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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. Keep Reading

StoreFront as the Default IIS Page and optimizations

The option to make StoreFront (pre SF3.5) Receiver for Web the default page/document in IIS simply does not exist within the StoreFront console like it used to back in legacy Web Interface. What I mean is that if I was to browse to my StoreFront server via https://storefront I’d get the iisstart.htm IIS 8.5 page.

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Optimising the Citrix Receiver experience

You know what a lot of people do when installing products. They install a product, configure the minimum settings to get it working, walk away once it’s working.

The same applies to products such as XenApp & XenDesktop. Most of the time we publish applications and desktops to StoreFront with little to no extra configuration.

I think although we don’t need to use them, we should atleast be aware of some of the tweaks you can make. I will describe some briefly below, beginning with Workspace Control.

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