Can you believe it’s the end of January already? It feels like only yesterday that we were wishing each other “Happy New Year,” and now here we are charging full steam ahead into 2011. Here at Citrix, the last year ended with a bang … and the new year is off to a roaring good start. Earlier this week in our Q4 and year-end 2010 earnings announcement, Citrix CEO Mark Templeton said, “Our customers are telling us they want to simplify enterprise computing, they want to embrace IT consumerization, and they are ready to adopt more cloud services – all to transform IT to an on-demand service.” I love this quote because it highlights the megatrends that are driving our business today.

Industry analysts are also pointing to these trends, with some amazing predictions about the impact that personal devices and cloud services will have on the way we work. For example, Gartner says that in just two years 80 percent of businesses will support a workforce using tablets, and in three years – by  2014 – 90 percent will support corporate applications on personal devices.

The good news is that all you iPad fans can look forward to a day in the not-too-distant future when using these devices is just a normal part of your work experience. It will be expected, not an exception. That’s profound.

So, tell me…what are YOUR predictions for 2011? Will you be workshifting from a remote location (remember when this was called telecommuting?)? Will you be using a tablet issued by your IT department? Will you be downloading your own apps and desktops from your company’s app store?

Do tell! Participate in our survey and share your expectations for the workplace in the year ahead. In case you need a little incentive, each participant qualifies for a chance to win an iPad. Yes! Don’t walk, run to our survey and be sure to take part  before it closes on Feb. 2.

While you’re in the “sign-up spirit,” you should also register now for Citrix Synergy in San Francisco May 25-27. Join the experts and network with others to learn how your business can benefit from the virtual computing revolution.

Thanks in advance for teaming up with Citrix on the survey and planning to join us at Synergy. I’m excited to hear and learn from you!

Workflow Studio 2.5 was released last week and is currently available for download to our customers on MyCitrix. You can get more information and find a link to the download page at http://www.citrix.com/wfs.

This release includes the following new features:

• Expanded platform support (Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2; SQL 2008; PowerShell 2.0; .NET 4.0)
• New activity libraries for Hyper-V and SQL
• Numerous improvements to existing activity libraries
• Expanded security roles
• Performance improvements
• Enhanced usability for workflow properties

The Evaluation Virtual Appliance has not been updated yet, but I will post an update when it is.

Calling all Citrix users and administrators located in or around Dallas, Texas…




There’s still time to sign up for the next Dallas Citrix User Group Meeting on Wednesday, September 8th!




Date: Sept. 8, 2010 (Wed)
Time: 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM CDT




The goal of a User Group is simple: To foster dialogue and an exchange of ideas within the Citrix community, allowing users and administrators to share information and best practices, hear from the experts, and grow their body of knowledge and expertise.

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Agenda:

During this meeting, you’ll learn more about Citrix XenDesktop including:

• Adding XenDesktop to a Citrix XenApp environment
• Getting a technical overview of Flexcast
• Discussing a comparison of key features against the competition

Citrix experts will be available for questions and answers after the meeting.

All attendees will receive a TopGolf game card!

Location:

TopGolf Dallas
8787 Park Lane
Dallas TX 75231
(214) 341-9655

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If you are located in or around Dallas, TX, I hope you can attend! Stay tuned to the Citrix User Group Community site for news and information about upcoming meetings and activities.

Laura Whalen
Citrix Systems, Inc.
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Profile Streaming is a great new feature introduced with Profile management (Pm) v3 so lets take a look at the performance gain the old fashioned way…

Using the following upm managed profiles lets use perfmon to get an idea of load times.

upm100mb (standard upm profile)
upmstream100mb (streamed upm profile)

First, lets log onto a managed W2K3 server with the standard “upm100mb” profile. Using perfmon & the Pm logon duration counter we can see that a 100MB profile takes around 5 seconds to load. Not bad I hear you say?

Now, lets follow suit but this time lets log on with the streamed “upmstreamed100mb” profile.

hmm, .5 seconds.

I’m sure you’ll agree – the results are impressive.

Michael
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In my last blog entry Profile Streaming – Performance Gain? we looked at the performance increase when using the new profile streaming feature that ships with Profile management (Pm) v3.

We know it works because we tracked the logon time using perfmon but curious minds might ask the following question:

“ok,so how do I know this streaming profile stuff is actually working?”

well luckily enough – there is. 3 ways in fact!

