Daniel Ruiz

XenApp

XenApp 6.5 – PowerPoint 2010 flickering

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December 13, 2012

I noticed my screen will flicker from time to time while working with PowerPoint via XenApp 6.5. Although no one was complaining about it, it really began to annoy me and figure I look into it. I found out that Office 2010 utilizes hardware acceleration for displaying images (enabled by…
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Citrix, EdgeSight

EdgeSight for XenDesktop 5.6

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December 10, 2012

Not being a true Citrix EdgeSight guru (I don’t think I really want to be one), I’m faced with more and more implementations where EdgeSight is utilized to monitor both XenApp and XenDesktop. At my last company, I ended up not running XenDesktop with EdgeSight as we could not get…
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NetScaler

NetScaler SSL offload with firmware nCore 10 build 69.4

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December 7, 2012

One excellent feature of Citrix NetScaler is the SSL Offload capabilities. Based on the MPX specs (Physical appliance), they all include a Cavium SSL accelerator card, this card has the ability to handle SSL encryption/decryption cycles using a hardware card, rather than consuming valuable CPU resources. After reading and speaking with…
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XenApp, XenDesktop

XenApp 6.5 Desktop Director 2.1 installation and configuration

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December 6, 2012

Looks like Citrix will be getting rid of the AppCenter console (I still call it CMC :)) for application management. They are finally looking into centralizing both application and virtual desktop management with a single interface. Specially with the next version of XenApp, you will no longer need AppCenter for your app deployments. You…
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XenApp, XenDesktop

XenApp 6.5 Universal Print Server

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November 26, 2012

Traditionally… one of the biggest hurtles for me over the last 12 years have been around ICA print management (Policies, Universal Printer Driver, native drivers, 3rd party tools, native print spool, Citrix print manager, etc). Although printing via ICA is now pretty darn good with a combination of native drivers and…
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