Month: August 2015

Replacing Edgesight with Goliath Performance Monitor

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After receiving quite a bit of feedback from my first post on Replacing Citrix Edgesight with Goliath Performance Monitor (GPM), I have decided to create a feature-to-feature comparison between Edgesight 5.x, Desktop Director\Insight, and Goliath Performance Monitor. With this comparison, it should be clear that GPM is more than capable of replacing your existing Edgesight deployment and Desktop Director, while a useful utility, it isn’t and wasn’t meant to be an Enterprise monitoring solution for Citrix … Read more…

Deploying Windows 10 MDT Style

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As of yesterday, MDT 2013 Update 1 is available for download – this is the much awaited update to MDT that allows for deployments using Windows 10. It requires two updates: The Windows ADK for Windows 10 – https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/dn913721.aspx MDT 2013 Update 1 – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48595 The ADK is the largest install – if you have installed the ADK before, you know that the initial file you download is just a setup tool – the actual download happens … Read more…

Windows 10 Media Center Replacement

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Well, it’s been fun, Media Center. Your time came a bit too soon if you ask me…I’m referring, of course, to 2009 when Microsoft made the last code changes to Media Center and started slowly dropping features from it – ahem, Sports Experience – since Microsoft Support has even started acting like WMC never existed and the original support article is now gone, I’ll refer you to a post over on TheGreenButton – here. I guess … Read more…

How to Proactively Accelerate & Improve Citrix Deployments by Monitoring During POC & Pilot Phases

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We all want seamless rollouts of Citrix XenApp\XenDesktop and we use a number of tools to achieve that reality. I’ve found a unique software that allows me to proactively understand the performance impact of Citrix XenApp\XenDesktop on the IT infrastructure and ultimately end user experience early in the deployment lifecycle. In this post I will give you 4 examples of how to use the software to avoid potential issues. VDI deployments When large VDI deployments … Read more…

How to Patch MDT OS Images Using WSUS

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You should already be using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) for deploying servers in production, in test environments, in lab environments – you get the idea. It’s a simple way to guarantee a reproducible, consistent image every time; and it also provides a decent amount of flexibility for driver installation, application installation and deployment automation (and I love automation). What is even nicer is that you can patch the OS images such that every deployment will … Read more…