1.The quickist and easiest way to do this is to look at the properties of the user profile. In the example below you will notice the size of the profile is >100MB but the size on disk is <7MB.

2.You can also use the dir /al command to list all files with reparse point attributes (Remember, the key to our profile streaming/fetch on demand design is the use of reparse points on files. Reparse points fool applications and users alike into thinking that the files are downloaded as part of the user profile at logon).

the screenshot below shows the L swith listed when running dir /? from a win7 machine. This is a hidden switch on XP, W2K3 but the functionality still exists.

Bottom line, If profile streaming is disabled, running dir /al on a folder containing files within the user profile, will return “file not found”.

3.Finally, you can confirm profile streaming is enabled for a particular user by reviewing the Pm log file (If enabled). To verify that the profile is being streamed look for the following:

2010-03-16;20:17:30.401;INFORMATION;<domain name>;<user name>;2;2364;ProcessLogon: User logging on with Streamed Profile support enabled.

You convinced yet?

Michael
Citrix Support on:
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Yesterday at VMworld I endured sitting through a mind numbing session hosted by VMware End User Computing (formerly desktop) CTO, Scott Davis. This was a session where Scott made bold erroneous claims and assertions which I tweeted about. Then I saw this tweet from @claytonprice

claytonprice: Where do I find the desktop panel discussion featuring Scott Davis and @harrylabana? I can’t find it in the schedule! #vmworld

I responded “he’s scared” in jest. However as I think about this, I wonder if this is true. Earlier this year Brian Madden asked me if I would be willing to have an open debate at BriForum about the desktop on a panel that would include Scott Davis and myself. I agreed to it, but Scott apparently declined and instead opted to present a riveting session on his future vision which was met with thunderous ZZZZZZZZZZZ.

In today’s 90 minute VMworld keynote, a generous 10 minutes was granted to talk about the desktop. We learned VMware CTO Steven Herrod likes to play a lot of Minesweeper. He also asserted that Windows was not very relevant and that the desktop of the future is all SaaS based. Hmm feels a lot like the Citrix Dazzle strategy extended to SaaS, but with the delusion that Windows is not relevant. Nonetheless a good discussion to have.

So since this is VMworld, and the desktop is important to VMware, let’s arrange to have a public discussion on the topic, no need for canned PR scripts. Let’s talk about the desktop today and the desktop of tomorrow. Perhaps if they are willing we can have Brian Madden or Chris Wolf moderate at a neutral location? We’re all here in San Francisco so we can even arrange some logistics now.

The question is, Scott are you up to discussing the desktop or do we continue to listen to fantasy’s of desktops morphing into SaaS based applications everywhere and Windows going away?

Calling all South Florida Citrix users and administrators…

The next Fort Lauderdale Citrix User Group Meeting will be held on September 1st! You’ll get technical content and participate in technical discussions from 3-5PM at Citrix HQ, followed by happy hour with appetizers at a nearby restaurant.

Date: Wed., September 1, 2010
Time: 3:00PM – 5:00PM EDT (happy hour @ 5:30PM)

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The goal of a User Group is simple: To foster dialogue and an exchange of ideas within the Citrix community, allowing users and administrators to share information and best practices, hear from the experts, and grow their body of knowledge and expertise. 

Agenda:

During the meeting, you’ll learn how to setup a Citrix XenDesktop Proof of Concept (PoC) including:

• Creating a new XenDesktop environment
• A technical overview and best practices
• How to implement XenDesktop
• Wyse solutions optimized to work with Citrix desktop and app virtualization solutions
  
  

Citrix experts will be available for question and answer after the meeting.

Location:

Citrix Ft. Lauderdale Office
851 W Cypress Creek Rd
Ft. Lauderdale FL 33309
954 267-3000

Then…
Join us for appetizers at Champps following the meeting at 5:30PM:
Champps Americana
6401 N. Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
(954) 491-9335

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I hope you can join us! Stay tuned to the Citrix User Group Community site for news and information about upcoming meetings and activities.

Laura Whalen
Citrix Systems, Inc.
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The IT executive experience

I was listening to a customer on stage at a conference a few weeks ago proudly explaining how he had managed to police the number of devices in his organization. He accomplished this by effectively implementing three key strategies.

1) Create red tape, and make the end user produce business justification and feel silly about why the corporate issued solution was not good enough.

2) Control budget centrally under IT.

3) Find ways to punish people through bonuses who abused his system by purchasing services outside IT.

