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Configure Citrix AppDNA 7.11 in Minutes instead of Hours

In this blog post I’m going to show you a hack on how to get Citrix AppDNA 7.11 up and running in minutes instead of hours. Anyone who’s been playing … Continue Reading

Super Micro IPMI – Problem Solved

The other day my vSphere server didn’t respond anymore so I headed into the Super Micro IPMI Remote Console for more details. Well as you can see below, the Remote Console … Continue Reading

Install Custom Applications In Turbo

Turbo contains thousands of pre-made applications that are upgraded automatically by Turbo when the various vendors comes out with a new releases. So after reading my last post Getting Started with … Continue Reading

Getting Started With Citrix AppDNA

Citrix AppDisk is out in Technical Preview and one of the killer features are the integration with Citrix AppDNA. I’ve been working with the Citrix AppDisk since late June after … Continue Reading

Sequencing SQL Server Management Studio 2014

Sequencing SQL Server Management Studio 2014 with App-V 5.x normally throws the error “Invalid license data. Reinstall is required” at lauch. This error is not coming from Management Studio itself, … Continue Reading

VMware Horizon View 6.0 Unattended

One of the interesting new features in VMware Horizon View 6.0 is the ability to use Windows 2008 / 2012 Remote Desktop Services to publish Desktops and Applications. This function … Continue Reading

Domain Pass-Through to StoreFront from Client OS

In blog post Citrix Receiver 4 with Domain Pass-Through I explained how to configure Citrix Receiver automatically inside a Hosted Desktop OS or Server OS with XenDesktop 7. That being … Continue Reading

Long Live App-V 5 – Application Streaming is Dead

I’m just back from Citrix Synergy 2013 in LA Anaheim. It was awesome to connect with friends, customers and blog readers. There was a lot of exciting announcements, but in this blog post I will focus on XenDesktop 7 and the integration with App-V 5.

During the keynote Citrix didn’t announce that its Application Streaming feature is dead and won’t be supported in Windows 2012. Read this article from TechTarget for more information Citrix kills its Application Streaming feature, directs users to App-V.

Inside the Citrix Studio console you’ll be able to configure your App-V 5 Management and Publishing server.

Another new feature is the possibility to publish multiple installed and App-V 5 applications on the fly. This is a feature we’ve been awaiting for years.

App-V 5 and Provisioning Services

In my last blog 7 Reasons Why You Need to Learn App-V 5 I talked about how important it is for you to start playing around with App-V 5.

Since all Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop and RDS should be running App-V 5 with Shared Content Store it’s important to leverage Windows 2012 and SMB 3.0 as I wrote about in this post Make your network 10x faster.

With App-V 5 you can easily publish all packages from a folder. This is the PowerShell script I’m running at startup for my XenApp 6.5 VM’s streamed with Provisioning Services.

7 Reasons Why You Need to Learn App-V 5 Today

We’ve been doing server virtualization for years and hopefully most businesses run the majority of their servers on a hypervisor from Citrix, VMware or Microsoft by now.

With the release of Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 the same is going to happen to the application space. I remember back in the days when VMware took off, those consultants got some pretty amazing projects at their hands.

The same is happening now, so you better learn App-V 5 today.

At Citrix Synergy next month the learning lab “Implementing Excalibur on Microsoft Hyper-V” is running every day. Attendees will learn about next-generation delivery architecture of Excalibur with Microsoft’s newest operating system and System Center 2012 SP1. This is not a coincidence!