As you probably know, both RES PowerFuse and RES Wisdom work really well with Citrix XenDesktop and VMware VDM. Both RES products help you manage "the last mile". Wisdom allows you to change settings in running vdisk or cloned images without having to reset the user session forcibly. PowerFuse configures the user session. If you want to have as few images as possible, you need to put all the applications in your image. To make sure users get the right applications and with the right settings (e.g. Outlook with mail profile and signature) you need PowerFuse to keep it manageable. Extra info (6 feb) I just found out that the client ip number does not get resolved in a session. ... READ MORE>>

An american partner of RES posted this question to Bob Janssen: We have doctors that can have read/write access to information on a particular file share when they’re at the hospital, but when they go home they only need read access. Nurses are another example where they can have read/write access to the information required, but when they go home they should have no access to this data. Bob emailed them this solution: Step 1: Block access to the file share Step 2: Allow read access to the file share for nurses in hospital Step 3: Allow read/write access to the file share for doctors in hospital Step 4: Allow read access to the file share for doctors NOT in ... READ MORE>>

Every time I think of something I want to do with RES Wisdom, I'm amazed at how easy it is to accomplish. For this example, the flow chart was more complicated to create than the actual Run Book. What I wanted to do for this blog was create a Run Book that involved virtual machines. I thought of this very usable (I hope ;-) example in words: - Create a Snapshot of a specific VM - Implement changes to/in VM (e.g. Install SP2 on 2003 Server) - If changes fail: revert to Snapshot - Delete Snapshot So, if a change to a VM fails, the machine is as "clean" as before! Creating a flowchart from the ... READ MORE>>

This week RES Software released a cool utility to migrate existing Citrix Published applications to RES powerFuse 2008.

The RES PowerFuse Migration Toolkit for Citrix XenApp helps you implement RES PowerFuse in your Citrix environment by using information about existing published applications. The RES PowerFuse Migration Toolkit for Citrix XenApp eliminates the need to recreate existing applications manually as published applications in RES PowerFuse.

Use the RES PowerFuse Migration Toolkit for Citrix XenApp to:

extract information about existing published applications from a Citrix farm.

create a Building Block of selected applications.

import the Building Block into the RES PowerFuse Management Console.

publish the new applications managed by RES PowerFuse to Citrix.

Once the applications are available in the RES ... READ MORE>>

Sometimes you need to be reminded by someone (thanks Adrie) of the cool things people are doing with RES Wisdom, and the fact that they are earning money with it.

A customer of RES uses about 150 terminal servers. Every night and every weekend they maintain, polish and shutdown two thirds of their farm with RES Wisdom. Right before the start of every working day, these terminal servers are booted up again, batch by batch. There are some nice tasks in RES Wisdom that help you set this scenario up. The task "Shutdown computer" offers an option to "Fail shutdown if user is logged on". And you can start a server up using either Wake-on-LAN or SSH. I ... READ MORE>>