Virtualization by Davis: “Citrix releases XenDesktop 7 and XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 2” plus 10 more

---

• Citrix releases XenDesktop 7 and XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 2
• CloudPortal Services Manager: Code Samples for eCommerce SDK
• Citrix Partner Hubbub: “New XenDesktop 7 mobilizes Windows apps”
• OpenStack – XenServer – type Image to Volume
• Citrix Partner Hubbub: “Get started with XenDesktop 7”
• Microsoft releases betas of App-V 5.0 SP2 and UE-V 2.0
• AM Partners – what are your thoughts on Citrix?
• Why You Should Care About Android Thin Clients
• Betas for App-V 5.0 SP2 and UE-V 2.0 now available
• Internet mobile : les applis les plus gourmandes
• Hosting Citrix Desktops from the Amazon Cloud

Citrix releases XenDesktop 7 and XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 2 Posted: 28 Jun 2013 04:08 AM PDT Beginning this month, during its annual Synergy event, Citrix announced version 7 of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) product XenDesktop. This week Citrix announced the release of XenDesktop 7 and the release of Feature Pack 2 for its desktop and application virtualization product XenApp 6.5. XenDesktop provides the following new functionality (among others), detailed here: HDX Mobile, Translates multi-touch gestures, finger swipes, and inertia into smooth navigation and scrolling commands that are relayed to the hosted Windows apps in real-time Offers native menu controls that translate pull-down lists and complex mouse navigation into the native controls built in to the mobile device for smoother app navigation. HDX Windows App Mobilization SDK HDX deep compression and redirection technologies Redesigned Citrix StoreFront, the self-service portal Clientless Receiver Flexcast, providing both provisioning and personalization of desktops and applications supporting Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 Physical to virtual (P2V) app migration analysis tools, powered by Citrix AppDNA Feature pack 2 for XenApp 6.5 brings improved user experience for application developers via an updated Mobility Pack, more scalability and cost-effective OpenGL support with GPU sharing on the XenApp 6.5 server, AppDNA to help accelerate application validation, Microsoft Lync 2013 optimization pack, support for Hyper-V 3 and Provisioning Services, along with enhancements to CDM (client drive mapping) delivering up to 4x faster download & upload speed. Citrix also updated its Receiver for Windows to version 4.0 and its Receiver for Mac to version 11.8, both supported the new functionality provided by XenDesktop 7 and Feature pack 2 for XenApp 6.5. You'll need to have your MYCITRIX login, and Subscription Advantage of June 22, 2013 to see the XenDesktop 7 and XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 2 download links. Labels: Citrix, Release, VDI

CloudPortal Services Manager: Code Samples for eCommerce SDK Posted: 27 Jun 2013 02:59 PM PDT A while back we released the eCommerce SDK for CloudPortal Services Manager. We included some sample PowerShell scripts and How-To articles, and today we're releasing more code samples... this time showing how to query the Configuration API via HTML/Javascript!

Citrix Partner Hubbub: “New XenDesktop 7 mobilizes Windows apps” Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:14 PM PDT Many of you have already heard, but in case you missed Synergy LA this year, Citrix announced XenDesktop 7, the next major release of the market-leading app and desktop virtualization solution. XenDesktop 7 is designed to help your customers mobilize their core Windows line-of-business apps.  Partners, this BIG news is worth repeating! I invite you to join in the hubbub around XenDesktop 7 and learn all about… Read More

OpenStack – XenServer – type Image to Volume Posted: 27 Jun 2013 10:50 AM PDT A story of supporting XenServer Images in cinder – converting a vhd chain to a raw volume. In tempest test suite, there are some test cases around creating a volume from an image. On the Cinder side this basically means to get the image, ask qemu-img to recognise its format, and to convert it to raw, and write the raw bytes to the volume. With… Read More

Citrix Partner Hubbub: “Get started with XenDesktop 7” Posted: 27 Jun 2013 10:39 AM PDT Let's talk XD7! XenDesktop 7, that is. Start the conversation with your colleagues and customers and build your knowledge by adding XenDesktop 7 skills to your portfolio. Citrix Education is releasing a new, comprehensive curriculum for XenDesktop 7 solutions covering real-world challenges and use cases. These training resources will help prepare you for the different aspects of customer engagements, from  recommending to planning, implementing and… Read More