I thought I was watching the next installment of Jurassic park and the dinosaurs had returned. Surely this guy drove a Lada……. If you are not familiar with the Lada, it’s an old eastern block car that was widely used and deemed to be appropriate and cost effective for the masses by the state. While this may seem like a good idea at first the results over time are eloquently expressed in this video. To me this is where a lot of old school IT thinking is taking us. Creating inertia to bring innovation to it’s knees by not embracing user choice that will lead to new ways to work.

I was actually surprised that this IT executive had that much control in his organization. Then it dawned on me, that this is a respected conference and the best customer example they could muster. I parked the experience at the back of mind, after wrestling with the thought – can IT organizations still be that backward and remain relevant? I know having worked in IT all these years, I would have never survived with that mindset.

Last week I asked a major customer how many MACS they had in their environment. Less than 1% of the environment had IT supported MACS and they were all senior executives. They estimated that 25% of their population weighted towards more senior people had personal owned MACS that they would prefer to use for work. In this particular case the customer was looking to hosted desktop virtualization (HVD, includes VDI and XenApp hosted published desktops/apps solutions) to enable more choice but looking forward wanted to understand what to do about mobility including tablets and offline use.

When I think about these two customers, clearly there is a gap between what people need/want, and what IT is willing to do vs. what is possible. As mobility and SaaS based applications and other cloud based services enable more on demand IT services, the tension between user and IT will only get worse. So this can only be ignored for so long, as business users will demand more choice and the forces of consumerization will continue to reshape the landscape. The stodgy old IT organization of the past will be hard pressed to maintain status quo and remain relevant.

We ask ourselves all the time, what can we do to help the tension between the changing user wants and the IT need to provide governance and manage costs? The better known models of HVD address many of the use cases. However there is still a need to extend the benefits of desktop virtualization technology to millions of laptops to enable new ways for both users and IT to work.

This is why we are announcing XenDesktop feature pack 2, which includes XenClient and XenVault technologies. These technologies are focused on bringing virtualization to the client.

There has been a lot of discussion for some time in the industry regarding the various client use cases and ownership models. Citrix has conducted internal programs for bring your own computer (BYOC), and researched this space with customers and learned a lot. We find it’s helpful to think about two primary use cases.

The corporate owned laptop

Data security on laptops is a huge reputational risk for any company. Check out the laptop loser hall of shame. Anybody who has had to deal with laptop management, understands they are complex to update and recover and user demands for greater control to personalize to their needs results in compromised IT control. All indications are the number of laptops in the world is increasing further compounding the problem and burden on IT.

XenClient

As a bare metal hypervisor, XenClient enables the OS to be delivered as a “bubble” to the laptop that is encrypted, secured and enables us to take advantage of hardware attestation through our partnership with Intel leveraging vPro technology so you boot into a trusted operating system. When this important capability is made available it will help assure an organization that the guest VM is being booted on a trusted piece of hardware and that the corporate issued hardware is booting a trusted guest. The laptop loser hall of shame organizations could have spared themselves a lot of reputational damage if they had had XenClient. How do you measure the cost of reputational damage? It’s something that take years to build and seconds to loose…..

Some people push back and exclaim that the number of machines that support XenClient today is small and therefore this is not relevant. I would ask, for a corporate fleet how many models do you support? I would make a confident guess that it’s a subset of models that you support today if you are a true enterprise customer driven by standards. For those use cases, XenClient today offers a very prescriptive secure solution. For organizations that have far more diverse corporate owned laptop fleets, XenClient offers a way to offer a new more secure model that could be tied to better service levels, and over time the supported device list will continue to grow. Others argue they have full disk encryption solutions deployed. So did I in my previous life. My users hated the performance overhead, the multi stage login and then of course there is the additional cost of the solutions themselves that offer limited flexibility.

Another key use case to consider when thinking about XenClient is what happens in the event of lose or theft of a corporate issued laptop. You can get a taste for the liability this poses here, here and here. To help customers deal with these types of solutions, XenClient provides the ability for you to backup and synchronize critical data in the event of laptop lose and policies to render a laptop useless in the event of theft. Note you do not have to deploy VDI to benefit from this. You are not checking in and checking out a VM from a VDI infrastructure, so restoring your critical data to a secure laptop is a much lighter weight operation with a powerful but straight forward ability for IT to control centrally.

