Principal Modern Workplace Architect and EUC practice owner @Insentra, on end user computing, modern device management, enterprise mobility, and automation.
Did you know that WinZip have an MSI installer available for WinZip 10.0 and 11.0? Neither did I until I was reading through their FAQ pages today. What I don’t get though is it’s not the default download you get for the product, you have to go looking for it on this FAQ page: Download WinZip with 64-bit Shell Extension Support. I’d like to welcome WinZip to the 21st century - Windows Installer’s only been around since 1999..
Jason Conger has released Web Interface for Resource Manager 2.1. This couldn’t be more timely for me as I’m in the middle of a Presentation Server 4.0 implementation using Oracle 10g to host the data store and Resource Manager databases. Here’s what’s new in this release:
The November 13, World of NAP chat transcript is finally available on the TechNet site. Unfortunately I’m usually asleep when these chats and webcasts are live, so I missed out on taking part, but here are some highlight questions from the chat (edited slightly for readability):
If you implement SafeWord RemoteAccess with the agent software on a machine running Citrix Web Interface and use the Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) to lockdown the operating system, you may run into authentication issues.
In part 1 I discussed how I believe that proving identity should be your most important consideration when deciding to implement the Citrix Access Gateway or Secure Gateway for remote access. In this second part I want to discuss some of the features of both the Access Gateway (CAG) and the Secure Gateway (CSG) and how they compare.
We recently had client with a requirement to provide Outlook Web Access and Exchange over the Internet/Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTPS) access using a single IP address on ISA Server. The problem with making both of these services available on a single IP address is that both utilise HTTPS which by default is TCP 443. RPC over HTTPS with Outlook can’t use an alternate port - if you attempt to specify and alternate port Outlook UI you receive the following error:
I’m a bit slow, it’s about a month old now, but I spotted this article in CRN Australia magazine about how HP and VMware are teaming to bring VDI to the masses. Here’s an intro from the article: