Remember the old IMA versions of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop where you had to create separate policies for computer settings and user settings? In FMA Citrix 7.x XenApp & XenDesktop platforms, Citrix made it simpler merging both computer and user policies in to one. When creating policies you no longer need to worry about what is a user setting vs. computer. However this merging is merely at the GUI level. At the data level the policies are still split in to two for reasons such as backwards compatability.
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October 2016
Installing and Configuring Unidesk 3.4 on Hyper-V
Unidesk is a leader in layering technologies. Using Unidesk you can layer applications right on top of a gold OS image layer. This seriously simplifies application and desktop management within Citrix environments such as solving the extra overhead often seen with managing multiple gold images/silos for different applications or departments.
Machine Creation Services Storage RAM and Disk Cache
Citrix Machine Creation Services as of XenApp/XenDesktop 7.9 provides the ability to write to memory with overflow to disk just like what is available with PVS using RAM w/ overflow to HDD. This greatly decreases write I/O so you don’t have to rely as much on the underlying storage or worry about hitting a storage bottlenecks as you scale the desktop environment.
Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM)
Workspace Environment Manager (previously Norskale as many people may be familiar with) is a recent acquisition by Citrix that will fill the gap when it comes to Citrix offering a UEM solution. WEM is available for all Enterprise and Platinum XA/XD customers with active Software Maintenance (Customer Success Services) and is available for download today. WEM 4.0 was the initial release.
Add Citrix applications to Start Menu and Desktop
Adding Citrix resources to the Start Menu and Desktop has been possible for quite some time now with the use of Citrix Receiver. The most recent version 4.5 of Receiver for Windows allows users to select the Start Menu and Desktop location themselves. You can also configure the location via GPO and command line install which I will show.