XenClient will also allow you to run multiple VMs on a single laptop so you can provide a user with multiple environments. This opens up the possibility of providing multiple corporate guests on a single machine. One could be very secure where you access corporate data. The other could be slightly more open to allow more access to internet sites within your corporate guidelines. For developers the second guest could be their development/Test/QA environments. They could even have Linux development environments side by side with their Windows development environment, yet still securely able to work from their corporate environment all from one machine. All of this opens up the possibility of BYOC user flexibility on corporate owned assets and enable you to take a step forward if you are not comfortable with the user owned model.

It’s also important to realize that XenClient is not limited to just serving up multiple guest OS VMs. It is a very flexible architecture that can be extended further to enable specialty VMs to perform different service functions. This begins to open up so many possibilities beyond the immediate security benefits. Over time it is not a leap of faith to think of use cases like security scanning being performed by dedicated VMs. Perhaps there will be specialized VMs that perform the tasks of patch management, VMs that update software, VMs that run just one app more securely and synch back to data center. The possibilities are endless, and as the eco system evolves it will be fascinating to watch innovations surface as the industry begins to realize what is possible.

Contractor or employee owned laptop

Interestingly a number of customers I have spoken to in regulated industries, have told me that they would like to get rid of all or at least significantly reduce the number of laptops they manage to help reduce risk. For them hosted desktop virtualization is a more secure environment to let users access from personal owned laptops that are self managed. These are also the customers that are interested in using multiple VMs on a single user owned machine machine with XenClient. Some argue that there are legal issues here. However based on the feedback that I have received from these customers they interpret these concerns as unfounded if they secure the corporate operating system on the user owned device. The usability of multiple VMs on a single machine is something that will continue to evolve and will be an interesting area of innovation to watch.

Clearly there is no silver bullet that fits every customer. So depending upon your needs it’s prudent to understand the options. More importantly, understanding that today XenClient is primarily driven by security and the ability to centrally provide updates to distributed laptops is key. XenClient can be used in a simple single VM mode for greater security and multi VM mode for more flexibility using employee owned or corporate owned assets. I’ve blogged about this previously.

XenVault – enabling portable data

There is a valid argument put forward, that for the BYOC use cases, not every user needs a full rich desktop experience. All they need is quick access to an application, some data securely and of course they want mobility. Further there are many cases where users have older hardware that is not capable of running a hypervisor or there is just not enough horsepower on a lower end machine such as a Netbook. Once again hosted desktop virtualization would provide a solution. But in cases where hosted desktop virtualization has not been deployed or where there is the need to work offline another solution is required. XenVault is a new technology designed to meet these use cases. Essentially it is a secure area on the operating system where all application and data I/O is securely redirected. In many respects it’s like having a virtual secure USB drive with you. The difference now is that you don’t have to carry it around, worry about losing it and IT does not have to invest in fleets of USB drives for their staff. XenVault is designed to be transparent to users and quick for IT to setup with remote lock and delete data features. Joe Nord has a good blog that explains some of the inner workings. XenVault provides contractors and employees on consumer owned machines, apps and data on-demand in a secure manner and IT the ability to de-provision instantly.

For me this is yet another example of the benefit that virtualization can bring to desktop use cases. Making data securely portable and simple to access takes another step towards the stateless desktop as I wrote here. The stateless desktop helps us move away from hard coding all our configuration into a single OS image and then trying to manage all the complexity. Abstraction at all levels of the desktops enables greater agility. XenVault is a great example of what can happen when you think about the abstraction of data, that is typically addressed by file shares on a network that assume you have connectivity. Instead now you can protect the data and use it where and when you need. The focus on protecting the data makes it lightweight, no need to install a heavy weight shell like a Type 2 hypervisor solution that would be very clumsy as a data portability solution across multiple machines. Now if I don’t have my machine, and need to look at data securely I have a technology that could provide me that access and not leave unsecure footprints. If somebody sends me a file share with a sensitive document, I have a place to download and view it securely offline on a Netbook that may not belong to me. Many new possibilities begin to open up because the data is abstracted in a stateless desktop.

Personally I’ve been amazed at how quickly Citrix has been able to bring XenVault to market. Here’s the internal scoop. Over the holiday period in late 2009, our CEO Mark Templeton kicked of a competition called Moonlight (since it was an after hours project) for anybody within Citrix to come up with a solution. Within weeks we had multiple entries and a team led by Joe Nord picked a winner and we announced it at Citrix Synergy in San Francisco in May 2010 and now we are going to market. That’s rapid development! I’m very proud of our teams who pulled it off, I am sure they will look forward to community feedback as you kick the tires.

