(6185,35,'2012-03-10 22:14:33','2012-03-10 22:14:33','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.</div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\").<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"127\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts are available <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-16','','','2012-03-10 22:14:33','2012-03-10 22:14:33','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-16',0,'revision','',0),(6186,35,'2012-03-10 22:16:24','2012-03-10 22:16:24','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.</div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to view larger.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts are available <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-17','','','2012-03-10 22:16:24','2012-03-10 22:16:24','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-17',0,'revision','',0),(6187,35,'2012-03-10 22:16:27','2012-03-10 22:16:27','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.</div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to view larger.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts are available <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-18','','','2012-03-10 22:16:27','2012-03-10 22:16:27','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-18',0,'revision','',0),(6188,35,'2012-03-10 22:40:27','2012-03-10 22:40:27','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.</div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to view larger.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"69\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to view larger.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts are available <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-19','','','2012-03-10 22:40:27','2012-03-10 22:40:27','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-19',0,'revision','',0),(6189,35,'2012-03-10 22:40:30','2012-03-10 22:40:30','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.</div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to view larger.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"69\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to view larger.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts are available <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-20','','','2012-03-10 22:40:30','2012-03-10 22:40:30','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-20',0,'revision','',0),(6190,35,'2012-03-10 23:01:23','2012-03-10 23:01:23','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.</div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>. AD users and groups can still be created, modified, and deleted normally since those don\'t live in SYSVOL.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>This message means the environment has stabilized at state 2. The new SYSVOL is live at \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL with the same contents and replicating with DFSR. The old SYSVOL still exists and is still replicating with FRS. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6170\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now we\'re ready to complete the final step. Up until this point, the whole process is reversible, but now we\'ll be making some permanent changes. <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 3</strong> tells domain controllers to go ahead and delete the old SYSVOL folder and stop running FRS completely. If you\'re using FRS to replicate anything else besides SYSVOL and NETLOGON (and you\'ll know if  you are - you can\'t do it by accident) that replication will also stop. If you\'re not comfortable moving to state 3 just yet feel free to wait a while and reassure yourself that nothing has blown up. Technically your environment can live in state 2 forever, but you won\'t reap any of the benefits such as lower bandwidth replication until you reach state 3 (in fact bandwidth will be a bit wasted since you\'re replicating everything twice). When you\'re ready, move to state 3.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6171\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"143\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Your domain controllers are now in state 3. Any new domain controllers you promote will automatically use DFSR by default.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts this process runs are available from <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">Rhonda Layfield at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available from <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">Ned Pyle on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-21','','','2012-03-10 23:01:23','2012-03-10 23:01:23','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-21',0,'revision','',0),(6191,35,'2012-03-10 23:01:27','2012-03-10 23:01:27','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.</div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>. AD users and groups can still be created, modified, and deleted normally since those don\'t live in SYSVOL.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>This message means the environment has stabilized at state 2. The new SYSVOL is live at \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL with the same contents and replicating with DFSR. The old SYSVOL still exists and is still replicating with FRS. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6170\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now we\'re ready to complete the final step. Up until this point, the whole process is reversible, but now we\'ll be making some permanent changes. <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 3</strong> tells domain controllers to go ahead and delete the old SYSVOL folder and stop running FRS completely. If you\'re using FRS to replicate anything else besides SYSVOL and NETLOGON (and you\'ll know if  you are - you can\'t do it by accident) that replication will also stop. If you\'re not comfortable moving to state 3 just yet feel free to wait a while and reassure yourself that nothing has blown up. Technically your environment can live in state 2 forever, but you won\'t reap any of the benefits such as lower bandwidth replication until you reach state 3 (in fact bandwidth will be a bit wasted since you\'re replicating everything twice). When you\'re ready, move to state 3.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6171\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"143\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Your domain controllers are now in state 3. Any new domain controllers you promote will automatically use DFSR by default.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts this process runs are available from <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">Rhonda Layfield at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available from <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">Ned Pyle on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-22','','','2012-03-10 23:01:27','2012-03-10 23:01:27','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-22',0,'revision','',0),(6192,35,'2012-03-10 23:01:58','2012-03-10 23:01:58','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.</div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>. AD users and groups can still be created, modified, and deleted normally since those don\'t live in SYSVOL.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>This message means the environment has stabilized at state 2. The new SYSVOL is live at \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL with the same contents and replicating with DFSR. The old SYSVOL still exists and is still replicating with FRS. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6170\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now we\'re ready to complete the final step. Up until this point, the whole process is reversible, but now we\'ll be making some permanent changes. <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 3</strong> tells domain controllers to go ahead and delete the old SYSVOL folder and stop running FRS completely. If you\'re using FRS to replicate anything else besides SYSVOL and NETLOGON (and you\'ll know if  you are - you can\'t do it by accident) that replication will also stop. If you\'re not comfortable moving to state 3 just yet feel free to wait a while and reassure yourself that nothing has blown up. Technically your environment can live in state 2 forever, but you won\'t reap any of the benefits such as lower bandwidth replication until you reach state 3 (in fact bandwidth will be a bit wasted since you\'re replicating everything twice). When you\'re ready, move to state 3.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6171\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"143\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Your domain controllers are now in state 3. Any new domain controllers you promote will automatically use DFSR by default. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts this process runs are available from <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">Rhonda Layfield at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available from <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">Ned Pyle on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-23','','','2012-03-10 23:01:58','2012-03-10 23:01:58','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-23',0,'revision','',0),(6193,35,'2012-03-10 23:02:02','2012-03-10 23:02:02','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.</div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>. AD users and groups can still be created, modified, and deleted normally since those don\'t live in SYSVOL.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>This message means the environment has stabilized at state 2. The new SYSVOL is live at \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL with the same contents and replicating with DFSR. The old SYSVOL still exists and is still replicating with FRS. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6170\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now we\'re ready to complete the final step. Up until this point, the whole process is reversible, but now we\'ll be making some permanent changes. <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 3</strong> tells domain controllers to go ahead and delete the old SYSVOL folder and stop running FRS completely. If you\'re using FRS to replicate anything else besides SYSVOL and NETLOGON (and you\'ll know if  you are - you can\'t do it by accident) that replication will also stop. If you\'re not comfortable moving to state 3 just yet feel free to wait a while and reassure yourself that nothing has blown up. Technically your environment can live in state 2 forever, but you won\'t reap any of the benefits such as lower bandwidth replication until you reach state 3 (in fact bandwidth will be a bit wasted since you\'re replicating everything twice). When you\'re ready, move to state 3.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6171\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"143\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Your domain controllers are now in state 3. Any new domain controllers you promote will automatically use DFSR by default. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts this process runs are available from <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">Rhonda Layfield at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available from <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">Ned Pyle on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-24','','','2012-03-10 23:02:02','2012-03-10 23:02:02','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-24',0,'revision','',0),(6194,35,'2012-03-10 23:03:15','2012-03-10 23:03:15','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.</div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>. AD users and groups can still be created, modified, and deleted normally since those don\'t live in SYSVOL.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>This message means the environment has stabilized at state 2. The new SYSVOL is live at \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL with the same contents and replicating with DFSR. The old SYSVOL still exists and is still replicating with FRS. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6170\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now we\'re ready to complete the final step. Up until this point, the whole process is reversible, but now we\'ll be making some permanent changes. <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 3</strong> tells domain controllers to go ahead and delete the old SYSVOL folder and stop running FRS completely. If you\'re using FRS to replicate anything else besides SYSVOL and NETLOGON (and you\'ll know if  you are - you can\'t do it by accident) that replication will also stop. If you\'re not comfortable moving to state 3 just yet feel free to wait a while and reassure yourself that nothing has blown up. Technically your environment can live in state 2 forever, but you won\'t reap any of the benefits such as lower bandwidth replication until you reach state 3 (in fact bandwidth will be a bit wasted since you\'re replicating everything twice). When you\'re ready, move to state 3.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6171\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"143\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Your domain controllers are now in state 3. Any new domain controllers you promote will automatically use DFSR by default. This is the same message you\'ll see on domains that were natively installed with domain functional levels at 2008 or higher since they use DFSR out of the box. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts this process runs are available from <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">Rhonda Layfield at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available from <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">Ned Pyle on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-25','','','2012-03-10 23:03:15','2012-03-10 23:03:15','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-25',0,'revision','',0),(6195,35,'2012-03-10 23:03:18','2012-03-10 23:03:18','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.</div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>. AD users and groups can still be created, modified, and deleted normally since those don\'t live in SYSVOL.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>This message means the environment has stabilized at state 2. The new SYSVOL is live at \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL with the same contents and replicating with DFSR. The old SYSVOL still exists and is still replicating with FRS. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6170\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now we\'re ready to complete the final step. Up until this point, the whole process is reversible, but now we\'ll be making some permanent changes. <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 3</strong> tells domain controllers to go ahead and delete the old SYSVOL folder and stop running FRS completely. If you\'re using FRS to replicate anything else besides SYSVOL and NETLOGON (and you\'ll know if  you are - you can\'t do it by accident) that replication will also stop. If you\'re not comfortable moving to state 3 just yet feel free to wait a while and reassure yourself that nothing has blown up. Technically your environment can live in state 2 forever, but you won\'t reap any of the benefits such as lower bandwidth replication until you reach state 3 (in fact bandwidth will be a bit wasted since you\'re replicating everything twice). When you\'re ready, move to state 3.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6171\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"143\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Your domain controllers are now in state 3. Any new domain controllers you promote will automatically use DFSR by default. This is the same message you\'ll see on domains that were natively installed with domain functional levels at 2008 or higher since they use DFSR out of the box. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts this process runs are available from <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">Rhonda Layfield at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available from <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">Ned Pyle on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-26','','','2012-03-10 23:03:18','2012-03-10 23:03:18','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-26',0,'revision','',0),(6196,35,'2012-03-10 23:04:00','2012-03-10 23:04:00','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.</div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>. AD users and groups can still be created, modified, and deleted normally since those don\'t live in SYSVOL.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to expand.\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>This message means the environment has stabilized at state 2. The new SYSVOL is live at \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL with the same contents and replicating with DFSR. The old SYSVOL still exists and is still replicating with FRS. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6170\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now we\'re ready to complete the final step. Up until this point, the whole process is reversible, but now we\'ll be making some permanent changes. <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 3</strong> tells domain controllers to go ahead and delete the old SYSVOL folder and stop running FRS completely. If you\'re using FRS to replicate anything else besides SYSVOL and NETLOGON (and you\'ll know if  you are - you can\'t do it by accident) that replication will also stop. If you\'re not comfortable moving to state 3 just yet feel free to wait a while and reassure yourself that nothing has blown up. Technically your environment can live in state 2 forever, but you won\'t reap any of the benefits such as lower bandwidth replication until you reach state 3 (in fact bandwidth will be a bit wasted since you\'re replicating everything twice). When you\'re ready, move to state 3.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6171\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"143\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Your domain controllers are now in state 3. Any new domain controllers you promote will automatically use DFSR by default. This is the same message you\'ll see on domains that were natively installed with domain functional levels at 2008 or higher since they use DFSR out of the box. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts this process runs are available from <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">Rhonda Layfield at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available from <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">Ned Pyle on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-27','','','2012-03-10 23:04:00','2012-03-10 23:04:00','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-27',0,'revision','',0),(6197,35,'2012-03-10 23:04:03','2012-03-10 23:04:03','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.</div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>. AD users and groups can still be created, modified, and deleted normally since those don\'t live in SYSVOL.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to expand.\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>This message means the environment has stabilized at state 2. The new SYSVOL is live at \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL with the same contents and replicating with DFSR. The old SYSVOL still exists and is still replicating with FRS. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6170\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now we\'re ready to complete the final step. Up until this point, the whole process is reversible, but now we\'ll be making some permanent changes. <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 3</strong> tells domain controllers to go ahead and delete the old SYSVOL folder and stop running FRS completely. If you\'re using FRS to replicate anything else besides SYSVOL and NETLOGON (and you\'ll know if  you are - you can\'t do it by accident) that replication will also stop. If you\'re not comfortable moving to state 3 just yet feel free to wait a while and reassure yourself that nothing has blown up. Technically your environment can live in state 2 forever, but you won\'t reap any of the benefits such as lower bandwidth replication until you reach state 3 (in fact bandwidth will be a bit wasted since you\'re replicating everything twice). When you\'re ready, move to state 3.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6171\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"143\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Your domain controllers are now in state 3. Any new domain controllers you promote will automatically use DFSR by default. This is the same message you\'ll see on domains that were natively installed with domain functional levels at 2008 or higher since they use DFSR out of the box. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts this process runs are available from <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">Rhonda Layfield at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available from <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">Ned Pyle on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-28','','','2012-03-10 23:04:03','2012-03-10 23:04:03','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-28',0,'revision','',0),(6198,35,'2012-03-10 23:04:33','2012-03-10 23:04:33','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.<!--more--></div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>. AD users and groups can still be created, modified, and deleted normally since those don\'t live in SYSVOL.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to expand.\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>This message means the environment has stabilized at state 2. The new SYSVOL is live at \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL with the same contents and replicating with DFSR. The old SYSVOL still exists and is still replicating with FRS. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6170\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now we\'re ready to complete the final step. Up until this point, the whole process is reversible, but now we\'ll be making some permanent changes. <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 3</strong> tells domain controllers to go ahead and delete the old SYSVOL folder and stop running FRS completely. If you\'re using FRS to replicate anything else besides SYSVOL and NETLOGON (and you\'ll know if  you are - you can\'t do it by accident) that replication will also stop. If you\'re not comfortable moving to state 3 just yet feel free to wait a while and reassure yourself that nothing has blown up. Technically your environment can live in state 2 forever, but you won\'t reap any of the benefits such as lower bandwidth replication until you reach state 3 (in fact bandwidth will be a bit wasted since you\'re replicating everything twice). When you\'re ready, move to state 3.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6171\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"143\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Your domain controllers are now in state 3. Any new domain controllers you promote will automatically use DFSR by default. This is the same message you\'ll see on domains that were natively installed with domain functional levels at 2008 or higher since they use DFSR out of the box. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts this process runs are available from <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">Rhonda Layfield at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available from <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">Ned Pyle on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-29','','','2012-03-10 23:04:33','2012-03-10 23:04:33','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-29',0,'revision','',0),(6199,35,'2012-03-10 23:04:37','2012-03-10 23:04:37','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.<!--more--></div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>. AD users and groups can still be created, modified, and deleted normally since those don\'t live in SYSVOL.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to expand.\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>This message means the environment has stabilized at state 2. The new SYSVOL is live at \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL with the same contents and replicating with DFSR. The old SYSVOL still exists and is still replicating with FRS. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6170\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now we\'re ready to complete the final step. Up until this point, the whole process is reversible, but now we\'ll be making some permanent changes. <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 3</strong> tells domain controllers to go ahead and delete the old SYSVOL folder and stop running FRS completely. If you\'re using FRS to replicate anything else besides SYSVOL and NETLOGON (and you\'ll know if  you are - you can\'t do it by accident) that replication will also stop. If you\'re not comfortable moving to state 3 just yet feel free to wait a while and reassure yourself that nothing has blown up. Technically your environment can live in state 2 forever, but you won\'t reap any of the benefits such as lower bandwidth replication until you reach state 3 (in fact bandwidth will be a bit wasted since you\'re replicating everything twice). When you\'re ready, move to state 3.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6171\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"143\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Your domain controllers are now in state 3. Any new domain controllers you promote will automatically use DFSR by default. This is the same message you\'ll see on domains that were natively installed with domain functional levels at 2008 or higher since they use DFSR out of the box. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts this process runs are available from <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">Rhonda Layfield at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available from <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">Ned Pyle on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-30','','','2012-03-10 23:04:37','2012-03-10 23:04:37','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-30',0,'revision','',0),(6200,35,'2012-03-11 20:17:01','2012-03-11 20:17:01','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\n<div></div>\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\n<div></div>\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.<!--more--></div>\n<ul>\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>. AD users and groups can still be created, modified, and deleted normally since those don\'t live in SYSVOL.</li>\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR directory and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to expand.\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" /></a></li>\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\n	<li>This message means the environment has stabilized at state 2. The new SYSVOL is live at \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL with the same contents and replicating with DFSR. The old SYSVOL still exists and is still replicating with FRS. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6170\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\n	<li>Now we\'re ready to complete the final step. Up until this point, the whole process is reversible, but now we\'ll be making some permanent changes. <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 3</strong> tells domain controllers to go ahead and delete the old SYSVOL folder and stop running FRS completely. If you\'re using FRS to replicate anything else besides SYSVOL and NETLOGON (and you\'ll know if  you are - you can\'t do it by accident) that replication will also stop. If you\'re not comfortable moving to state 3 just yet feel free to wait a while and reassure yourself that nothing has blown up. Technically your environment can live in state 2 forever, but you won\'t reap any of the benefits such as lower bandwidth replication until you reach state 3 (in fact bandwidth will be a bit wasted since you\'re replicating everything twice). When you\'re ready, move to state 3.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6171\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"143\" /></a></li>\n	<li>Your domain controllers are now in state 3. Any new domain controllers you promote will automatically use DFSR by default. This is the same message you\'ll see on domains that were natively installed with domain functional levels at 2008 or higher since they use DFSR out of the box. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\n</ul>\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts this process runs are available from <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">Rhonda Layfield at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available from <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">Ned Pyle on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-autosave','','','2012-03-11 20:17:01','2012-03-11 20:17:01','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6201,35,'2012-03-10 23:04:48','2012-03-10 23:04:48','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.<!--more--></div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>. AD users and groups can still be created, modified, and deleted normally since those don\'t live in SYSVOL.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to expand.\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>This message means the environment has stabilized at state 2. The new SYSVOL is live at \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL with the same contents and replicating with DFSR. The old SYSVOL still exists and is still replicating with FRS. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6170\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now we\'re ready to complete the final step. Up until this point, the whole process is reversible, but now we\'ll be making some permanent changes. <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 3</strong> tells domain controllers to go ahead and delete the old SYSVOL folder and stop running FRS completely. If you\'re using FRS to replicate anything else besides SYSVOL and NETLOGON (and you\'ll know if  you are - you can\'t do it by accident) that replication will also stop. If you\'re not comfortable moving to state 3 just yet feel free to wait a while and reassure yourself that nothing has blown up. Technically your environment can live in state 2 forever, but you won\'t reap any of the benefits such as lower bandwidth replication until you reach state 3 (in fact bandwidth will be a bit wasted since you\'re replicating everything twice). When you\'re ready, move to state 3.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6171\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"143\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Your domain controllers are now in state 3. Any new domain controllers you promote will automatically use DFSR by default. This is the same message you\'ll see on domains that were natively installed with domain functional levels at 2008 or higher since they use DFSR out of the box. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/9-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nMore details about the Robocopy scripts this process runs are available from <a href=\"http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/07/01/The-Secrets-of-Sysvol.aspx\">Rhonda Layfield at Redmondmag</a> and further discussion of the benefits of DFSR migration are available from <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/04/22/the-case-for-migrating-sysvol-to-dfsr.aspx\">Ned Pyle on Technet</a>.','ENABLING ACTIVE DIRECTORY DFS REPLICATION','','inherit','open','open','','6130-revision-31','','','2012-03-10 23:04:48','2012-03-10 23:04:48','',6130,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6130-revision-31',0,'revision','',0),(6202,35,'2012-03-11 20:15:07','2012-03-11 20:15:07','<div>Along with the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a tremendous benefit to upgrading your Active Directory functional levels to 2008 R2 is the ability to use DFSR replication between domain controllers. With 2003 and earlier, domain controllers used File Replication Services to replicate directories like SYSVOL. FRS has several drawbacks such as having to retransmit entire files and minimal self-healing capabilities.