App-V 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 Stephane Thirion 31 Jan 2013 · 1 min read
Desktop Director 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 Stephane Thirion 30 Jan 2013 · 1 min read
Active directory 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 Stephane Thirion 20 Jan 2013 · 1 min read
Android 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 Stephane Thirion 17 Jan 2013 · 1 min read
antivirus 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 Stephane Thirion 17 Jan 2013 · 1 min read
Enterprise 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, Stephane Thirion 17 Jan 2013 · 1 min read
Embedded Microsoft Windows Embedded 8 Standard Toolkit This very big ISO file need to be installed on Windows to be able to use it. Tis toolkit has been design to customize Windows Embedded 8 deployment by giving Stephane Thirion 14 Jan 2013 · 3 min read
Embedded Microsoft Windows Embedded 8 Standard Microsoft had to make Windows 8 available as an embedded OS for thinclient (among other use cases) I had to try it out to check what is changing regarding Windows Stephane Thirion 13 Jan 2013 · 1 min read
Access Gateway Citrix CloudGateway 2.5 - Configuration One more time for those who won’t have time to try another release here is a short and simple blog about Citrix CloudGateway 2.5, you’ll be able Stephane Thirion 11 Jan 2013 · 1 min read
Archy.net Happy New Year I wish to every single one of you a happy new year with the best wishes to go with. 2012 is in the past and won’t remain as the Stephane Thirion 2 Jan 2013 · 1 min read
AppSense User Environment Manager Software vendors The following post does not reflect anything about Activlan business guide line, just my personal point of view because I need and I want to make things clear for everyone. Stephane Thirion 17 Dec 2012 · 2 min read
Architecture Citrix Excalibur Tech Preview - Installation Now we can play with Excalibur, I will split Overview, Installation and Configuration into 3 separate blog, so you can check it ASAP and navigate more easily in the blog Stephane Thirion 1 Nov 2012 · 1 min read
Architecture Citrix Excalibur Tech Preview As many of you might know Citrix are kind of melting all there product in one, a Cloud product. The project name is Avalon, with two releases until next year Stephane Thirion 1 Nov 2012 · 2 min read
Citrix myCitrix Synergy Barcelona 2012 This year wasn’t as surprising as it has been in the past years on the innovation and “really new stuff”. Perhaps this is is because since I’m a Stephane Thirion 24 Oct 2012 · 2 min read
best practices vmware vmtools installation with XenDesktop VDA December 2016 – Blog post updated : This is the personalized installation I do when I deploy vmtools on the VMs with VDA to install on it. Don’t forget to install Stephane Thirion 14 Aug 2012 · 2 min read
Capacity and Power Management Power and Capacity Management, a bit further Power and Capacity Management is a great feature for XenApp, I use it more and more for Activlan customers in new implementation we do. Last week I had to find Stephane Thirion 12 Jul 2012 · 1 min read
Citrix Receiver Citrix Receiver 3.2 adding http account I post this short blog I find it annoying to always have to change this setting which should remain the default installation option. Adding http account to Citrix Receiver should Stephane Thirion 8 Jul 2012 · 1 min read
CloudGateway Microsoft NLB with CloudGateway (Receiver Storefront) Many time at many of my customer place I had to install WebInterface and bring high availability for this front web. The first thing coming in my mind every time Stephane Thirion 13 Jun 2012 · 1 min read
