It is summer after all….
Thanks to the XenApp Blog for the Scripts

In all seriousness I find it hilarious after 15 years in this industry that we are still doing this.  Take a PC and all it’s bloatedness and strip it down to the bare minimum software needed to run the XenApp WI and Web client.  Lock it down and you have yourself a nice windows based Kiosk.

Why windows you say? Well all of the enhancements to the XenApp client are going to go against the Win32 client to take advantage of the local hardware.

I could see great use of this in libraries, Schools etc where there is a fair amount of commodity hardware, and a server based application/desktop delivery initiative on going.

While you could do something similar with the XenDesktop Embedded Receiver Client this is much more flexible.

I came across this great utility on another website that I know I will be adding to my tool set, and I am sure other might find useful.

Richard Garthshagen has it on his site.

This tool will give you all you need to know about the servers in your cluster just by passing it the VC info.

Thanks Richard for an awesome tool!

Scott

Some interesting pieces of information are starting to trickle out about Citrix’s upcoming release of Feature pack 2 for XenApp.

Harry Labana is writing about a new feature being developed for this release known as “VM hosted apps”. Seamless applications beyond Terminal Services, does it help?

What this means is that Citrix is going to be giving you the ability to publish applications which are actually being delivered from a windows xp/vista/7 hosted virtual machine, and not from a server 2003/2008 .

What does this gain you.  For instance you have an application that does NOT work on server 200x, or will not legally be able to be delivered on server 2003, or supported.  You now have a way of delivering the application and having all the same advantages you have when using XenApp,  Centralized, secured, seamless, dynamic.

I think this is awesome. This is a serious competitive advantage that addresses a real pain point in server based application delivery.

Where it is going to get cloudy/confusing is the use case for full blown desktop virtualization (XenDesktop), and the use case for vm hosted APPs.  Is this going to start to eat into the licensing sales for XenDesktop?

I am super excited to get this in and start testing…..

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