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>With 2008 and later versions, you can migrate from FRS to DFSR (Distributed File System Replication). DFSR can replicate only changed bits (useful for large logon scripts, company wallpaper, install files, and other items commonly found in the SYSVOL directory) and has more robust self-healing capabilities for conflict resolution.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Domains that are installed with 2008 or later functionality will have DFSR enabled by default. This procedure is only necessary for domains and forests that have been upgraded from 2003.<!--more--></div>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>repadmin /replsum</strong> to verify replication health. Troubleshoot any problems found before proceeding. We\'ll want a clean bill of health for FRS replication before we retire it. Ideally you\'ll want all aspects of your domain controllers to be happy (<strong>dcdiag /e /v</strong>), but to check just FRS health on all of them at once, you can run <strong>dcdiag /e /test:FRSEvent</strong>.</li>\r\n	<li>Upgrade all domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 and raise your domain functional level to 2008 or higher. Enabling DFSR replication is a per-domain setting and will not affect other domains in a forest. Also be aware that enabling DFSR is not a reversible change, but once you begin you will have several opportunities to stop if you change your mind.</li>\r\n	<li>Make your coworkers aware that during the migration there should be no changes made to Group Policy, logon scripts, application deployments, or anything else that lives in SYSVOL or NETLOGON. Realistically nothing bad should happen if they forget and edit something like Group Policy, but it\'s highly probably that the change they make could be overwritten or rolled back. A DFSR migration can take less than an hour for a small environment or an afternoon or more for a larger environment. All operations can be performed during normal business operations so <strong>a maintenance window is NOT required</strong>. AD users and groups can still be created, modified, and deleted normally since those don\'t live in SYSVOL.</li>\r\n	<li>First we can verify that we\'re still using FRS with <strong>dfsrmig /getglobalstate</strong>. This is a command we\'ll come back to several times. You\'ll see the message below when FRS is still in use.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"108\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>To start the migration run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 1</strong>. By default SYSVOL lives in C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL. Setting the migration state to Step 1 instructs all domain controllers to create a C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR directory and run robocopy scripts to copy the contents over.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"186\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>The file copy operations can take some time, especially if you use SYSVOL as a deployment share for software installations. You can run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> to list the status of each domain controller. It will list the names of any domain controller that isn\'t in sync with the global state we set before (state 1, \"Prepared\"). Click to expand.\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Keep spamming the <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> until you get the message below which tells you the environment has stabilized at state 1. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6167\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now you\'re ready to run <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 2</strong>. This will change the \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL share from C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL to C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL_DFSR.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"130\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Run <strong>dfsrmig /getmigrationstate</strong> some more to track domain controllers as they update their SYSVOL shares. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6169\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>This message means the environment has stabilized at state 2. The new SYSVOL is live at \\\\&lt;domain controller&gt;\\SYSVOL with the same contents and replicating with DFSR. The old SYSVOL still exists and is still replicating with FRS. Click to expand.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6170\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/7-300x38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"38\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Now we\'re ready to complete the final step. Up until this point, the whole process is reversible, but now we\'ll be making some permanent changes. <strong>dfsrmig /setglobalstate 3</strong> tells domain controllers to go ahead and delete the old SYSVOL folder and stop running FRS completely. If you\'re using FRS to replicate anything else besides SYSVOL and NETLOGON (and you\'ll know if  you are - you can\'t do it by accident) that replication will also stop. If you\'re not comfortable moving to state 3 just yet feel free to wait a while and reassure yourself that nothing has blown up. Technically your environment can live in state 2 forever, but you won\'t reap any of the benefits such as lower bandwidth replication until you reach state 3 (in fact bandwidth will be a bit wasted since you\'re replicating everything twice). When you\'re ready, move to state 3.<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6171\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"143\" /></a></li>\r\n	<li>Your domain controllers are now in state 3. Any new domain controllers you promote will automatically use DFSR by default. This is the same message you\'ll see on domains that were natively installed with domain functional levels at 2008 or higher since they use DFSR out of the box. 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The arrow buttons allow the navigation for browsing when you have multiple applications open that span larger than what can fit on the one screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6210\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar-300x13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"13\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs I test more with this solution I will post additional findings.  For me the biggest take away is the “smoothness” at which the applications and desktop behave with native mobile like behavior!','FLISH MADNESS BEGINS','','publish','open','open','','flish-madnes','','','2012-03-16 23:59:45','2012-03-16 23:59:45','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6204',0,'post','',0),(6205,29,'2012-03-12 13:40:35','2012-03-12 13:40:35','','appsWord','','inherit','open','open','','appsword','','','2012-03-12 13:40:35','2012-03-12 13:40:35','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6206,29,'2012-03-12 13:40:45','2012-03-12 13:40:45','','bball','','inherit','open','open','','bball','','','2012-03-12 13:40:45','2012-03-12 13:40:45','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6207,29,'2012-03-12 13:40:51','2012-03-12 13:40:51','','GestureGuide','','inherit','open','open','','gestureguide','','','2012-03-12 13:40:51','2012-03-12 13:40:51','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6208,29,'2012-03-12 13:40:56','2012-03-12 13:40:56','','navigation','','inherit','open','open','','navigation','','','2012-03-12 13:40:56','2012-03-12 13:40:56','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6209,29,'2012-03-12 13:41:01','2012-03-12 13:41:01','','start bar','','inherit','open','open','','start-bar','','','2012-03-12 13:41:01','2012-03-12 13:41:01','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6210,29,'2012-03-12 13:41:10','2012-03-12 13:41:10','','taskBar','','inherit','open','open','','taskbar','','','2012-03-12 13:41:10','2012-03-12 13:41:10','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6211,29,'2012-03-12 13:44:34','2012-03-12 13:44:34','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6206\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" /></a></p>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe ACC tournament is officially over and the NCAA tournament is about to begin.  The weather is warming up; the flowers are blooming.  I love this time of year.  That’s why I am bringing you readers “FLISH MADNESS” this week.  Five days, Five blogs, all Flish!\n\nFor the first blog of the week I am going to go over the totally awesome Xen App Citrix Mobility Pack.\n\n“With this feature installed, XenApp shared desktops are automatically re-skinned for more intuitive touch-friendly use on tablet devices.  Tablet Optimized Desktops work with the currently available Receiver for iOS and Receiver for Android.\n\nThe pack also provides users with a true Native Device Experience  for hosted apps by recognizing the type of endpoint operating system and enabling mobile device features such as auto-keyboard popup, local selector controls, and auto-scrolling.  The new <a href=\"https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citrix.Receiver&amp;feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmNpdHJpeC5SZWNlaXZlciJd\">Receiver for Android</a> is required to take advantage of these enhancements.\n\nThis pack is required to make the unique capabilities of a mobile device such as GPS, camera and other sensors available to application developers who may use it in conjunction with the XenApp 6.5 Mobile Application SDK to create custom, mobile-friendly applications hosted by XenApp in the data center. “\n\nLet’s take a look.  (all screen shots taken from my iPad, thanks Ian).\n\nThe First thing you’ll notice when you login to an optimized shared desktop is that the start bar is at the top and the application short cuts are centered at the top of the screen.\n\n&nbsp;','','','inherit','open','open','','6204-revision','','','2012-03-12 13:44:34','2012-03-12 13:44:34','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6204-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6212,29,'2012-03-12 13:55:23','2012-03-12 13:55:23','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6206\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"180\" /></a></p>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe ACC tournament is officially over and the NCAA tournament is about to begin.  The weather is warming up; the flowers are blooming.  I love this time of year.  That’s why I am bringing you readers “FLISH MADNESS” this week.  Five days, Five blogs, all Flish!\n\nFor the first blog of the week I am going to go over the totally awesome Xen App Citrix Mobility Pack.\n\n“With this feature installed, XenApp shared desktops are automatically re-skinned for more intuitive touch-friendly use on tablet devices.  Tablet Optimized Desktops work with the currently available Receiver for iOS and Receiver for Android.\n\nThe pack also provides users with a true Native Device Experience  for hosted apps by recognizing the type of endpoint operating system and enabling mobile device features such as auto-keyboard popup, local selector controls, and auto-scrolling.  The new <a href=\"https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citrix.Receiver&amp;feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmNpdHJpeC5SZWNlaXZlciJd\">Receiver for Android</a> is required to take advantage of these enhancements.\n\nThis pack is required to make the unique capabilities of a mobile device such as GPS, camera and other sensors available to application developers who may use it in conjunction with the XenApp 6.5 Mobile Application SDK to create custom, mobile-friendly applications hosted by XenApp in the data center. “\n\nLet’s take a look.  (all screen shots taken from my iPad, thanks Ian!).\n\nThe First thing you’ll notice when you login to an optimized shared desktop is that the start bar is at the top and the application short cuts are centered at the top of the screen.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6209\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAll applications open with one “touch” as you would expect them too natively on a mobile platform.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6205\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWhen you press the navigation arrow at the top you get the following drop down.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6208\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation-300x27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"27\" /></a>\n<ul>\n	<li>The home button brings you back to the Citrix Receiver login screen where you can log into another desktop or launch a Citrix “presented” app.</li>\n	<li>The Blue Tooth button allows you to pair a BT device with the desktop</li>\n	<li>The arrow keys bring up the four directional arrow keys.</li>\n	<li>The pointer brings up the mouse pointer to interact with OS or apps if needed.  Though while just using Microsoft office apps I saw no need for this.</li>\n	<li>The magnifier enlarges any thing that’s in the diameter of the magnifier ring.</li>\n	<li>The gesture button show all the very nice touch functionality built in to the Mobility pack.  My personal favorite is the three finger tap that brings up the native iPad keyboard.</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6207\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" /></a>\n<ul>\n	<li>The switch button allows you to go back and forth between the native Windows start bar and switch between applications.</li>\n</ul>\nThe last thing to note is the optimized task bar at the bottom of the screen. The arrow buttons allow the navigation for browsing when you have multiple applications open that span larger than what can fit on the one screen.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6210\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar-300x13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"13\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAs I test more with this solution I will post additional findings.  For me the biggest take away is the “smoothness” at which the applications and desktop behave with native mobile like behavior!','','','inherit','open','open','','6204-revision-2','','','2012-03-12 13:55:23','2012-03-12 13:55:23','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6204-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6213,29,'2012-03-12 13:56:10','2012-03-12 13:56:10','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6206\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"180\" /></a></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe ACC tournament is officially over and the NCAA tournament is about to begin.  The weather is warming up; the flowers are blooming.  I love this time of year.  That’s why I am bringing you readers “FLISH MADNESS” this week.  Five days, Five blogs, all Flish!\r\n\r\nFor the first blog of the week I am going to go over the totally awesome Xen App Citrix Mobility Pack.\r\n\r\n“With this feature installed, XenApp shared desktops are automatically re-skinned for more intuitive touch-friendly use on tablet devices.  Tablet Optimized Desktops work with the currently available Receiver for iOS and Receiver for Android.\r\n\r\nThe pack also provides users with a true Native Device Experience  for hosted apps by recognizing the type of endpoint operating system and enabling mobile device features such as auto-keyboard popup, local selector controls, and auto-scrolling.  The new <a href=\"https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citrix.Receiver&amp;feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmNpdHJpeC5SZWNlaXZlciJd\">Receiver for Android</a> is required to take advantage of these enhancements.\r\n\r\nThis pack is required to make the unique capabilities of a mobile device such as GPS, camera and other sensors available to application developers who may use it in conjunction with the XenApp 6.5 Mobile Application SDK to create custom, mobile-friendly applications hosted by XenApp in the data center. “\r\n\r\nLet’s take a look.  (all screen shots taken from my iPad, thanks Ian!).\r\n\r\nThe First thing you’ll notice when you login to an optimized shared desktop is that the start bar is at the top and the application short cuts are centered at the top of the screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6209\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAll applications open with one “touch” as you would expect them too natively on a mobile platform.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6205\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen you press the navigation arrow at the top you get the following drop down.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6208\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation-300x27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"27\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The home button brings you back to the Citrix Receiver login screen where you can log into another desktop or launch a Citrix “presented” app.</li>\r\n	<li>The Blue Tooth button allows you to pair a BT device with the desktop</li>\r\n	<li>The arrow keys bring up the four directional arrow keys.</li>\r\n	<li>The pointer brings up the mouse pointer to interact with OS or apps if needed.  Though while just using Microsoft office apps I saw no need for this.</li>\r\n	<li>The magnifier enlarges any thing that’s in the diameter of the magnifier ring.</li>\r\n	<li>The gesture button show all the very nice touch functionality built in to the Mobility pack.  My personal favorite is the three finger tap that brings up the native iPad keyboard.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6207\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The switch button allows you to go back and forth between the native Windows start bar and switch between applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe last thing to note is the optimized task bar at the bottom of the screen. The arrow buttons allow the navigation for browsing when you have multiple applications open that span larger than what can fit on the one screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6210\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar-300x13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"13\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs I test more with this solution I will post additional findings.  For me the biggest take away is the “smoothness” at which the applications and desktop behave with native mobile like behavior!','','','inherit','open','open','','6204-revision-3','','','2012-03-12 13:56:10','2012-03-12 13:56:10','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6204-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6214,29,'2012-03-17 00:01:15','2012-03-17 00:01:15','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6206\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"180\" /></a></p>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe ACC tournament is officially over and the NCAA tournament is about to begin.  The weather is warming up; the flowers are blooming.  I love this time of year.  That’s why I am bringing you readers “FLISH MADNESS” this week.  Five days, Five blogs, all Flish!\n\nFor the first blog of the week I am going to go over the totally awesome Xen App Citrix Mobility Pack.\n\n“With this feature installed, XenApp shared desktops are automatically re-skinned for more intuitive touch-friendly use on tablet devices.  Tablet Optimized Desktops work with the currently available Receiver for iOS and Receiver for Android.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe pack also provides users with a true Native Device Experience  for hosted apps by recognizing the type of endpoint operating system and enabling mobile device features such as auto-keyboard popup, local selector controls, and auto-scrolling.  The new <a href=\"https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citrix.Receiver&amp;feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmNpdHJpeC5SZWNlaXZlciJd\">Receiver for Android</a> is required to take advantage of these enhancements.\n\nThis pack is required to make the unique capabilities of a mobile device such as GPS, camera and other sensors available to application developers who may use it in conjunction with the XenApp 6.5 Mobile Application SDK to create custom, mobile-friendly applications hosted by XenApp in the data center. “\n\nLet’s take a look.  (all screen shots taken from my iPad, thanks Ian!).\n\nThe First thing you’ll notice when you login to an optimized shared desktop is that the start bar is at the top and the application short cuts are centered at the top of the screen.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6209\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAll applications open with one “touch” as you would expect them too natively on a mobile platform.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6205\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWhen you press the navigation arrow at the top you get the following drop down.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6208\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation-300x27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"27\" /></a>\n<ul>\n	<li>The home button brings you back to the Citrix Receiver login screen where you can log into another desktop or launch a Citrix “presented” app.</li>\n	<li>The Blue Tooth button allows you to pair a BT device with the desktop</li>\n	<li>The arrow keys bring up the four directional arrow keys.</li>\n	<li>The pointer brings up the mouse pointer to interact with OS or apps if needed.  Though while just using Microsoft office apps I saw no need for this.</li>\n	<li>The magnifier enlarges any thing that’s in the diameter of the magnifier ring.</li>\n	<li>The gesture button shows all the very nice touch functionality built in to the mobility pack.  My personal favorite is the three finger tap that brings up the native iPad keyboard.</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6207\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" /></a>\n<ul>\n	<li>The switch button allows you to go back and forth between the native Windows start bar and switch between applications.</li>\n</ul>\nThe last thing to note is the optimized task bar at the bottom of the screen. The arrow buttons allow the navigation for browsing when you have multiple applications open that span larger than what can fit on the one screen.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6210\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar-300x13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"13\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAs I test more with this solution I will post additional findings.  For me the biggest take away is the “smoothness” at which the applications and desktop behave with native mobile like behavior!','FLISH MADNESS BEGINS','','inherit','open','open','','6204-autosave','','','2012-03-17 00:01:15','2012-03-17 00:01:15','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6204-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6215,29,'2012-03-12 13:58:09','2012-03-12 13:58:09','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6206\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"180\" /></a></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe ACC tournament is officially over and the NCAA tournament is about to begin.  The weather is warming up; the flowers are blooming.  I love this time of year.  That’s why I am bringing you readers “FLISH MADNESS” this week.  Five days, Five blogs, all Flish!\r\n\r\nFor the first blog of the week I am going to go over the totally awesome Xen App Citrix Mobility Pack.\r\n\r\n“With this feature installed, XenApp shared desktops are automatically re-skinned for more intuitive touch-friendly use on tablet devices.  Tablet Optimized Desktops work with the currently available Receiver for iOS and Receiver for Android.\r\n\r\nThe pack also provides users with a true Native Device Experience  for hosted apps by recognizing the type of endpoint operating system and enabling mobile device features such as auto-keyboard popup, local selector controls, and auto-scrolling.  The new <a href=\"https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citrix.Receiver&amp;feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmNpdHJpeC5SZWNlaXZlciJd\">Receiver for Android</a> is required to take advantage of these enhancements.\r\n\r\nThis pack is required to make the unique capabilities of a mobile device such as GPS, camera and other sensors available to application developers who may use it in conjunction with the XenApp 6.5 Mobile Application SDK to create custom, mobile-friendly applications hosted by XenApp in the data center. “\r\n\r\nLet’s take a look.  (all screen shots taken from my iPad, thanks Ian!).\r\n\r\nThe First thing you’ll notice when you login to an optimized shared desktop is that the start bar is at the top and the application short cuts are centered at the top of the screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6209\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAll applications open with one “touch” as you would expect them too natively on a mobile platform.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6205\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen you press the navigation arrow at the top you get the following drop down.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6208\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation-300x27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"27\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The home button brings you back to the Citrix Receiver login screen where you can log into another desktop or launch a Citrix “presented” app.</li>\r\n	<li>The Blue Tooth button allows you to pair a BT device with the desktop</li>\r\n	<li>The arrow keys bring up the four directional arrow keys.</li>\r\n	<li>The pointer brings up the mouse pointer to interact with OS or apps if needed.  Though while just using Microsoft office apps I saw no need for this.</li>\r\n	<li>The magnifier enlarges any thing that’s in the diameter of the magnifier ring.</li>\r\n	<li>The gesture button show all the very nice touch functionality built in to the Mobility pack.  My personal favorite is the three finger tap that brings up the native iPad keyboard.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6207\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The switch button allows you to go back and forth between the native Windows start bar and switch between applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe last thing to note is the optimized task bar at the bottom of the screen. The arrow buttons allow the navigation for browsing when you have multiple applications open that span larger than what can fit on the one screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6210\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar-300x13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"13\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs I test more with this solution I will post additional findings.  For me the biggest take away is the “smoothness” at which the applications and desktop behave with native mobile like behavior!','FlISH MADNESS BEGINS','','inherit','open','open','','6204-revision-4','','','2012-03-12 13:58:09','2012-03-12 13:58:09','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6204-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6216,29,'2012-03-12 14:13:45','2012-03-12 14:13:45','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6206\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"180\" /></a></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe ACC tournament is officially over and the NCAA tournament is about to begin.  The weather is warming up; the flowers are blooming.  I love this time of year.  That’s why I am bringing you readers “FLISH MADNESS” this week.  Five days, Five blogs, all Flish!\r\n\r\nFor the first blog of the week I am going to go over the totally awesome Xen App Citrix Mobility Pack.\r\n\r\n“With this feature installed, XenApp shared desktops are automatically re-skinned for more intuitive touch-friendly use on tablet devices.  Tablet Optimized Desktops work with the currently available Receiver for iOS and Receiver for Android.\r\n\r\nThe pack also provides users with a true Native Device Experience  for hosted apps by recognizing the type of endpoint operating system and enabling mobile device features such as auto-keyboard popup, local selector controls, and auto-scrolling.  The new <a href=\"https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citrix.Receiver&amp;feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmNpdHJpeC5SZWNlaXZlciJd\">Receiver for Android</a> is required to take advantage of these enhancements.\r\n\r\nThis pack is required to make the unique capabilities of a mobile device such as GPS, camera and other sensors available to application developers who may use it in conjunction with the XenApp 6.5 Mobile Application SDK to create custom, mobile-friendly applications hosted by XenApp in the data center. “\r\n\r\nLet’s take a look.  (all screen shots taken from my iPad, thanks Ian!).\r\n\r\nThe First thing you’ll notice when you login to an optimized shared desktop is that the start bar is at the top and the application short cuts are centered at the top of the screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6209\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAll applications open with one “touch” as you would expect them too natively on a mobile platform.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6205\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen you press the navigation arrow at the top you get the following drop down.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6208\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation-300x27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"27\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The home button brings you back to the Citrix Receiver login screen where you can log into another desktop or launch a Citrix “presented” app.</li>\r\n	<li>The Blue Tooth button allows you to pair a BT device with the desktop</li>\r\n	<li>The arrow keys bring up the four directional arrow keys.</li>\r\n	<li>The pointer brings up the mouse pointer to interact with OS or apps if needed.  Though while just using Microsoft office apps I saw no need for this.</li>\r\n	<li>The magnifier enlarges any thing that’s in the diameter of the magnifier ring.</li>\r\n	<li>The gesture button shows all the very nice touch functionality built in to the Mobility pack.  My personal favorite is the three finger tap that brings up the native iPad keyboard.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6207\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The switch button allows you to go back and forth between the native Windows start bar and switch between applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe last thing to note is the optimized task bar at the bottom of the screen. The arrow buttons allow the navigation for browsing when you have multiple applications open that span larger than what can fit on the one screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6210\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar-300x13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"13\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs I test more with this solution I will post additional findings.  For me the biggest take away is the “smoothness” at which the applications and desktop behave with native mobile like behavior!','FLISH MADNESS BEGINS','','inherit','open','open','','6204-revision-5','','','2012-03-12 14:13:45','2012-03-12 14:13:45','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6204-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(6294,16,'2012-03-20 02:23:25','2012-03-20 02:23:25','Sometimes it becomes necessary to reset the Citrix License Console admin password. It is actually a very straightforward operation once you know how to do it.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Open the server.xml file located in C:\\Program Files\\Citrix\\Licensing\\LS\\conf\\</li>\r\n	<li>There should be an entry that begins with &lt;user firstName=\"System\" id=\"admin\"...