The amount of useful, interesting and fun to read community content in the form of blog posts, webinars, podcasts, tools etc. being shared each month can be overwhelming sometimes. This is my second attempt; I did one for August as well, in collecting some of the most popular blog post shared within the EUC community. Have fun reading.
Here is part four of Wilco’s installing and configuring Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/citrix-articles/installing-and-configuring-citrix-provisioning-services-76-part4.html
Rachel went at it again, read what she has to share about the Citrix Ready Certification program and Thin Client Performance https://virtuallyvisual.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/understanding-citrix-ready-certification-and-thin-clients/
Helge Klein shares some good pointers on the Performance Footprint of PowerShell Logon Scripts, great post https://helgeklein.com/blog/2015/09/performance-footprint-of-powershell-logon-scripts/
Benny Tritsch aggregated all GPU / graphics related announcements made at VMworld 2015 http://drtritsch.com/2015/09/gpu-announcements-at-vmworld
Theresa Miller shares her thoughts and experiences around VMworld 2015 http://24x7itconnection.com/2015/09/08/your-vmworld-2015-roundup/
Andrew tried out the new automated provisioning of a Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Farm, a feature introduced with the release of VMware Horizon 6.2. Here are his thoughts http://andrewmorgan.ie/2015/09/creating-an-automated-vmware-horizon-rds-pool-with-horizon-6-2/
A deep dive into Citrix Lifecycle Management by Eric http://xenappblog.com/2015/citrix-lifecycle-management-deep-dive/
Andre writes about a new and soon to be released, Nutanix feature called Pin to SSD http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=7334
There’s just no stopping Rachel, read about Monitoring NVIDIA GPU usage of the framebuffer for vGPU and GPU pass-throughhttps://virtuallyvisual.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/monitoring-nvidia-gpu-usage-of-the-framebuffer-for-vgpu-and-gpu-passthrough/
We have a new blogger in town. Check out what Dominik is up to on http://www.dominikbritz.com
Check out the latest from Igor van der Burgh – Monitoring and Troubleshooting PVS 7.6 it holds tons of good and helpful info: http://www.b-critical.com/2015/09/monitoring-and-troubleshooting-pvs-7-6/
Wilco van Bragt started a new blog series named Free fault tolerant load balancing using Citrix NetScaler Express, you’ll find part one here: http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/citrix-articles/free-fault-tolerant-load-balancing-using-citrix-netscaler-express-part1.html
Check out what Barry Schiffer wrote on Citrix HDX 3D Pro and the Nvidia Grid Browser experience: http://www.barryschiffer.com/citrix-hdx-3d-pro-and-nvidia-grid-browser-experience/
Brian Madden wrote up an excellent list on the GOOD and BAD with regards to the three main vendors in the EUC space at this time: http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2015/09/09/citrix-microsoft-vmware-the-good-and-bad-with-each-of-them-in-euc-right-now.aspx
Here’s one of my own: Citrix… What they’re missing or might need to work on. Just thinking out loud here
Have a look at these amazing numbers (sizing) with regards to StoreFront 3.0: http://blogs.citrix.com/2015/09/16/storefront-3-0-scalability/
LoginVSI and Framehawk don’t make a happy couple: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX202160
Wilco on VMware View 6.2 from a Citrix Administrator perspective: http://virtualization.vanbragt.net/index.php/reviews/server-based-computing/vmware-view-6-x-from-a-citrix-xenapp-administrator-perspective-part-2
Thread Locker by Andrew Morgan: http://andrewmorgan.ie/2015/09/threadlocker-2-0/
Exiting news from the Citrix front, they released the first Tech Preview of AppDisks. You will need to log in with your my Citrix credentials, it’s customers and partners only. Also be aware that there is still some content under NDA: https://www.citrix.com/welcome.html?resource=%2Fdownloads%2Fxenapp%2Fbetas-and-tech-previews%2Fappdisks-technology-preview
Here is what’s new with the XenDesktop 7.6 Feature Pack 3: http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xenapp-and-xendesktop/7-6/xad-whats-new.html
Have a look at the ‘Farm Documentor’ from Gourami. This free software will automatically draw your Citrix XenApp 6.5 environment in the form of a PNG or Visio Drawing. Make sure to check some of their other free goodies / tools as well: http://www.gourami.eu/software/farm-documentor/
Great content by Stuart Carroll as he talks about the use of multiple domains (dropdown menu) in the latest NetScaler 11 release: http://www.stuartc.net/blog/tech/netscaler-gateway-11-0-multi-domain-dropdown/
And to round things up, here’s the first monthly Frontline Chatter on EUC where they review all that’s happened during the past month: http://frontlinechatter.com/tme1/
