Cutesy blog from Citrix reminding us of how great they are at taking down application-specific road blocks to Windows 7 migration.
June 2011 Archives
Thinking of changing how productivity apps are delivered in your office? Looking for a way to analyze your users' dependencies on Office plugins? My understanding is that this is pretty sweet.
This link tells you about how to deploy the OEAT with ConfigMgr
http://goo.gl/pZybc
This one tells you what OEAT is
http://goo.gl/5nsDa
Concerned you might forget when XP goes off of support by Microsoft? Have no fear! You can now have a live gadget for your Windows 7 Desktop (or Vista, but seriously, just install 7 already) to stay informed of exactly how many days you have left until you're a total sitting duck.
Some of you using App-V might find this an interesting read. It's a nice write up from the Office IT Pro Blog.
Edit:
Seemingly immediately, they have published part two. Maybe I was late to the party on part one.
Part 2: http://goo.gl/QHGZg
...you're killing me @MSSpringboard!
Part 3: http://goo.gl/JOqJL
I appreciate your information, @MSSpringboard, and your willingness to share it. Perhaps next time you can just drop your knowledge on us all at once, thanks.
Part 4: http://goo.gl/gOLxV
Don't know what this VDI stuff is? Here's a pretty good crash course on the concept.
Review of Windows Thin PC on the Citrix blogs. From what I heard, it's worth checking out if you plan to repurpose old hardware as thin clients.
Interesting discussion posted by Nicholas Rintalan from Citrix Consulting about 2 different customers and the average IOPS per VM in the different environments.
I told Joe about this article yesterday, and he beat me to the punch to blog about it.
Shortcut to Joe's bit.ly link: http://bit.ly/l58gW1
http://blog.simonbramfitt.com/?p=1828
Original on the Youtubes:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqVPHnkW6tk
I know this is just linking to someone else's good ideas, but I thought I'd throw this up here because it further illustrates the inertia behind the consumerization of technology.
...plus, it's mega cool.
http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/it-security-personal-devices-1353/
Interesting "outside" (read: business) perspective on BYOD. Conversely, the "5 Technologies That Might Be Extinct..." article which is linked near the bottom is basically useless and whimsical.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkrMVx8z630
Best virtual desktop viral video attempt ever.
Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth talk about Citrix Synergy.
Points I heard of note:
+ Citrix bought Kaviza
+ no one that Gabe could find at Synergy had more than 400 user seat for XenDesktop (my translation: large deployments of XD are uncommon)
+ Citrix is now supported on a billion devices (unsupported claim, still impressive)
+ XenClient has all Intel processors supported
+ ICA session connecting *to* Mac OS (video linked in bullet list below main video)
