Monthly Archives: June 2013

Windows 2012 and SMB 3.0 – all you need to know

Posted on June 27, 2013 by johncmorrissey

As part of my endeavours to cultivate an optimized windows 2012 RDS/XenDesktop 7 Published Desktop get the feeling SMB 3.0 is going to play a big part – found the below as a useful starting point in my research http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2013/05/05/updated-links-on-windows-server-2012-file-server-and-smb-3-0.aspx

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Getting rid of that pesky your virtual desktop is attempting to use your microsoft or webcam message for ALL :)

Posted on June 26, 2013 by johncmorrissey

Or for that matter: “your virtual desktop is attempting to access your local files” Just released by citrix: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX133565

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VSphere HA Clustering – best practices – nice and simple does it :)

Posted on June 17, 2013 by johncmorrissey

Must say from day 1 with working with VMware have been a big fan of the clustering technology that comes with vSphere/vCenter, in comparison to the even the likes of MSCS its a sinch’ – suppose the one thing i … Continue reading →

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When your vSphere VM’s need CPU cycles NOW!

Posted on June 14, 2013 by johncmorrissey

We had an interesting performance issue which reared its head recently. Environment Xenapp 6.5 environment. Hypervisor: ESXi 5.0 u2. Noticed consistent latencies on applications across the board, these latencies would in play no matter how “close” the users’ were to … Continue reading →

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Slow access to your citrix web interface page?

Posted on June 14, 2013 by johncmorrissey

Running Web interface 5.4 – on first launch close to v.slow i’d gauge it launching the logon page. Did a bit of digging around and found this: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX117273 Worked a charm, nice, fast and the natives are now happier 🙂

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How to publish and deploy Xenapp Applications from the SCCM 2012 Console

Posted on June 12, 2013 by johncmorrissey

Hi all, So after overcoming the pain of a duplicate GUID issue everything has worked swimmingly regards publishing and deploying Xenapp applications from SCCM. The environment we have running here is Xenapp 6.5 HRP01 (+recommended post HRP01 hotfixes), using PVS … Continue reading →

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