The Citrix X1 Mouse prototype hardware solution is fantastic, it is easy to use, quick to pair and is fast enough to be used in most scenarios. (Long commutes to and from the office?) I personally believe this has the greatest benefit for the regular long distance commute but also has potential to also benefit companies […]
In Short … HELL YES, see this PDF from Citrix with the large list of the improvements in XenServer 6.5 The new console is sleek and quick and a hell of an improvement over the previous with a number of bug fixes (notably for vGPU / VDI settings). It has a couple of new views (similar […]
Introduction This article was created as a very quick reference between the Amazon’s AWS EC2 and Microsoft’s Azure. There was little in the way of scientific tests carried out, it is purely a list of observations during the testing so these results below are personal opinion / experience only. You should carry out your own […]
Hi Everyone, I have moved my blog to a privately hosted wordpress environment to cater for increased traffic and more consultants. Hope you still get these updates etc! Apologies for any inconvenience! New Site is: http://3.9.218.163 Cheers James Scanlon
Here is a non exhaustive list of things recently discovered during a PoC of Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 with Nvidia GPU Passthrough from XenServer 6.2 SP1 (i.e Citrix HDX 3D Pro) for the Oil and Gas Industry The alternative (rather long) heading for this article should probably be “how to deliver 3d graphic intensive Oil and […]
We wanted to set a simple timeout and max authentication attempts on the netscaler before an end user locked out their Active Directory account (given that LDAP auth was the Primary authentication method this also means that a brute force style password attempt would be stopped at the netscaler and never hit the inside LDAP […]
With the release of storefront 2.5 we can make published applications mandatory within the Receiver and the storeweb, which is SWEET. Publish the application and change its description to keyword: mandatory(subsequent keywords can be separate by a space i.e. “keywords: mandatory featured” If the mandatory keyword from the published application is removed, the shortcut stays, […]
The Internet Explorer Maintenance options in group policy are no longer enabled or supported in IE 10. Previously we used this for setting the users homepage, publishing a few company defined favorites and the Proxy server / pac file. In order to facilitate the same / similar functionality you need to use GPP, but this […]
Security Log > Audit Failure Event ID 4625 An account failed to log on. Subject: Security ID: NETWORK SERVICE Account Name: SERVER$ Account Domain: DOMAIN Logon ID: 0x3e4 Logon Type: 8 Account For Which Logon Failed: Security ID: NULL SID Account Name: jamesscanlon Account Domain: DOMAIN Failure Information: Failure Reason: Unknown user name or bad […]
Scenario: I purchased a new, non retina Apple Macbook Pro because I wanted the flexibility to upgrade the RAM, HDD (at a later stage, and not have them soldered in the shop) and still have a builtin CDROM for all my music installers etc… (all the ISOs would total around 400GB). From the store this […]