Can stodgy IT remain relevant?

I am sure it can, and there is plenty of precedence. The real question is, what does that do for your organization and the kind of people it will attract? Do you really want your IT leaders up on stage with a Lada mentality? Or do you want your IT leaders looking beyond constraints and embracing solutions that empower user choice, increase security, improve manageability, optimize provisioning and de-provisioning, increase satisfaction/productivity and drive greater organizational agility?

Mobility and diversity of client devices will continue to grow. The laptop will represent a big chunk of that market. Anything that technology can do to reduce the risk while making users lives easier surely is a positive step forward for our industry. Client virtualization is the next phase in the evolution of desktop virtualization that will enable users to work in new ways. It will provide central control for IT, and flexibility will be retained for users while keeping corporate data secure.

As you think about your laptop environment for Windows 7, will it be just more hair pulling trying to secure and update the new, most likely growing laptop fleet? How do your users feel about your current secure laptop experience? Why not consider XenClient and XenVault as part of those plans and extend the benefits of desktop virtualization to the Laptop?

About once a week, I am asked “how do you start streamed applications directly”; that is, without using the standard publishing infrastructure.  This post describes how to do it, where it works and where it doesn’t.

The quick version:

• Can you do it?  Yes. 
• Does it work? Yes – App Streaming 5.2 and beyond.

Update: (May 2010) – This post was originally titled that it worked somewhat.  With the release of the App Streaming 5.2 client in Sept 2009, the client was changed to fully enable launching without publishing. 

The second part above is the part that has kept me from promoting this as a concept.  That said, I’m not the first to bring up the idea, or at least to publicly talk about it.  Jeroen van de Kamp included information similar to this during his BriForum pitch, Chicago, June 2008.  I was there.  Being the App Streaming “Citrix-guy”, some folks in the audience thought I would be bothered by the idea of Jeroen discussing how to bypass the Citrix publishing system.  I wasn’t bothered at all – the puzzled look on my face was amazement that his presented method actually worked!  Read the rest of this and you’ll understand why I was puzzled. Short version, the demo should have gone down in flames!  But it succeeded.

First, some history on how applications are launched.  Lots of components: PNAgent, Web Interface, Internet Explorer/Firefox plugins and the streaming client.  I have written about this application launch activity before.  The important part is that everything comes down to a little program, raderun.exe, who throws the launch request over the wall to the Application Streaming service that does the work.

RadeRun is to streaming what WFCRun32 is for hosted applications.

wfcrun32 takes an .ICA file as a parameter, establishes a communication link to a XenApp server where the application is executed.  RadeRun takes a .RAD file as a parameter, establishes a link to the streaming service, where the application is executed.  

To get the parameters for raderun, run it with no parameters and a help screen will be displayed.  This isn’t usually shown to users or admins, so the form of the help is a bit rugged, but the needed information is displayed in a message box along with an alarm sound that triggers and scares me every time I run it, but I have disgressed.

How to launch applications without publishing

Jeroen hadn’t invented anything mysterious; he had resurrected the old!  The actual parameters and method he used to kick off the application was slightly different than the method I’ll show later in this post, but the concept is the same.  Immediately at the demo, I was intrigued because I thought his alternate parameters had overcome a limitation that I didn’t know how to get past.  Having the benefit of the ultimate documentation (source code), when I came back to the office I took the demo apart line by line and … still concluded that it shouldn’t work.

Some history…

When Application Streaming was first being developed, RadeRun was all there was.  There was no publihsing infrastructure and none of the important components in XenApp knew anything about “streaming”.  Everything was developed in parallel.  The streaming team needed to launch applications to test the isolation and caching systems, but all they had was RadeRun.  At this point in time, raderun with parameters works great!

Time goes on, programmers working the Access Management Console, IMA, Web Interface, PNAgent, Internet Explorer and Firefox plugins all teach their code about application streaming and all of a sudden, RadeRun isn’t the only way anymore.  Worse than “not the only way”, when the product goes out the door, the standalone executable method doesn’t work anymore.  We know it doesn’t and can all remember when it did, but no longer matters because the correct methods are in place. 