</li>\r\n	<li>Replace the contents between the quotes of password=\"\" and replace it with a simple plain-text password. This is only a temporary password. The contents will be encrypted</li>\r\n	<li>Change passwordExpired=\"false\" to passwordExpired=\"true\"</li>\r\n	<li>Save and close the xml file</li>\r\n	<li>Restart the Citrix Licensing Server Service</li>\r\n	<li>Log into the Licensing Console using the username admin and the password you set in Step 3</li>\r\n	<li>You should be prompted to reset the password upon logging in</li>\r\n	<li>Re-open the server.xml file and verify that the password=\"password you set\" is now an encrypted string representing the new password you just entered</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nGood luck!','RESETTING CITRIX LICENSE SERVER PASSWORD','','publish','open','open','','resetting-citrix-license-server-password','','','2012-03-20 02:23:25','2012-03-20 02:23:25','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6294',0,'post','',0),(6218,12,'2012-03-12 15:12:36','2012-03-12 15:12:36','I\'m not sure if I was the only person who missed this in the announcement, but the new iPad can now function as a mifi, sharing your 4G internet connection with up to 5 devices. For someone like me who already has a Mifi from Verizon, this is VERY appealing. My iPad would have \"Internet-always\", I could rid myself of the Mifi payment/contract, use the iPad data plans contract-free in its place, and get a case that would function similar to the Motorola Android phones\' Lapdocks (which I\'ve wanted for a while).\r\n\r\nAnd for me specifically I\'d be moving from my 3G Mifi to the 4G speeds now available in this area.\r\n\r\nI\'m going to confirm this with Verizon (Apple chat confirmed this was the case, but I\'d like to validate it once more before pulling the trigger), and will likely follow up with a post on how I\'m replacing my workstation/laptop with an iPad to work :)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','iPad - 3rd GENERATION - MIFI!','','publish','open','open','','ipad-3rd-generation-mifi','','','2012-03-12 15:12:36','2012-03-12 15:12:36','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6218',0,'post','',0),(6219,12,'2012-03-12 15:11:53','2012-03-12 15:11:53','I\'m not sure if I was the only person who missed this in the announcement, but the new iPad can now function as a mifi, sharing your 4G internet connection with up to 5 devices. For someone like me who already has a Mifi from Verizon, this is VERY appealing. My iPad would have \"Internet-always\", I could rid myself of the Mifi payment/contract, use the iPad data plans contract-free in its place, and get a case that would function\n\nAnd for me specifically I\'d be moving from my 3G Mifi to the 4G speeds now available in this area.\n\nI\'m going to confirm this with Verizon (Apple chat confirmed this was the case, but I\'d like to validate it once more before pulling the trigger), and will likely follow up with a post on how I\'m replacing my workstation/laptop with an iPad to work :)\n\n&nbsp;','iPad - 3rd GENERATION - MIFI!','','inherit','open','open','','6218-revision','','','2012-03-12 15:11:53','2012-03-12 15:11:53','',6218,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6218-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6221,29,'2012-03-12 19:58:36','2012-03-12 19:58:36','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6206\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"180\" /></a></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe ACC tournament is officially over and the NCAA tournament is about to begin.  The weather is warming up; the flowers are blooming.  I love this time of year.  That’s why I am bringing you readers “FLISH MADNESS” this week.  Five days, Five blogs, all Flish!\r\n\r\nFor the first blog of the week I am going to go over the totally awesome Xen App Citrix Mobility Pack.\r\n\r\n“With this feature installed, XenApp shared desktops are automatically re-skinned for more intuitive touch-friendly use on tablet devices.  Tablet Optimized Desktops work with the currently available Receiver for iOS and Receiver for Android.\r\n\r\nThe pack also provides users with a true Native Device Experience  for hosted apps by recognizing the type of endpoint operating system and enabling mobile device features such as auto-keyboard popup, local selector controls, and auto-scrolling.  The new <a href=\"https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citrix.Receiver&amp;feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmNpdHJpeC5SZWNlaXZlciJd\">Receiver for Android</a> is required to take advantage of these enhancements.\r\n\r\nThis pack is required to make the unique capabilities of a mobile device such as GPS, camera and other sensors available to application developers who may use it in conjunction with the XenApp 6.5 Mobile Application SDK to create custom, mobile-friendly applications hosted by XenApp in the data center. “\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nLet’s take a look.  (all screen shots taken from my iPad, thanks Ian!).\r\n\r\nThe First thing you’ll notice when you login to an optimized shared desktop is that the start bar is at the top and the application short cuts are centered at the top of the screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6209\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAll applications open with one “touch” as you would expect them too natively on a mobile platform.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6205\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen you press the navigation arrow at the top you get the following drop down.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6208\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation-300x27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"27\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The home button brings you back to the Citrix Receiver login screen where you can log into another desktop or launch a Citrix “presented” app.</li>\r\n	<li>The Blue Tooth button allows you to pair a BT device with the desktop</li>\r\n	<li>The arrow keys bring up the four directional arrow keys.</li>\r\n	<li>The pointer brings up the mouse pointer to interact with OS or apps if needed.  Though while just using Microsoft office apps I saw no need for this.</li>\r\n	<li>The magnifier enlarges any thing that’s in the diameter of the magnifier ring.</li>\r\n	<li>The gesture button shows all the very nice touch functionality built in to the mobility pack.  My personal favorite is the three finger tap that brings up the native iPad keyboard.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6207\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The switch button allows you to go back and forth between the native Windows start bar and switch between applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe last thing to note is the optimized task bar at the bottom of the screen. The arrow buttons allow the navigation for browsing when you have multiple applications open that span larger than what can fit on the one screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6210\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar-300x13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"13\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs I test more with this solution I will post additional findings.  For me the biggest take away is the “smoothness” at which the applications and desktop behave with native mobile like behavior!','FLISH MADNESS BEGINS','','inherit','open','open','','6204-revision-7','','','2012-03-12 19:58:36','2012-03-12 19:58:36','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6204-revision-7',0,'revision','',0),(6220,29,'2012-03-12 14:47:51','2012-03-12 14:47:51','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6206\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"180\" /></a></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe ACC tournament is officially over and the NCAA tournament is about to begin.  The weather is warming up; the flowers are blooming.  I love this time of year.  That’s why I am bringing you readers “FLISH MADNESS” this week.  Five days, Five blogs, all Flish!\r\n\r\nFor the first blog of the week I am going to go over the totally awesome Xen App Citrix Mobility Pack.\r\n\r\n“With this feature installed, XenApp shared desktops are automatically re-skinned for more intuitive touch-friendly use on tablet devices.  Tablet Optimized Desktops work with the currently available Receiver for iOS and Receiver for Android.\r\n\r\nThe pack also provides users with a true Native Device Experience  for hosted apps by recognizing the type of endpoint operating system and enabling mobile device features such as auto-keyboard popup, local selector controls, and auto-scrolling.  The new <a href=\"https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citrix.Receiver&amp;feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmNpdHJpeC5SZWNlaXZlciJd\">Receiver for Android</a> is required to take advantage of these enhancements.\r\n\r\nThis pack is required to make the unique capabilities of a mobile device such as GPS, camera and other sensors available to application developers who may use it in conjunction with the XenApp 6.5 Mobile Application SDK to create custom, mobile-friendly applications hosted by XenApp in the data center. “\r\n\r\nLet’s take a look.  (all screen shots taken from my iPad, thanks Ian!).\r\n\r\nThe First thing you’ll notice when you login to an optimized shared desktop is that the start bar is at the top and the application short cuts are centered at the top of the screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6209\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAll applications open with one “touch” as you would expect them too natively on a mobile platform.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6205\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen you press the navigation arrow at the top you get the following drop down.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6208\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation-300x27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"27\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The home button brings you back to the Citrix Receiver login screen where you can log into another desktop or launch a Citrix “presented” app.</li>\r\n	<li>The Blue Tooth button allows you to pair a BT device with the desktop</li>\r\n	<li>The arrow keys bring up the four directional arrow keys.</li>\r\n	<li>The pointer brings up the mouse pointer to interact with OS or apps if needed.  Though while just using Microsoft office apps I saw no need for this.</li>\r\n	<li>The magnifier enlarges any thing that’s in the diameter of the magnifier ring.</li>\r\n	<li>The gesture button shows all the very nice touch functionality built in to the mobility pack.  My personal favorite is the three finger tap that brings up the native iPad keyboard.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6207\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The switch button allows you to go back and forth between the native Windows start bar and switch between applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe last thing to note is the optimized task bar at the bottom of the screen. The arrow buttons allow the navigation for browsing when you have multiple applications open that span larger than what can fit on the one screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6210\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar-300x13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"13\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs I test more with this solution I will post additional findings.  For me the biggest take away is the “smoothness” at which the applications and desktop behave with native mobile like behavior!','FLISH MADNESS BEGINS','','inherit','open','open','','6204-revision-6','','','2012-03-12 14:47:51','2012-03-12 14:47:51','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6204-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(6222,29,'2012-03-12 20:13:44','2012-03-12 20:13:44','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6206\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"180\" /></a></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe ACC tournament is officially over and the NCAA tournament is about to begin.  The weather is warming up; the flowers are blooming.  I love this time of year.  That’s why I am bringing you readers “FLISH MADNESS” this week.  Five days, Five blogs, all Flish!\r\n\r\nFor the first blog of the week I am going to go over the totally awesome Xen App Citrix Mobility Pack.\r\n\r\n“With this feature installed, XenApp shared desktops are automatically re-skinned for more intuitive touch-friendly use on tablet devices.  Tablet Optimized Desktops work with the currently available Receiver for iOS and Receiver for Android.\r\n\r\nThe pack also provides users with a true Native Device Experience  for hosted apps by recognizing the type of endpoint operating system and enabling mobile device features such as auto-keyboard popup, local selector controls, and auto-scrolling.  The new <a href=\"https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citrix.Receiver&amp;feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmNpdHJpeC5SZWNlaXZlciJd\">Receiver for Android</a> is required to take advantage of these enhancements.\r\n\r\nThis pack is required to make the unique capabilities of a mobile device such as GPS, camera and other sensors available to application developers who may use it in conjunction with the XenApp 6.5 Mobile Application SDK to create custom, mobile-friendly applications hosted by XenApp in the data center. “\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nLet’s take a look.  (all screen shots taken from my iPad, thanks Ian!).\r\n\r\nThe First thing you’ll notice when you login to an optimized shared desktop is that the start bar is at the top and the application short cuts are centered at the top of the screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6209\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAll applications open with one “touch” as you would expect them too natively on a mobile platform.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6205\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen you press the navigation arrow at the top you get the following drop down.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6208\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation-300x27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"27\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The home button brings you back to the Citrix Receiver login screen where you can log into another desktop or launch a Citrix “presented” app.</li>\r\n	<li>The Blue Tooth button allows you to pair a BT device with the desktop</li>\r\n	<li>The arrow keys bring up the four directional arrow keys.</li>\r\n	<li>The pointer brings up the mouse pointer to interact with OS or apps if needed.  Though while just using Microsoft office apps I saw no need for this.</li>\r\n	<li>The magnifier enlarges any thing that’s in the diameter of the magnifier ring.</li>\r\n	<li>The gesture button shows all the very nice touch functionality built in to the mobility pack.  My personal favorite is the three finger tap that brings up the native iPad keyboard.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6207\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The switch button allows you to go back and forth between the native Windows start bar and switch between applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe last thing to note is the optimized task bar at the bottom of the screen. The arrow buttons allow the navigation for browsing when you have multiple applications open that span larger than what can fit on the one screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6210\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar-300x13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"13\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs I test more with this solution I will post additional findings.  For me the biggest take away is the “smoothness” at which the applications and desktop behave with native mobile like behavior!','FLISH MADNESS BEGINS','','inherit','open','open','','6204-revision-8','','','2012-03-12 20:13:44','2012-03-12 20:13:44','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6204-revision-8',0,'revision','',0),(6223,29,'2012-03-12 20:16:00','2012-03-12 20:16:00','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6206\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"180\" /></a></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe ACC tournament is officially over and the NCAA tournament is about to begin.  The weather is warming up; the flowers are blooming.  I love this time of year.  That’s why I am bringing you readers “FLISH MADNESS” this week.  Five days, Five blogs, all Flish!\r\n\r\nFor the first blog of the week I am going to go over the totally awesome Xen App Citrix Mobility Pack.\r\n\r\n“With this feature installed, XenApp shared desktops are automatically re-skinned for more intuitive touch-friendly use on tablet devices.  Tablet Optimized Desktops work with the currently available Receiver for iOS and Receiver for Android.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe pack also provides users with a true Native Device Experience  for hosted apps by recognizing the type of endpoint operating system and enabling mobile device features such as auto-keyboard popup, local selector controls, and auto-scrolling.  The new <a href=\"https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citrix.Receiver&amp;feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmNpdHJpeC5SZWNlaXZlciJd\">Receiver for Android</a> is required to take advantage of these enhancements.\r\n\r\nThis pack is required to make the unique capabilities of a mobile device such as GPS, camera and other sensors available to application developers who may use it in conjunction with the XenApp 6.5 Mobile Application SDK to create custom, mobile-friendly applications hosted by XenApp in the data center. “\r\n\r\nLet’s take a look.  (all screen shots taken from my iPad, thanks Ian!).\r\n\r\nThe First thing you’ll notice when you login to an optimized shared desktop is that the start bar is at the top and the application short cuts are centered at the top of the screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6209\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAll applications open with one “touch” as you would expect them too natively on a mobile platform.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6205\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen you press the navigation arrow at the top you get the following drop down.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6208\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation-300x27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"27\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The home button brings you back to the Citrix Receiver login screen where you can log into another desktop or launch a Citrix “presented” app.</li>\r\n	<li>The Blue Tooth button allows you to pair a BT device with the desktop</li>\r\n	<li>The arrow keys bring up the four directional arrow keys.</li>\r\n	<li>The pointer brings up the mouse pointer to interact with OS or apps if needed.  Though while just using Microsoft office apps I saw no need for this.</li>\r\n	<li>The magnifier enlarges any thing that’s in the diameter of the magnifier ring.</li>\r\n	<li>The gesture button shows all the very nice touch functionality built in to the mobility pack.  My personal favorite is the three finger tap that brings up the native iPad keyboard.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6207\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The switch button allows you to go back and forth between the native Windows start bar and switch between applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe last thing to note is the optimized task bar at the bottom of the screen. The arrow buttons allow the navigation for browsing when you have multiple applications open that span larger than what can fit on the one screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6210\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar-300x13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"13\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs I test more with this solution I will post additional findings.  For me the biggest take away is the “smoothness” at which the applications and desktop behave with native mobile like behavior!','FLISH MADNESS BEGINS','','inherit','open','open','','6204-revision-9','','','2012-03-12 20:16:00','2012-03-12 20:16:00','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6204-revision-9',0,'revision','',0),(6224,29,'2012-03-12 20:23:49','2012-03-12 20:23:49','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6206\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"180\" /></a></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe ACC tournament is officially over and the NCAA tournament is about to begin.  The weather is warming up; the flowers are blooming.  I love this time of year.  That’s why I am bringing you readers “FLISH MADNESS” this week.  Five days, Five blogs, all Flish!\r\n\r\nFor the first blog of the week I am going to go over the totally awesome Xen App Citrix Mobility Pack.\r\n\r\n“With this feature installed, XenApp shared desktops are automatically re-skinned for more intuitive touch-friendly use on tablet devices.  Tablet Optimized Desktops work with the currently available Receiver for iOS and Receiver for Android.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe pack also provides users with a true Native Device Experience  for hosted apps by recognizing the type of endpoint operating system and enabling mobile device features such as auto-keyboard popup, local selector controls, and auto-scrolling.  The new <a href=\"https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citrix.Receiver&amp;feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmNpdHJpeC5SZWNlaXZlciJd\">Receiver for Android</a> is required to take advantage of these enhancements.\r\n\r\nThis pack is required to make the unique capabilities of a mobile device such as GPS, camera and other sensors available to application developers who may use it in conjunction with the XenApp 6.5 Mobile Application SDK to create custom, mobile-friendly applications hosted by XenApp in the data center. “\r\n\r\nLet’s take a look.  (all screen shots taken from my iPad, thanks Ian!).\r\n\r\nThe First thing you’ll notice when you login to an optimized shared desktop is that the start bar is at the top and the application short cuts are centered at the top of the screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6209\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAll applications open with one “touch” as you would expect them too natively on a mobile platform.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6205\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen you press the navigation arrow at the top you get the following drop down.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6208\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation-300x27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"27\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The home button brings you back to the Citrix Receiver login screen where you can log into another desktop or launch a Citrix “presented” app.</li>\r\n	<li>The Blue Tooth button allows you to pair a BT device with the desktop</li>\r\n	<li>The arrow keys bring up the four directional arrow keys.</li>\r\n	<li>The pointer brings up the mouse pointer to interact with OS or apps if needed.  Though while just using Microsoft office apps I saw no need for this.</li>\r\n	<li>The magnifier enlarges any thing that’s in the diameter of the magnifier ring.</li>\r\n	<li>The gesture button shows all the very nice touch functionality built in to the mobility pack.  My personal favorite is the three finger tap that brings up the native iPad keyboard.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6207\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The switch button allows you to go back and forth between the native Windows start bar and switch between applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe last thing to note is the optimized task bar at the bottom of the screen. The arrow buttons allow the navigation for browsing when you have multiple applications open that span larger than what can fit on the one screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6210\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar-300x13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"13\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs I test more with this solution I will post additional findings.  For me the biggest take away is the “smoothness” at which the applications and desktop behave with native mobile like behavior!','FLISH MADNESS BEGINS','','inherit','open','open','','6204-revision-10','','','2012-03-12 20:23:49','2012-03-12 20:23:49','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6204-revision-10',0,'revision','',0),(6231,29,'2012-03-13 18:00:01','2012-03-13 18:00:01','','iDisc','','inherit','open','open','','idisc','','','2012-03-13 18:00:01','2012-03-13 18:00:01','',6229,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6232,29,'2012-03-13 18:12:43','2012-03-13 18:12:43','&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6231\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"177\" /></a>\n\nEUC part 1 of 3\n\nIts day two of FLISH MADNESS and today’s topic is End User Computing.\n\nRecently I was on plane flight coming back from Las Vegas and I looked around half way through the flight to see that 80 % of the people around me were using some type of tablet computing device.  I thought to myself the post PC era is truly underway.  But, we have ways to go.  First and for most we still have too many devices per person.  Case in point, I carry my laptop, iPad and iPhone to every meeting I go on.  Ideally we would combine at least two of these devices if not all three.\n\nI envision a world where we have one device (call it an identity disc) where we jack in to computing resources (public, private, personal cloud) as needed.  <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/ipad-3rd-generation-mifi\">Some of us</a> are already taking steps in this direction.  For example, the Cisco Cius can be “docked” into a station where you would have the full keyboard, monitor and mouse capabilities of a traditional desktop.  From there you could launch native applications, VDI from Citrix or VMware are some type of legacy application presentation.\n\nEnd User computing is one of the most spoken buzz words across all tech industry verticals today.  The actual meaning of the term may depend on whom you are speaking with.  But what it boils down to is empowerment for users of the users and by users.  In IT we no longer live in a world where we have the luxury to control what end point device the users bring to work.  We do have the ability control the corporate data, how the data gets to the end user (including how it is presented), and finally how the data is secured.\n\nTo summarize this line of thought, EUC needs three things to be successfully deployed in an IT environment.\n\n<!--more-->\n<ol>\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc</li>\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Device Agnosticism</strong>\n\nIt’s happened to every IT admin out there.  A VIU (very important user) for example CEO or CFO brings in his latest and greatest smart phone and expects it work seamlessly with all corporate systems.  This of course is as tremendous challenge but surmountable with the right technology applied.\n\nThe idea of bringing your own device to work simple put makes the user feel “empowered”.  A user that is empowered with end point choice is usually happier than one that isn\'t.  Furthermore, if IT can “containerize” the corporate assets that the end user needs on their chosen device they open the door for getting out of the end user hardware business and getting into software as a service.\n\nThink about it, as an IT admin you want to profile, image, and streamline your end user’s experiences; that way you have consistent, manageable interfaces that the user cannot meddle with.  This would seem almost impossible if everybody brought their own device.  Unless, we abstract the corporate resources needed by the end user thus sandboxing the corporate experience from the chosen end point device.  We’ll get into the specifics of how this can be done in EUC part 2 and 3.\n\nStay tuned as FlISH MADNESS continues tomorrow as we continue the EUC conversation.','End User Computing Part 1 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6229-revision','','','2012-03-13 18:12:43','2012-03-13 18:12:43','',6229,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6229-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6233,29,'2012-03-13 18:14:01','2012-03-13 18:14:01','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6231\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"177\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEUC part 1 of 3\r\n\r\nIts day two of FLISH MADNESS and today’s topic is End User Computing.\r\n\r\nRecently I was on plane flight coming back from Las Vegas and I looked around half way through the flight to see that 80 % of the people around me were using some type of tablet computing device.  I thought to myself the post PC era is truly underway.  But, we have ways to go.  First and for most we still have too many devices per person.  Case in point, I carry my laptop, iPad and iPhone to every meeting I go on.  Ideally we would combine at least two of these devices if not all three.\r\n\r\nI envision a world where we have one device (call it an identity disc) where we jack in to computing resources (public, private, personal cloud) as needed.  <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/ipad-3rd-generation-mifi\">Some of us</a> are already taking steps in this direction.  For example, the Cisco Cius can be “docked” into a station where you would have the full keyboard, monitor and mouse capabilities of a traditional desktop.  From there you could launch native applications, VDI from Citrix or VMware are some type of legacy application presentation.\r\n\r\nEnd User computing is one of the most spoken buzz words across all tech industry verticals today.  The actual meaning of the term may depend on whom you are speaking with.  But what it boils down to is empowerment for users of the users and by users.  In IT we no longer live in a world where we have the luxury to control what end point device the users bring to work.  We do have the ability control the corporate data, how the data gets to the end user (including how it is presented), and finally how the data is secured.\r\n\r\nTo summarize this line of thought, EUC needs three things to be successfully deployed in an IT environment.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\r\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc</li>\r\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Device Agnosticism</strong>\r\n\r\nIt’s happened to every IT admin out there.  A VIU (very important user) for example CEO or CFO brings in his latest and greatest smart phone and expects it work seamlessly with all corporate systems.  This of course is as tremendous challenge but surmountable with the right technology applied.\r\n\r\nThe idea of bringing your own device to work simple put makes the user feel “empowered”.  A user that is empowered with end point choice is usually happier than one that isn\'t.  Furthermore, if IT can “containerize” the corporate assets that the end user needs on their chosen device they open the door for getting out of the end user hardware business and getting into software as a service.\r\n\r\nThink about it, as an IT admin you want to profile, image, and streamline your end user’s experiences; that way you have consistent, manageable interfaces that the user cannot meddle with.  This would seem almost impossible if everybody brought their own device.  Unless, we abstract the corporate resources needed by the end user thus sandboxing the corporate experience from the chosen end point device.  We’ll get into the specifics of how this can be done in EUC part 2 and 3.\r\n\r\nStay tuned as FlISH MADNESS continues tomorrow as we continue the EUC conversation.','End User Computing Part 1 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6229-revision-2','','','2012-03-13 18:14:01','2012-03-13 18:14:01','',6229,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6229-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6237,29,'2012-03-13 18:18:12','2012-03-13 18:18:12','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6231 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"177\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEUC part 1 of 3\r\n\r\nIts day two of FLISH MADNESS and today’s topic is End User Computing.\r\n\r\nRecently I was on plane flight coming back from Las Vegas and I looked around half way through the flight to see that 80 % of the people around me were using some type of tablet computing device.  I thought to myself the post PC era is truly underway.  But, we have ways to go.  First and for most we still have too many devices per person.  Case in point, I carry my laptop, iPad and iPhone to every meeting I go on.  Ideally we would combine at least two of these devices if not all three.