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Network Based Applications

Citrix Profiling Gotchas

Posted on June 13, 2011

Intro I’ve been making the transition from Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) to Citrix Streaming recently and came across an issue involving an application that was on a network share. This post will cover a work-around to stream an application residing on a network share. Issue We received the request to... [Read More]
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Consolidating XenServer Pools Using PHD Virtual Backup

Part 1

Posted on June 6, 2011

Scenario My team is nearing the end of a migration from physical XenApp servers to virtual XenApp servers running on XenServer. During the testing phase of the new XenApp farm, we found that CPU utilization was excessive and we eventually determined that we had different CPU architectures in some of... [Read More]
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Five (very cool) things you didn't know were possible with NetScaler

Citrix Synergy 2011

Posted on May 31, 2011

SYN211: Wednesday May 25th 2011 Presented by Ajay Soni, Anil Shetty, Greg Smith, Rajiv Mirani, and Vijay Ratnam Citrix’s acquisition of NetScaler was just the beginning. With Mark Templeton’s keynote the reach of the NetScaler brand has lengthened to include NetScaler Cloud Gateway and NetScaler Could Bridge. Meanwhile the NetScaler... [Read More]
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Filtering a query by IP Subnet

EdgeSight

Posted on April 28, 2011

Prologue Many of EdgeSight’s tables and views have a field for the client’s IP address, and this is stored as variable-length character string (varchar or nvarchar). In order to sort or filter on this field you must use a complex regular expression or find a way to split the field... [Read More]
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- Citrix
- EdgeSight
- MS SQL
- Reporting
- Monitoring
Servers Not Appearing in Console

EdgeSight

Posted on April 21, 2011

Recently we started migrating users to our new production environment which is provisioned. I found that only half of the new servers were reporting to EdgeSight. Initially I thought it was due to an issue solved by this EdgeSight agent hotfix, but this turned out to not be the case.... [Read More]
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End User Experience Monitoring Statistics Explained

Posted on April 6, 2011

I dive into many tables and views that are part of the EdgeSight database to produce custom reports for my co-workers and superiors. Many of the metrics are easy to understand and many more are a little obtuse. Here is a great CTX article that fully explains the metrics related... [Read More]
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- Citrix
- Documentation
- EdgeSight
- Repost
- Reporting
- Monitoring
How to format datetime and date with century?

Posted on April 5, 2011

Execute the following T-SQL scripts in Microsoft SQL Server Manangement Studio Query Editor to demonstrate T-SQL convert and cast functions in transforming string date, string time & string datetime data to datetime data type. T-SQL date / datetime functions -- SQL Server string to date / datetime conversion - datetime... [Read More]
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- Repost
- sql
Best Practice Documentation

AppSense

Posted on April 5, 2011

AppSense has seen remarkable growth and penetration into a lot of virtualization endeavors across many business and government sectors. Recently, I’ve received requests from readers as to where they can get some AppSense best practice documentation. My former AppSense sales engineer forwarded several documents to me and I found others... [Read More]
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Network Based Applications

Citrix Profiling Gotchas

Consolidating XenServer Pools Using PHD Virtual Backup

Part 1

Five (very cool) things you didn't know were possible with NetScaler

Citrix Synergy 2011

Filtering a query by IP Subnet

EdgeSight

Servers Not Appearing in Console

EdgeSight

End User Experience Monitoring Statistics Explained

How to format datetime and date with century?

Best Practice Documentation

AppSense