I have written previously on the great lineup keynote speakers for Synergy that includes best selling technology author Nicholas Carr, the versatile comedian Dana Carvey and the Senior Vice President from Microsoft Bob Muglia, along with an impressive line up of tech industry execs.

There is one keynote speaker I forgot to mention - Mark Templeton. Apparently he is the CEO of some software company .

Here is an video invite to Citrix Synergy from Mark Templeton, CEO of Citrix.

You can click here to register for Citrix Synergy.

I want to thanks everyone who attended the webinar yesterday. If you missed the webinar then you can watch the recording at the following URL https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/114744868

You can also download the slide deck here Dowload link
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Suddenly alot of XenDesktop videos are appearing on Youtube. This is another video for theXenDesktop Video Tips Contest
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See this live and in person in the XenDesktop technical sessions and live demos at Citrix Synergy. You can click here to register for Citrix Synergy.

Someone from Appsense has created a video for XenDesktop Video Tips Contest
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There will be numerous XenDesktop technical sessions and live demos at Citrix Synergy. You can click here to register for Citrix Synergy. I will see you in Houston.

The purpose of this document is to provide best practices from an application developer's perspective on the common nuances encountered with application development for troubleshooting application issues in a seamless Citrix environment.

Gareth James has created a new XenDesktop Tip video for the XenDesktop Video Tips Contest.

Gareth blogged about this video on Dabcc.com. Gareth created an online XenDesktop beta test site when the first beta was released, and has blogged about it numerous times. He likely knows as much or more about the producty than anyone outside of Citrix. Check out his post and his great blog.

I have received a few links to more Tip video, so I will post them later.

There will be numerous XenDesktop technical sessions and live demos at Citrix Synergy. You can click here to register for Citrix Synergy. I will see you in Houston.

The attached PowerPoint presentation explains the following crash dump and GUI troubleshooting tools along with underlying concepts such as windows, messages, and message processing:

• TestDefaultDebugger* SystemDump* DumpCheck* PDBFinder* WindowHistory* CtxHideEx32* RepairCBDChain* MessageHistory* ADSCleaner* StressPrinters

The lineup of technical session content as part of the Citrix Synergy conference in Houston is starting to come together. If you are a technical person looking to put together a business justification for your trip to Synergy, this post should help.

Below is the technical breakout session lineup for Synergy

On top of these 65 technical breakout sessions, there will be nine discussion sessions in GeekSpeak Live with session leaders including Citrix Technology Professionals like Doug Brown, Rick Dehlinger, Shawn Bass, and Jason Conger.
If that isn't enough, the Chief Software Architect from Citrix, Brad Petersen, popular virtualization blogger Tarry Singh, an HP CTO and a high level technical speaker from Intel will join us as well.

Pile on 20 more community led technical sessions as part of the GeekSpeak BarCamp(and you can still sign up to lead your own session at GeekSpeak BarCamp). That all adds up to 94 technical sessions at Synergy. This should go a long way towards helping you justify attending this year's event.

On top of all this technical content, there will be an IT 2.0 Business Symposium and multiple business sessions in the Application Delivery track. When combined with the industry heavyweight keynote speakers this should be the best Citrix conference yet.

You can click here to register for Citrix Synergy. I look forward to seeing you in Houston.

If you have missed these presentations and videos from CSEIT 2007 then take a look at them. These presentation are really technical and given mostly by Citrix escalation engineers.

http://support.citrix.com/article/ctx115136

To view the CSEIT presentations and webcast recordings from the Citrix Presentation Server and Citrix NetScaler sessions, please click the appropriate presentation title.

Note: A codec may be necessary to view some of the presentations. The codec is available at http://www.gotomeeting.com/codec.

Citrix Presentation Server

• CTX115207 - CSEIT 2007 - Printer Driver Management

• CTX115208 - CSEIT 2007 - Citrix Presentation Server Health Monitoring

• CTX115192 - CSEIT 2007 - Troubleshooting Tools for a Citrix Presentation Server Environment

• CTX115204 - CSEIT 2007 - Understanding and Troubleshooting the Application Streaming in Citrix Presentation Server 4.5

• CTX115202 - CSEIT 2007 - Brief Troubleshooting Guide

• CTX115225 - CSEIT 2007 - Citrix MFCOM Programming for Administrators

• CTX115228 - CSEIT 2007 - Using and Understanding Citrix EdgeSight 4.5

• CTX115206 - CSEIT 2007 - Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 / Feature Pack 1

Citrix NetScaler

• CTX115222 - CSEIT 2007 - NetScaler Architecture, Concepts and Networking

• CTX115226 - CSEIT 2007 - Monitoring the Citrix NetScaler Application Switch

• CTX115221 - CSEIT 2007 - Command Center 3.0

• CTX115227 - CSEIT 2007 - Printer Driver Management

Citrix Fast Launch is an application/extension that expedites the launching of applications virtualized with Citrix XenApp.
We will be releasing it soon as a freeware on the CDN site.