\r\n\r\nI envision a world where we have one device (call it an identity disc) where we jack in to computing resources (public, private, personal cloud) as needed.  <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/ipad-3rd-generation-mifi\">Some of us</a> are already taking steps in this direction.  For example, the Cisco Cius can be “docked” into a station where you would have the full keyboard, monitor and mouse capabilities of a traditional desktop.  From there you could launch native applications, VDI from Citrix or VMware or some type of legacy application presentation.\r\n\r\nEnd User computing is one of the most spoken buzz words across all tech industry verticals today.  The actual meaning of the term may depend on whom you are speaking with.  But what it boils down to is empowerment for users of the users and by users.  In IT we no longer live in a world where we have the luxury to control what end point device the users bring to work.  We do have the ability control the corporate data, how the data gets to the end user (including how it is presented), and finally how the data is secured.\r\n\r\nTo summarize this line of thought, EUC needs three things to be successfully deployed in an IT environment.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\r\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc</li>\r\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Device Agnosticism</strong>\r\n\r\nIt’s happened to every IT admin out there.  A VIU (very important user) for example a CEO or CFO brings in his latest and greatest smart phone and expects it work seamlessly with all corporate systems.  This of course is as tremendous challenge but surmountable with the right technology applied.\r\n\r\nThe idea of bringing your own device to work simple put makes the user feel “empowered”.  A user that is empowered with end point choice is usually happier than one that isn\'t.  Furthermore, if IT can “containerize” the corporate assets that the end user needs on their chosen device they open the door for getting out of the end user hardware business and getting into software as a service.\r\n\r\nThink about it, as an IT admin you want to profile, image, and streamline your end user’s experiences; that way you have consistent, manageable interfaces that the user cannot meddle with.  This would seem almost impossible if everybody brought their own device.  Unless, we abstract the corporate resources needed by the end user thus sandboxing the corporate experience from the chosen end point device.  We’ll get into the specifics of how this can be done in EUC part 2 and 3.\r\n\r\nStay tuned as FlISH MADNESS continues tomorrow as we continue the EUC conversation.','End User Computing Part 1 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6229-revision-5','','','2012-03-13 18:18:12','2012-03-13 18:18:12','',6229,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6229-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(6234,29,'2012-03-13 18:15:54','2012-03-13 18:15:54','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6231\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"177\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEUC part 1 of 3\r\n\r\nIts day two of FLISH MADNESS and today’s topic is End User Computing.\r\n\r\nRecently I was on plane flight coming back from Las Vegas and I looked around half way through the flight to see that 80 % of the people around me were using some type of tablet computing device.  I thought to myself the post PC era is truly underway.  But, we have ways to go.  First and for most we still have too many devices per person.  Case in point, I carry my laptop, iPad and iPhone to every meeting I go on.  Ideally we would combine at least two of these devices if not all three.\r\n\r\nI envision a world where we have one device (call it an identity disc) where we jack in to computing resources (public, private, personal cloud) as needed.  <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/ipad-3rd-generation-mifi\">Some of us</a> are already taking steps in this direction.  For example, the Cisco Cius can be “docked” into a station where you would have the full keyboard, monitor and mouse capabilities of a traditional desktop.  From there you could launch native applications, VDI from Citrix or VMware are some type of legacy application presentation.\r\n\r\nEnd User computing is one of the most spoken buzz words across all tech industry verticals today.  The actual meaning of the term may depend on whom you are speaking with.  But what it boils down to is empowerment for users of the users and by users.  In IT we no longer live in a world where we have the luxury to control what end point device the users bring to work.  We do have the ability control the corporate data, how the data gets to the end user (including how it is presented), and finally how the data is secured.\r\n\r\nTo summarize this line of thought, EUC needs three things to be successfully deployed in an IT environment.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\r\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc</li>\r\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Device Agnosticism</strong>\r\n\r\nIt’s happened to every IT admin out there.  A VIU (very important user) for example a CEO or CFO brings in his latest and greatest smart phone and expects it work seamlessly with all corporate systems.  This of course is as tremendous challenge but surmountable with the right technology applied.\r\n\r\nThe idea of bringing your own device to work simple put makes the user feel “empowered”.  A user that is empowered with end point choice is usually happier than one that isn\'t.  Furthermore, if IT can “containerize” the corporate assets that the end user needs on their chosen device they open the door for getting out of the end user hardware business and getting into software as a service.\r\n\r\nThink about it, as an IT admin you want to profile, image, and streamline your end user’s experiences; that way you have consistent, manageable interfaces that the user cannot meddle with.  This would seem almost impossible if everybody brought their own device.  Unless, we abstract the corporate resources needed by the end user thus sandboxing the corporate experience from the chosen end point device.  We’ll get into the specifics of how this can be done in EUC part 2 and 3.\r\n\r\nStay tuned as FlISH MADNESS continues tomorrow as we continue the EUC conversation.','End User Computing Part 1 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6229-revision-3','','','2012-03-13 18:15:54','2012-03-13 18:15:54','',6229,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6229-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6235,29,'2012-03-15 12:56:22','2012-03-15 12:56:22','&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6231 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"177\" /></a>\n\nEUC part 1 of 3\n\nIts day two of FLISH MADNESS and today’s topic is End User Computing.\n\nRecently I was on plane flight coming back from Las Vegas and I looked around half way through the flight to see that 80 % of the people around me were using some type of tablet computing device.  I thought to myself the post PC era is truly underway.  But, we have a ways to go.  First and for most we still have too many devices per person.  Case in point, I carry my laptop, iPad and iPhone to every meeting I go on.  Ideally we would combine at least two of these devices if not all three.\n\nI envision a world where we have one device (call it an identity disc) where we jack into computing resources (public, private, personal cloud) as needed.  <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/ipad-3rd-generation-mifi\">Some of us</a> are already taking steps in this direction.  For example, the Cisco Cius can be “docked” into a station where you would have the full keyboard, monitor and mouse capabilities of a traditional desktop.  From there you could launch native applications, VDI from Citrix or VMware or some type of legacy application presentation.\n\nEnd User Computing is one of the most spoken buzz terms across all tech industry verticals today.  The actual meaning of the term may depend on whom you are speaking with.  But what it boils down to is empowerment for users of the users and by users.  In IT we no longer live in a world where we have the luxury to control what end point device the users bring to work.  We do have the ability to control the corporate data, how the data gets to the end user (including how it is presented), and finally how the data is secured.\n\nTo summarize this line of thought, EUC needs three things to be successfully deployed in an IT environment.\n\n<!--more-->\n<ol>\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development (HTML 5)</li>\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Device Agnosticism</strong>\n\nIt’s happened to every IT admin out there.  A VIU (very important user) for example a CEO or CFO brings in his latest and greatest smart phone and expects it work seamlessly with all corporate systems.  This of course is as tremendous challenge but surmountable with the right technology applied.\n\nThe idea of bringing your own device to work simple put makes the user feel “empowered”.  A user that is empowered with end point choice is usually happier than one that isn\'t.  Furthermore, if IT can “containerize” the corporate assets that the end user needs on their chosen device they open the door for getting out of the end user hardware business and getting into software as a service.\n\nThink about it, as an IT admin you want to profile, image, and streamline your end user’s experiences; that way you have consistent, manageable interfaces that the user cannot meddle with.  This would seem almost impossible if everybody brought their own device.  Unless, we abstract the corporate resources needed by the end user thus sandboxing the corporate experience from the chosen end point device.  We’ll get into the specifics of how this can be done in EUC part 2 and 3.\n\nStay tuned as FLISH MADNESS continues tomorrow as we continue the EUC conversation.','End User Computing Part 1 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6229-autosave','','','2012-03-15 12:56:22','2012-03-15 12:56:22','',6229,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6229-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6236,29,'2012-03-13 18:16:11','2012-03-13 18:16:11','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6231 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"177\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEUC part 1 of 3\r\n\r\nIts day two of FLISH MADNESS and today’s topic is End User Computing.\r\n\r\nRecently I was on plane flight coming back from Las Vegas and I looked around half way through the flight to see that 80 % of the people around me were using some type of tablet computing device.  I thought to myself the post PC era is truly underway.  But, we have ways to go.  First and for most we still have too many devices per person.  Case in point, I carry my laptop, iPad and iPhone to every meeting I go on.  Ideally we would combine at least two of these devices if not all three.\r\n\r\nI envision a world where we have one device (call it an identity disc) where we jack in to computing resources (public, private, personal cloud) as needed.  <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/ipad-3rd-generation-mifi\">Some of us</a> are already taking steps in this direction.  For example, the Cisco Cius can be “docked” into a station where you would have the full keyboard, monitor and mouse capabilities of a traditional desktop.  From there you could launch native applications, VDI from Citrix or VMware are some type of legacy application presentation.\r\n\r\nEnd User computing is one of the most spoken buzz words across all tech industry verticals today.  The actual meaning of the term may depend on whom you are speaking with.  But what it boils down to is empowerment for users of the users and by users.  In IT we no longer live in a world where we have the luxury to control what end point device the users bring to work.  We do have the ability control the corporate data, how the data gets to the end user (including how it is presented), and finally how the data is secured.\r\n\r\nTo summarize this line of thought, EUC needs three things to be successfully deployed in an IT environment.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\r\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc</li>\r\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Device Agnosticism</strong>\r\n\r\nIt’s happened to every IT admin out there.  A VIU (very important user) for example a CEO or CFO brings in his latest and greatest smart phone and expects it work seamlessly with all corporate systems.  This of course is as tremendous challenge but surmountable with the right technology applied.\r\n\r\nThe idea of bringing your own device to work simple put makes the user feel “empowered”.  A user that is empowered with end point choice is usually happier than one that isn\'t.  Furthermore, if IT can “containerize” the corporate assets that the end user needs on their chosen device they open the door for getting out of the end user hardware business and getting into software as a service.\r\n\r\nThink about it, as an IT admin you want to profile, image, and streamline your end user’s experiences; that way you have consistent, manageable interfaces that the user cannot meddle with.  This would seem almost impossible if everybody brought their own device.  Unless, we abstract the corporate resources needed by the end user thus sandboxing the corporate experience from the chosen end point device.  We’ll get into the specifics of how this can be done in EUC part 2 and 3.\r\n\r\nStay tuned as FlISH MADNESS continues tomorrow as we continue the EUC conversation.','End User Computing Part 1 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6229-revision-4','','','2012-03-13 18:16:11','2012-03-13 18:16:11','',6229,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6229-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6238,29,'2012-03-13 18:24:17','2012-03-13 18:24:17','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6231 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"177\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEUC part 1 of 3\r\n\r\nIts day two of FLISH MADNESS and today’s topic is End User Computing.\r\n\r\nRecently I was on plane flight coming back from Las Vegas and I looked around half way through the flight to see that 80 % of the people around me were using some type of tablet computing device.  I thought to myself the post PC era is truly underway.  But, we have ways to go.  First and for most we still have too many devices per person.  Case in point, I carry my laptop, iPad and iPhone to every meeting I go on.  Ideally we would combine at least two of these devices if not all three.\r\n\r\nI envision a world where we have one device (call it an identity disc) where we jack in to computing resources (public, private, personal cloud) as needed.  <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/ipad-3rd-generation-mifi\">Some of us</a> are already taking steps in this direction.  For example, the Cisco Cius can be “docked” into a station where you would have the full keyboard, monitor and mouse capabilities of a traditional desktop.  From there you could launch native applications, VDI from Citrix or VMware or some type of legacy application presentation.\r\n\r\nEnd User computing is one of the most spoken buzz words across all tech industry verticals today.  The actual meaning of the term may depend on whom you are speaking with.  But what it boils down to is empowerment for users of the users and by users.  In IT we no longer live in a world where we have the luxury to control what end point device the users bring to work.  We do have the ability control the corporate data, how the data gets to the end user (including how it is presented), and finally how the data is secured.\r\n\r\nTo summarize this line of thought, EUC needs three things to be successfully deployed in an IT environment.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\r\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc</li>\r\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Device Agnosticism</strong>\r\n\r\nIt’s happened to every IT admin out there.  A VIU (very important user) for example a CEO or CFO brings in his latest and greatest smart phone and expects it work seamlessly with all corporate systems.  This of course is as tremendous challenge but surmountable with the right technology applied.\r\n\r\nThe idea of bringing your own device to work simple put makes the user feel “empowered”.  A user that is empowered with end point choice is usually happier than one that isn\'t.  Furthermore, if IT can “containerize” the corporate assets that the end user needs on their chosen device they open the door for getting out of the end user hardware business and getting into software as a service.\r\n\r\nThink about it, as an IT admin you want to profile, image, and streamline your end user’s experiences; that way you have consistent, manageable interfaces that the user cannot meddle with.  This would seem almost impossible if everybody brought their own device.  Unless, we abstract the corporate resources needed by the end user thus sandboxing the corporate experience from the chosen end point device.  We’ll get into the specifics of how this can be done in EUC part 2 and 3.\r\n\r\nStay tuned as FLISH MADNESS continues tomorrow as we continue the EUC conversation.','End User Computing Part 1 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6229-revision-6','','','2012-03-13 18:24:17','2012-03-13 18:24:17','',6229,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6229-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(6256,29,'2012-03-15 12:55:13','2012-03-15 12:55:13','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6231 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"177\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEUC part 1 of 3\r\n\r\nIts day two of FLISH MADNESS and today’s topic is End User Computing.\r\n\r\nRecently I was on plane flight coming back from Las Vegas and I looked around half way through the flight to see that 80 % of the people around me were using some type of tablet computing device.  I thought to myself the post PC era is truly underway.  But, we have a ways to go.  First and for most we still have too many devices per person.  Case in point, I carry my laptop, iPad and iPhone to every meeting I go on.  Ideally we would combine at least two of these devices if not all three.\r\n\r\nI envision a world where we have one device (call it an identity disc) where we jack into computing resources (public, private, personal cloud) as needed.  <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/ipad-3rd-generation-mifi\">Some of us</a> are already taking steps in this direction.  For example, the Cisco Cius can be “docked” into a station where you would have the full keyboard, monitor and mouse capabilities of a traditional desktop.  From there you could launch native applications, VDI from Citrix or VMware or some type of legacy application presentation.\r\n\r\nEnd User Computing is one of the most spoken buzz terms across all tech industry verticals today.  The actual meaning of the term may depend on whom you are speaking with.  But what it boils down to is empowerment for users of the users and by users.  In IT we no longer live in a world where we have the luxury to control what end point device the users bring to work.  We do have the ability to control the corporate data, how the data gets to the end user (including how it is presented), and finally how the data is secured.\r\n\r\nTo summarize this line of thought, EUC needs three things to be successfully deployed in an IT environment.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\r\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development (HTML 5)</li>\r\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Device Agnosticism</strong>\r\n\r\nIt’s happened to every IT admin out there.  A VIU (very important user) for example a CEO or CFO brings in his latest and greatest smart phone and expects it work seamlessly with all corporate systems.  This of course is as tremendous challenge but surmountable with the right technology applied.\r\n\r\nThe idea of bringing your own device to work simple put makes the user feel “empowered”.  A user that is empowered with end point choice is usually happier than one that isn\'t.  Furthermore, if IT can “containerize” the corporate assets that the end user needs on their chosen device they open the door for getting out of the end user hardware business and getting into software as a service.\r\n\r\nThink about it, as an IT admin you want to profile, image, and streamline your end user’s experiences; that way you have consistent, manageable interfaces that the user cannot meddle with.  This would seem almost impossible if everybody brought their own device.  Unless, we abstract the corporate resources needed by the end user thus sandboxing the corporate experience from the chosen end point device.  We’ll get into the specifics of how this can be done in EUC part 2 and 3.\r\n\r\nStay tuned as FLISH MADNESS continues tomorrow as we continue the EUC conversation.','End User Computing Part 1 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6229-revision-9','','','2012-03-15 12:55:13','2012-03-15 12:55:13','',6229,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6229-revision-9',0,'revision','',0),(6239,29,'2012-03-13 18:25:17','2012-03-13 18:25:17','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6231 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"177\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEUC part 1 of 3\r\n\r\nIts day two of FLISH MADNESS and today’s topic is End User Computing.\r\n\r\nRecently I was on plane flight coming back from Las Vegas and I looked around half way through the flight to see that 80 % of the people around me were using some type of tablet computing device.  I thought to myself the post PC era is truly underway.  But, we have a ways to go.  First and for most we still have too many devices per person.  Case in point, I carry my laptop, iPad and iPhone to every meeting I go on.  Ideally we would combine at least two of these devices if not all three.\r\n\r\nI envision a world where we have one device (call it an identity disc) where we jack in to computing resources (public, private, personal cloud) as needed.  <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/ipad-3rd-generation-mifi\">Some of us</a> are already taking steps in this direction.  For example, the Cisco Cius can be “docked” into a station where you would have the full keyboard, monitor and mouse capabilities of a traditional desktop.  From there you could launch native applications, VDI from Citrix or VMware or some type of legacy application presentation.\r\n\r\nEnd User computing is one of the most spoken buzz words across all tech industry verticals today.  The actual meaning of the term may depend on whom you are speaking with.  But what it boils down to is empowerment for users of the users and by users.  In IT we no longer live in a world where we have the luxury to control what end point device the users bring to work.  We do have the ability control the corporate data, how the data gets to the end user (including how it is presented), and finally how the data is secured.\r\n\r\nTo summarize this line of thought, EUC needs three things to be successfully deployed in an IT environment.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\r\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc</li>\r\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Device Agnosticism</strong>\r\n\r\nIt’s happened to every IT admin out there.  A VIU (very important user) for example a CEO or CFO brings in his latest and greatest smart phone and expects it work seamlessly with all corporate systems.  This of course is as tremendous challenge but surmountable with the right technology applied.\r\n\r\nThe idea of bringing your own device to work simple put makes the user feel “empowered”.  A user that is empowered with end point choice is usually happier than one that isn\'t.  Furthermore, if IT can “containerize” the corporate assets that the end user needs on their chosen device they open the door for getting out of the end user hardware business and getting into software as a service.\r\n\r\nThink about it, as an IT admin you want to profile, image, and streamline your end user’s experiences; that way you have consistent, manageable interfaces that the user cannot meddle with.  This would seem almost impossible if everybody brought their own device.  Unless, we abstract the corporate resources needed by the end user thus sandboxing the corporate experience from the chosen end point device.  We’ll get into the specifics of how this can be done in EUC part 2 and 3.\r\n\r\nStay tuned as FLISH MADNESS continues tomorrow as we continue the EUC conversation.','End User Computing Part 1 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6229-revision-7','','','2012-03-13 18:25:17','2012-03-13 18:25:17','',6229,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6229-revision-7',0,'revision','',0),(6255,29,'2012-03-13 18:26:59','2012-03-13 18:26:59','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6231 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iDisc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"177\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEUC part 1 of 3\r\n\r\nIts day two of FLISH MADNESS and today’s topic is End User Computing.\r\n\r\nRecently I was on plane flight coming back from Las Vegas and I looked around half way through the flight to see that 80 % of the people around me were using some type of tablet computing device.  I thought to myself the post PC era is truly underway.  But, we have a ways to go.  First and for most we still have too many devices per person.  Case in point, I carry my laptop, iPad and iPhone to every meeting I go on.  Ideally we would combine at least two of these devices if not all three.\r\n\r\nI envision a world where we have one device (call it an identity disc) where we jack in to computing resources (public, private, personal cloud) as needed.  <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/ipad-3rd-generation-mifi\">Some of us</a> are already taking steps in this direction.  For example, the Cisco Cius can be “docked” into a station where you would have the full keyboard, monitor and mouse capabilities of a traditional desktop.  From there you could launch native applications, VDI from Citrix or VMware or some type of legacy application presentation.\r\n\r\nEnd User computing is one of the most spoken buzz words across all tech industry verticals today.  The actual meaning of the term may depend on whom you are speaking with.  But what it boils down to is empowerment for users of the users and by users.  In IT we no longer live in a world where we have the luxury to control what end point device the users bring to work.  We do have the ability to control the corporate data, how the data gets to the end user (including how it is presented), and finally how the data is secured.\r\n\r\nTo summarize this line of thought, EUC needs three things to be successfully deployed in an IT environment.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\r\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc</li>\r\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Device Agnosticism</strong>\r\n\r\nIt’s happened to every IT admin out there.  A VIU (very important user) for example a CEO or CFO brings in his latest and greatest smart phone and expects it work seamlessly with all corporate systems.  This of course is as tremendous challenge but surmountable with the right technology applied.\r\n\r\nThe idea of bringing your own device to work simple put makes the user feel “empowered”.  A user that is empowered with end point choice is usually happier than one that isn\'t.  Furthermore, if IT can “containerize” the corporate assets that the end user needs on their chosen device they open the door for getting out of the end user hardware business and getting into software as a service.\r\n\r\nThink about it, as an IT admin you want to profile, image, and streamline your end user’s experiences; that way you have consistent, manageable interfaces that the user cannot meddle with.  This would seem almost impossible if everybody brought their own device.  Unless, we abstract the corporate resources needed by the end user thus sandboxing the corporate experience from the chosen end point device.  We’ll get into the specifics of how this can be done in EUC part 2 and 3.\r\n\r\nStay tuned as FLISH MADNESS continues tomorrow as we continue the EUC conversation.','End User Computing Part 1 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6229-revision-8','','','2012-03-13 18:26:59','2012-03-13 18:26:59','',6229,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6229-revision-8',0,'revision','',0),(6242,6,'2012-03-14 14:32:33','2012-03-14 14:32:33','Microsoft is releasing a patch as part of its monthly security updates that should be noted. The cirtical vulnerability is known as <strong>CVE-2012-002</strong>, and it boils down to an exploit in RDP that could allow an attacker to gain access via RDP without authenticating.\n\nThe issue is potentially reachable and accessible as RDP is enabled through many firewalls for remote management, and an attacker could reach the network in question before authentication is required. Microsoft privately self reported the problem first and noted that they have not seen it in the wild, but followed up with a comment on <a title=\"CVE-2012-0002: A closer look at MS12-020\'s critical issue\" href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2012/03/13/cve-2012-0002-a-closer-look-at-ms12-020-s-critical-issue.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Technet</a>, that they do expect to see an exploitable execution code within the next 30 days.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSteps to resolve the issue:\n\n1. Apply the <a title=\"Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-020 - Critical\" href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-020\" target=\"_blank\">update</a> on machines with RDP enabled\n\n2. Enable Network Level Authentication (NLA) on Windows Vista or later machines. Here is a direct link to <a href=\"http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9803082\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft\'s Fix It 50844</a>\n<ul>\n	<li>The Fix IT above is a simple MSI package that enumerates each of the “listener” registry subkeys under HKLM\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Terminal Server\\WinStations and sets the “UserAuthentication” REG_DWORD to 1</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\nNote: Enabling NLA will prevent older cilents (XP &amp; Server 2003) from connecting because they do not support NLA. If you need to initiate an RDP connection from an XP client, be sure to install the <a title=\"Description of the Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP) in Windows XP Service Pack 3\" href=\"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951608\" target=\"_blank\">CredSSP</a>.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFor more information, please visit Microsoft\'s <a title=\"CVE-2012-0002: A closer look at MS12-020\'s critical issue\" href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2012/03/13/cve-2012-0002-a-closer-look-at-ms12-020-s-critical-issue.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Technet Article</a> for the latest.','CVE-2012-0002: MICROSOFT CRITICAL ISSUE ','','inherit','open','open','','6241-revision','','','2012-03-14 14:32:33','2012-03-14 14:32:33','',6241,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6241-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6243,6,'2012-03-14 14:37:20','2012-03-14 14:37:20','Microsoft is releasing a patch as part of its monthly security updates that should be noted. The cirtical vulnerability is known as <strong>CVE-2012-002</strong>, and it boils down to an exploit in RDP that could allow an attacker to gain access via RDP without authenticating.\n\nThe issue is potentially reachable and accessible as RDP is enabled through many firewalls for remote management, and an attacker could reach the network in question before authentication is required. Microsoft privately self reported the problem first and noted that they have not seen it in the wild, but followed up with a comment on <a title=\"CVE-2012-0002: A closer look at MS12-020\'s critical issue\" href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2012/03/13/cve-2012-0002-a-closer-look-at-ms12-020-s-critical-issue.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Technet</a>, that they do expect to see an exploitable execution code within the next 30 days.