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By Shawn Bass on
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:15:18 PM
A client of mine has standardized on Virtual PC 2007 for desktop virtual machine needs (not for their VDI or Server VMs, but just simple desktop VM needs). They recently created a transform for customizing the default install, but after deployment noticed that there was one major issue with the package. The issue is that VPC picks a subfolder of "My Documents" named "My Virtual Machines" as it's default store location when creating a new virtual machine. This would obviously be a very bad choice when using Group Policy enforced managed folder redirection (just imagine how slow the VMs would be if they were stored on the network!, not to mention issues around home drive quotas, etc). Anyway, the packaging team couldn't find an option in the app, nor a registry setting anywhere to change the default folder location for this. Also, since we're dealing with a network location, you can't get by with a subst command or junction point. While I didn't know the answer myself, I figured Google might. After a quick...
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By Shawn Bass on
Thursday, July 03, 2008 2:43:55 PM
Daniel Feller from the Citrix Worldwide Consulting Solutions group has posted a nice set of Visio Stencils for the new Citrix Delivery Center components. This includes visio shapes for all the new XenApp branded components as well as XenDesktop, XenServer, Password Manager, Netscaler, WANscaler, Branch Repeater, etc. I definitely recommend picking up a copy if you frequently do Visio diagrams of Citrix infrastructure components. And thanks to Daniel for sharing this with the community.
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By Shawn Bass on
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:14:44 PM
I received an email yesterday that I was nominated and approved for a Microsoft MVP in Terminal Services. What can I say other than I'm honored to be included in such a great group of people who contribute so much to the community at large. Thanks to everyone for their support. My MVP page can be found here. One of these days (when I get free time) I'll actually update my profile to include all the relevant info. Also, Congrats to the other new Terminal Server MVPs: Seung Heun Noh: Terminal Server: Engineering, Greg Shields: Terminal Server: Author, and Joe Shonk: Terminal Server: Architecture.
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By Shawn Bass on
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:28:24 PM
The age old question of whether or not you should virtualize a Citrix server. It use to be a diffcult question because the virtualization platforms were not very optimized for a Terminal Server workload. Many things have changed in this regard, and now it's not such a crazy decision anymore. There are certain use cases where it's a no brainer (license servers, web interface, secure gateway, etc). However, for pure Presentation Servers it was always a bit of a toss up. On one hand you have a situation where you know you're going to get less users than on physical hardware, versus the other side that says since 32-bit Windows is limited to 2 GB of kernel memory, then virtualizing some Citrix servers on a 16GB or 32GB server carved up into several Terminal Server VMs will scale more users than a single physical instance on th equivalent server hardware. But that's comparing a physical install using 32-bit Windows, not 64-bit. Still, it does make a lot of sense to at least consider virtualizing your Terminal...
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By Shawn Bass on
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:24:00 PM
I recently came across this blog entry posted on the App-V blog stating that Process Monitor was recently updated to support the new App-V Release Candidate that was just released last week. You can get version 1.35 of Process Monitor here. Also, did you know that you can launch the SysInternals tools directly from the web by visiting live.sysinternals.com Check it out, it's pretty helpful.
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