Stay tuned for more!
Gus Pinto

*Check out the latest video with the creators of Citrix Fast Launch!

One of the new tracks at Citrix Synergy this year is Geek Speak. James Rabey blogged recently about the format of GeekSpeak Live at Synergy. A second part of the Geek Speak track is GeekSpeak BarCamp. I have blogged about this event at Synergy here and here.

This event is designed to allow any attendee to sign up to speak for 30 minutes on any technical topic. Geek Speak BarCamp will give the attendees at Citrix Synergy a new opportunity to contribute to the discussion and provide a much wider array of technical content. Pizza and drinks will be provided for those who attend. The Geek Speak Gadget Gear Lounge will be open during both Geek Speak Live! and the BarCamp as well.

This BarCamp event will follow immediately after Geek Speak Live on Wednesday, May 21st. We will have access to four sections of the Geek Speak room to host these sessions. Two of the rooms will have large LCD's screen (if you would like to show something from your laptop) and two of the rooms will be white board only. The only rules are no sales and marketing pitches or feature and benefits.

We are now taking submissions for topics. We have four speaking areas and five thirty minute blocks, for a total of twenty sessions. We have confirmed a few sessions speakers already, including Joe Shonk,Jim Kenzig and Jaymes Davis
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Please submit your session topic now. You can use the comments in this thread, or you can email me at citrixblogger @citrix.com . You can also IM questions to citrixblogger on MSN, Yahoo and Google Talk.

If you have not yet registered for Synergy, you can click here to to complete your registration. I look forward to seeing you at Synergy and the Geek Speak BarCamp.

If you are a Citrix administrator then you should definitely bookmark this link. Whenever I get stuck there is always a utility here which can help get out of my problem.

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX107572

My favorite tools are

Tool	Description
Repair Clipboard Chain 2.0.1	The RepairCBDChain utility temporarily restores clipboard functionality.Run the RepairCBDChain utility on your workstation and/or inside the session desktop
Project MedEvac 2.11	The MedEvac tool is utilized to run checks against a Presentation Server farm to verify environment health.  CTX108311
FarmAppUtil Tool	The FarmAppUtil tool saves all the application properties with users and servers assigned to those applications in an XML file. The tool also creates a text file with a folder structure. The XML file created from the application can be modified and used for republishing all the applications and also recreate the folder structure in the new farm. The other reason I like this  tool is because I wrote it

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The heavy hitters in technology are lining up to join the conversation at Citrix Synergy. You already heard about the best selling technology author Nicholas Carr, the versatile comedian Dana Carvey and the Senior Vice President from Microsoft Bob Muglia. The line up of intriguing keynote speakers does not stop there.

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Vishal Sikka Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
SAP

Scott Farrand Vice-President, ISS Software
HP

Roberto Moctezuma Vice President and GM, Desktop Solutions Global Business Unit
HP

Patrick P. Gelsinger Vice President and Co-General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group
INTEL Corporation

David Booth, President, Sales and Marketing
CSC
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George Kurian VP/GM, Application Delivery Business
Cisco Systems, Inc.

The keynote lineup includes the CTO of SAP, a Senior Vice President of Microsoft, TWO VP's from HP, a VP from Intel, a VP from Cisco, a President from CSC AND a best selling IT author and a great comedian. This promises to be the best lineup of keynote speakers we have ever had at a Citrix event.

You can click here to register for Citrix Synergy. I look forward to seeing you in Houston next month.

Bob Muglia and Nicholas Carr are not the only headliners at Citrix Synergy this year. Dana Carveywill provide the entertainment on the final night.

(Pictures from DanaCarvey.net)

Dana Carvey is most well known for his work on Saturday Night Live and Wayne's World. After a botched open heart surgery in the late 90's, Carvey took some time off from his career and started a family.
Here are some great clips I found of Carvey on the web.