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSteps to resolve the issue:\n\n1. Apply the <a title=\"Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-020 - Critical\" href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-020\" target=\"_blank\">update</a> on machines with RDP enabled\n\n2. Enable Network Level Authentication (NLA) on Windows Vista or later machines. Here is a direct link to <a href=\"http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9803082\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft\'s Fix It 50844</a>\n<ul>\n	<li>The Fix IT above is a simple MSI package that enumerates each of the “listener” registry subkeys under HKLM\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Terminal Server\\WinStations and sets the “UserAuthentication” REG_DWORD to 1</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\nNote: Enabling NLA will prevent older cilents (XP &amp; Server 2003) from connecting because they do not support NLA. If you need to initiate an RDP connection from an XP client, be sure to install the <a title=\"Description of the Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP) in Windows XP Service Pack 3\" href=\"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951608\" target=\"_blank\">CredSSP</a>.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFor more information, please visit Microsoft\'s <a title=\"CVE-2012-0002: A closer look at MS12-020\'s critical issue\" href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2012/03/13/cve-2012-0002-a-closer-look-at-ms12-020-s-critical-issue.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Technet Article</a> for the latest.','CVE-2012-0002: MICROSOFT CRITICAL ISSUE ','','inherit','open','open','','6241-autosave','','','2012-03-14 14:37:20','2012-03-14 14:37:20','',6241,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6241-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6244,6,'2012-03-14 14:34:51','2012-03-14 14:34:51','Microsoft is releasing a patch as part of its monthly security updates that should be noted. The cirtical vulnerability is known as <strong>CVE-2012-002</strong>, and it boils down to an exploit in RDP that could allow an attacker to gain access via RDP without authenticating.\r\n\r\nThe issue is potentially reachable and accessible as RDP is enabled through many firewalls for remote management, and an attacker could reach the network in question before authentication is required. Microsoft privately self reported the problem first and noted that they have not seen it in the wild, but followed up with a comment on <a title=\"CVE-2012-0002: A closer look at MS12-020\'s critical issue\" href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2012/03/13/cve-2012-0002-a-closer-look-at-ms12-020-s-critical-issue.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Technet</a>, that they do expect to see an exploitable execution code within the next 30 days.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSteps to resolve the issue:\r\n\r\n1. Apply the <a title=\"Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-020 - Critical\" href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-020\" target=\"_blank\">update</a> on machines with RDP enabled\r\n\r\n2. Enable Network Level Authentication (NLA) on Windows Vista or later machines. Here is a direct link to <a href=\"http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9803082\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft\'s Fix It 50844</a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The Fix IT above is a simple MSI package that enumerates each of the “listener” registry subkeys under HKLM\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Terminal Server\\WinStations and sets the “UserAuthentication” REG_DWORD to 1</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNote: Enabling NLA will prevent older cilents (XP &amp; Server 2003) from connecting because they do not support NLA. If you need to initiate an RDP connection from an XP client, be sure to install the <a title=\"Description of the Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP) in Windows XP Service Pack 3\" href=\"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951608\" target=\"_blank\">CredSSP</a>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFor more information, please visit Microsoft\'s <a title=\"CVE-2012-0002: A closer look at MS12-020\'s critical issue\" href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2012/03/13/cve-2012-0002-a-closer-look-at-ms12-020-s-critical-issue.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Technet Article</a> for the latest.','CVE-2012-0002: MICROSOFT CRITICAL ISSUE ','','inherit','open','open','','6241-revision-2','','','2012-03-14 14:34:51','2012-03-14 14:34:51','',6241,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6241-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6246,29,'2012-03-14 20:29:59','2012-03-14 20:29:59','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6247\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHappy Pi Day readers!  It’s day 011 of FLISH MADNESS and we are continuing our conversation on End User Computing.\r\n\r\nTo review, we discussed yesterday that three things are needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.\r\n\r\n1.  Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).\r\n\r\n2.  Application abstraction / Modern Application development (HTML 5)\r\n\r\n3.  Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)\r\n\r\nWe went in depth about topic number one <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/end-user-computing-part-1-of-3#more-6229\">yesterday</a>.\r\n\r\nToday we will discuss topic number 2:\r\n\r\nApplication abstraction / Modern Application development\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nJust about everybody now has a tablet computing device, usually an iPad or Android device.  Those that don’t most likely have some type of smart phone.  The users of these devices are beginning to demand that their corporate legacy applications (most likely written for Microsoft Windows) work with their chosen device.  This can be done in two ways:\r\n\r\nThe first way is to sandbox and present the application to the device.  The “presentation” of the legacy applications really only has one player in the game right now and that is Citrix, though a few others are making strides, namely <a href=\"http://www.ericom.com/citrix_alternative.asp\">Ericom</a>.  It makes sense that Citrix is the leader in this space with their <a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=186\">Xen App</a> product, they have been delivering data and applications from a distance for years.  What Citrix doesn’t do as well as others is abstract the application from the operating system and put it in a sandboxed environment.  VMware’s <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/overview.html\">ThinApp</a> is the best tool in this space (at least in this blogger’s opinion).  What we at eGroup see as the “Best of Breed” design for delivering legacy applications to a mobile platform is first “Thinapping” the legacy app and then presenting the app to the device via Citrix Xen App and the Citrix receiver.  By doing this we are able to actually load more applications per Xen App server with less software conflicts.\r\n\r\nThe second way to get the corporate data and applications to the end point device is to rewrite there frontend interface with the native device programming language.  Though this is obviously more expensive we do have rumors that some of the big players out here are starting to go down this route.  For example, <a href=\"http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/02/21/022112-tech-apps-office/\">Micrsoft Office for the iPad</a>.  There is an obvious advantage to this as the rewritten native applications are going to behave better  with a  “touch” interface then one that was written for a standard desktop OS with a mouse as navigational input device.\r\n\r\nBeyond rewriting the applications with modern native device programming languages there is a large push to design the applications to run within the device’s browsers via HTML 5.  Really this is what JAVA has been trying (successfully in a lot of cases) to do for years.  The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine\">JVM</a> loads an environment that is self-contained and unaware of the underlying operating system.\r\n\r\nIMHO, in the long run I think we will see more and more application rewrites but there will likey always be use cases for packaging legacy applications and presenting them to modern devices.  Mainframes are still around aren’t they?  Though the numbers are dwindling.  Is this the path for x86 systems running Windows Apps?\r\n\r\nBeing the third day of FLISH MADNESS I am going to leave you readers with a little three point basketball factoid.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Chris Ford\" href=\"http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=Chris_Ford\">Chris Ford</a> of the Boston Celtics scored the first three-point field goal in NBA history with 3:48 left in the first quarter of the Celtics\' 114-106 victory over Houston at Boston Garden (October 12, 1979).\r\n\r\nThe difference in the score between the Celtics and the Rockets for that game was 8.  8 multiplied by 3 (3<sup>rd</sup> day of FM) =24.  24 backwards = 42.  42 is Chris Ford’s Jersey number.  MADNESS I tell you.','End User Computing part 2 of 3','','publish','open','open','','euc_part2','','','2012-03-15 13:02:02','2012-03-15 13:02:02','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6246',0,'post','',2),(6247,29,'2012-03-14 20:16:50','2012-03-14 20:16:50','','PiDAY!','','inherit','open','open','','piday','','','2012-03-14 20:16:50','2012-03-14 20:16:50','',6246,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY.gif',0,'attachment','image/gif',0),(6248,29,'2012-03-14 20:24:25','2012-03-14 20:24:25','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6247\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nHappy Pi Day readers!  It’s day 011 of FLISH MADNESS and we are continuing our conversation on End User computing.\n\nTo review, we discussed yesterday that three things are needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.\n<ol>\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5</li>\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\n</ol>\nWe went in depth about topic number one yesterday.\n\nToday we will discuss topic number 2:\n\nApplication abstraction / Modern Application development\n\n<!--more-->\n\nJust about everybody now has a tablet computing device, usually an iPad or Android device.  Those that don’t most likely have some type of smart phone.  The users of these devices are beginning to demand that their corporate legacy applications (most likely written for Microsoft Windows) work with their chosen device.  This can be done in two ways:\n\nThe first way is to sand box and present the application to the device.  The “presentation” of the legacy applications really only has one player in the game right now and that is Citrix, though a few others are making strides, namely <a href=\"http://www.ericom.com/citrix_alternative.asp\">Ericom</a>.  It makes since that Citrix is the leader in this space with their <a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=186\">Xen App</a> product, they have been delivering data and applications from a distance for years.  What Citrix doesn’t do as well as others is abstract the application from the operating system and put it in a sandboxed environment.  VMware’s <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/overview.html\">ThinApp</a> is the best tool in this space (at least in this blogger’s opinion).  What we at eGroup see as the “Best of Breed” design for delivering applications to a mobile platform is first “Thinapping” the legacy application and then presenting the application to the device via Citrix Xen App and the Citrix receiver.  By doing this we are able to actually load more applications per Xen App server with less software conflicts.\n\nThe second way to get the corporate data and applications to the end point device is to rewrite there frontend interface with the native device programming language.  Though this is obviously more expensive we do have rumors that some of the big players out here are starting to go down this route.  For example, Micrsoft Office for the iPad.  There is an obvious advantage to this as the rewritten native applications are going to behave better  with a  “touch” interface then one that was written for a standard desktop OS with a mouse as navigational input device.\n\nBeyond rewriting the applications with modern native device programming languages there is a large push to design the applications to run within the device’s browsers (HTML 5).  Really this is what JAVA has been trying (successfully in a lot of cases) to do for years.  The JVM loads an environment  that is self-contained and unaware of the underlying operating system.\n\nIMHO, in the long run I think we will see more and more application rewrites but there will likey always be use cases for packaging legacy applications and presenting them to modern devices.  Mainframes are still around aren’t they?  Though the numbers are dwindling.  Is this the path for x86 PC based systems running Windows?\n\nBeing the third day of FLISH MADNESS I am going to leave you readers with a little three point basketball factoid.\n\n<a title=\"Chris Ford\" href=\"http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=Chris_Ford\">Chris Ford</a> of the Boston Celtics scored the first three-point field goal in NBA history with 3:48 left in the first quarter of the Celtics\' 114-106 victory over Houston at Boston Garden (October 12, 1979).\n\nThe difference in the score between the Celtics and the Rockets for that game was 8.  8 multiplied by 3 (3<sup>rd</sup> day of FM) =24.  24 backwards = 42.  42 is Chris Ford’s Jersey number.   MADNESS I tell you.','End User Computing part 2 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6246-revision','','','2012-03-14 20:24:25','2012-03-14 20:24:25','',6246,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6246-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6249,29,'2012-03-14 20:29:14','2012-03-14 20:29:14','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6247\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nHappy Pi Day readers!  It’s day 011 of FLISH MADNESS and we are continuing our conversation on End User computing.\n\nTo review, we discussed yesterday that three things are needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.\n<ol>\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5</li>\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\n</ol>\nWe went in depth about topic number one yesterday.\n\nToday we will discuss topic number 2:\n\nApplication abstraction / Modern Application development\n\n<!--more-->\n\nJust about everybody now has a tablet computing device, usually an iPad or Android device.  Those that don’t most likely have some type of smart phone.  The users of these devices are beginning to demand that their corporate legacy applications (most likely written for Microsoft Windows) work with their chosen device.  This can be done in two ways:\n\nThe first way is to sand box and present the application to the device.  The “presentation” of the legacy applications really only has one player in the game right now and that is Citrix, though a few others are making strides, namely <a href=\"http://www.ericom.com/citrix_alternative.asp\">Ericom</a>.  It makes since that Citrix is the leader in this space with their <a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=186\">Xen App</a> product, they have been delivering data and applications from a distance for years.  What Citrix doesn’t do as well as others is abstract the application from the operating system and put it in a sandboxed environment.  VMware’s <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/overview.html\">ThinApp</a> is the best tool in this space (at least in this blogger’s opinion).  What we at eGroup see as the “Best of Breed” design for delivering applications to a mobile platform is first “Thinapping” the legacy application and then presenting the application to the device via Citrix Xen App and the Citrix receiver.  By doing this we are able to actually load more applications per Xen App server with less software conflicts.\n\nThe second way to get the corporate data and applications to the end point device is to rewrite there frontend interface with the native device programming language.  Though this is obviously more expensive we do have rumors that some of the big players out here are starting to go down this route.  For example, <a href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-57381656-266/microsoft-office-app-coming-to-ipad/?tag=mncol;txt\">Micrsoft Office for the iPad</a>.  There is an obvious advantage to this as the rewritten native applications are going to behave better  with a  “touch” interface then one that was written for a standard desktop OS with a mouse as navigational input device.\n\nBeyond rewriting the applications with modern native device programming languages there is a large push to design the applications to run within the device’s browsers via HTML 5.  Really this is what JAVA has been trying (successfully in a lot of cases) to do for years.  The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine\">JVM</a> loads an environment that is self-contained and unaware of the underlying operating system.\n\nIMHO, in the long run I think we will see more and more application rewrites but there will likey always be use cases for packaging legacy applications and presenting them to modern devices.  Mainframes are still around aren’t they?  Though the numbers are dwindling.  Is this the path for x86 systems running Windows Apps?\n\nBeing the third day of FLISH MADNESS I am going to leave you readers with a little three point basketball factoid.\n\n<a title=\"Chris Ford\" href=\"http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=Chris_Ford\">Chris Ford</a> of the Boston Celtics scored the first three-point field goal in NBA history with 3:48 left in the first quarter of the Celtics\' 114-106 victory over Houston at Boston Garden (October 12, 1979).\n\nThe difference in the score between the Celtics and the Rockets for that game was 8.  8 multiplied by 3 (3<sup>rd</sup> day of FM) =24.  24 backwards = 42.  42 is Chris Ford’s Jersey number.   MADNESS I tell you.','End User Computing part 2 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6246-revision-2','','','2012-03-14 20:29:14','2012-03-14 20:29:14','',6246,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6246-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6250,29,'2012-03-14 20:29:52','2012-03-14 20:29:52','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6247\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHappy Pi Day readers!  It’s day 011 of FLISH MADNESS and we are continuing our conversation on End User computing.\r\n\r\nTo review, we discussed yesterday that three things are needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\r\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5</li>\r\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nWe went in depth about topic number one yesterday.\r\n\r\nToday we will discuss topic number 2:\r\n\r\nApplication abstraction / Modern Application development\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nJust about everybody now has a tablet computing device, usually an iPad or Android device.  Those that don’t most likely have some type of smart phone.  The users of these devices are beginning to demand that their corporate legacy applications (most likely written for Microsoft Windows) work with their chosen device.  This can be done in two ways:\r\n\r\nThe first way is to sand box and present the application to the device.  The “presentation” of the legacy applications really only has one player in the game right now and that is Citrix, though a few others are making strides, namely <a href=\"http://www.ericom.com/citrix_alternative.asp\">Ericom</a>.  It makes since that Citrix is the leader in this space with their <a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=186\">Xen App</a> product, they have been delivering data and applications from a distance for years.  What Citrix doesn’t do as well as others is abstract the application from the operating system and put it in a sandboxed environment.  VMware’s <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/overview.html\">ThinApp</a> is the best tool in this space (at least in this blogger’s opinion).  What we at eGroup see as the “Best of Breed” design for delivering applications to a mobile platform is first “Thinapping” the legacy application and then presenting the application to the device via Citrix Xen App and the Citrix receiver.  By doing this we are able to actually load more applications per Xen App server with less software conflicts.\r\n\r\nThe second way to get the corporate data and applications to the end point device is to rewrite there frontend interface with the native device programming language.  Though this is obviously more expensive we do have rumors that some of the big players out here are starting to go down this route.  For example, <a href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-57381656-266/microsoft-office-app-coming-to-ipad/?tag=mncol;txt\">Micrsoft Office for the iPad</a>.  There is an obvious advantage to this as the rewritten native applications are going to behave better  with a  “touch” interface then one that was written for a standard desktop OS with a mouse as navigational input device.\r\n\r\nBeyond rewriting the applications with modern native device programming languages there is a large push to design the applications to run within the device’s browsers via HTML 5.  Really this is what JAVA has been trying (successfully in a lot of cases) to do for years.  The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine\">JVM</a> loads an environment that is self-contained and unaware of the underlying operating system.\r\n\r\nIMHO, in the long run I think we will see more and more application rewrites but there will likey always be use cases for packaging legacy applications and presenting them to modern devices.  Mainframes are still around aren’t they?  Though the numbers are dwindling.  Is this the path for x86 systems running Windows Apps?\r\n\r\nBeing the third day of FLISH MADNESS I am going to leave you readers with a little three point basketball factoid.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Chris Ford\" href=\"http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=Chris_Ford\">Chris Ford</a> of the Boston Celtics scored the first three-point field goal in NBA history with 3:48 left in the first quarter of the Celtics\' 114-106 victory over Houston at Boston Garden (October 12, 1979).\r\n\r\nThe difference in the score between the Celtics and the Rockets for that game was 8.  8 multiplied by 3 (3<sup>rd</sup> day of FM) =24.  24 backwards = 42.  42 is Chris Ford’s Jersey number.   MADNESS I tell you.','End User Computing part 2 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6246-revision-3','','','2012-03-14 20:29:52','2012-03-14 20:29:52','',6246,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6246-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6253,29,'2012-03-14 20:33:49','2012-03-14 20:33:49','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6247\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHappy Pi Day readers!  It’s day 011 of FLISH MADNESS and we are continuing our conversation on End User computing.\r\n\r\nTo review, we discussed yesterday that three things are needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.\r\n\r\n1.  Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).\r\n\r\n2.  Application abstraction / Modern Application development (HTML 5)\r\n\r\n3.  Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)\r\n\r\nWe went in depth about topic number one yesterday.\r\n\r\nToday we will discuss topic number 2:\r\n\r\nApplication abstraction / Modern Application development\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nJust about everybody now has a tablet computing device, usually an iPad or Android device.  Those that don’t most likely have some type of smart phone.  The users of these devices are beginning to demand that their corporate legacy applications (most likely written for Microsoft Windows) work with their chosen device.  This can be done in two ways:\r\n\r\nThe first way is to sand box and present the application to the device.  The “presentation” of the legacy applications really only has one player in the game right now and that is Citrix, though a few others are making strides, namely <a href=\"http://www.ericom.com/citrix_alternative.asp\">Ericom</a>.  It makes since that Citrix is the leader in this space with their <a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=186\">Xen App</a> product, they have been delivering data and applications from a distance for years.  What Citrix doesn’t do as well as others is abstract the application from the operating system and put it in a sandboxed environment.  VMware’s <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/overview.html\">ThinApp</a> is the best tool in this space (at least in this blogger’s opinion).  What we at eGroup see as the “Best of Breed” design for delivering applications to a mobile platform is first “Thinapping” the legacy application and then presenting the application to the device via Citrix Xen App and the Citrix receiver.  By doing this we are able to actually load more applications per Xen App server with less software conflicts.\r\n\r\nThe second way to get the corporate data and applications to the end point device is to rewrite there frontend interface with the native device programming language.  Though this is obviously more expensive we do have rumors that some of the big players out here are starting to go down this route.  For example, <a href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-57381656-266/microsoft-office-app-coming-to-ipad/?tag=mncol;txt\">Micrsoft Office for the iPad</a>.  There is an obvious advantage to this as the rewritten native applications are going to behave better  with a  “touch” interface then one that was written for a standard desktop OS with a mouse as navigational input device.\r\n\r\nBeyond rewriting the applications with modern native device programming languages there is a large push to design the applications to run within the device’s browsers via HTML 5.  Really this is what JAVA has been trying (successfully in a lot of cases) to do for years.  The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine\">JVM</a> loads an environment that is self-contained and unaware of the underlying operating system.\r\n\r\nIMHO, in the long run I think we will see more and more application rewrites but there will likey always be use cases for packaging legacy applications and presenting them to modern devices.  Mainframes are still around aren’t they?  Though the numbers are dwindling.  Is this the path for x86 systems running Windows Apps?\r\n\r\nBeing the third day of FLISH MADNESS I am going to leave you readers with a little three point basketball factoid.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Chris Ford\" href=\"http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=Chris_Ford\">Chris Ford</a> of the Boston Celtics scored the first three-point field goal in NBA history with 3:48 left in the first quarter of the Celtics\' 114-106 victory over Houston at Boston Garden (October 12, 1979).\r\n\r\nThe difference in the score between the Celtics and the Rockets for that game was 8.  8 multiplied by 3 (3<sup>rd</sup> day of FM) =24.  24 backwards = 42.  42 is Chris Ford’s Jersey number.   MADNESS I tell you.','End User Computing part 2 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6246-revision-5','','','2012-03-14 20:33:49','2012-03-14 20:33:49','',6246,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6246-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(6251,29,'2012-03-15 13:03:07','2012-03-15 13:03:07','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6247\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nHappy Pi Day readers!  It’s day 011 of FLISH MADNESS and we are continuing our conversation on End User Computing.\n\nTo review, we discussed yesterday that three things are needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.\n\n1.  Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).\n\n2.  Application abstraction / Modern Application development (HTML 5)\n\n3.  Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)\n\nWe went in depth about topic number one <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/end-user-computing-part-1-of-3#more-6229\">yesterday</a>.\n\nToday we will discuss topic number 2:\n\nApplication abstraction / Modern Application development\n\n<!--more-->\n\nJust about everybody now has a tablet computing device, usually an iPad or Android device.  Those that don’t most likely have some type of smart phone.  The users of these devices are beginning to demand that their corporate legacy applications (most likely written for Microsoft Windows) work with their chosen device.  This can be done in two ways:\n\nThe first way is to sandbox and present the application to the device.  The “presentation” of the legacy applications really only has one player in the game right now and that is Citrix, though a few others are making strides, namely <a href=\"http://www.ericom.com/citrix_alternative.asp\">Ericom</a>.  It makes sense that Citrix is the leader in this space with their <a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=186\">Xen App</a> product, they have been delivering data and applications from a distance for years.  What Citrix doesn’t do as well as others is abstract the application from the operating system and put it in a sandboxed environment.  VMware’s <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/overview.html\">ThinApp</a> is the best tool in this space (at least in this blogger’s opinion).  What we at eGroup see as the “Best of Breed” design for delivering legacy applications to a mobile platform is first “Thinapping” the legacy app and then presenting the app to the device via Citrix Xen App and the Citrix receiver.  By doing this we are able to actually load more applications per Xen App server with less software conflicts.\n\nThe second way to get the corporate data and applications to the end point device is to rewrite there frontend interface with the native device programming language.  Though this is obviously more expensive we do have rumors that some of the big players out here are starting to go down this route.  For example, <a href=\"http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/02/21/022112-tech-apps-office/\">Micrsoft Office for the iPad</a>.  There is an obvious advantage to this as the rewritten native applications are going to behave better  with a  “touch” interface then one that was written for a standard desktop OS with a mouse as navigational input device.\n\nBeyond rewriting the applications with modern native device programming languages there is a large push to design the applications to run within the device’s browsers via HTML 5.  Really this is what JAVA has been trying (successfully in a lot of cases) to do for years.  The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine\">JVM</a> loads an environment that is self-contained and unaware of the underlying operating system.\n\nIMHO, in the long run I think we will see more and more application rewrites but there will likey always be use cases for packaging legacy applications and presenting them to modern devices.  Mainframes are still around aren’t they?  Though the numbers are dwindling.  Is this the path for x86 systems running Windows Apps?\n\nBeing the third day of FLISH MADNESS I am going to leave you readers with a little three point basketball factoid.\n\n<a title=\"Chris Ford\" href=\"http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=Chris_Ford\">Chris Ford</a> of the Boston Celtics scored the first three-point field goal in NBA history with 3:48 left in the first quarter of the Celtics\' 114-106 victory over Houston at Boston Garden (October 12, 1979).\n\nThe difference in the score between the Celtics and the Rockets for that game was 8.  8 multiplied by 3 (3<sup>rd</sup> day of FM) =24.  24 backwards = 42.  42 is Chris Ford’s Jersey number.  MADNESS I tell you.','End User Computing part 2 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6246-autosave','','','2012-03-15 13:03:07','2012-03-15 13:03:07','',6246,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6246-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6252,29,'2012-03-14 20:29:59','2012-03-14 20:29:59','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6247\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHappy Pi Day readers!  It’s day 011 of FLISH MADNESS and we are continuing our conversation on End User computing.\r\n\r\nTo review, we discussed yesterday that three things are needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\r\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5</li>\r\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nWe went in depth about topic number one yesterday.\r\n\r\nToday we will discuss topic number 2:\r\n\r\nApplication 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as well as others is abstract the application from the operating system and put it in a sandboxed environment.  