VDI is a pretty cool for a whole host of use cases, but what we really need is a single infrastructure for virtual and physical PCs. We are nearly there: Citrix provisioning server can stream a base operating system to virtual and physical PCs Application virtualization and streaming can stream...
Brian Badden has made available a huge range of presentations and videos from his BriForum events in 2006. He plans to make the sessions from 2005 available soon and right now you can also order the 2007 sessions on DVD. However many of the 2006 sessions will still be very...
Microsoft reveal a lot of useful info about terminal services improvements in Longhorn in this chat, I can see myself making a lot of use of this on my lab servers at home as well as for customers: Application Publishing with client-side file type associations Seamless Windows A Terminal Server...
When I work on desktop transformation projects I am continually amazed by the number of applications that we find installed in an enterprise. It’s not unusual to find several thousand in a medium sized company, most of them used by less than 10 people. However as Rod Boothby points out...
Ron Oglesby has written an interesting article on the Brian Madden blog about the future of Virtualization, I highly recommend that you read all the comments as well. One of the points raised in the comments concerns the over use of the Virtualization word, which I fully agree with, it...
Brian Madden describes how Citrix is evolving from being an Access company to an Application Delivery company: We want to be the single company to provide access to all applications, regardless of what type they are. For Windows client/server applications, you can use Citrix Presentation Server. For web applications, you...
A few weeks ago I had a planning session with Microsoft where we discussed requirements for the version of windows to follow Vista. During that meeting I used newsgator as an example of my ideal service, it embodies in principle – and increasingly in execution – all that I see...
I have Office 2007 running now on my Tablet and Laptop, both running XP, but my desktop machine (2003 server) is not something I would risk putting Office 2007 on yet, mainly because I collaborate with too many people who are on previous versions of Office. At least that was...
The way you deliver applications to your clients is the fundamental issue of debate in this article. Web client, Server Based Computing, Smart Clients, Thin Client computing, Consolidated Client Architectures are all terms that are used and misused in this context. This article attempts to just cover the key concepts, talk to...
Brian Madden reports that CITRIX have demonstrated a web part that provides integration between SharePoint and Presentation Server. It sounds pretty good:
One of the most exciting things I saw at Citrix iForum Edinburgh this year was a demo of a SharePoint web part from Citrix that will allow a SharePoint site to act as a web interface into Presentation Server farms. (This is called “WISP” for “Web Interface for SharePoint.”) Using WISP will be much simplier than trying to strip down the existing Web Interface to stick into a generic SharePoint HTML web part.
Citrix is making the WISP functionality available as a standard SharePoint web part. WISP will be composed of two pieces:
The first will contain an application area and a session control panel area that will hold the icons for applications that users can click on as well as basic workspace control options (Reconnect all, disconnect all, and logout).
The piece is an extension to the standard Microsoft document library web part. (The document library web part is a web part that displays files and documents stored on a SharePoint server.) Citrix has extended this web part so that it allows documents to be opened in remote Presentation …