Introduction:   Lately we have been receiving significantly more calls regarding Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager software and how this product can be used to stream virtual applications to clients. Basically the challenge we notice some of our customers are facing, is how they can benefit from a scalable, location based distribution method (like SCCM) while at the same time maintaining application manageability with RES Workspace Manager.   The challenge:   When using both the SCCM and App-V on the same workstation, and using RES Workspace Manager on top of this, things can get complicated. What we have learned is that there is a lot of confusion out there on which client is actually doing the launch of the App-V ... READ MORE>>

Microsoft Exchange 2013 is available for a while now and with this article I will try to explain how to create E-mail Settings to use in RES Workspace Manager to configure an e-mail profile automatically. Important changes in Exchange 2013 Microsoft Outlook clients can only connect using Outlook Anywhere (RPC/HTTP). Before it was also possible to connect using RPC/TCP with Microsoft Outlook clients. Microsoft Outlook 2003 isn't supported anymore because it doesn't support the auto discovery of the Microsoft Exchange server. All the changes can be found in this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj619283.aspx Creating E-mail Settings for Exchange 2013 Please make sure that the Exchange 2013 certificate is imported on the clients. Without this certificate Outlook 2013 will ... READ MORE>>

On Wednesday the 6th Feb we released RES Workspace Manager 2012 SR2. Here follows a brief overview of what you can expect to find. However, if you want to know more details, please download the release notes from our Support Portal. This Service Release was a much anticipated release for our Citrix community, as it includes many new features that you have been waiting for! I would like to dedicate this part of the release to my friend and colleague Frode Kipperberg who looks after Norway – Frode has been by far the most vocal about including these Citrix enhancements!

• Citrix XenApp 6 and 6.5:

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Since RES PowerFuse 2010 SR1 a new option has been introduced within the RES PowerFuse / Workspace Manager Console: Disable Active Setup.

Still a lot of questions arise around this subject. Let me try to explain a bit more and give a nice example from a current customer case.

The purpose of this blog?
Disable Active Setup is more and more used as a logon-speed-up feature. Fact is that Active Setup takes some valuable time from the user at logon. These days more Local Profiles are being used, customers hate to see the Active setup at each logon. It is so easy to enable this feature, but think about the possible consequences.

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This post describes some random performance tips, triggered by some issues reported at RES Software Support. When you are busy in maintaining everything for your users, you might ‘forget’ to plan some maintenance within your RES Workspace Manager Console. After changes within your IT infrastructure you probably have to make some cleanup actions within your RES WSM environment. This blog is based on RES Workspace Manager 2011. Create a RES Datastore backup and Building Blocks to have a proper fallback scenario. The next steps can positively influence your RES WSM environment. These are sorted like the order within the RES Console. 1.  Context 1.1  Clean up Directory Services (Context – Directory Services) Check for Directory Services or Microsoft ... READ MORE>>