Immidio FlexProfiles vs RES Software Workspace Manager Express (Part 2)

5 03 2012

A customer asked me what the main differences are between Immidio FlexProfiles 7 and RES Software Workspace Manager 2011 Express edition. Because I’m not familiar with the FlexProfiles product from Immidio, I only have seen the demo once. So I wanted to download both products and compare not only the products them self, but also how you can get it.

After the download and installation comparison (part 1), it’s now time to look how easy you can configure both products. Before we can start configuring we need to setup the environment so that we can use the options for applications. Read the rest of this entry »


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Categories : FlexProfiles, Immidio, RES Software, Workspace Manager

XenApp 6.5 Worker Servers, why and how to use them

27 02 2012

XenApp 6.5 Worker Servers, why and how to use them.

With XenApp 6.5 there are new features like Session Lingering, Session Pre-Launch, Multi-Stream ICA. The feature I get the most questions in class are about Session-host mode only or “Worker” servers.  Questions like: why should it be used, what are the advantages and disadvantages of using workers. Read the rest of this entry »


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Immidio FlexProfiles vs RES Software Workspace Manager Express (Part 1)

22 02 2012

A customer asked me what the main differences are between Immidio FlexProfiles 7 and RES Software Workspace Manager 2011 Express edition. Because I’m not familiar with the FlexProfiles product from Immidio, I only have seen the demo once. So I wanted to download both  products and compare not only the products them self, but also how you can get it. Read the rest of this entry »


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Categories : FlexProfiles, Immidio, RES Software, Workspace Manager

RES Software Workspace Manager 2012 announced

17 02 2012

Yesterday I was at the RES Software PartnerFocus 2012 in Den Bosch. One of the session they showed Workspace Manager 2012!

One of the cool things that was shown yesterday was: Workspace Manager 2012. During every training of Workspace Manager I get the same question:

  • Why is there no multi select under applications?

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Categories : RES Software, Workspace Manager

Do you know your Citrix XenApp Zone Data Collector?

15 02 2012

Well most of you will say that’s easy, you just go to the Zones and look at the Most Preferred server. That’s wrong, because it shows you only the Data Collector that you have set. Not the actual current Data Collector for that zone.

So how do you know which XenApp Server is actually the current Zone Data Collector? With the Qfarm command you can find out the actual Data Collector. At the end of the line you’ll see D for Data Collector.

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Ready to upgrade to Automation Manager 2012?

13 02 2012

Soon Automation Manager 2012 is officially available and not any more as a release candidate. A lot of changes have been made again, thanks to the boys and girls at RES Software. Where in the past they just gave us a .WUP file, upgrade and go, we now have to actively check and upgrade the Automation Manager 2011 before we can upgrade to Automation Manager 2012.

Why has RES Software made those changes? Because of upgraded Dispatcher, known as Dispatchers+. I will get back to that role in a future blog.  For now let’s get started and prepare the Automation Manager 2011 so that we can upgrade. Read the rest of this entry »


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