VMware’s <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/overview.html\">ThinApp</a> is the best tool in this space (at least in this blogger’s opinion).  What we at eGroup see as the “Best of Breed” design for delivering applications to a mobile platform is first “Thinapping” the legacy application and then presenting the application to the device via Citrix Xen App and the Citrix receiver.  By doing this we are able to actually load more applications per Xen App server with less software conflicts.\r\n\r\nThe second way to get the corporate data and applications to the end point device is to rewrite there frontend interface with the native device programming language.  Though this is obviously more expensive we do have rumors that some of the big players out here are starting to go down this route.  For example, <a href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-57381656-266/microsoft-office-app-coming-to-ipad/?tag=mncol;txt\">Micrsoft Office for the iPad</a>.  There is an obvious advantage to this as the rewritten native applications are going to behave better  with a  “touch” interface then one that was written for a standard desktop OS with a mouse as navigational input device.\r\n\r\nBeyond rewriting the applications with modern native device programming languages there is a large push to design the applications to run within the device’s browsers via HTML 5.  Really this is what JAVA has been trying (successfully in a lot of cases) to do for years.  The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine\">JVM</a> loads an environment that is self-contained and unaware of the underlying operating system.\r\n\r\nIMHO, in the long run I think we will see more and more application rewrites but there will likey always be use cases for packaging legacy applications and presenting them to modern devices.  Mainframes are still around aren’t they?  Though the numbers are dwindling.  Is this the path for x86 systems running Windows Apps?\r\n\r\nBeing the third day of FLISH MADNESS I am going to leave you readers with a little three point basketball factoid.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Chris Ford\" href=\"http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=Chris_Ford\">Chris Ford</a> of the Boston Celtics scored the first three-point field goal in NBA history with 3:48 left in the first quarter of the Celtics\' 114-106 victory over Houston at Boston Garden (October 12, 1979).\r\n\r\nThe difference in the score between the Celtics and the Rockets for that game was 8.  8 multiplied by 3 (3<sup>rd</sup> day of FM) =24.  24 backwards = 42.  42 is Chris Ford’s Jersey number.   MADNESS I tell you.','End User Computing part 2 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6246-revision-4','','','2012-03-14 20:29:59','2012-03-14 20:29:59','',6246,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6246-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6254,29,'2012-03-14 20:34:39','2012-03-14 20:34:39','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6247\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHappy Pi Day readers!  It’s day 011 of FLISH MADNESS and we are continuing our conversation on End User computing.\r\n\r\nTo review, we discussed yesterday that three things are needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.\r\n\r\n1.  Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).\r\n\r\n2.  Application abstraction / Modern Application development (HTML 5)\r\n\r\n3.  Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)\r\n\r\nWe went in depth about topic number one yesterday.\r\n\r\nToday we will discuss topic number 2:\r\n\r\nApplication abstraction / Modern Application development\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nJust about everybody now has a tablet computing device, usually an iPad or Android device.  Those that don’t most likely have some type of smart phone.  The users of these devices are beginning to demand that their corporate legacy applications (most likely written for Microsoft Windows) work with their chosen device.  This can be done in two ways:\r\n\r\nThe first way is to sand box and present the application to the device.  The “presentation” of the legacy applications really only has one player in the game right now and that is Citrix, though a few others are making strides, namely <a href=\"http://www.ericom.com/citrix_alternative.asp\">Ericom</a>.  It makes since that Citrix is the leader in this space with their <a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=186\">Xen App</a> product, they have been delivering data and applications from a distance for years.  What Citrix doesn’t do as well as others is abstract the application from the operating system and put it in a sandboxed environment.  VMware’s <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/overview.html\">ThinApp</a> is the best tool in this space (at least in this blogger’s opinion).  What we at eGroup see as the “Best of Breed” design for delivering applications to a mobile platform is first “Thinapping” the legacy application and then presenting the application to the device via Citrix Xen App and the Citrix receiver.  By doing this we are able to actually load more applications per Xen App server with less software conflicts.\r\n\r\nThe second way to get the corporate data and applications to the end point device is to rewrite there frontend interface with the native device programming language.  Though this is obviously more expensive we do have rumors that some of the big players out here are starting to go down this route.  For example, <a href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-57381656-266/microsoft-office-app-coming-to-ipad/?tag=mncol;txt\">Micrsoft Office for the iPad</a>.  There is an obvious advantage to this as the rewritten native applications are going to behave better  with a  “touch” interface then one that was written for a standard desktop OS with a mouse as navigational input device.\r\n\r\nBeyond rewriting the applications with modern native device programming languages there is a large push to design the applications to run within the device’s browsers via HTML 5.  Really this is what JAVA has been trying (successfully in a lot of cases) to do for years.  The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine\">JVM</a> loads an environment that is self-contained and unaware of the underlying operating system.\r\n\r\nIMHO, in the long run I think we will see more and more application rewrites but there will likey always be use cases for packaging legacy applications and presenting them to modern devices.  Mainframes are still around aren’t they?  Though the numbers are dwindling.  Is this the path for x86 systems running Windows Apps?\r\n\r\nBeing the third day of FLISH MADNESS I am going to leave you readers with a little three point basketball factoid.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Chris Ford\" href=\"http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=Chris_Ford\">Chris Ford</a> of the Boston Celtics scored the first three-point field goal in NBA history with 3:48 left in the first quarter of the Celtics\' 114-106 victory over Houston at Boston Garden (October 12, 1979).\r\n\r\nThe difference in the score between the Celtics and the Rockets for that game was 8.  8 multiplied by 3 (3<sup>rd</sup> day of FM) =24.  24 backwards = 42.  42 is Chris Ford’s Jersey number.  MADNESS I tell you.','End User Computing part 2 of 3','','inherit','open','open','','6246-revision-6','','','2012-03-14 20:34:39','2012-03-14 20:34:39','',6246,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6246-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(6257,29,'2012-03-14 20:54:44','2012-03-14 20:54:44','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6247\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PiDAY-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHappy Pi Day readers!  It’s day 011 of FLISH MADNESS and we are continuing our conversation on End User computing.\r\n\r\nTo review, we discussed yesterday that three things are needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.\r\n\r\n1.  Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).\r\n\r\n2.  Application abstraction / Modern Application development (HTML 5)\r\n\r\n3.  Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)\r\n\r\nWe went in depth about topic number one yesterday.\r\n\r\nToday we will discuss topic number 2:\r\n\r\nApplication abstraction / Modern 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abstract the application from the operating system and put it in a sandboxed environment.  VMware’s <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/overview.html\">ThinApp</a> is the best tool in this space (at least in this blogger’s opinion).  What we at eGroup see as the “Best of Breed” design for delivering applications to a mobile platform is first “Thinapping” the legacy application and then presenting the application to the device via Citrix Xen App and the Citrix receiver.  By doing this we are able to actually load more applications per Xen App server with less software conflicts.\r\n\r\nThe second way to get the corporate data and applications to the end point device is to rewrite there frontend interface with the native device programming language.  Though this is obviously more expensive we do have rumors that some of the big players out here are starting to go down this route.  For example, <a href=\"http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/02/21/022112-tech-apps-office/\">Micrsoft Office for the iPad</a>.  There is an obvious advantage to this as the rewritten native applications are going to behave better  with a  “touch” interface then one that was written for a standard desktop OS with a mouse as navigational input device.\r\n\r\nBeyond rewriting the applications with modern native device programming languages there is a large push to design the applications to run within the device’s browsers via HTML 5.  Really this is what JAVA has been trying (successfully in a lot of cases) to do for years.  The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine\">JVM</a> loads an environment that is self-contained and unaware of the underlying operating system.\r\n\r\nIMHO, in the long run I think we will see more and more application rewrites but there will likey always be use cases for packaging legacy applications and presenting them to modern devices.  Mainframes are still 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21:42:54','2012-03-15 21:42:54','On this fourth day of FLISH MADNESS I originally intended to continue the conversation around <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/end-user-computing-part-1-of-3\">EUC</a>.  However, I am right in the middle of a Cisco UCS class and we discovered an error while trying to mount an ISO image through the UCS manager (version 2.01t) on one of our B-Series Blades.  I thought it would be good to have a quick write up on this in case someone else runs into the same error.\r\n\r\nThe Virtual Media program will close.\r\n\r\nReason:  The Virtual Media native library cannot be loaded.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/virtual-media-error.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-6259 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/virtual-media-error-300x107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"107\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nScouring Google and exhausting all other resources resulted in nothing.  Turns out it was a (hold your breath) a JAVA issue on the client machine we were using.  Go figure?\r\n\r\nSOLUTION: Uninstall any 64 bit versions of Java and install a 32 bit version of Java.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/virtual-media-success.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6260\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/virtual-media-success-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSuccess!\r\n\r\nThat’s it for today folks, short and sweet.  We’ll conclude FLISH MADNESS tomorrow with End User Computing part 3 or 3.','Cisco UCS Virtual Media Error','','publish','open','open','','cisco-ucs-virtual-media-error','','','2012-03-15 21:42:54','2012-03-15 21:42:54','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6258',0,'post','',2),(6259,29,'2012-03-15 21:34:38','2012-03-15 21:34:38','','virtual media 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quick write up on this in case someone else runs into the same error.\n\nThe Virtual Media program will close.\n\nReason:  The Virtual Media native library cannot be loaded.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/virtual-media-error.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-6259 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/virtual-media-error-300x107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"107\" /></a>\n\n<!--more-->\n\nScouring Google and exhausting all other resources resulted in nothing.  Turns out it was a (hold your breath) a JAVA issue on the client machine we were using.  Go figure?\n\nSOLUTION: Uninstall any 64 bit versions of Java and install a 32 bit version of Java.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/virtual-media-success.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6260\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/virtual-media-success-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" /></a>\n\nSuccess!\n\nThat’s it for today folks, short and sweet.  We’ll conclude FLISH MADNESS tomorrow with End User Computing part 3 or 3.','Cisco UCS Virtual Media Error','','inherit','open','open','','6258-revision','','','2012-03-15 21:42:48','2012-03-15 21:42:48','',6258,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6258-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6262,29,'2012-03-15 21:44:48','2012-03-15 21:44:48','On this fourth day of FLISH MADNESS I originally intended to continue the conversation around <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/end-user-computing-part-1-of-3\">EUC</a>.  However, I am right in the middle of a Cisco UCS class and we discovered an error while trying to mount an ISO image through the UCS manager (version 2.01t) on one of our B-Series Blades.  I thought it would be good to have a quick write up on this in case someone else runs into the same error.\n\nThe Virtual Media program will close.\n\nReason:  The Virtual Media native library cannot be loaded.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/virtual-media-error.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-6259 aligncenter\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/virtual-media-error-300x107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"107\" /></a>\n\n<!--more-->\n\nScouring Google and exhausting all other resources resulted in nothing.  Turns out it was a (hold your breath) a JAVA issue on the client machine we were using.  Go figure?\n\nSOLUTION: Uninstall any 64 bit versions of Java and install a 32 bit version of Java.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/virtual-media-success.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6260\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/virtual-media-success-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" /></a>\n\nSuccess!\n\nThat’s it for today folks, short and sweet.  We’ll conclude FLISH MADNESS tomorrow with End User Computing part 3 or 3.','Cisco UCS Virtual Media Error','','inherit','open','open','','6258-autosave','','','2012-03-15 21:44:48','2012-03-15 21:44:48','',6258,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6258-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6263,12,'2012-03-15 22:02:58','2012-03-15 22:02:58','Citrix held their launch event on Twitter this week and I participated as much as I could, asking a bunch of questions and receiving a couple of answers. The \"new\" Personal vDisk sounded like one of the more beneficial enhancements I\'ve heard in a while, so I decided to test it out.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a quick overview on the Personal vDisk feature.\r\n\r\nThe PVD attaches as a separate \"disk\" to a virtual desktop and \"intercepts\" IO requests from the user logged in. It then takes these requests and writes them to the PVD instead of the base image disk. Because of this, users can store their profiles, download files, and even install applications with 100%  \"personalization persistence\" maintained across base image updates.\r\n\r\nPVD Desktops use a \"pooled\" model instead of the Dedicated model, which retains the simplicity of managing a single base image for updates, patches, standard business applications, etc. and greatly reduces the cost of storage that would be required for the Dedicated desktop model.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<strong>Important: </strong>However, it\'s important to note that while the desktops are pooled, the users are still assigned to a desktop in a 1:1 fashion, and receive the same desktop every time they log in, the assignment is handled automatically on first login.\r\n\r\n<strong><img src=\"//9448D709-F79C-4B06-9EE9-1DD2F304E7C1/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong>\r\n\r\nWhile admittedly a bit weak in this area, my understanding of the \"pre-PVD\" pain points were as follows:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If the user needed to make changes or install apps to their virtual desktop, you used Dedicated desktops.</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated desktops lose the storage benefits of using a single \"master\" image, as each desktop can occupy the same space of the original \"golden desktop\". If you had a 30GB base image, each virtual desktop could occupy  30GB . Scale that to 1,000 users? Ouch!</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated desktops also lose the management benefits of having a single image, a single place to install apps, patches, hot fixes and Service Packs, as they\'re managed individually like you would in the physical desktop world.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou can see from the list above that while there\'s a need and a use case for Dedicated desktops, it\'s certainly not the best solution, and it\'s here that the PVD can be very useful. In fact, Citrix tweeted that the PVD technology was intended to replace the need and use case for persistent desktops entirely. Check their twitter feed if you don\'t believe me. http://www.twitter.com/xendesktop\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>@david_obrien \"who really needs dedicated desktops now that PvD is integrated?can\'t think of a use case?! #XDLaunch\"</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>‏@XenDesktop \"@david_obrien Agree on that trend. That is the intent and goal of PvD ... and will continue to be the focus.\"</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>After spending a few hours testing it, I can say I\'m a fan of the technology-- it works great, and it solves a real problem. But it\'s NOT the end game yet. I\'ll elaborate in the following Parts.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK - PART I ','','publish','open','open','','citrix-xendesktop-5-6-personal-vdisk-part-i','','','2012-03-15 22:02:58','2012-03-15 22:02:58','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6263',0,'post','',0),(6264,12,'2012-03-15 21:56:18','2012-03-15 21:56:18','','Citrix - XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK ','','inherit','open','open','','6263-revision','','','2012-03-15 21:56:18','2012-03-15 21:56:18','',6263,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6263-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6265,12,'2012-03-15 21:56:27','2012-03-15 21:56:27','Citrix held their launch event on Twitter this week and I participated as much as I could, asking a bunch of questions and receiving a couple of answers. The \"new\" Personal vDisk sounded like one of the more beneficial enhancements I\'ve heard in a while, so I decided to test it out.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a quick overview on the Personal vDisk feature.\r\n\r\nThe PVD attaches as a separate \"disk\" to a virtual desktop and \"intercepts\" IO requests from the user logged in. It then takes these requests and writes them to the PVD instead of the base image disk. Because of this, users can store their profiles, download files, and even install applications with 100%  \"personalization persistence\" maintained across base image updates.\r\n\r\nPVD Desktops use a \"pooled\" model instead of the Dedicated model, maintaining the simplicity of managing a single base image for updates, patches, standard business applications, etc. and greatly reduces the cost of storage that would be required for the Dedicated desktop model.\r\n\r\n<strong>Important: </strong>However, it\'s important to note that while the desktops are pooled, the users are still assigned to a desktop in a 1:1 fashion, and receive the same desktop every time they log in. This assignment is done automatically on the first login.\r\n\r\n<strong><img src=\"//9448D709-F79C-4B06-9EE9-1DD2F304E7C1/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong>\r\n\r\nWhile admittedly a bit weak in this area, my understanding of the \"pre-PVD\" pain points were as follows:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If the user needed to make changes or install apps to their virtual desktop, you used Dedicated desktops.</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated desktops lose the storage benefits of using a single \"master\" image, as each desktop can occupy the same size of the original \"golden desktop\". If you had a 30GB base image, each virtual desktop could occupy  30GB . Scale that to 1,000 users? Ouch!</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated desktops also lose the management benefits of having a single image, a single place to install apps, patches, hot fixes and Service Packs, as they\'re managed individually like you would in the physical desktop world.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou can see from the list above that while there\'s a need and a use case for Dedicated desktops, it\'s certainly not the best solution, and it\'s here that the PVD can be very useful. In fact, Citrix tweeted that the PVD technology was intended to replace the need and use case for persistent desktops entirely. Check their twitter feed if you don\'t believe me. http://www.twitter.com/xendesktop\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>@david_obrien \"who really needs dedicated desktops now that PvD is integrated?can\'t think of a use case?! #XDLaunch\"</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>‏@XenDesktop \"@david_obrien Agree on that trend. That is the intent and goal of PvD ... and will continue to be the focus.\"</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>After spending a few hours testing it, I can say I\'m a fan of the technology-- it works great, and it solves a real problem. But it\'s NOT the end game yet. I\'ll elaborate in Part II.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','Citrix - XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK ','','inherit','open','open','','6263-revision-2','','','2012-03-15 21:56:27','2012-03-15 21:56:27','',6263,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6263-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6266,12,'2012-03-15 21:56:45','2012-03-15 21:56:45','Citrix held their launch event on Twitter this week and I participated as much as I could, asking a bunch of questions and receiving a couple of answers. The \"new\" Personal vDisk sounded like one of the more beneficial enhancements I\'ve heard in a while, so I decided to test it out.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a quick overview on the Personal vDisk feature.\r\n\r\nThe PVD attaches as a separate \"disk\" to a virtual desktop and \"intercepts\" IO requests from the user logged in. It then takes these requests and writes them to the PVD instead of the base image disk. Because of this, users can store their profiles, download files, and even install applications with 100%  \"personalization persistence\" maintained across base image updates.\r\n\r\nPVD Desktops use a \"pooled\" model instead of the Dedicated model, maintaining the simplicity of managing a single base image for updates, patches, standard business applications, etc. and greatly reduces the cost of storage that would be required for the Dedicated desktop model.\r\n\r\n<strong>Important: </strong>However, it\'s important to note that while the desktops are pooled, the users are still assigned to a desktop in a 1:1 fashion, and receive the same desktop every time they log in. This assignment is done automatically on the first login.\r\n\r\n<strong><img src=\"//9448D709-F79C-4B06-9EE9-1DD2F304E7C1/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong>\r\n\r\nWhile admittedly a bit weak in this area, my understanding of the \"pre-PVD\" pain points were as follows:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If the user needed to make changes or install apps to their virtual desktop, you used Dedicated desktops.</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated desktops lose the storage benefits of using a single \"master\" image, as each desktop can occupy the same size of the original \"golden desktop\". If you had a 30GB base image, each virtual desktop could occupy  30GB . Scale that to 1,000 users? Ouch!</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated desktops also lose the management benefits of having a single image, a single place to install apps, patches, hot fixes and Service Packs, as they\'re managed individually like you would in the physical desktop world.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou can see from the list above that while there\'s a need and a use case for Dedicated desktops, it\'s certainly not the best solution, and it\'s here that the PVD can be very useful. In fact, Citrix tweeted that the PVD technology was intended to replace the need and use case for persistent desktops entirely. Check their twitter feed if you don\'t believe me. http://www.twitter.com/xendesktop\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>@david_obrien \"who really needs dedicated desktops now that PvD is integrated?can\'t think of a use case?! #XDLaunch\"</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>‏@XenDesktop \"@david_obrien Agree on that trend. That is the intent and goal of PvD ... and will continue to be the focus.\"</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>After spending a few hours testing it, I can say I\'m a fan of the technology-- it works great, and it solves a real problem. But it\'s NOT the end game yet. I\'ll elaborate in Part II.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','Citrix - XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK ','','inherit','open','open','','6263-revision-3','','','2012-03-15 21:56:45','2012-03-15 21:56:45','',6263,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6263-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6267,12,'2012-03-15 21:56:52','2012-03-15 21:56:52','Citrix held their launch event on Twitter this week and I participated as much as I could, asking a bunch of questions and receiving a couple of answers. The \"new\" Personal vDisk sounded like one of the more beneficial enhancements I\'ve heard in a while, so I decided to test it out.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a quick overview on the Personal vDisk feature.\r\n\r\nThe PVD attaches as a separate \"disk\" to a virtual desktop and \"intercepts\" IO requests from the user logged in. It then takes these requests and writes them to the PVD instead of the base image disk. Because of this, users can store their profiles, download files, and even install applications with 100%  \"personalization persistence\" maintained across base image updates.\r\n\r\nPVD Desktops use a \"pooled\" model instead of the Dedicated model, maintaining the simplicity of managing a single base image for updates, patches, standard business applications, etc. and greatly reduces the cost of storage that would be required for the Dedicated desktop model.\r\n\r\n<strong>Important: </strong>However, it\'s important to note that while the desktops are pooled, the users are still assigned to a desktop in a 1:1 fashion, and receive the same desktop every time they log in. This assignment is done automatically on the first login.\r\n\r\n<strong><img src=\"//9448D709-F79C-4B06-9EE9-1DD2F304E7C1/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong>\r\n\r\nWhile admittedly a bit weak in this area, my understanding of the \"pre-PVD\" pain points were as follows:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If the user needed to make changes or install apps to their virtual desktop, you used Dedicated desktops.</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated desktops lose the storage benefits of using a single \"master\" image, as each desktop can occupy the same size of the original \"golden desktop\". If you had a 30GB base image, each virtual desktop could occupy  30GB . Scale that to 1,000 users? Ouch!</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated desktops also lose the management benefits of having a single image, a single place to install apps, patches, hot fixes and Service Packs, as they\'re managed individually like you would in the physical desktop world.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou can see from the list above that while there\'s a need and a use case for Dedicated desktops, it\'s certainly not the best solution, and it\'s here that the PVD can be very useful. In fact, Citrix tweeted that the PVD technology was intended to replace the need and use case for persistent desktops entirely. Check their twitter feed if you don\'t believe me. http://www.twitter.com/xendesktop\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>@david_obrien \"who really needs dedicated desktops now that PvD is integrated?can\'t think of a use case?! #XDLaunch\"</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>‏@XenDesktop \"@david_obrien Agree on that trend. That is the intent and goal of PvD ... and will continue to be the focus.\"</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>After spending a few hours testing it, I can say I\'m a fan of the technology-- it works great, and it solves a real problem. But it\'s NOT the end game yet. I\'ll elaborate in Part II.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK ','','inherit','open','open','','6263-revision-4','','','2012-03-15 21:56:52','2012-03-15 21:56:52','',6263,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6263-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6268,12,'2012-03-15 21:57:05','2012-03-15 21:57:05','Citrix held their launch event on Twitter this week and I participated as much as I could, asking a bunch of questions and receiving a couple of answers. The \"new\" Personal vDisk sounded like one of the more beneficial enhancements I\'ve heard in a while, so I decided to test it out.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a quick overview on the Personal vDisk feature.\r\n\r\nThe PVD attaches as a separate \"disk\" to a virtual desktop and \"intercepts\" IO requests from the user logged in. It then takes these requests and writes them to the PVD instead of the base image disk. Because of this, users can store their profiles, download files, and even install applications with 100%  \"personalization persistence\" maintained across base image updates.\r\n\r\nPVD Desktops use a \"pooled\" model instead of the Dedicated model, maintaining the simplicity of managing a single base image for updates, patches, standard business applications, etc. and greatly reduces the cost of storage that would be required for the Dedicated desktop model.\r\n\r\n<strong>Important: </strong>However, it\'s important to note that while the desktops are pooled, the users are still assigned to a desktop in a 1:1 fashion, and receive the same desktop every time they log in. This assignment is done automatically on the first login.\r\n\r\n<strong><img src=\"//9448D709-F79C-4B06-9EE9-1DD2F304E7C1/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong>\r\n\r\nWhile admittedly a bit weak in this area, my understanding of the \"pre-PVD\" pain points were as follows:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If the user needed to make changes or install apps to their virtual desktop, you used Dedicated desktops.</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated desktops lose the storage benefits of using a single \"master\" image, as each desktop can occupy the same size of the original \"golden desktop\". If you had a 30GB base image, each virtual desktop could occupy  30GB . Scale that to 1,000 users? Ouch!</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated desktops also lose the management benefits of having a single image, a single place to install apps, patches, hot fixes and Service Packs, as they\'re managed individually like you would in the physical desktop world.