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Bay Area Citrix Users Group October 23rd Presentation – Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013 Primer!

I was recently asked to give a Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013 Primer at the Bay Area Citrix Users Group (http://www.meetup.com/baycug). Below are the images from the slide deck along with a YouTube upload of the recorded server deployment demo! Enjoy!! Click any image to view the full slide: 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11: 12: 13: 14: Click the maximize button in the YouTube video below to view full screen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKRvmudaDTY&amp;feature=youtu.be 16: 17: If you have any questions, comments, or just want to leave feedback, please do so below. Thanks for reading! –youngtech

By Dane Young, MBA|October 24th, 2013|Citrix, Microsoft|1 Comment

Deploying Windows 8 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure on Windows Server 2012

Several months ago, fellow blogger Kees Baggerman covered RDS: Windows 8 Scenario-based RDS deployment which included a 10 minute YouTube video on RDS Session Virtualization (aka terminal services). In this article, I am going to cover the other element of RDS scenario-based installation, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Microsoft VDI technologies have been around for several iterations of Hyper-V and Server 2008. With 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft introduced RemoteFX, a promising technology for virtual desktop GPU acceleration. However, in the past there have been several challenges with deploying Microsoft VDI, namely the initial desktop provisioning and stateless pooling. With Server 2012, these [...]

By Dane Young, MBA|August 21st, 2012|Microsoft|87 Comments

Configuring XenDesktop 5.6 with Provisioning Services 6.1 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 RC

There have been a lot of amazing announcements this week, the most notable was the availability of XenDesktop 5.6 and Provisioning Services 6.1 which now both support System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Release Candidate (and RTM once announced). In addition, Microsoft announced the availability of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 Community Technology Preview (CTP) which extends the SCVMM capabilities to support "Hyper-V 3" on codenamed Windows Server "8". With a little playing around, I was able to determine that both XenDesktop 5.6 and PVS 6.1 may require additional code changes to support SP1. For example, for PVS [...]

By Dane Young, MBA|March 12th, 2012|Citrix, Microsoft|4 Comments