June 2013 - xenappblog

Free Citrix XenDesktop 7 Boot Camp

Today Citrix finally released Citrix XenDesktop 7 together with Provisioning Services 7, Profile Manager 5, Citrix Receiver 4, StoreFront 2 and more.

I’ve been playing with Citrix XenDesktop 7 in the lab for quite some time + a lot of hands-on time with the latest build at Citrix Synergy.

More than 15.000 people have gone through my free Citrix XenApp Training which was based upon Citrix XenApp 6 for Windows 2008.

So needless to say, it’s time for some new awesome training. Say goodbye to Reverse Imaging and all the hassle with updating Provisioning Services Target Device Software and XenServer / VMware / Hyper-V tools.

This Citrix XenDesktop 7 Boot Camp isn’t a 15 minute video on YouTube showing you how to click next – next – finish. This free Boot Camp will show you how it’s done in the real world.

Customize Netscaler Gateway Logon Page

When hosting multiple customers on the same Netscaler solution you can use Responder to customize Netscaler Gateway logon page.

In this article I’ll show you how you can remove the Password 2 field which gets there by default if you enable Radius.

Head over to System – Settings – Configure Advanced Features and enable Responder.

Then connect to your Netscaler via WinSCP and make a copy of index.html and login.js which are located in/netscaler/ns_gui/vpn

How To Reduce Storage with 80-95%

In my previous post 7 Reasons Why You Need to Learn App-V 5 I listed the main reasons to go with App-V 5. What wasn’t in that list was that … Continue Reading

Alike Backup – Free for XenServer and Hyper-V

For those who have been following my blog for some time know that I’m a big fan of PHD Virtual Backup or at least used to be. I’ve been following PHD since it’s early days. Unfortunately the company has grown to fast and the superb support has disappeared. Doesn’t matter how great the product is if support doesn’t work, especially when it comes to backup. So I reached out on Twitter and got a tip about Alike Backup for XenServer.

I’ve been running Alike Backup side by side with PHD Virtual Backup and have now decided to go with Alike. The best part, it’s FREE for single host server. That’s perfect for me since I have one XenServer and one Hyper-V server.

The setup is straight forward, the difference is that Alike Backup runs inside a OS and PHD Virtual Backup is an appliance.