The loss of function happened as the infrastructure grew.  Why?  One of the things added was the central management of applications running stream to client.  The Access Management Console can DISPLAY information on what applications are in active use, by any given user and a variety of other information.  This happens only for stream to client for online execution.  For offline, you take the app with you, so the “its running now” information isn’t useful for much because there is no way to send it home.  Here, you get “Joe has this app available for offline use”.   For server side, none of this applies, the hosted session has its own monitoring and the streaming client skips all of this.   This works out to be important for the view of this post.  Server side, the limitations I’m talking about do not apply. 

This makes the “does it work” question posted at the front of this post have an answer of “yes, server side”.

Back to the online stream to client discussion.  When the launch activity starts, the XenApp host infrastructure generates a launch ticket for the streaming client.  This is provided to the client as part of the launch processing.  Let me reword, that, the launch ticket is provided to RadeRun as a parameter.  The streaming cleint does its stuff and eventually tells the central infrastructure that the launch for this app has proceeded good and is about to succeed.   In the normal case, the publishing infrastructure responds, “great, good to hear it”.

If the launch ticket is “unknown, invalid or blank”, the publishing system responds “who?”.  And the application launch unravels.  Now, you would EXPECT that the streaming client gets this unexpected response and then … PUSHES ON.  Instead, it displays an error message close to this: “The Web Interface returned an unspecified error”.  Then, it aborts the launch.  Technically, the launch is aborted in parallel to the message box, so by the time you see the error, its too late to ask the debugger what happened.  Bummer.

BUT IT WORKS
Here’s the rub.  I saw Jeroen’s demo and it worked.  I have myself done it hundreds of times because when testing the streaming client, I often like to skip all the publishing steps – it really saves alot of time! 

But, I know that the code says it shouldn’t work -- but it does.  My experience is that it works about 90% of the time and works most-often when the streaming client has already run a successful application, recently.  If it doesn’t work 100% of the time, it isn’t a good solution, so I’ve avoided bringing it up.

But I still get inquiries

Customers want it to work this way so they can engage all kinds of really valid scenarios. 

When does it fail?  First thing in the morning, it tends to fail.  Launch email program or any other really published application successfully, then non-published launches start working and you can’t make it fail again.  I have no explaination for the success and I have studied it.  The fact that it is sporadic makes it harder to track down and correct, but it would appear that the client is caching a recent success case and using that to say “good enough”, push on and have it work.  Bla bla bla – not good enough.

What to conclude: I want it to work and you can accept this as a heads up that it might start working better in a future release.  No promises though – notice that since BriForum in June, there have been TWO streaming client releases and we haven’t changed the behavior yet. 

Enough on the “history”, here’s example batch file on how to do it.  For this example, I profiled TextPad and stored the profile to the C:\PACK directory on the local machine hard disk.
Batch file to start the application

start “” “C:\Program Files\Citrix\Streaming Client\RadeRun.exe” /package:”c:\pack\textpad\textpad.profile” /app:”Textpad”

The supporting .RAD file

[RADE]
PackageLocation=c:\pack\textpad\textpad.profile
InitialApp=Textpad

Run the bat file, and textpad comes up running inside of isolation; no publishing required.

I hope this is useful.  Sometimes I don’t know if it helps to know things to this level of detail – or to know the unexpected behaviors in the technology that can cause headaches.  Hopefully at least makes for good reading.

Update: Aug 24, 2010

I have received a couple references to tools that people have written to automate the execution of raderun.  I list them here for public exposure…

• Martin Zugec, Executable program as launcher, RadeRunLauncher
• Had another based on web browser, can’t find it right now.

Joe Nord

Product Architect – Application Streaming

Citrix Systems

Calling all Citrix users and administrators located in or around Kansas City, Missouri…




There’s still time to sign up for the next Kansas City Citrix User Group Meeting on August 24!

Date: Tues., August 24, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM CDT

Register Now

The goal of a User Group is simple: To foster dialogue and an exchange of ideas within the Citrix community, allowing users and administrators to share information and best practices, hear from the experts, and grow their body of knowledge and expertise. 

Description:

During this meeting, you will:

• Learn more about Citrix XenDesktop including best practices for adding XenDesktop to a XenApp environment
• Get a technical overview of Flexcast
• Discuss a comparison of key features against the competition
  
  

Citrix experts will be available for questions and answers after the meeting. Attend and you might win a Netbook!

Location:

Boulevard Brewing Company
2501 Southwest Boulevard
Kansas City MO 64108
(816) 474-7095




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I hope you can make it! Stay tuned to the Citrix User Group Community site for news and information about upcoming meetings and activities.

Laura Whalen
Citrix Systems, Inc.
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