If you have considered to roll out VDI in your organisation, you have without a doubt thought about a solution from Citrix. Even though there are other vendors on the market than Citrix, they are the one with the most modern and mature product. The question is whether you are going with a XenApp or […]
Citrix Health Assistant is replacing XDPing
For years we have been using XDPing for trouble shooting VDA registration in XenApp and XenDesktop. XDPing has now been replaced with Citrix Health Assistant. Citrix Health Assistant is an application that you can download from citrix.com. It is very easy to use. It is a desktop application instead of command line tool. All you […]
Take control of Patch Tuesday with Citrix AppDNA
How many time have you tried that applications break, when you roll out Microsoft updates. I bet you have lost count. I am not blaming Microsoft for rolling out bad code. There are a lot of reasons why your applications don’t work. With Citrix AppDNA, you can test all updates before your roll them out. […]
Why do poeple use USB sticks when we have Citrix Sharefile
Repeatedly I see people exchanging USB keys. It’s a way of exchange data across from one organization to another. We have done it so in many years and it always works. Recently I was reading an article about a large company had to warn their customers about malware on some USB sticks that they had […]
Citrix Architecture – On Premises
When Citrix released XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x, they also changed the architecture. I version 6.5 and earlier, the architecture was called IMA or Independent Management Architecture. This article will describe the new Citrix architecture, also called FMA. The FMA architecture is buildup of five layers: User Layer Access Layer Resource Layer Control Layer Hardware […]
You want to give your users a great steak, right?
How do you cook a steak without insight? You need to know the meat’s temperature to do that. You need a tool for that. The same goes for the user experience in your XenApp / XenDesktop environment. The tool we use to measure user experience is called Citrix Director. I have lost count on how […]