At Citrix Synergy 2012, I had the distinct pleasure of moderating a Geek Speak panel: “User Environment Management smackdown 2012” with Shawn Bass, Helge Klein, Harry Labana from AppSense, Bob Janssen from RES Software and Mike Larkin from Citrix on the state of User Environment Management.
I’ve been fortunate enough to have performed technical editor duties on a couple of App-V books by Augusto Alvarez - Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 and Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide.
The App-V 5.0 Sequencer includes a couple of PowerShell modules and for converting packages is the only interface to use. Here’s how to automate the migration of packages from the old 4.x format to the new App-V 5.0 format.
Last Friday turned out to be a pretty awesome day - my wife and I found out we’ll be having a girl in July and I’ve been selected to receive the Citrix Technology Professional award for 2012.
I’ve been configuring a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V deployment in the lab via MDT to a couple of ProLiant DL380 G5’s. I’ve been keeping the deployment as simple as possible, so there’s no SCVMM integrated at this point and as such I’ve need to configure the Hyper-V networking once the OS is deployed to the machine. Naturally, I don’t want to do that manually.
Mark Plettenberg, the lead developer of Login VSI. This new module looks very interesting because it will allow us to objectively measure and analyse the performance of remoting protocols such as Teradici PCoIP, Microsoft RDP, Citrix ICA/HDX and Quest EOP.
Update (28/03/2012): This list of white papers are now available on the Microsoft Download Centre: Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Documentation Resources Download Page
I’m not sure why I didn’t think of this earlier – I get emails from readers fairly regularly and many of them make great topics for blog posts. So here’s the first in a series of posts where I’ll cover interesting questions I get via email and where I think other readers will benefit from a public response.
