Live blogging Citrix Synergy Day 1 Keynote from San Francisco

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 Talk about a blog entry I never thought I'd be writing... "Training class canceled due to volcano"?

Benny Tritsch and I had to make a tough decision in canceling our Citrix Training class in Sweden next week due to the extremely difficult European travel situation because of the volcano in Iceland.  We're currently working out a plan of action with our training partners in Sweden to reschedule this class.  Stay tuned for details on when that reschedule will happen.

 If you're available on Tuesday March 2, 2010 please join me and five vendors of virtual desktop technology (Citrix, Microsoft, Quest, Symantec, and VMware) for a webinar that's sure to please VDI fans and opponents.  The webinar will be held at 1:00 pm EST and will go until 2:30 pm EST.  We're planning on having about 60 minutes of panel discussion where I will ask all five vendors questions that I've created based upon real world challenges people are having with VDI.  Then we'll be opening the discussion up to audience questions for the remaining 30 minutes.  If there's something you want to know about VDI, this is the time to get your questions answered.  For more information and to register for this great session please visit Laura Whalen's blog entry that has all the details here.

Microsoft posted on their MDOP blog that App-V 4.6 RTM'd on Friday.  Oh and there was something or other posted about Med-V.  So back to App-V ;)   4.6 RTM includes support for 64-bit Windows platforms which means you can get a functional deployment of Windows 7 64-bit and more importantly you can begin your projects to rollout 2008 R2 with a supported 64-bit App-V client.  Now all we need is a supported release of Citrix XenApp for 2008 R2 and we're golden.  Read more about the App-V 4.6 RTM here.

My Olso, Norway training class scheduled for March 22-26th is full.  There are open seats in the Malmo, Sweden class that is running April 19th-23rd.  If you want to get a chance to attend the Advanced Citrix class while it's still in Europe then sign up for Malmo.  Registration information for Malmo can be found here.

I've just posted up details on the schedule of classes for 2010.  There are currently four scheduled classes next here in the following locations and dates:

Oslo, Norway Mar 22-26
Chicago, IL May 24-28
New York, NY Aug 9-13
San Diego, CA Nov 8-12

Sumit Dhawan has posted a blog entry describing licensing changes that Citrix has made in response to direct customer feedback.  While I assumed that Citrix would eventually breakdown and agree to support additional licensing models, this is more comprehensive than I expected they would do.  The models are now:

Per user licensing (this is still per user and not named user) Per device licensing (XD can be used by unlimited users on a given device) - New option that's great for factories, healthcare, shift workers, etc....

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