Recommended GO-EUC researches
Over the last couple of months, the GO-EUC research platform published a lot of great content. These researches are very valuable for every virtual desktop deployment as all researches provide great insights. In this blog post, I will highlight a ...
Highlights from Citrix Synergy 2019
Last week Citrix had their yearly event Citrix Synergy hosted in sunny Atlanta, Georgia in the United States. These tech conferences are very valuable to get educated about the latest products, best practices and experiences from the field, and to...
New features Windows 10 1903 and potential optimizations
This month Microsoft released the new version of Windows, release 1903. This release comes with new features and improvements. This blog post will cover some new features and the potential optimizations in a VDI scenario.
Collect performance data from Nutanix AHV
Performance data is a recurring topic on my blog. It is important to have data from multiple sources when doing performance analysis. Collecting the performance data from a Nutanix environment running AHV is a bit different compared to VMware ESX ...
The 1902 release of Remote Display Analyzer (RDA)
As you may have noticed this week a new release of Remote Display Analyzer (RDA) has been released. This release contains some interesting new features that can help you analyze the remote display protocol of various vendors. This blog post will c...
Inconsistencies with Citrix Cloud Remote PowerShell SDK
Automation is key when doing performance testing. This is required to ensure performance tests are running in a clean state and produces consistent results. For a ICT-R research, additional automation was required in the base automation script for...
How to reduce the impact of collecting data
When doing performance researches the data that is collected during the tests are very important to understand the impact. Without the data, you are not able to prove the real impact. In a recent ICT-R research an impact was noticed using Remote D...
Updating 3rd party software with ConfigMgr
Many organizations have the same problem; Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) is in place but struggle to get their 3rd party applications or custom made applications updated, especially for those machines where users install...
Extract login times from Login VSI
The login time is a key metric that has a big effect on the user experience. The login times are often included in service-level agreements to ensure a good user experience. When applying changes in your environment you want to avoid increasing lo...
Hands-on: MSIX
The last couple of months there is more and more buzz around MSIX. With the Windows 10 1809 release, MSIX packages are fully supported and the MSIX packaging tool is out of preview. For a ICT-R research, I collected interesting results with the ne...