This is soon USA Citrix Synergy time, despite the recent event of Synergy in Europe cancellation, I want to share with the one who will be able to come the link to all the Geek Speak sessions. A lot of these sessions will be led and / or have CTPs among the speakers. See you in … Continued
Changing UserProfile storage default location
At many customer place and even more often now RDS and XenApp servers are virtual I see C: drives (System drives) full without a tiny byte left… This is even more painful when roaming profiles need to be store on the same drive. This is the default behaviour for roaming and local profile creation, their … Continued
Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 RU1 and AppV 4.6
Another moment of pure fun with Symantec Endpoint Protection… I liked the version 11 so much and I was missing mysterious Symantec issue so much I decided to update the anti-virus software to 12 on all my customer XenDesktop virtual machines… The version we chose to deploy was Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 RU1 (version given … Continued
XenDesktop 5.6 – The WinRM service is unable to start.
During a XenDesktop 4 to 5.6 migration I had to deploy WinRM on Windows XP SP3 virtual machines. I had a Desktop Group of 60 Machines for developers with IIS installed on it. WinRM installation went fine but the configuration wasn’t possible, I always got an error when the service was trying to start : The WinRM … Continued
Windows Server 2012 – Migrating FSMO Roles
I installed one AD when Microsoft Windows Server 2012 was still in Release Candidate with the Datacenter edition, of course since few days my DC was rebooting every hour, the trial licence did expire few days ago.. So I had to install a new DC and promote it the transfer all FSMO roles from my … Continued
Citrix CloudGateway 2.5 – MDX
What about MDX ? I think this is smart move from Citrix who push toward managing Apps and native Apps deployed to the mobile devices instead of trying to fully manage the device itself. Now this technology is not mature yet and needs some time and improvement and each version is a giant step forward. I’m … Continued
Project VRC released new white paper about impact of antivirus on VDI
I don’t post official announcement from companies usually but I have to good reasons to post this one : This is a very interesting and useful reading, a must know data you need to have in mind and it’s refreshed often enough to stick to the real world environment. Then two of my CTP mates are leading this project … Continued
Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise – Windows isn’t activated issue
This is an annoying issue, I just downloaded the ISO from Microsoft and had to face the impossibility to activate it… “Windows isn’t activated” Error Code : 0x8007007B, the filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. The pre register product key is not good and you basically need to change it using the following command (using administrator … Continued








