Virtualization by Davis: “CloudPortal Services Manager: Citrix service vs Hosted Apps and Desktop service” plus 11 more

CloudPortal Services Manager: Citrix service vs Hosted Apps and Desktop service
KB: How to provide fault tolerance and load balancing in Microsoft App-V v5
KB: Launching a virtual application fails with error code 0x3E500D05-00090001
Beyond Username & Password: Building an Intelligent Cloud Registration (Guest post from Telesign)
KB: How to adjust the App-V v5 Publishing Server Refresh schedule
How Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V is changing the virtualization market
KB: Domain Trust requirements for deploying App-V v5 across multiple domains using the Full Infrastructure model
Release: Bromium vSentry 1.1
KB: Launching a virtual application fails with error code 0x4C40660C-80070005
Top 12 VMware tips of 2012: VMware ESXi, vSphere networking and more
Release: VMware VMmark 2.5
Paper: HP VirtualSystem VS2 for Red Hat

CloudPortal Services Manager: Citrix service vs Hosted Apps and Desktop service

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 04:43 PM PST

In CloudPortal Services Manager there are two ways to provision Citrix XenApp applications and desktops. We sometimes get asked "Why are there two?" and "Which one should I use?" Let's look at some of the differences: Citrix service Can be used to deliver other kinds of apps (for example XenDesktop apps/desktops or even RDP apps). Can be used to deliver resources (to configure printers, specific AD…

KB: How to provide fault tolerance and load balancing in Microsoft App-V v5

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 03:19 PM PST

Here's a KB article we just published on how to implement high availability (HA) and load balancing (LB) for App-V v5 Server components:

2780309 - How to provide fault tolerance and load balancing in Microsoft App-V v5 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2780309)

J.C. Hornbeck | Knowledge Engineer | Management and Security Division

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System Center All Up: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/
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System Center – Orchestrator Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/
System Center – Operations Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/
System Center – Service Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager
System Center – Virtual Machine Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm

Windows Intune: http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsintune/
WSUS Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/sus/
The AD RMS blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmssupp/

App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/appv/
MED-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/medv/
Server App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/serverappv

The Forefront Endpoint Protection blog : http://blogs.technet.com/b/clientsecurity/
The Forefront Identity Manager blog : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ms-identity-support/
The Forefront TMG blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/isablog/
The Forefront UAG blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/edgeaccessblog/

KB: Launching a virtual application fails with error code 0x3E500D05-00090001

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 03:21 PM PST

Here's another new KB article we published. This one tells you how to fix an issue where launching an app virtualized with App-V v5 fails with error 00090001 if the path to the container file is incorrect.

You can read the entire article here:

2783096 - Launching a virtual application fails with error code 0x3E500D05-00090001 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2783096)

J.C. Hornbeck | Knowledge Engineer | Management and Security Division

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App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/appv/
MED-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/medv/
Server App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/serverappv

Beyond Username & Password: Building an Intelligent Cloud Registration (Guest post from Telesign)

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 01:26 PM PST

Learn how Telesign, along with Citrix CloudPortal helps you protect your cloud services from online fraud and spam using the most widely deployed technology — a user's phone.

KB: How to adjust the App-V v5 Publishing Server Refresh schedule

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 12:04 PM PST

Here's an new KB article we published that I think you'll find helpful. This one explains how to adjust the refresh interval so you can speed it up. Why would you want to do this? The most common scenario is in a testing environment where you're pushing a lot of changes and you want your test clients to check for updates very frequently.

You can read the article here:

2780177 - Publishing Servers are automatically removed from App-V v5 clients (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2780177)

J.C. Hornbeck | Knowledge Engineer | Management and Security Division

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App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/appv/
MED-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/medv/
Server App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/serverappv

How Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V is changing the virtualization market

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 07:59 AM PST

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V is gaining traction in the virtualization market. Find out why one expert thinks now is Microsoft's time to shine.

KB: Domain Trust requirements for deploying App-V v5 across multiple domains using the Full Infrastructure model

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 10:51 AM PST

Just a quick heads up on a KB article we just published. This one explains the domain trust requirements for the various App-V component systems when used in a multi-domain environment.