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou can see from the list above that while there\'s a need and a use case for Dedicated desktops, it\'s certainly not the best solution, and it\'s here that the PVD can be very useful. In fact, Citrix tweeted that the PVD technology was intended to replace the need and use case for persistent desktops entirely. Check their twitter feed if you don\'t believe me. http://www.twitter.com/xendesktop\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>@david_obrien \"who really needs dedicated desktops now that PvD is integrated?can\'t think of a use case?! #XDLaunch\"</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>‏@XenDesktop \"@david_obrien Agree on that trend. That is the intent and goal of PvD ... and will continue to be the focus.\"</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>After spending a few hours testing it, I can say I\'m a fan of the technology-- it works great, and it solves a real problem. But it\'s NOT the end game yet. I\'ll elaborate in Part II.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK ','','inherit','open','open','','6263-revision-5','','','2012-03-15 21:57:05','2012-03-15 21:57:05','',6263,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6263-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(6269,12,'2012-03-15 21:57:34','2012-03-15 21:57:34','Citrix held their launch event on Twitter this week and I participated as much as I could, asking a bunch of questions and receiving a couple of answers. The \"new\" Personal vDisk sounded like one of the more beneficial enhancements I\'ve heard in a while, so I decided to test it out.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a quick overview on the Personal vDisk feature.\r\n\r\nThe PVD attaches as a separate \"disk\" to a virtual desktop and \"intercepts\" IO requests from the user logged in. It then takes these requests and writes them to the PVD instead of the base image disk. Because of this, users can store their profiles, download files, and even install applications with 100%  \"personalization persistence\" maintained across base image updates.\r\n\r\nPVD Desktops use a \"pooled\" model instead of the Dedicated model, maintaining the simplicity of managing a single base image for updates, patches, standard business applications, etc. and greatly reduces the cost of storage that would be required for the Dedicated desktop model.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<strong>Important: </strong>However, it\'s important to note that while the desktops are pooled, the users are still assigned to a desktop in a 1:1 fashion, and receive the same desktop every time they log in. This assignment is done automatically on the first login.\r\n\r\n<strong><img src=\"//9448D709-F79C-4B06-9EE9-1DD2F304E7C1/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong>\r\n\r\nWhile admittedly a bit weak in this area, my understanding of the \"pre-PVD\" pain points were as follows:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>If the user needed to make changes or install apps to their virtual desktop, you used Dedicated desktops.</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated desktops lose the storage benefits of using a single \"master\" image, as each desktop can occupy the same size of the original \"golden desktop\". If you had a 30GB base image, each virtual desktop could occupy  30GB . Scale that to 1,000 users? Ouch!</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated desktops also lose the management benefits of having a single image, a single place to install apps, patches, hot fixes and Service Packs, as they\'re managed individually like you would in the physical desktop world.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou can see from the list above that while there\'s a need and a use case for Dedicated desktops, it\'s certainly not the best solution, and it\'s here that the PVD can be very useful. In fact, Citrix tweeted that the PVD technology was intended to replace the need and use case for persistent desktops entirely. Check their twitter feed if you don\'t believe me. http://www.twitter.com/xendesktop\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>@david_obrien \"who really needs dedicated desktops now that PvD is integrated?can\'t think of a use case?! #XDLaunch\"</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>‏@XenDesktop \"@david_obrien Agree on that trend. That is the intent and goal of PvD ... and will continue to be the focus.\"</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>After spending a few hours testing it, I can say I\'m a fan of the technology-- it works great, and it solves a real problem. But it\'s NOT the end game yet. I\'ll elaborate in Part II.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK ','','inherit','open','open','','6263-revision-6','','','2012-03-15 21:57:34','2012-03-15 21:57:34','',6263,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6263-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(6270,12,'2012-03-15 22:02:24','2012-03-15 22:02:24','Citrix held their launch event on Twitter this week and I participated as much as I could, asking a bunch of questions and receiving a couple of answers. The \"new\" Personal vDisk sounded like one of the more beneficial enhancements I\'ve heard in a while, so I decided to test it out.\n\nHere\'s a quick overview on the Personal vDisk feature.\n\nThe PVD attaches as a separate \"disk\" to a virtual desktop and \"intercepts\" IO requests from the user logged in. It then takes these requests and writes them to the PVD instead of the base image disk. Because of this, users can store their profiles, download files, and even install applications with 100%  \"personalization persistence\" maintained across base image updates.\n\nPVD Desktops use a \"pooled\" model instead of the Dedicated model, which retains the simplicity of managing a single base image for updates, patches, standard business applications, etc. and greatly reduces the cost of storage that would be required for the Dedicated desktop model.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<strong>Important: </strong>However, it\'s important to note that while the desktops are pooled, the users are still assigned to a desktop in a 1:1 fashion, and receive the same desktop every time they log in, the assignment is handled automatically on first login.\n\n<strong><img src=\"//9448D709-F79C-4B06-9EE9-1DD2F304E7C1/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong>\n\nWhile admittedly a bit weak in this area, my understanding of the \"pre-PVD\" pain points were as follows:\n<ul>\n	<li>If the user needed to make changes or install apps to their virtual desktop, you used Dedicated desktops.</li>\n	<li>Dedicated desktops lose the storage benefits of using a single \"master\" image, as each desktop can occupy the same space of the original \"golden desktop\". If you had a 30GB base image, each virtual desktop could occupy  30GB . Scale that to 1,000 users? Ouch!</li>\n	<li>Dedicated desktops also lose the management benefits of having a single image, a single place to install apps, patches, hot fixes and Service Packs, as they\'re managed individually like you would in the physical desktop world.</li>\n</ul>\nYou can see from the list above that while there\'s a need and a use case for Dedicated desktops, it\'s certainly not the best solution, and it\'s here that the PVD can be very useful. In fact, Citrix tweeted that the PVD technology was intended to replace the need and use case for persistent desktops entirely. Check their twitter feed if you don\'t believe me. http://www.twitter.com/xendesktop\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>@david_obrien \"who really needs dedicated desktops now that PvD is integrated?can\'t think of a use case?! #XDLaunch\"</div>\n<div></div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>‏@XenDesktop \"@david_obrien Agree on that trend. That is the intent and goal of PvD ... and will continue to be the focus.\"</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>After spending a few hours testing it, I can say I\'m a fan of the technology-- it works great, and it solves a real problem. But it\'s NOT the end game yet. I\'ll elaborate in the following Parts.</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>','Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK - PART I ','','inherit','open','open','','6263-revision-7','','','2012-03-15 22:02:24','2012-03-15 22:02:24','',6263,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6263-revision-7',0,'revision','',0),(6271,6,'2009-04-01 09:09:16','2009-04-01 14:09:16','VMware recently announced that ESX/ESXi 2.5 Update 4 is available for download. Here is a brief summary of the features available with this release:\n\nThis new release of ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 4 comes with the following enhancements:\n<ul>\n	<li> Enablement for platforms mounting the Intel Xeon 5500 Nehalem-EP processors family</li>\n	<li> Experimental support for PXE boot with ESXi installable</li>\n	<li> Newly supported guest Operating Systems:</li>\n</ul>\n<ol>\n	<li>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (32-bit and 64-bit).</li>\n	<li>SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (32-bit and 64-bit).</li>\n	<li>Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition and Server Edition (32-bit and 64-bit)</li>\n	<li> Windows Preinstallation Environment 2.0 (32-bit and 64-bit)</li>\n</ol>\n<ul>\n	<li> Expanded Support for Enhanced vmxnet Adapter – Update 4 includes an updated version of the VMXNET driver (VMXNET enhanced) for the following guest OS\'s:</li>\n</ul>\n<ol>\n	<li> Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard (32-bit)</li>\n	<li>Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard (64-bit)</li>\n	<li>Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web</li>\n	<li>Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003</li>\n	<li>Microsoft Windows XP Professional (32-bit)</li>\n</ol>\n<ul>\n	<li>QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Update — The driver and firmware for the QLogic fibre channel adapters have been updated to version 7.08-vm66 and 4.04.06 respectively. This release provides interoperability fixes for QLogic Management Tools for FC Adapters and enhanced NPIV support.</li>\n	<li> Emulex Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Update — The driver for Emulex Fibre Channel Adapters has been upgraded to version 7.4.0.40. This release provides support for the HBAnyware 4.0 Emulex management suite.</li>\n	<li>LSI megaraid_sas and mptscsi Storage Controller Driver Update — The drivers for LSI megaraid_sas and mptscsi storage controllers have been updated to version 3.19vmw and 2.6.48.18 vmw respectively. The upgrade improves performance and enhance event handling capabilities for these two drivers.</li>\n</ul>\nNote: Virtual Center should be upgraded to version 2.5 Update 4 and VMware Tools should be upgraded on the VMs to take full advantage of the new feature set of ESX 3.5 Update 4.','VMware ESX and ESXi 3.5 Update 4 is Available for Download','','inherit','open','open','','540-revision','','','2009-04-01 09:09:16','2009-04-01 14:09:16','',540,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/540-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6272,6,'2012-03-16 14:20:19','2012-03-16 14:20:19','VMware recently announced that ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 4 is available for download. Here is a brief summary of the features available with this release:\n\nThis new release of ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 4 comes with the following enhancements:\n<ul>\n	<li>Enablement for platforms mounting the Intel Xeon 5500 Nehalem-EP processors family</li>\n	<li>Experimental support for PXE boot with ESXi installable</li>\n	<li>Newly supported guest Operating Systems:</li>\n</ul>\n<ol>\n	<li>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (32-bit and 64-bit).</li>\n	<li>SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (32-bit and 64-bit).</li>\n	<li>Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition and Server Edition (32-bit and 64-bit)</li>\n	<li>Windows Preinstallation Environment 2.0 (32-bit and 64-bit)</li>\n</ol>\n<ul>\n	<li>Expanded Support for Enhanced vmxnet Adapter – Update 4 includes an updated version of the VMXNET driver (VMXNET enhanced) for the following guest OS\'s:</li>\n</ul>\n<ol>\n	<li>Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard (32-bit)</li>\n	<li>Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard (64-bit)</li>\n	<li>Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web</li>\n	<li>Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003</li>\n	<li>Microsoft Windows XP Professional (32-bit)</li>\n</ol>\n<ul>\n	<li>QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Update — The driver and firmware for the QLogic fibre channel adapters have been updated to version 7.08-vm66 and 4.04.06 respectively. This release provides interoperability fixes for QLogic Management Tools for FC Adapters and enhanced NPIV support.</li>\n	<li>Emulex Fibre Channel Adapter Driver Update — The driver for Emulex Fibre Channel Adapters has been upgraded to version 7.4.0.40. This release provides support for the HBAnyware 4.0 Emulex management suite.</li>\n	<li>LSI megaraid_sas and mptscsi Storage Controller Driver Update — The drivers for LSI megaraid_sas and mptscsi storage controllers have been updated to version 3.19vmw and 2.6.48.18 vmw respectively. The upgrade improves performance and enhance event handling capabilities for these two drivers.</li>\n</ul>\nNote: Virtual Center should be upgraded to version 2.5 Update 4 and VMware Tools should be upgraded on the VMs to take full advantage of the new feature set of ESX 3.5 Update 4.','VMware ESX and ESXi 3.5 Update 4 is Available for Download','','inherit','open','open','','540-autosave','','','2012-03-16 14:20:19','2012-03-16 14:20:19','',540,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/540-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6273,29,'2012-03-16 20:42:24','2012-03-16 20:42:24','FLISH MADNESS day 5.  It’s been a rocking week of blog action and UCS training. I have enjoyed every minute of it.  We are closing out the week with concluding the conversation on End User Computing.\r\n\r\nTo review, we discussed the three things needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.  The first two topics can be found here<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/end-user-computing-part-1-of-3#more-6229\">(1) </a>and here<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/euc_part2#more-6246\">(2)</a>.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\r\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc</li>\r\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nMobile Device Management\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<strong>“Mobile Device Management</strong> (MDM) software secures, monitors, manages and supports mobile devices deployed across mobile operators, service providers and enterprises.”\r\n\r\nIf you Google MDM you will come up with a plethora of companies out there with products that are in this space.  The real challenge is giving the end user all the freedom they want but at the same time securing the data with encryption at rest and inflight.\r\n\r\nOne of the most interesting MDM solutions that is coming out soon is VMware’s Horizon Mobile Manager (still in beta).\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HorizonMobile1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6274\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HorizonMobile1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHorizon Mobile Manager brings VMware’s core competency “Virtualization” to Mobile platforms.  It allows a corporate phone (running as a VM) to be separated from the personal phone.\r\n\r\nCharacteristics of the personal side:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Users have unrestricted access to their personal persona</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Download applications, make calls, share pictures, etc. </strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>The personal phone cannot be viewed/altered by the enterprise</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Private life remains private </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nCharacteristics of the corporate (VM) phone\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>The corporate workspace is completely enterprise-owned and controlled</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Ability to provision, manage and remove corporate data on employees’ devices</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Access to corporate applications and infrastructure support </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe corporate phone VM can have it’s own phone number and is launched with an app called VMware switch.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMware-switch.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6275\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMware-switch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"69\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe base idea of this platform seems genuinely grand.  The user gets choice and IT gets the control and security they need.  However after bouncing this off a few customers and providing VMware with my own feedback I do have a list of improvements that need to happen before I see wide adaption of this platform.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Currently this solution is only for Android.  iPhone potentially by the end of 2012 but most likely with a different type of approach.  (a la no VM phone)</li>\r\n	<li>The VM does not run on bare metal.  Meaning it’s run more like VMware workstation then ESX(i). This can cause potentially very big security holes - code injections from malicious app into corporate phone VM etc.  (THANK SERGEI!)</li>\r\n	<li> The solution does nothing to address any security concerns on the base phone.  For example, I down load a malicious piece of software on my phone and start spreading it all over my corporate WiFi.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat’s it for FlISH MADNESS folks.  Look for more additional info on all the topics covered this week here on eGroup blogs.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n-Flish','EUC Part 3 of 3 - Flish Madness conclusion','','publish','open','open','','euc-part-3-of-3-flish-madness-conclusion','','','2012-03-17 00:01:43','2012-03-17 00:01:43','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6273',0,'post','',0),(6274,29,'2012-03-16 20:38:27','2012-03-16 20:38:27','','HorizonMobile1','','inherit','open','open','','horizonmobile1','','','2012-03-16 20:38:27','2012-03-16 20:38:27','',6273,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HorizonMobile1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6275,29,'2012-03-16 20:39:50','2012-03-16 20:39:50','','VMware switch','','inherit','open','open','','vmware-switch','','','2012-03-16 20:39:50','2012-03-16 20:39:50','',6273,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMware-switch.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6276,29,'2012-03-16 20:41:47','2012-03-16 20:41:47','FLISH MADNESS day 5.  It’s been rocking week of blog action and UCS training and I have enjoyed every minute of it.  We are closing out the week with concluding the conversation on End User Computing.\n\nTo review, we discussed the three things needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.  The first two topics can be found here(1) and here(2).\n<ol>\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc</li>\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\n</ol>\nMobile Device Management\n\n<strong>“Mobile Device Management</strong> (MDM) software secures, monitors, manages and supports mobile devices deployed across mobile operators, service providers and enterprises.”\n\nIf you Google MDM you will come up with a plethora of companies out there with products that are in this space.  The real challenge is giving the end user all the freedom they want but at the same time securing the data with encryption at rest and inflight.\n\nOne of the most interesting MDM solutions that is coming out soon is VMware’s Horizon Mobile Manager (still in beta).<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HorizonMobile1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6274\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HorizonMobile1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"263\" /></a>\n\nHorizon Mobile Manager brings VMware’s core competency “Virtualization” to Mobile platforms.  It allows a corporate phone (running as a VM) to be separated from the personal phone.\n\nCharacteristics of the personal side:\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Users have unrestricted access to their personal persona</strong></li>\n	<li><strong>Download applications, make calls, share pictures, etc. </strong></li>\n	<li><strong>The personal phone cannot be viewed/altered by the enterprise</strong></li>\n	<li><strong>Private life remains private </strong></li>\n</ul>\nCharacteristics of the corporate (VM) phone\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>The corporate workspace is completely enterprise-owned and controlled</strong></li>\n	<li><strong>Ability to provision, manage and remove corporate data on employees’ devices</strong></li>\n	<li><strong>Access to corporate applications and infrastructure support </strong></li>\n</ul>\nThe corporate phone VM can have it’s own phone number and is launched with an app called VM switch.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMware-switch.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6275\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMware-switch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"69\" /></a>\n\nThe base idea of this platform seems genuinely grand.  The user gets choice and IT gets the control and security they need.  However after bouncing this off a few customers and provide VMware with my own feedback I do have a list of improvements that need to happen before I see wide adaption of this platform.\n<ol>\n	<li>Currently this solution is only for Android.  iPhone potentially by the end of 2012 but most likely with a different type of approach.  (a la no VM phone)</li>\n	<li>The VM does not run on bare metal.  Meaning it’s run more like VMware workstation then ESX(i).This can cause potentially very big security holes - code injections from malicious app into corporate phone VM etc.  (THANK SERGEI!)\n<ol>\n	<li> The solution does nothing to address any security concerns on the base phone.  For example, I down load a malicious piece of software on my phone and start spreading it all over my corporate WiFi.</li>\n</ol>\n</li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;\n\nThat’s it for FlISH MADNESS folks.  Looking for more additional info on all the topics covered this week here on eGroup blogs.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n-Flish','EUC Part 3 of 3 - Flish Madness conclusion','','inherit','open','open','','6273-revision','','','2012-03-16 20:41:47','2012-03-16 20:41:47','',6273,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6273-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6277,29,'2012-03-17 00:02:47','2012-03-17 00:02:47','FLISH MADNESS day 5.  It’s been a rocking week of blog action and UCS training. I have enjoyed every minute of it.  We are closing out the week with concluding the conversation on End User Computing.\n\nTo review, we discussed the three things needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.  The first two topics can be found here<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/end-user-computing-part-1-of-3#more-6229\">(1) </a>and here<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/euc_part2#more-6246\">(2)</a>.\n<ol>\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc</li>\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\n</ol>\nMobile Device Management\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<strong>“Mobile Device Management</strong> (MDM) software secures, monitors, manages and supports mobile devices deployed across mobile operators, service providers and enterprises.”\n\nIf you Google MDM you will come up with a plethora of companies out there with products that are in this space.  The real challenge is giving the end user all the freedom they want but at the same time securing the data with encryption at rest and inflight.\n\nOne of the most interesting MDM solutions that is coming out soon is VMware’s Horizon Mobile Manager (still in beta).\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HorizonMobile1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6274\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HorizonMobile1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"263\" /></a>\n\nHorizon Mobile Manager brings VMware’s core competency “Virtualization” to Mobile platforms.  It allows a corporate phone (running as a VM) to be separated from the personal phone.\n\nCharacteristics of the personal side:\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Users have unrestricted access to their personal persona</strong></li>\n	<li><strong>Download applications, make calls, share pictures, etc. </strong></li>\n	<li><strong>The personal phone cannot be viewed/altered by the enterprise</strong></li>\n	<li><strong>Private life remains private </strong></li>\n</ul>\nCharacteristics of the corporate (VM) phone\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>The corporate workspace is completely enterprise-owned and controlled</strong></li>\n	<li><strong>Ability to provision, manage and remove corporate data on employees’ devices</strong></li>\n	<li><strong>Access to corporate applications and infrastructure support </strong></li>\n</ul>\nThe corporate phone VM can have it’s own phone number and is launched with an app called VMware switch.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMware-switch.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6275\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMware-switch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"69\" /></a>\n\nThe base idea of this platform seems genuinely grand.  The user gets choice and IT gets the control and security they need.  However after bouncing this off a few customers and providing VMware with my own feedback I do have a list of improvements that need to happen before I see wide adaption of this platform.\n<ol>\n	<li>Currently this solution is only for Android.  iPhone potentially by the end of 2012 but most likely with a different type of approach.  (a la no VM phone)</li>\n	<li>The VM does not run on bare metal.  Meaning it’s run more like VMware workstation then ESX(i). This can cause potentially very big security holes - code injections from malicious app into corporate phone VM etc.  (THANK SERGEI!)</li>\n	<li> The solution does nothing to address any security concerns on the base phone.  For example, I down load a malicious piece of software on my phone and start spreading it all over my corporate WiFi.</li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;\n\nThat’s it for FlISH MADNESS folks.  Look for more additional info on all the topics covered this week here on eGroup blogs.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n-Flish','EUC Part 3 of 3 - Flish Madness conclusion','','inherit','open','open','','6273-autosave','','','2012-03-17 00:02:47','2012-03-17 00:02:47','',6273,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6273-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6278,29,'2012-03-16 20:42:24','2012-03-16 20:42:24','FLISH MADNESS day 5.  It’s been rocking week of blog action and UCS training and I have enjoyed every minute of it.  We are closing out the week with concluding the conversation on End User Computing.\r\n\r\nTo review, we discussed the three things needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.  The first two topics can be found here(1) and here(2).\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\r\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc</li>\r\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nMobile Device Management\r\n\r\n<strong>“Mobile Device Management</strong> (MDM) software secures, monitors, manages and supports mobile devices deployed across mobile operators, service providers and enterprises.”\r\n\r\nIf you Google MDM you will come up with a plethora of companies out there with products that are in this space.  The real challenge is giving the end user all the freedom they want but at the same time securing the data with encryption at rest and inflight.\r\n\r\nOne of the most interesting MDM solutions that is coming out soon is VMware’s Horizon Mobile Manager (still in beta).<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HorizonMobile1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6274\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HorizonMobile1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHorizon Mobile Manager brings VMware’s core competency “Virtualization” to Mobile platforms.  It allows a corporate phone (running as a VM) to be separated from the personal phone.\r\n\r\nCharacteristics of the personal side:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Users have unrestricted access to their personal persona</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Download applications, make calls, share pictures, etc. </strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>The personal phone cannot be viewed/altered by the enterprise</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Private life remains private </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nCharacteristics of the corporate (VM) phone\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>The corporate workspace is completely enterprise-owned and controlled</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Ability to provision, manage and remove corporate data on employees’ devices</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Access to corporate applications and infrastructure support </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe corporate phone VM can have it’s own phone number and is launched with an app called VM switch.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMware-switch.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6275\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMware-switch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"69\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe base idea of this platform seems genuinely grand.  The user gets choice and IT gets the control and security they need.  However after bouncing this off a few customers and provide VMware with my own feedback I do have a list of improvements that need to happen before I see wide adaption of this platform.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Currently this solution is only for Android.  iPhone potentially by the end of 2012 but most likely with a different type of approach.  (a la no VM phone)</li>\r\n	<li>The VM does not run on bare metal.  Meaning it’s run more like VMware workstation then ESX(i).This can cause potentially very big security holes - code injections from malicious app into corporate phone VM etc.  (THANK SERGEI!)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li> The solution does nothing to address any security concerns on the base phone.  For example, I down load a malicious piece of software on my phone and start spreading it all over my corporate WiFi.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat’s it for FlISH MADNESS folks.  Looking for more additional info on all the topics covered this week here on eGroup blogs.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n-Flish','EUC Part 3 of 3 - Flish Madness conclusion','','inherit','open','open','','6273-revision-2','','','2012-03-16 20:42:24','2012-03-16 20:42:24','',6273,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6273-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6279,29,'2012-03-16 23:44:18','2012-03-16 23:44:18','FLISH MADNESS day 5.  It’s been a rocking week of blog action and UCS training. I have enjoyed every minute of it.  We are closing out the week with concluding the conversation on End User Computing.\r\n\r\nTo review, we discussed the three things needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.  The first two topics can be found here(1) and here(2).\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\r\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc</li>\r\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nMobile Device Management\r\n\r\n<strong>“Mobile Device Management</strong> (MDM) software secures, monitors, manages and supports mobile devices deployed across mobile operators, service providers and enterprises.”\r\n\r\nIf you Google MDM you will come up with a plethora of companies out there with products that are in this space.  The real challenge is giving the end user all the freedom they want but at the same time securing the data with encryption at rest and inflight.\r\n\r\nOne of the most interesting MDM solutions that is coming out soon is VMware’s Horizon Mobile Manager (still in beta).