Deployment and installation of AutoCAD Map 3D 2009 on Citrix XenApp 4.5 requires careful planning and execution.

This step-by-step document will guide you through AutoCAD Map 3D installation, setup and tweaks in order to successfully run Autodesk's product on a Citrix XenApp environment.



You can download the document here:

Installing AutoCAD Map 3D on Citrix XenApp

You've probably heard that sepagoPROFILE has been acquired by Citrix, I've previously posted some first hand information about it on my blog, you can read more by visiting here, and here...

User Profile Manager download is currently available here

And now Citrix has made available a general FAQ that can be downloaded here.

Cheers,
Gus Pinto

Right after closing keynote the gang got together with Mark Templeton @ backstage and we had a blast sharing classic computing stories and Mark delivered a special message to our Underground viewers.

The Gang: Charles Aunger, Brian Madden, Rick Dehlinger, James Rabey, John Fanelli, Alex Danilychev, Rich Crusco and I was the guy behind the camera!

I hope you guys enjoyed the event and all content posted on Synergy Underground.

cheers,
Gus Pinto

Joe - Streaming Product Architect @ Citrix - expains what's new with Application Streaming on the next release of XenApp for Windows Server 2008.

If you think I missed something in this interview, let me know (gus.pinto@citrix.com) and I will hunt down Joe to cover more topics you guys want to know about.

cheers,
Gus Pinto

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them or glorify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things."

The text above wasn't quite written by me, it shipped with my new Mac, if you have one, open finder and take a closer look at TextEdit's icon.

Although the thought above wasn't written by me, it reflects exactly how I feel today.

• Geek Speak

An experiment, that is sure enough in its infancy. Although for years censorship surrounded the hallways of Citrix now we have a direct channel to allow our customers, partners, employees and most passionate geeks to speak up - speak whatever they want good or bad.
The ability of criticize or praise is within everyone's heart, however those speak their minds open the path for those who listen, and smart ones take advantage to improve when the road of improvement is presented.
I could make my above statement easier if removed the metaphors and simply say. We are open to hear from everyone our greatness and weakness - now more than ever we are open to act upon it and make the wrong, right.
Thanks for all those who helped us put together Geek Speak, for helping make it a naked conversation with our most important audience.
We will shape Geek Speak based on things we've learned, expect to see us rattling the cages in Vegas next year.

• Synergy Underground

Another learning curve for both our team and Citrix, over 17,000 views in 3 days, 190 updates on our twitter feed, tons of live shots on Qik, over 70 veedios.
More than numbers Underground was a concept, the concept of change - no agendas, no holds bar format. Go out there be yourself show people what you see, give you very own view of the conference, while helping those outside to share the same experience.
We put together this little site together in two days, next time we will spend more cycles creating a more unique experience, more information, better formatting, more contributors and heck of a lot more fun!
If there's anything I highly regret is not being able to cover breakout sessions and keynotes, but since this Synergy is behind us, I won't spend my time in sorrow, instead I will make sure we focus and deliver what our visitors have asked us.

• In Sum

I can't thank everyone enough for putting their time and effort on pulling off Geek Speak and Underground. If you want to know the ones I'm actually speaking of, here they are: Adam Marano, Barry Flanagan, Chris Fleck, Vishal Ganeriwala, Sunil Kumar, John Fanelli, James Rabey, Myself and Rich Crusco.

Learned from our audience: Less PPTs showing how our products work and more Demos of them in action during Breakout sessions, Let's always give out our do's and don'ts when it comes down to showing the capabilities of our products.

This was an event like no one I've been before, it started a revolution and will continue to do so during our next years to come.

See you all in Vegas.

Cheers,
Gus Pinto

During Citrix Synergy, Sepago announced that the sepagoPROFILE software was sold to Citrix.

