One of the challenges using Citrix XenApp published applications from desktops is when you attempt to open files through Internet Explorer because the Internet Explorer resides on the desktop while the application, such as MS Project, resides on the Citrix XenApp server. What ends up
Problem You have previously deployed multiple Active Directory Enterprise Root Certificate Authorities in the domain and because you’ve had to redeploy the CA a few times using the same name, you notice that your domain joined workstations and servers now have multiple root certificates stored
Most of us who have worked with Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 deployments have probably come across the task of preventing the first run window prompts that users have to deal with when they launch an Office install for the first time. This usually isn’t
There are quite a few blog posts about the benefits and drawbacks of either using: Manually enter controller location(s) … or: Select from Active Directory when planning a Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 environment. While both sides of the argument have valid points, I personally prefer using
I recently received quite a few complaints that users were unable to change settings such as page sizes and colour on printers they used to be able to do so after they were migrated to VMware View virtual desktops. I paid a visit to the
Yet another challenge that I’ve faced when deploying virtual desktops is retaining signatures across desktop pools or when a desktop pool is refreshed in the case of statically assign pools. Active Directory redirected folders solves half of the problem since a user’s signatures are stored
It’s been quite the challenge while setting up roaming profiles for a new Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 farm in an environment that has no redirected folders and scripts to allow users to roam between workstations while maintaining the same look, feel and access to their desktop,
I find that most often than not, I would always want to have the VMware View virtual desktops automatically connect USB devices that users plug into their physical desktops or thin-clients but as some of you may already know, the default setting for the VMware
Problem You have to deploy VMware View Client on a number of Windows XP workstations and installing the client manually is not an option because there are too many workstations in the environment. Then environment does not have Microsoft SCCM or any other enterprise deployment
As most administrators would know, Windows 2008 domain controllers offers the new Group Policy Preferences which includes more than 20 new Group Policy extensions that expand the range of configurable settings within a Group Policy object (GPO). I came across the need for this during