Garth Algar Highlights from Wayne's World

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You can find many more Dana Carvey videos on YouTube
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The SNL site on NBC.com has archives of some of Dana Carvey skits, including the hilarious "Hans and Franz".

SNL Videos - Dana Carvey
 

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You can click here to register for Citrix Synergy. I look forward to seeing many of you in Houston.

In an earlier post, I covered some of the background on one of the keynote speakers at Citrix Synergy, Nicholas Carr. Another major keynote speaker at Citrix Synergy is Bob Muglia, Senior Vice Preseident of Server and Tools Business at Microsoft.

Here is a bit about Bob Muglia from his official Bio on Microsoft.com -

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Here is a link to an interview I found with Bob Muglia on Technet Edge. In this interview, Bob admits to having NINE servers at his house.
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VP by Day - IT Pro by Night
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Steven Bink posted an interview with Bob Muglia last month on his site. Here are a few snippets -

Last year Bob Muglia did a video with Citrix in regards to the Windows 2008 Launch and our aquisistion of XenSource.

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(If you cannot see the video embedded, follow this link_._)

If you would like to see past examples of Bob Muglia keynote sessions, the Microsoft TechNet Spotlight site has three for you to watch
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You can click here to register for Citrix Synergy. We look forward to seeing you in Houston.

One of the most intriguing keynote speakers at Citrix Synergy is Nicholas Carr. Carr became very well know in 2003 for his article "IT Doesn't Matter".

DOES IT MATTER?

Nicholas Carr poses this question in his 2004 book "Does IT Matter" , a follow up to his very controversial 2003 Harvard Business Review article - "IT Doesn't Matter". In this very controversial article and book, Carr argues that technology itself does not give you a competitive advantage and that IT should focus on risk management and cost management. Carr does admits in interviews that failure to keep up in the use of technology can put a company at a significant competitive disadvantage.

Carr's original article created alot of controversy within the IT industry. He has posted a thorough article that links to those who agree and strongly disagree with his thoughts on his website. You can find links to both sides of the discussion on this page. You can find an interview he did with ZDNet on this controversy below -

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(If you cannot view the video, you can see it at ZDnet's website)

Carr's most recent book is called "The Big Switch:Rewiring the World from Edison to Google". Carr's description of
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Here is a short video interview Carr recently did for the Search Engine Strategies conference (in London) on this new book -

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Carr blogs about these topics and many more at is personal blog site - The Rough Type.
Finally, Carr created a short little video regarding his keynote at Citrix Synergy.

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Nicholas Carr provides a unique insight in the current state and future of IT. You can hear more from Nicholas Carr at Synergy.

I will be posting about other keynote speakers and sessions speakers later.

You can click here to register for Citrix Synergy.

Provisioning Server and the soon to be released Citrix Workflow Studio Customer Tech Preview will have Workflow Tasks for Provisioning Server included in the Customer Tech Preview.

Stay Tuned Here: Citrix Developer Network - Citrix Workflow Studio

Get Updates Here: Citrix Updated - Citrix Workflow Studio

The soon to be released Citrix Workflow Studio Customer Tech Preview might have Workflow Tasks for VMware included in the Customer Tech Preview.

What The? Yes you read that right, Citrix might be going to include support for VMware in Citrix Workflow Studio. I am not saying they are or are not going to, but it is a very real possibility!

Stay Tuned Here: Citrix Developer Network - Citrix Workflow Studio

Get Updates Here: Citrix Updated - Citrix Workflow Studio

Virtual Machine Manager and the soon to be released Citrix Workflow Studio Customer Tech Preview will have Workflow Tasks for Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager included in the Customer Tech Preview.

No Way! Yes you read that right, Citrix is going to include support for Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager in Citrix Workflow Studio.

Stay Tuned Here: Citrix Developer Network - Citrix Workflow Studio

Get Updates Here: Citrix Updated - Citrix Workflow Studio

WanScaler and the soon to be released Citrix Workflow Studio Customer Tech Preview will not have Workflow Tasks for WanScaler included in the Customer Tech Preview.

A future release of Citrix Workflow Studio after the release of the Citrix Workflow Studio Customer Tech Preview will have support for WanScaler.

Stay Tuned Here: Citrix Developer Network - Citrix Workflow Studio

Get Updates Here: Citrix Updated - Citrix Workflow Studio