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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Network Icons for Network Locations – GREAT IDEA!
I honestly had never given this any thought but it sounds like a great idea to do in corporate environments. There are so many Group Policy objects I never even noticed it.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=2795&tag=content;leftCol
How NIV and FCOE Play Together
If you are interested in Cisco UCS (very cool stuff), FCOE, DCB, Nexus 1000v then this is a must read article from Scott Lowe.
RDP Custom Settings Reference
Want to customize the #@*!( out of your RDP connection file…check it!
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff393699(WS.10).aspx
How to create a remote installation for Citrix Receiver
As a side note, if you’re Access Gateway isn’t running on port 443 this won’t work properly…take my word for it.
Tuning HDX MediaStream for Server Rendered Delivery
HDX MediaStream is our name for a set of Citrix technologies for delivering video and audio content from virtual desktops and hosted applications. The foundation of HDX MediaStream is the ability to deliver any media format from any media player over any network connection to any device. (Did I use the "any" word enough?) That’s what Server-Rendered Multimedia Delivery is all about. Then, on top of this solid foundation, we look for opportunities to achieve higher server scalability by offloading media processing to the user device when possible. For example, since Adobe Flash content is so prevalent and the Flash Player consumes quite a lot of CPU, last year we introduced HDX MediaStream Flash Redirection to complement our existing Windows Media Redirection.
Even for Flash and Windows Media, server-rendered multimedia delivery comes into play when network latency is too high for Flash redirection or effective bandwidth is too low for Windows media redirection. The SmartRendering feature of HDX Adaptive Orchestration selects the appropriate technology based on the dynamic network conditions at hand. Likewise, SmartRendering recognizes if the user device is not capable of client-side rendering.
Server-side multimedia delivery also supports alternative media formats and players such as QuickTime and Silverlight. The user experience for these media formats over a high bandwidth connection is very similar to client-side rendering, "just like local". XenDesktop 4 supports an out-of-the-box frame rate of 24 fps (just like at the cinema) and can be adjusted to deliver a full 30 fps if required for certain demanding use cases.
So, how do you get the best performance out of server-rendered multimedia delivery? Here are my top three tips:
1. Configure Progressive Display to compress images in motion.
2. Use Branch Repeater when delivering video to remote locations.
3. Use the new High Definition audio codec
Interesting FCOE/DCB analogy
If you didn’t know there was not multi-hop in FCOE/DCB you might want to consider reading this post which helps explain why this is.
XenDesktop taking a long time to go to a idle state
I haven’t tried this yet but I have seen this from time to time.
http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=261621&tstart=0
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