Martin Zugec blog : Citrix

Application Virtualization presentation

martin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:31:00 GMT

I had presentation yesterday about application virtualization - I was talking about appvirt in general, then focusing on available solutions (SoftGrid, XenApp, Thinstall, SVS, AppStream, AppExpress, XenoCode....).

As mentioned in my previous post, I will try to immediately upload all presentations before I forget. So here it comes:

If you are interested in this topic, just leave some comments and I can write a little bit about it.

Managing multiple Terminal Servers

martin — Mon, 21 May 2007 00:19:00 GMT

Whether you are terminal services expert or just casual administrator that needs to touch remote servers using TS, you should have a look at visionapp Remote Desktop.

I really like new RDP 6.0, however I am missing centralized management of identities and credentials. If you need to support just few servers, its not really problem, however if you need to support tens or hundreds, lack of these management capabilities can be really horror.

VRD (visionapp Remote Desktop) allows you to centralize this TS management. If you are like me (little bit paranoid), you have at least two accounts on your personal notebook (normal user & admin, or even better (my case) normal user, operator and admin), you would like to have option to connect to TS without specifying user credentials over and over again.

You can find VRD here.

Configuration is per-user and you can find it in registry under location HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\visionapp\vRD, value Configuration.

This configuration is in XML format, so you can easily modify it (or create scripts for auto generation).

Martin

Citrix RoundTable - PS4.5, ICA 10.0, Tarpon...

martin — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:25:00 GMT

I spent few days at UK listening to upcoming Citrix product - and I wanted to share my feelings...

Citrix is DOOMED :)

No, really, the whole presentation was quite stupid. There are not many new things coming.

Presentation Server 4.5

It provides "Project Tarpon", which is streaming of applications. This is nothing new - Softgrid (and now Microsoft) had Softricity for quite a long time. I can say that (compared to Softricity) Tarpon is nothing special. However at least it is available finally :) Big question now is how will Microsoft license Softricity - right now license is extremely cheap (10$ including bunch of other utilities), so I was not really excited by Tarpon.

Another "big" change is transfer of functionality from CMC (which is very stupid) to MMC (which isnt much better ;)). Problem is that version X.5 means that not everything was moved from CMC to MMC - and you must switch between these two consoles to perform some tasks. And this is really stupid :(

ICA Client 10.0

Nothing really new - per-user installation (without admin rights) was quite interesting, however nothing extremely cool. Support for MUI (multiple languages) is standard today and on normal presentation it will be just one line at the end of new features list - however on this presentation citrix guys spent 20 minutes (!!!) describing that you can change language, they had 8 slides (!!!) including installation screenshots... Really stupid :(

To be honest I was really disappointed - this presentation could took 1 hour instead of 1 day.