You can read the entire article here:

2780313 - Domain Trust requirements for deploying App-V v5 across multiple domains using the Full Infrastructure model (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2780313)

J.C. Hornbeck | Knowledge Engineer | Management and Security Division

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App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/appv/
MED-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/medv/
Server App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/serverappv

Release: Bromium vSentry 1.1

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 11:57 AM PST

In June last year, Simon Crosby at that time CTO of Citrix and Ian Pratt VP of Advanced Virtualization products at Citrix announced that they were leaving Citrix to start a new company called Bromium. More than a year later, Bromium released the first version of their vSentry product. Now Bromium has released version 1.1. as announced in a blog post today.

vSentry is a security product which uses a so called Microvisor which is a security-focused hypervisor that automatically, instantly and invisibly hardware-isolates each vulnerable Windows task in a micro-VM that cannot modify Windows or gain access to enterprise data or network infrastructure. The Microvisor uses the VT-x functionality from a system allowing tasks running on systems to run only with the strict low privilege rights needed, giving threats no chance to infiltrate the system. The product runs on top Windows XP and the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7. Support for Mac OSX is expected in early 2013. It now also supports web based protection on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) scenarios running on top of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and Citrix XenDesktop or VMware View and Bromium expects to evolve this functionality to all untrustworthy content and services.

vSentry 1.1 also introduces the Live Attack Visualization and Analysis (LAVA) functionality which allows for discovery of zero-day attacks, identification of malware signatures and root kit detection and the Bromium Management Server(BMS) providing a centralized web service for vSentry policy management, collection of LAVA events and correlation of attack data. BMS also povides a centralized console for visualization and analysis of malware forensics. It can also be used to input data into other security analysis systems such as SIEMs, 3rd party consoles such as McAfee ePO or Symantec SEP, or big data platforms such as Splunk.

Labels: Bromium, Release

KB: Launching a virtual application fails with error code 0x4C40660C-80070005

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 10:20 AM PST

Just a quick heads up on a KB article we just published. This one describes an issue where an App-V client gets error 80070005 if the user doesn't have proper permissions to the App-V container file in the content folder.

You can read the entire article here:

2783104 - Launching a virtual application fails with error code 0x4C40660C-80070005 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2783104)

J.C. Hornbeck | Knowledge Engineer | Management and Security Division

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The AD RMS blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmssupp/

App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/appv/
MED-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/medv/
Server App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/serverappv

Top 12 VMware tips of 2012: VMware ESXi, vSphere networking and more

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 06:00 AM PST

Year's end brings a break between major virtualization projects and a chance to catch up on the most popular VMware ESXi tips your peers are reading.

Release: VMware VMmark 2.5

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 04:45 AM PST

VMware has released version 2.5 of its benchmarking framework VMmark. VMmark focuses on measuring the performance of the whole data center, including complex operations like manual and automated (or DRS-initated) vMotion, Storage vMotion, as well as virtual machines cloning and deployment.

Published VMmark results from vendors can be found on the VMware Benchmark Results page, which currently contains 35 entries. Beginning on January 8th 2013, any submission of benchmark results must use the VMmark 2.5 benchmark kit.

Version 2.5 provides the following new functionality:

Support for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance.
Support for VMmark 2.5 message and results delivery via Growl/Prowl.
Support for PowerCLI 5.1.
Updated workload virtual machine templates made from SLES for VMware, a free use version of SLES 11 SP2.
Improved pre-run initialization checking.

All of the changes can be found in the release notes.

Labels: Release, VMware

Paper: HP VirtualSystem VS2 for Red Hat

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 04:36 AM PST

HP has released a paper titled: "HP VirtualSystem VS2 for Red Hat". The paper which contains 39 pages contains a reference architecture for building a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) environment on HP Converged Infrastructure with integrated management.

The VS2 RA solution is built on HP Converged Infrastructure, including the HP BladeSystem architecture, HP Virtual Connect Flex-10, and HP LeftHand P4800 SAN Solution for BladeSystem.