The amount of useful, interesting, fun to read, watch or listen to, community content in the form of blog posts, webinars, podcasts, presentations, tools etc. being shared each month can be overwhelming. It’s hard to keep track. Here are some of my personal picks during August. Enjoy!
As always, do comment if you feel I left something out, which I’m sure I did. You’ll probably find some vendor orientated blogs in here as well, as long as it is helpful, interesting or entertaining to read, watch or listen to, I’ll share it, though I’ll try and limit it to just a few posts per month tops.
Here goes…
Accurately checking the Citrix PVS “cache in Ram, Overflow to disk” RAM cache size. Great article with a fresh take on checking the PVS cache size and shown to be very popular within the community.
http://andrewmorgan.ie/2015/08/accurately-checking-the-citrix-pvs-cache-in-ram-overflow-to-disk-ram-cache-size/
A chat with David Wagner, all about Citrix AppDisk and Citrix AppDNA. Another FrontlineChatter podcast coming your way.
http://frontlinechatter.com/a-chat-with-david-wagner-all-about-citrix-appdisk-and-citrix-appdna/
Below you’ll find the new founded website / blog of Rachel Berry, Citrix HDX Product Manager. She started out near the end of July but has already generated some awesome content with regards to HDX graphics and Wolf Hunting ;) To much to mention, I suggest you just go and have a look for yourself.
https://virtuallyvisual.wordpress.com/useful-links/tools/
Take Part In The OS Deployment Automation Survey. A guest post by Aaron Parker.
http://xenappblog.com/2015/take-part-in-the-os-deployment-automation-survey/
Automating Citrix PVS Image Creation with MDT.
http://xenappblog.com/2015/automating-citrix-pvs-image-creation-with-mdt/
I’ve Got 99 Problems and Folder Redirection is Every One of Them. 2015 Testing Results. Part 1. This one was published before august but you’ll find part two and three in there as well. http://stealthpuppy.com/folder-redirection-2015-part-1/
Wilco van Bragt is at it again: Installing and Configuring Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 (Part 2)
http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/citrix-articles/installing-and-configuring-citrix-provisioning-services-76-part2.html
Citrix StoreFront… The tale of two Stores. Hiding, authentication and visuals! https://www.basvankaam.com/2015/08/05/citrix-storefront-the-tale-of-two-stores-hiding-authentication-and-visuals/
Troubleshooting Slow Logons via PowerShell. Again some great, useful and free content from our friends at ControlUp: http://blogs.citrix.com/2015/08/05/troubleshooting-slow-logons-via-powershell/
Another Quick Tip from Jarian Gibson on how to enable Framehawk support when using the latest Citrix NetScaler build: http://www.jariangibson.com/quick-tip-enable-netscaler-gateway-for-framehawk/
Andrew Morgan is on a roll this month, check out his free new tool: Citrix Director Notification Service:
http://andrewmorgan.ie/2015/08/new-free-tool-citrix-director-notification-service/
Selecting a Monitor Solution for SBC/VDI environments Part 3: UberAgent
http://virtualization.vanbragt.net/index.php/reviews/monitoring/selecting-a-monitor-solution-for-sbc-vdi-environments-part-3-uberagent
I just had to include this one as well. Sort of big news! XenDesktop on Acropolis. As you all probably know by now Citrix officially certified the Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor for XenDesktop as well as XenApp. More to come on this shortly. Read both blog posts below to find out more. The first is written by by David Gaunt: http://nutanixnoob.com/?p=240
The second one by Kees Baggerman: http://blog.myvirtualvision.com/2015/08/13/nutanix-acropolis-hypervisor-support-for-xendesktop/ both are employed by Nutanix.
Andrew announces a new version of ThinKiosk. 4.5 is here!
http://andrewmorgan.ie/2015/08/thinkiosk-4-5-is-here/
Robin Robo wrote another one of his famous step-by-step install and configuration guides. This time he describes the process of wrapping and deploying Windows 8.1 phone applications using Citrix XenMobile 10. http://www.robinhobo.com/wrapping-and-deploying-windows-phone-8-1-apps-with-citrix-xenmobile-10-x/
One of my personal additions. What you need to know about Windows Server 2016 and containers going forward.
https://www.basvankaam.com/2015/08/20/what-you-need-to-know-about-windows-server-2016-and-containers-going-forward
Installing UniDesk with Azure integration. I think the title says it all.
https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/installing-unidesk-with-azure-integration/
Anton shares one of his Quick Wins: Get XenMobile high availability.
https://www.antonvanpelt.com/quick-win-get-xenmobile-high-available/
A great overview and step by step walkthrough on Citrix Lifecycle Management by George Kuruvilla.
http://blog.gkuruvilla.org/?p=4204
Eric from XenAppblog.com wrote the ultimate guide to Citrix Session Recording, read it here: http://xenappblog.com/2015/citrix-session-recording/
Another must read! Andreas Nick created a patch manager specifically aimed at Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x http://www.software-virtualisierung.de/entry/nitctxpatcher.html
The Citrix Workspace Cloud! http://blogs.citrix.com/2015/08/20/now-available-workspace-cloud-changes-everything/
And here is the FrontlineChatter podcast to go with it:
http://frontlinechatter.com/cwcisgo/
Wrap up
Again if you feel I left anything important out, ping me and I’ll update the list accordingly. I have to say, this is my first monthly effort and it’s harder than you might think. You have to pay attention all the time. There is so much good content being released, on a daily basis almost, it’s very easy to let one or two slip. I’d also like to give the Citrix Blogs an additional mention; they have released some very interesting content during the last couple of weeks with regards to some of their latest product portfolio additions. Give them an extra visit if you have time.
