Citrix Synergy Barcelona “Super Session” aka Keynote

Citrix “Super Session”, Synergy Barcelona Oct 27, 2011

Otherwise called a Keynote, this morning’s session focused on three topics: Collaboration, Cloud, and Mobility. While Wednesday’s session was about announcements, this morning was about explaining the message. Mark T left the work to his minions (not sure if he was sleeping in or off somewhere). Can’t believe I am saying this, …

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Citrix Synergy Barcelona: Day 1 Keynote

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

This week I am at the Citrix Summit and Synergy shows in Barcelona Spain. I am also attending the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) meetings where Citrix gives us a private briefing on what they are working on, although much of that is more distant work that remains under NDA so I can’t blog about that.

Summit, …

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Citrix Stuns Computing World in Barcelona

For Release not before October 24, 08:00GMT

Citrix Systems, of Ft. Lauderdale Florida, today stunned the computing world with an explosive announcement at their Europen partner conference in Barcelona Spain today.

Mr. TCitrix President and CEO Mark B. Templeton is well known for ending his keynotes with “One More Thing”, and this was a doozy. “Today, for the first time, I …

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I Was a Cloud Service Provider, and Didn’t Know It!

I realized this summer that I was a player in The Cloud really early on. Yeah, me. The one who spent the last two years calling it “Clown Computing” rather than “Cloud Computing”. Yes, I will now fully admit that I was once a cloud junkie.
I will explain this in this post.
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PkgView 1.6 Released

toolsToday I released an updated version of the free PkgView tool. PkgView is used to view the file and registry changes that a user makes when running virtual applications with Microsoft App-V. These changes are stored in files with a “.pkg” extension associated with the user and the application.

These pkg files have traditionally been a bit of a black …

LaunchIt – a tool to control child programs

tools This is a story about a tool that shouldn’t need to exist, but has proved to be just so darned handy over the years. It was originally written almost 10 years ago, and I recently released an updated version to add more features. This free tool is called LaunchIT.

The most common problem that cause people to ask me …

App-V Package Branching and Issues

QuickBooks

I was working with an Application Service Provider client this week that was having issues with deploying QuickBooks Professional to their Citrix XenApp Servers using App-V. Quick Books is a bit of a pain to sequence, as you need to work around their licensing strategy which is tied to the CPU. We have had a recipe for years that works …