Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops design considerations

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Deployment and Adoption Resource Center

Table of Contents Introduction to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops design considerations Having implemented various on-premises Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops - VAD (former Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop) infrastructures, i decided to write a, rather long, technical article on Citrix architecture and design best practices. This long guide has it all, from Citrix Virtual Apps ... Read more

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Troubleshooting book

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Troubleshooting Book Cover Front

This post is also available in my podcast. I am happy to announce the publication of my new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Troubleshooting book, which is available for order on Amazon and Smashwords. The Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Troubleshooting book is now live in the Amazon Kindle store. The Citrix Virtual Apps and ... Read more

Windows User Profiles and Folder Redirection options

windows user profiles and folder redirection

This post is also available in my podcast. This blog post discusses Windows User Profiles and Folder Redirection options. It is recommended to also review my separate article on Windows File server design considerations. Introduction There are various technologies available in Windows client and server operating systems for managing user profiles and folder redirection in ... Read more

Citrix health checklist

A Citrix health checklist can assist when reviewing an environment for configurations that might cause future problems, not necessarily existing problems. Health Checks tend to focus on non-functional qualities like the following: Carl Stalhood has put together a very useful health checklist article for Citrix environments. The health check list covers the following Citrix components ... Read more

Bandwidth usage and VoIP considerations for Citrix XenDesktop

Citrix bandwidth

This blog post provides an overview of bandwidth usage and VoIP considerations for Citrix XenDesktop. The following Citrix articles include detailed guidance and formulas for calculating acceptable bandwidth consumption estimations for various scenarios in Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. Each user in XenApp and XenDesktop is modelled and organized into various user types, such as heavy ... Read more