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#XenDesktop 7 and #AppController setup – #Citrix, #MAM – via @msandbu
Good job on this blog post by Marius Sandbu!
XenDesktop 7 setup and AppController setup
So the big day is here, XenDesktop 7 is released from Citrix and with it ends the old XenApp architecture.
Support for Server based session hosts is still there but the architecture is merged into XenDesktop.
Other features include:
App-V integration
License console integrated into Studio
Storefront administration also from the same console.
The list goes on and pictures say more than a thousand words.
(Can also say that Citrix also released a new version of the Receiver platform for both Mac and Windows today, which includes support for XenDesktop 7 and Storefront.
http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/06/25/receiver-for-windows-4-0-released-today/
http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/06/25/whats-new-with-receiver-for-mac-11-8/
XenDesktop 7 can be downloaded from Mycitrix.com à
http://www.citrix.com/downloads/xendesktop.html
Now the installation is pretty straight forward just choose Standard delivery controller install and it will include all of the needed components. After they are installed we need to create a deployment.
When you start Desktop Studio we choose create new deployment.
So we create a new site…
Continue reading here!
//Richard
Login VSI 4.0 – #LoginVSI, #VDI, #Scalability, #BYOD – @LoginVSI
Login VSI 4.0 released!!
Wow, I can’t believe that my week was this busy… tooo bad though I must say thank you so much to the Login VSI team for giving me the privilege to test Login VSI 4.0 Pro prior to the release… but did I have the time? Nooooo…. 😦
But it’s gonna be one of the first things I do when I get some spare time over some night/weekend in the near future!!
Below you find the press release and a bunch of pictures I got as a part of the “blogger preview” kit!
Improved ease of installation
- Minimized test image footprint
- Centralized management and updates
- Direct Desktop Launch Mode, saves on infrastructure
Improved ease of test creation
- New intuitive and workflow oriented UI
- New editor simplifies workload customization
- Benchmarking mode simplifies comparisons
Improved test realism
- More realistic user workload patterns
- More realistic dataset and data/file access
- Real-world test execution with multiple phases
Improved test insight
- New dashboard with real-time test feedback
- Enhanced VSImax accuracy
- Automated reporting of all relevant data
The IT Melting Pot! 