical Director, Jason Poyner gets hands-on with the Samsung DeX at Citrix Synergy 2017. This […]
Jason Poyner, Technical Director, Deptive. Great, you’re an existing Citrix customer. Pat yourself on the back for your wise purchasing decision. You’ve got a bunch of […]
Jason Poyner, Technical Director, Deptive While not every organisation has a formal BYOD programme, every organisation should develop policies regarding the use of personal devices for […]
Jason Poyner, Technical Director, Deptive These days I find most CIOs are familiar with the benefits of desktop virtualisation (whether VDI, or otherwise), but the costs […]
Jason Poyner, Technical Director, Deptive Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) allows you to have a single instance image management of your XenApp and/or XenDesktop VMs – otherwise known […]
Update 11 November 2015: Today, Citrix have recognised Deptive’s continued business growth and customer success by awarding them with Solution Advisor Gold Partner status. This accolade comes hot […]
Jason Poyner, Technical Director, Deptive Given my position, I’m used to hearing great feedback from Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop users, but it’s true to say myself and the […]
The following guide provides details on how to create customised logon page on the same NetScaler for different NetScaler Gateway virtual servers. Citrix currently do not […]
Citrix Insight Services is a Citrix initiative which focuses on simplifying the support of Citrix environments. Citrix has developed tools and automated online analysis capabilities to […]
When deploying a NetScaler virtual load balancer to provide reverse proxy access to a web servers, you may have a requirement to block certain URLs being […]
Citrix NetScaler is a leading and feature rich Application Delivery Controller (ADC). A recent presentation from Citrix showed the NetScaler as a Swiss Army knife which […]
I’m currently working with a client to determine the potential scope of a virtual desktop deployment, and performing an infrastructure readiness assessment. While some additional compute […]
As all of you with years (decades??) of IT experience know, users are quick to vocalise any negative experience, but providing positive feedback can be like […]
Citrix StoreFront will become the standard client access point for XenApp & XenDesktop over the next couple of years replacing the venerable Citrix Web Interface. The […]
The rumour that Citrix will combine their XenApp and XenDesktop products into a single product (code named Excalibur) has been announced at Citrix Synergy Barcelona, and […]
Citrix and Cisco have extended their existing partnership and as a result the Cisco ACE range will be phased out with Cisco now recommending Citrix NetScaler […]
Citrix have this morning released CloudGateway 2.0 which has some exciting new features. I was so keen to see the new CloudGateway feature I even got […]
Virtualizing XenApp servers is now the norm. All the standard benefits of general server virtualisation apply to XenApp server consolidation, however the consolidation ratio of XenApp […]
Shadowing to or from multi-monitor desktops is broken in Windows Server 2008 R2, which means Citrix XenApp 6.x. Nothing new here, I read about this on […]
Deptive designed and implemented the Citrix XenApp 6 desktop virtualisation solution for Flight Centre New Zealand in late 2010. An article has recently been published by […]
The Citrix Desktop Viewer toolbar if officially supported with XenDesktop only, but also works with XenApp. The Desktop Viewer is enabled on the each Web […]
Citrix have just announced their acquisition of RingCube, it’s been an active few months for Citrix with their recent acquisition of Kaviza. RingCube’s vDesk product fits […]
While dodgy print drivers no longer often cause a BSOD, they are still an on-going source of issues on Citrix XenApp farms, namely print spooler crashes […]
Citrix have released an awesome whitepaper that is a must read for anyone implementing PVS. Check it out here: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127549 And some “PVS secrets” […]
Windows Search is enabled on XenApp 6 Windows 2008 R2 servers by installing the File Server > Windows Search Service role. Once the Windows Search Service […]
I was talking to Roly from MPA last week and he mentioned McAfee’s MOVE AntiVirus which is designed for VDI environments. The key point which grabbed […]
This issue started occurring when testing a newly build XenApp 6 server. When shadowing a user from this newly built XenApp 6 server the newly built […]
Repurposed PCs deliver Windows 7-like experience using XenApp Hosted Shared Desktops This excellent Citrix Community blog details how to turn old Win XP desktops into Desktop […]
We were seeing these errors on a XenApp 6 farm: Faulting application name: svchost.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bc3c1 Faulting module name: scardhook64.dll, version: 6.0.0.10226, time […]
I {heart} PowerShell. Need to find out if a particular hotfix is installed? Just run this command, substituting the KBxxxxx number for the hotfix you want […]
My scripting plans were foiled twice this week on Windows 2008 R2.I have implemented a VBScript XenApp reboot script for several years now on several XenApp […]
If you are looking to do snapshot based VM backups in a XenServer environment then check out this collection of scripts:VBScript methodPerl script methodAndy Burton’s XenServer […]
My previous blog entry covered installing XenApp 6 from the command line. Installing XenApp 6 from the command line does not join your server to the […]
I always recommend a profile management system for Citrix XenApp installations; the free Flex Profile Kit is a favourite, but I recently implemented AppSense Environment Manager […]
Citrix recently announced XenClient, their client side bare metal hypervisor. VMware announced their client hypervisor back in February and I would not be surprised if Microsoft […]
Wow, I like what Alain has done with some PowerShell/SQL/Visual Studio tricks. I can see how this could be turned into a farm trending/capacity management tool. […]
VMware recently announced vSphere 4, the replacement for ESX 3.5. When I read that new editions had been released for small business I thought VMware would […]
VMware recently announced vSphere 4, the replacement for ESX 3.5. When I read that new editions had been released for small business I thought VMware would […]
A client is currently implementing Citrix XenServer 5.0 and had hit a snag trying to get the new XenServer hosts communicating with their APC UPS. They […]
Here’s a useful looking utility from Citrix which saves the manual steps involved in preparing a XenApp server for cloning.Download here. I also just found a […]
When publishing Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro or Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8 using Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 the application does not display. The session is established and […]
I stumbled upon CitrixTools.Net from a Citrix forum post and was surprised to find several tools they have developed which are very similar to some I […]
http://www.katescomment.com/the-definition-of-cloud-computing/ A great definition, although coming from the MD of a utility computing company the statement “Arguably there is only really one cloud, which is the […]
Here’s the scenario: a user calls the helpdesk from a remote site saying that Citrix session performance is not good. The helpdesk shadows the user’s session […]
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Deptive Solutions Consultant Paul Warren is our resident Microsoft expert – and this year saw him speak not once, not twice, but FOUR times at Microsoft’s […]
The concept of working productively from anywhere and on any device is becoming increasingly popular – but that’s not all that the modern workplace is.
Is this a gimmick, or the future of personal computing? Deptive Technical Director, Jason Poyner gets hands-on with the Samsung DeX at Citrix Synergy 2017. This […]
Jason Poyner, Technical Director, Deptive While not every organisation has a formal BYOD programme, every organisation should develop policies regarding the use of personal devices for […]
Jason Poyner, Technical Director, Deptive These days I find most CIOs are familiar with the benefits of desktop virtualisation (whether VDI, or otherwise), but the costs […]
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