Microsoft releases betas of App-V 5.0 SP2 and UE-V 2.0 Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:52 PM PDT Microsoft today announced the release of a beta for its Application Virtualization product App-V version 5.0 service pack 2 and the beta of version 2.0 of its User Environment Management solution UE-V. Once released, both products will be included in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), which is available for Microsoft Software Assurance users. Both version will support the Windows 8.1 client Operating System for which Microsoft announced a Tech Preview during its annual Build Conference. UE-V 2.0 will provide the following new features: Support for Windows 8 applications, administrators can define which Windows 8 apps are synchronized and all the apps that come out of the box in Windows 8 and 8.1 can roam their settings by default. The triggers used to roam the Windows 8 apps settings are on open, close, loss of focus and by default every 30 minutes. Company Settings Center, which allows users to control, view and troubleshoot application and OS settings monitored by UE-V. It also allows the user to manually sync their settings without having to wait for an automatic sync to occur Synchronization improvements, the new sync provider in UE-V 2.0 now also allows a sync at specific intervals that you can define (default is every 30 minutes) and eliminates the need for the Offline Files technology in Windows which was previously required for users who were not always connected. Service Pack 2 for App-V 5.0 will provide the following new features: Shell extension support, allowing virtualized applications to also integrate with contextual options like send to zip or backup to archive in the Windows Shell. Sequencing enhancements, enabling it to automatically detect with the option to include, run time dependencies like MSXML and Visual C++ libraries in the App-V package during the sequencing process. For users who still use App-V 4.6 Microsoft also released a beta today of Service Pack 3 for App-V 4.6 which can be found here. Labels: Microsoft

AM Partners – what are your thoughts on Citrix? Posted: 27 Jun 2013 10:18 AM PDT Take the CRN survey by 6/30 and let the world know!  http://bit.ly/14u2wip  NOW is the time to take the CRN 2013 Annual Report Card Survey for Citrix.   We realize that your time is very valuable and it is End of Month / End of Quarter.  The survey only takes 10 minutes to complete… but there are 2 areas you can tell CRN about:  Collaboration… Read More

Why You Should Care About Android Thin Clients Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:56 AM PDT  At Synergy ViewSonic recently announced the first of what could be the next generation of thin clients. In addition Dell demonstrated an ARM based USB/MHL stick running Android that can be plugged into a Display or TV effectively enabling it as a thin client. For an existing task-based thin client use case, the new Android devices may not be obvious. But consider the broader use… Read More

Betas for App-V 5.0 SP2 and UE-V 2.0 now available Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:15 AM PDT Today we also announced the beta availability of Microsoft User Experience Virtualization 2.0 (UE-V 2.0) and Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 SP2 (App-V 5.0 SP2), two critical components from Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) that give business customers access to all of their desktop and internal line of business applications, as well as personalized Windows environments from anywhere. UE-V 2.0 and App-V 5.0 SP2 will ship as part of a future version of MDOP but are available in beta versions now for download and support the Windows 8.1 Preview. You can get all the details here: http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/business/archive/2013/06/26/teched-europe-european-businesses-choose-windows-8-amp-ue-v-app-v-betas-released.aspx J.C. Hornbeck | Solution Assets PM | Microsoft GBS Management and Security Division Get the latest System Center news on Facebook and Twitter: System Center All Up: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/ System Center – Configuration Manager Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/< /a> System Center – Data Protection Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/ 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/< /a> 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/< /a>

Internet mobile : les applis les plus gourmandes Posted: 27 Jun 2013 07:24 AM PDT Un aperçu des habitudes des utilisateurs mobiles et l'impact de ces comportements sur les réseaux des opérateurs

Hosting Citrix Desktops from the Amazon Cloud Posted: 27 Jun 2013 06:43 AM PDT That's right. Run your XenApp on AWS and NetScaler on AWS . Those capabilities have been around for a while, and over time Citrix has been working to make set-up and configuration even easier. Whether you are a large enterprise, smaller business, or even a service provider, deploying on the AWS cloud could yield you many more benefits and operational advantages than you could get than deploying… Read More

You are subscribed to email updates from Virtualization by Davis To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610