sábado, 1 de septiembre de 2012

Virtualization by Davis: “VMWare agrees with Citrix – User Experience is Key, to focus on End User Computing!” plus 6 more

Virtualization by Davis: “VMWare agrees with Citrix – User Experience is Key, to focus on End User Computing!” plus 6 more

VMWare agrees with Citrix – User Experience is Key, to focus on End User Computing!

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 02:49 PM PDT

One thing to announce it or promise it - another to do it. Citrix has been focused on End User Computing since its inception in 1989. In the end, to me it felt like there wasn't anything to be excited about at VMWorld except maybe for Hadoop and Big Data promise - nothing really to do with End User Computing. The feeling was similar to what I bet Apple felt when their design was simply copied. I want there to be jaw-dropping innovation - not just "we also do vdi" message I received from VMWare from VMWorld 2012.


Receiver for HTML5 is now available

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 10:33 AM PDT

It is my pleasure to announce that the Receiver for HTML5 is now available for Chrome and Firefox browsers. Receiver for HTML5 is a zero install client allowing connection through a browser to XenApp and XenDesktop. The combination of the Receiver for Web and HTML5 provides a fallback option for environments where a native client is not available or an option. Key new features include:…

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NetScaler Insight: Redefines Application Visibility

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 06:17 AM PDT

Visibility is the word we come across everyday immaterial of the business we do. Huge amount of information is processed in different forms and what we need is deep visibility into what got processed, what changed, what is new, how does it impact and finally what was my end user experience in this whole process. In our Application centric world the visibility challenges are more…

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Technotes: How to Change the Session Timeout for Web Interface 3.0, 4.x

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 12:16 AM PDT

Handling Start Menu shortcut conflicts when deploying App-V sequences with SCCM side-by-side with traditional version

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 05:04 AM PDT

Scenario: We are new to App-V and have over 1000 to deploy. Approach is to sequence existing packages as App-V and deploy using SCCM to Win 7.

Already on the desktops we have the traditional version of a package that is an MSI with Advertised Shortcuts.

We deploy the sequenced version with the *same* shortcut name but obviously pointing to sfttray.exe etc whilst the physical version shortcut points to C:\Program Files\Vendor\MyApp.exe etc.

We want to retain shortcuts to both versions to mitigate risk. Business users are a bit nervous about going to App-V. For the short-medium term we want to deploy side-by-side and eventually remove the physical installs.

We expected when deploying MyApp sequence to a machine that already has MyApp that the old shortcut  would remain and the new shortcut renamed MyApp(1) or something similar.

What actually is happening is that the App-V shortcut is "sitting on top" of the existing MSI Advertised Shortcut. The physical app remains intact but the user can't easily reach it as the shortcut isn't visible. We learnt that removing the user from the Application's App-V AD group removed the App-V sfttray.exe shortcut to MyApp and then the previous shortcut to C:\Program Files\Vendor\MyApp.exe instantly is available again.

This caused production issues this week so we don't want a repeat.

Is it possible on SCCM or App-V or Windows to configure that where "duplicate" shortcuts exist to ensure that situation is handled so both are present ? I've scanned the registry keys but nothing doing. Asked an SCCM expert and he says it is not SCCM doing this but the App-V client.

We have sequenced hundreds of physical packages into App-V so all the shortcuts are the same plus the biz users don't want "MyApp (App-V)" on the desktop, just the normal name. Although as I write this I think we may have to do this or how would the end user distinguish between regular and App-V ?

 

Declan


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Using TCP Options for Client IP insertion

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 05:23 AM PDT

Web servers at times need client IP for security / logging purpose. Use of a proxy between client and server may hide this detail based on security policies. There are various methods available with Netscaler for client IP header insertion; but they work only if either the client device is directly sending the request or proxy is providing this data in HTTP header. But in…

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RTSPS load balancing / monitor

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 03:35 AM PDT

Hi, 

   I've set up four App-V servers and used a NetScaler to load balance RTSPS and HTTP for this. I'd like to create some kind of a probe / monitor on the NetScaler to verify that App-V is operational and mark it as down if it isn't up. If we use RTSP we can do this as the NetScaler understands the protocol and can check for responses, as far as I am aware this doesn't work with RTSPS

I've been thinking about how to create a script that runs every 15 seconds or so on each server that creates an IIS hosted status page. In turn I can get the NetScaler to monitor this and then make services down if need be. Other than checking the services are started I can't see any easy way to check App-V is fully operational. There are some power shell commandlets I found but these don't work :-(. Any one any suggestions or is just checking the service enough?


Tim


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