The agreement includes the complete takeover of the product, which will form the future core technology for profile management within the Citrix Delivery Center (Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix XenApp and Citrix Provisioning Server). In addition, the development division of sepago will continue development of the product for the virtualization of application provisioning in cooperation with Citrix over the next 18 months.

For more info:

Visit: Citrix.com/UPM

Download: UPM Whitepaper

Download: UPM Technology Preview

Pete Downing Explains the new features on Provisioning Server 5.0 at the Citrix Synergy TechLab booth.

Cheers,

Gus Pinto
Microsoft MVP - Virtualization
Twitter.com/GusPinto

As my friend Orestes pointed out, I forgot to add the acquisition of sepagoPROFILe.... so here it goes.

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In a virtualized world, where users can get to their desktops and applications from practically any location or device, you need to leverage "user profile" technology to ensure users get a consistent experience every time. When users log on to their virtual desktop or launch a virtual application, they want to see everything just as they left it, with their own personal settings, shortcuts, toolbars, templates, desktop wallpapers and favorites. The more complex and varied the user access scenarios, the more challenging it becomes for IT to manage these user profiles.

User Profile Manager, available today as a Tech Preview, provides an easy, reliable, high-performance way to manage user personalization settings in Windows environments. It requires minimal administration, support and infrastructure, while providing users with fast logon and logout.
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The download of User Profile Manager is available now...

Download Here

We were rocking out to AC/DC playing over ICA using Apollo, an YouTube video with audio and a phenomenal quality. Video taken on Geek Speak Lounge.

Oh Hail Apollo!

Cheers,
Gus Pinto
Synergy Underground

This are the principal announcements Citrix released during keynote at this years Synergy Conference.

• XenDesktop Product Line
  • Express Edition (Free VDI for up to 10 users)
  • Standard Edition ($75)
  • Advanced Edition ($195)
  • Enterprise Edition ($295)
    • With XenApp for VDI
  • Platinum Edition ($395)
    • With EVERYTHING

• Citrix Branch Repeater
  • Jointly developed with Microsoft
  • Stages streamed apps closer to branch users
  • Consolidates Microsoft Branch services
  • Accelerates apps over WAN

• Citrix App Receiver
  • Runs on every corporate desktop
  • tuned to receive any app from anywhere
  • Ensures great performance, security, experience
  • Supports citrix and 3rd party plug-ins
  • Size: 1.09Mb

• Citrix Desktop Receiver
  • Comes embedded in the new desktop appliances
  • Turns old PCs into new desktop appliances
  • Lets users access virtual desktop from home PC
  • Ensures great performance, security, experience
  • Light weight software client

As this is a summary, expect a lot... and I mean a lot more from our crew in the new next few days...

In the mean time visit: Synergy Underground

Citrix Synergy Opening Keynote is happening right now.

We have instant updates on all that's happening and announcements live from our Twitter feed on:

CITRIX SYNERGY UNDERGROUND

cheers,
Gus.

Wow, I landed here in Houston and got on a cab towards the convention center - I open my laptop and I get a new feed alert, " Silverlight Web Interface Sneak Peek", from Jason's bog.

I'm thinking: "Damn Jason did it again... this kid is on fire!"

He just posted a video preview of his next project, running Web Interface with a Silverlight front-end.

He used the new APIs on WI 4.5 along with AJAX, and Citrix XenApp 4.5.

Check this out:

Keep a close look on JasonConger.com

cheers,

Gus Pinto
Microsoft MVP - Virtualization
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A quick chat with Stephen Yoo from IGEL on what they have been up to and things they have done around XenDesktop.

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Ah this is my very own keynote entrance... I always wanted to do this!!!

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We entered the CTP Lounge and guess what we have there? Did I hear Wii? That's right we have a Wii there! Too bad Rich is such a newbie on Wii tennis!

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A few hours later and bam! we have a bunch more NetScalers in the rack!

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Meet Marsha Maxwell, she's been fundamental to the entire Synergy planning. Thank you Marsha for putting up with us!

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