DID YOU KNOW -- HDX MediaStream for Flash supports
Window-less Mode - Juan Rivera - Citrix Community
It has been a few weeks since we released the trial for HDX MediaStream for Flash and I
would like to share a few tips about this feature as well as
highlight some of the capabilities in the trial release. First on
the list is Window-less Mode.
I've talked about what is new about Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS (Remote Desktop Services) before. This time around, let take a look at the details in a little bit more detail based on the information that Microsoft has made public. This article will focus on the "pure TS features".
In my day (and night?) job working for Quest I get to demonstrate the Virtual Access Suite (VAS) a lot. In short this means that I have to demo a VAS infrastructure at the very least consisting of a VAS Connection Broker, a VAS Terminal Server, a VAS Virtual Desktop, a Domain Controller, a VirtualCenter server and a ESX host. With a lot of time and patience one would be able to get pretty far with this with a decent laptop up until ESX. ESX will not run on "normal laptop hardware". Period. So let me share how I found my ultimate ESX Whitebox.
A couple of months ago I noticed that RTO was offering a new product
called RTO Virtual Profiles. I also said it was probably just another
Flex Profiles clone. As it turns out I was quite wrong. Wrong in that
the product wasn't officially released yet and wrong in that RTO
Virtual Profiles deals with profiles in a very different, refreshing
way. I took a look at some of the early betas.
Microsoft just announced that they have delivered the first release candidate (RC) of Hyper-V to the general public. So after shipping Windows Server 2008 with a beta of the Hyper-V role embedded and now, not even a month later, shipping the Hyper-V release candidate, Microsoft is on the fast-track with Hyper-V. Mark my words: Hyper-V will be released (a lot) earlier than August 2008.
Application virtualization, primarily thanks to Microsoft pushing it, has become very popular in companies of all sizes. Implementation of application virtualization or migration to application virtualization isn't something to be taken lightly. Whether you use SoftGrid, Thinstall, Citrix Application Streaming or another product, very specific skills are required to make this work. Why do all the hard work yourself?
This is ironic. I've been scooped myself. As you might have noticed, Brian Madden has blogged about the fact that I have decided to join Provision Networks (now a part of Quest Software). This information came out a little earlier than I planned but I guess this is as good a time as any for me to explain why I decided to join Provision Networks and what will happen to Thincomputing.net.
Centralization and consolidation was and is high on any CIO's wishlist. All this centralization and consolidation offers tremendous advantages but also imposes new challenges to IT infrastructures. So moving everything to the datacenter and managing everything from the datacenter is great but what if you need to move data out of the datacenter? Say if you want to deploy a desktop image to 6500 desktops in 11 other locations? What if you wanted to do that in under four hours? Short of having 100 Gbps connetions between all locations this would prove to be impossible.
I've never been a particular Jerry Springer fan. Recently however, I
found it necessary to reflect on this because I've been actively watching
the amount of mud that is being thrown by VMware and Citrix recently. This
makes the Jerry Springer show look like a Tupperware party.
When I launched the new version of Thincomputing.net some two months ago, I implemented the PHP search function that is native to the CMS I am using. Several of you contacted me to inform that it did not always produced accurate results (kind of like the Citrix support search engine used to be like). So I decided to get the Thincomputing.net search engine "Googlefied"...
