Jarian Gibson

Citrix Synergy has been going on this week in Berlin.  A lot of good announcements were made this week at Citrix Synergy Berlin.  On of the biggest announcements was XenDesktop 5.  On Citrix

Citrix Merchandising Server and Receiver 2.0 were recently released.  Some nice new features have been added and.  Merchandising Server and Receiver 2.0 are nice but still have room for improvement on

When you are working with Citrix products and looking at different methods of community support like the Citrix forums, Twitter, and community blogs it’s always good to know there is another option.

While working on a XenDesktop project in a huge VMware shop, I started thinking if a single hypervisor should be used or if multiple hypervisors should be used in XenDesktop deployments. Then I

When using EdgeSight in provisioned XenDesktop environments you have a few options when using the EdgeSight for Virtual Desktops Agent.  Monitoring provisioned XenDesktop environments is pretty straight forward and fairly easy to setup

Resizing a Provisioning Services vDisk is pretty straight forward.  You can use VHDResizer with diskpart or attach the VHD in Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 and extend the volume through Disk Management.

Using EdgeSight in provisioned XenApp environments can be tricky if you don’t follow the proper installation steps.  Monitoring provisioned XenApp servers is pretty straight forward and easy to setup with minimal requirements.

When Citrix started selling the Access Gateway product line, Secure Gateway became an endangered species.  The only question was how would you take a free product like Secure Gateway and transition customers to

Citrix has announced some of the new features in XenServer “Midnight Ride”.  This will most be likely be XenServer 6.0.  The public beta of XenServer “Midnight Ride” is targeted for mid March.

Over a month ago I was in some conversations with some fellow Citrix consultants on Twitter about how they use XenAppPrep when updating provisioned XenApp servers.  There has also been some forum postings

With each release of a Provisioning Services Target Device update, hypervisor virtual machines tools update, or network drivers update we are tasked with upgrading the Provisioning Services vDisk and what method to use

With the release of the NetScaler VPX virtual appliance for Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX I can see there may be some questions on when to use a NetScaler hardware appliance and when

This week Helge Klein started a Citrix products 2010 wish list [http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/2009/11/11/citrix-products-2010-a-wish-list/comment-page-1/#comment-9041] . Tim Arenz [http://www.timarenz.de/citrix-products-2010-a-wish-list-continued] expanded on Helge’s

Citrix has recently released Merchandising Server 1.1 [http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/subfeature.asp?contentID=1690128].  Merchandising Server is a XenServer virtual appliance that allows you to centrally manage the

Awhile back I wrote the blog post Provisioning Services 5.1 Specifiy Database Mirror Failover Partner…Huh? [http://jariangibson.com/2009/07/30/provisioning-services-5-1-specify-database-mirror-failover-partner-huh/] and got some good feedback from Pete Downing the

When Citrix XenDesktop 4 was announced I was very excited about all the new features except for one – Per Named User licensing.  I thought all the new features were great and they would

Now that Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1 has been released, I am going to go over the upgrade process.  Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1 has added some new features,

Citrix has changed licensing for Provisioning Services with the release of Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1 and XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2.  The license change comes from the new VM Hosted

Provisioning Services 5.1 introduced another storage option for a vDisk store.  The ability to use a read-only vDisk store.  Provisioning Services 5.1 has added some nice new features to the product

Citrix is getting ready to release Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 1 in the next few weeks.  A Citrix knowledgebase article has been released detailing the release notes of the Provisioning Services

Citrix has finally announced that XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 [http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/subfeature.asp?contentID=1857097] will be released on September 29th.  XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2 will

When setting up high availability in a Provisioning Services environment there is always the question of where to put the vDisk store.  You have several different options for the location of the vDisk

Citrix XenApp 5.0 Windows 2003 Hotfix Rollup 4 has new feature enhancement that allows you to give precedence to session sharing over load balancing. Now with this enhancement you can decide to