<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HorizonMobile1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6274\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HorizonMobile1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHorizon Mobile Manager brings VMware’s core competency “Virtualization” to Mobile platforms.  It allows a corporate phone (running as a VM) to be separated from the personal phone.\r\n\r\nCharacteristics of the personal side:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Users have unrestricted access to their personal persona</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Download applications, make calls, share pictures, etc. </strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>The personal phone cannot be viewed/altered by the enterprise</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Private life remains private </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nCharacteristics of the corporate (VM) phone\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>The corporate workspace is completely enterprise-owned and controlled</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Ability to provision, manage and remove corporate data on employees’ devices</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Access to corporate applications and infrastructure support </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe corporate phone VM can have it’s own phone number and is launched with an app called VM switch.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMware-switch.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6275\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMware-switch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"69\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe base idea of this platform seems genuinely grand.  The user gets choice and IT gets the control and security they need.  However after bouncing this off a few customers and provide VMware with my own feedback I do have a list of improvements that need to happen before I see wide adaption of this platform.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Currently this solution is only for Android.  iPhone potentially by the end of 2012 but most likely with a different type of approach.  (a la no VM phone)</li>\r\n	<li>The VM does not run on bare metal.  Meaning it’s run more like VMware workstation then ESX(i).This can cause potentially very big security holes - code injections from malicious app into corporate phone VM etc.  (THANK SERGEI!)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li> The solution does nothing to address any security concerns on the base phone.  For example, I down load a malicious piece of software on my phone and start spreading it all over my corporate WiFi.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat’s it for FlISH MADNESS folks.  Looking for more additional info on all the topics covered this week here on eGroup blogs.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n-Flish','EUC Part 3 of 3 - Flish Madness conclusion','','inherit','open','open','','6273-revision-3','','','2012-03-16 23:44:18','2012-03-16 23:44:18','',6273,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6273-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6280,29,'2012-03-12 21:38:23','2012-03-12 21:38:23','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6206\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"180\" /></a></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe ACC tournament is officially over and the NCAA tournament is about to begin.  The weather is warming up; the flowers are blooming.  I love this time of year.  That’s why I am bringing you readers “FLISH MADNESS” this week.  Five days, Five blogs, all Flish!\r\n\r\nFor the first blog of the week I am going to go over the totally awesome Xen App Citrix Mobility Pack.\r\n\r\n“With this feature installed, XenApp shared desktops are automatically re-skinned for more intuitive touch-friendly use on tablet devices.  Tablet Optimized Desktops work with the currently available Receiver for iOS and Receiver for Android.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe pack also provides users with a true Native Device Experience  for hosted apps by recognizing the type of endpoint operating system and enabling mobile device features such as auto-keyboard popup, local selector controls, and auto-scrolling.  The new <a href=\"https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citrix.Receiver&amp;feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmNpdHJpeC5SZWNlaXZlciJd\">Receiver for Android</a> is required to take advantage of these enhancements.\r\n\r\nThis pack is required to make the unique capabilities of a mobile device such as GPS, camera and other sensors available to application developers who may use it in conjunction with the XenApp 6.5 Mobile Application SDK to create custom, mobile-friendly applications hosted by XenApp in the data center. “\r\n\r\nLet’s take a look.  (all screen shots taken from my iPad, thanks Ian!).\r\n\r\nThe First thing you’ll notice when you login to an optimized shared desktop is that the start bar is at the top and the application short cuts are centered at the top of the screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6209\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/start-bar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAll applications open with one “touch” as you would expect them too natively on a mobile platform.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6205\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/appsWord-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen you press the navigation arrow at the top you get the following drop down.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6208\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/navigation-300x27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"27\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The home button brings you back to the Citrix Receiver login screen where you can log into another desktop or launch a Citrix “presented” app.</li>\r\n	<li>The Blue Tooth button allows you to pair a BT device with the desktop</li>\r\n	<li>The arrow keys bring up the four directional arrow keys.</li>\r\n	<li>The pointer brings up the mouse pointer to interact with OS or apps if needed.  Though while just using Microsoft office apps I saw no need for this.</li>\r\n	<li>The magnifier enlarges any thing that’s in the diameter of the magnifier ring.</li>\r\n	<li>The gesture button shows all the very nice touch functionality built in to the mobility pack.  My personal favorite is the three finger tap that brings up the native iPad keyboard.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6207\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GestureGuide-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The switch button allows you to go back and forth between the native Windows start bar and switch between applications.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe last thing to note is the optimized task bar at the bottom of the screen. The arrow buttons allow the navigation for browsing when you have multiple applications open that span larger than what can fit on the one screen.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6210\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/taskBar-300x13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"13\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs I test more with this solution I will post additional findings.  For me the biggest take away is the “smoothness” at which the applications and desktop behave with native mobile like behavior!','FLISH MADNESS BEGINS','','inherit','open','open','','6204-revision-11','','','2012-03-12 21:38:23','2012-03-12 21:38:23','',6204,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6204-revision-11',0,'revision','',0),(6281,29,'2012-03-16 23:56:25','2012-03-16 23:56:25','FLISH MADNESS day 5.  It’s been a rocking week of blog action and UCS training. I have enjoyed every minute of it.  We are closing out the week with concluding the conversation on End User Computing.\r\n\r\nTo review, we discussed the three things needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment.  The first two topics can be found here<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/end-user-computing-part-1-of-3#more-6229\">(1) </a>and here<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/euc_part2#more-6246\">(2)</a>.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)</li>\r\n	<li> Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc</li>\r\n	<li> Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nMobile Device Management\r\n\r\n<strong>“Mobile Device Management</strong> (MDM) software secures, monitors, manages and supports mobile devices deployed across mobile operators, service providers and enterprises.”\r\n\r\nIf you Google MDM you will come up with a plethora of companies out there with products that are in this space.  The real challenge is giving the end user all the freedom they want but at the same time securing the data with encryption at rest and inflight.\r\n\r\nOne of the most interesting MDM solutions that is coming out soon is VMware’s Horizon Mobile Manager (still in beta).\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HorizonMobile1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6274\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HorizonMobile1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"263\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHorizon Mobile Manager brings VMware’s core competency “Virtualization” to Mobile platforms.  It allows a corporate phone (running as a VM) to be separated from the personal phone.\r\n\r\nCharacteristics of the personal side:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Users have unrestricted access to their personal persona</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Download applications, make calls, share pictures, etc. </strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>The personal phone cannot be viewed/altered by the enterprise</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Private life remains private </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nCharacteristics of the corporate (VM) phone\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>The corporate workspace is completely enterprise-owned and controlled</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Ability to provision, manage and remove corporate data on employees’ devices</strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Access to corporate applications and infrastructure support </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe corporate phone VM can have it’s own phone number and is launched with an app called VMware switch.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMware-switch.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6275\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMware-switch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"69\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe base idea of this platform seems genuinely grand.  The user gets choice and IT gets the control and security they need.  However after bouncing this off a few customers and providing VMware with my own feedback I do have a list of improvements that need to happen before I see wide adaption of this platform.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Currently this solution is only for Android.  iPhone potentially by the end of 2012 but most likely with a different type of approach.  (a la no VM phone)</li>\r\n	<li>The VM does not run on bare metal.  Meaning it’s run more like VMware workstation then ESX(i). This can cause potentially very big security holes - code injections from malicious app into corporate phone VM etc.  (THANK SERGEI!)</li>\r\n	<li> The solution does nothing to address any security concerns on the base phone.  For example, I down load a malicious piece of software on my phone and start spreading it all over my corporate WiFi.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat’s it for FlISH MADNESS folks.  Look for more additional info on all the topics covered this week here on eGroup blogs.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n-Flish','EUC Part 3 of 3 - Flish Madness conclusion','','inherit','open','open','','6273-revision-4','','','2012-03-16 23:56:25','2012-03-16 23:56:25','',6273,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6273-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6282,12,'2012-03-17 13:11:58','2012-03-17 13:11:58','<div>In Part I I covered the basics of what the \"new\" Personal vDisk feature in XenDesktop 5.6 is. In this part I\'ll cover how it\'s installed/configured, and some of the interesting things I found out doing during some lab-playtime.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>The installation/configuration to enable the Personal vDisk is rather low-thrill, and that\'s a good thing because simplicity is bliss, right?</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>\r\n<div>On the golden Windows 7 image I created I installed the virtual desktop agent and was presented with this new screen prompting me to enable the PVD on the desktop side.</div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong><img src=\"http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8998/pvdconfig.png\"></strong></div>\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>During the creation of the desktop Catalog, the new option for \"Pooled with personal vDisk\" is available, and that\'s the one I used. This creates the desktops using Machine Creation Services (MCS).</div>\r\n<div><strong><img src=\"http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/1159/poolwithpvd.png\" /></strong></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>Through the wizard I set the PVD to 10GB and used the P: drive.</div>\r\n<div><img src=\"http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5222/pvdsettings.png\"></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>That was basically the process to \"enable\' the feature, and I wanted to take it out for a spin. My first login actually gave me an error message about not being able to connect to the vDisk image, so I went back to my golden Windows 7 machine and updated the vDisk inventory, shut it down, and took a new snapshot. This process took a couple of minutes, but seemed to do the trick.</div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong><img src=\"http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/4108/updatinginventory.png\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<div>On my next login everything worked as desired, and my PVD mapped/connected without issue. Logged into the desktop, I downloaded and installed Google Chrome, adding a shortcut to my desktop. Then I logged out, went back to the base image and applied some updates and installed Adobe Reader-- tasks that are likely common for an IT administrator. Once the image completed and my desktop was available, I logged back in and sure enough, Google Chrome was there waiting for me.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>I decided to get a little creative with the testing. I created a second desktop assignment (the same user, but now assigned to TWO desktops) and logged in to the newly assigned desktop, \"PVD Pool (2)\". None of my apps or test data were there. On this second desktop I installed WINRAR, and added the shortcut to the desktop, and logged back out.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><img src=\"http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/7922/twooptions.png\"></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>Next, I logged in to each desktop as the original user (administrator) and was presented with two separate \"PVD environments\", with the applications I installed maintained separately to each PVD on each desktop.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><img src=\"http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/6384/twodesktops.png\"></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>\r\n<div>To take it a little further, I assigned a SECOND USER to the second desktop (username Average Joe) and logged in with that account.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>To my surprise, the WINRAR application was still available-- which leads me to believe the \"Personal\" vDisk isn\'t so much \"personal\" as much as it was \"desktopanal\", which is a new word. What I mean by this is that the PVD stays with the desktop it connects to first, even if a different user is then assigned and logs in (which is what I did).</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><img src=\"http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/6140/twousers.png\"></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>As Average Joe I installed Firefox, logged off, then logged back in as the original user and Winrar and Firefox were both available-- again, proving that the PVD is tied to a desktop, and not just the original user assigned to it, but any user who then logs in to that desktop.</div>\r\n</div>','Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK - PART II ','','publish','open','open','','citrix-xendesktop-5-6-personal-vdisk-part-ii','','','2012-03-20 00:54:25','2012-03-20 00:54:25','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6282',0,'post','',0),(6283,12,'2012-03-17 13:09:23','2012-03-17 13:09:23','<div>In Part I I covered the basics of what the \"new\" Personal vDisk feature in XenDesktop 5.6 is. In this part I\'ll cover how it\'s installed/configured, and some of the interesting things I found out doing during some lab-playtime.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>The installation/configuration to enable the Personal vDisk is rather low-thrill, and that\'s a good thing because simplicity is bliss, right?</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>\n<div>On the golden Windows 7 image I created I installed the virtual desktop agent and was presented with this new screen prompting me to enable the PVD on the desktop side.</div>\n<div><strong>\n</strong></div>\n<div><strong><img src=\"//5112A56D-2801-418C-B36F-373B069B7FAE/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\n</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>During the creation of the desktop Catalog, the new option for \"Pooled with personal vDisk\" is available, and that\'s the one I used. This creates the desktops using Machine Creation Services (MCS).</div>\n<div><strong><img src=\"//9448D709-F79C-4B06-9EE9-1DD2F304E7C1/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>Through the wizard I set the PVD to 10GB and used the P: drive.</div>\n<div><img src=\"//51D85CFA-C271-49A1-AF7F-8DCFD973AFB2/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\n<div><strong>\n</strong></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>That was basically the process to \"enable\' the feature, and I wanted to take it out for a spin. My first login actually gave me an error message about not being able to connect to the vDisk image, so I went back to my golden Windows 7 machine and updated the vDisk inventory, shut it down, and took a new snapshot. This process took a couple of minutes, but seemed to do the trick.</div>\n<div><strong>\n</strong></div>\n<div><strong><img src=\"//8931652E-1599-4DF8-9B7E-63FE33F1F99C/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\n<div><strong>\n</strong></div>\n<div>On my next login everything worked as desired, and my PVD mapped/connected without issue. Logged into the desktop, I downloaded and installed Google Chrome, adding a shortcut to my desktop. Then I logged out, went back to the base image and applied some updates and installed Adobe Reader-- tasks that are likely common for an IT administrator. Once the image completed and my desktop was available, I logged back in and sure enough, Google Chrome was there waiting for me.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>So I decided to get a little crazy with the testing. I created a second desktop assignment (the same user, but now assigned to TWO desktops) and logged in to the newly assigned desktop, \"PVD Pool (2)\". None of my apps or test data were there. On this second desktop I installed WINRAR, and added the shortcut to the desktop, and logged back out.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div><img src=\"//983BB293-3B30-4B26-A36D-60A1C167429E/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>Next, I logged in to each desktop as the original user (administrator) and was presented with two separate \"PVD environments\", with the applications I installed maintained separately to each PVD on each desktop.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div><img src=\"//CC9526AE-47D9-43FA-905E-71588B2BC043/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>\n<div>To take it a little further, I assigned a SECOND USER to the second desktop (username Average Joe) and logged in with that account.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>To my surprise, the WINRAR application was still available-- which leads me to believe the \"Personal\" vDisk isn\'t so much \"personal\" as much as it was \"desktopanal\", which is a new word. What I mean by this is that the PVD stays with the desktop it connects to first, even if a different user is then assigned and logs in (which is what I did).</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div><img src=\"//640ABB32-AFEB-4899-B688-21ADAB3E078A/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>As Average Joe I installed Firefox, logged off, then logged back in as the original user and Winrar and Firefox were both available-- again, proving that the PVD is tied to a desktop, and not just the original user assigned to it, but any user who then logs in to that desktop.</div>\n</div>','Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK - PART II ','','inherit','open','open','','6282-revision','','','2012-03-17 13:09:23','2012-03-17 13:09:23','',6282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6282-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6284,12,'2012-03-17 13:10:41','2012-03-17 13:10:41','<div>In Part I I covered the basics of what the \"new\" Personal vDisk feature in XenDesktop 5.6 is. In this part I\'ll cover how it\'s installed/configured, and some of the interesting things I found out doing during some lab-playtime.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>The installation/configuration to enable the Personal vDisk is rather low-thrill, and that\'s a good thing because simplicity is bliss, right?</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>\n<div>On the golden Windows 7 image I created I installed the virtual desktop agent and was presented with this new screen prompting me to enable the PVD on the desktop side.</div>\n<div><strong>\n</strong></div>\n<div><strong><img src=\"//5112A56D-2801-418C-B36F-373B069B7FAE/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\n</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>During the creation of the desktop Catalog, the new option for \"Pooled with personal vDisk\" is available, and that\'s the one I used. This creates the desktops using Machine Creation Services (MCS).</div>\n<div><strong><img src=\"//9448D709-F79C-4B06-9EE9-1DD2F304E7C1/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>Through the wizard I set the PVD to 10GB and used the P: drive.</div>\n<div><img src=\"//51D85CFA-C271-49A1-AF7F-8DCFD973AFB2/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\n<div><strong>\n</strong></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>That was basically the process to \"enable\' the feature, and I wanted to take it out for a spin. My first login actually gave me an error message about not being able to connect to the vDisk image, so I went back to my golden Windows 7 machine and updated the vDisk inventory, shut it down, and took a new snapshot. This process took a couple of minutes, but seemed to do the trick.</div>\n<div><strong>\n</strong></div>\n<div><strong><img src=\"//8931652E-1599-4DF8-9B7E-63FE33F1F99C/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\n<div><strong>\n</strong></div>\n<div>On my next login everything worked as desired, and my PVD mapped/connected without issue. Logged into the desktop, I downloaded and installed Google Chrome, adding a shortcut to my desktop. Then I logged out, went back to the base image and applied some updates and installed Adobe Reader-- tasks that are likely common for an IT administrator. Once the image completed and my desktop was available, I logged back in and sure enough, Google Chrome was there waiting for me.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>So I decided to get a little crazy with the testing. I created a second desktop assignment (the same user, but now assigned to TWO desktops) and logged in to the newly assigned desktop, \"PVD Pool (2)\". None of my apps or test data were there. On this second desktop I installed WINRAR, and added the shortcut to the desktop, and logged back out.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div><img src=\"//983BB293-3B30-4B26-A36D-60A1C167429E/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>Next, I logged in to each desktop as the original user (administrator) and was presented with two separate \"PVD environments\", with the applications I installed maintained separately to each PVD on each desktop.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div><img src=\"//CC9526AE-47D9-43FA-905E-71588B2BC043/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>\n<div>To take it a little further, I assigned a SECOND USER to the second desktop (username Average Joe) and logged in with that account.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>To my surprise, the WINRAR application was still available-- which leads me to believe the \"Personal\" vDisk isn\'t so much \"personal\" as much as it was \"desktopanal\", which is a new word. What I mean by this is that the PVD stays with the desktop it connects to first, even if a different user is then assigned and logs in (which is what I did).</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div><img src=\"//640ABB32-AFEB-4899-B688-21ADAB3E078A/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>As Average Joe I installed Firefox, logged off, then logged back in as the original user and Winrar and Firefox were both available-- again, proving that the PVD is tied to a desktop, and not just the original user assigned to it, but any user who then logs in to that desktop.</div>\n</div>','Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK - PART II ','','inherit','open','open','','6282-revision-2','','','2012-03-17 13:10:41','2012-03-17 13:10:41','',6282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6282-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6285,12,'2012-03-17 13:11:40','2012-03-17 13:11:40','<div>In Part I I covered the basics of what the \"new\" Personal vDisk feature in XenDesktop 5.6 is. In this part I\'ll cover how it\'s installed/configured, and some of the interesting things I found out doing during some lab-playtime.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>The installation/configuration to enable the Personal vDisk is rather low-thrill, and that\'s a good thing because simplicity is bliss, right?</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>\r\n<div>On the golden Windows 7 image I created I installed the virtual desktop agent and was presented with this new screen prompting me to enable the PVD on the desktop side.</div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong><img src=\"//5112A56D-2801-418C-B36F-373B069B7FAE/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>During the creation of the desktop Catalog, the new option for \"Pooled with personal vDisk\" is available, and that\'s the one I used. This creates the desktops using Machine Creation Services (MCS).</div>\r\n<div><strong><img src=\"//9448D709-F79C-4B06-9EE9-1DD2F304E7C1/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>Through the wizard I set the PVD to 10GB and used the P: drive.</div>\r\n<div><img src=\"//51D85CFA-C271-49A1-AF7F-8DCFD973AFB2/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>That was basically the process to \"enable\' the feature, and I wanted to take it out for a spin. My first login actually gave me an error message about not being able to connect to the vDisk image, so I went back to my golden Windows 7 machine and updated the vDisk inventory, shut it down, and took a new snapshot. This process took a couple of minutes, but seemed to do the trick.</div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong><img src=\"//8931652E-1599-4DF8-9B7E-63FE33F1F99C/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<div>On my next login everything worked as desired, and my PVD mapped/connected without issue. Logged into the desktop, I downloaded and installed Google Chrome, adding a shortcut to my desktop. Then I logged out, went back to the base image and applied some updates and installed Adobe Reader-- tasks that are likely common for an IT administrator. Once the image completed and my desktop was available, I logged back in and sure enough, Google Chrome was there waiting for me.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>So I decided to get a little crazy with the testing. I created a second desktop assignment (the same user, but now assigned to TWO desktops) and logged in to the newly assigned desktop, \"PVD Pool (2)\". None of my apps or test data were there. On this second desktop I installed WINRAR, and added the shortcut to the desktop, and logged back out.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><img src=\"//983BB293-3B30-4B26-A36D-60A1C167429E/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>Next, I logged in to each desktop as the original user (administrator) and was presented with two separate \"PVD environments\", with the applications I installed maintained separately to each PVD on each desktop.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><img src=\"//CC9526AE-47D9-43FA-905E-71588B2BC043/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>\r\n<div>To take it a little further, I assigned a SECOND USER to the second desktop (username Average Joe) and logged in with that account.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>To my surprise, the WINRAR application was still available-- which leads me to believe the \"Personal\" vDisk isn\'t so much \"personal\" as much as it was \"desktopanal\", which is a new word. What I mean by this is that the PVD stays with the desktop it connects to first, even if a different user is then assigned and logs in (which is what I did).</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><img src=\"//640ABB32-AFEB-4899-B688-21ADAB3E078A/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>As Average Joe I installed Firefox, logged off, then logged back in as the original user and Winrar and Firefox were both available-- again, proving that the PVD is tied to a desktop, and not just the original user assigned to it, but any user who then logs in to that desktop.</div>\r\n</div>','Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK - PART II ','','inherit','open','open','','6282-revision-3','','','2012-03-17 13:11:40','2012-03-17 13:11:40','',6282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6282-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6286,12,'2012-03-17 13:11:58','2012-03-17 13:11:58','<div>\r\n<div>In Part I I covered the basics of what the \"new\" Personal vDisk feature in XenDesktop 5.6 is. In this part I\'ll cover how it\'s installed/configured, and some of the interesting things I found out doing during some lab-playtime.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>The installation/configuration to enable the Personal vDisk is rather low-thrill, and that\'s a good thing because simplicity is bliss, right?</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>\r\n<div>On the golden Windows 7 image I created I installed the virtual desktop agent and was presented with this new screen prompting me to enable the PVD on the desktop side.</div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong><img src=\"//5112A56D-2801-418C-B36F-373B069B7FAE/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>During the creation of the desktop Catalog, the new option for \"Pooled with personal vDisk\" is available, and that\'s the one I used. This creates the desktops using Machine Creation Services (MCS).</div>\r\n<div><strong><img src=\"//9448D709-F79C-4B06-9EE9-1DD2F304E7C1/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>Through the wizard I set the PVD to 10GB and used the P: drive.</div>\r\n<div><img src=\"//51D85CFA-C271-49A1-AF7F-8DCFD973AFB2/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>That was basically the process to \"enable\' the feature, and I wanted to take it out for a spin. My first login actually gave me an error message about not being able to connect to the vDisk image, so I went back to my golden Windows 7 machine and updated the vDisk inventory, shut it down, and took a new snapshot. This process took a couple of minutes, but seemed to do the trick.</div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong><img src=\"//8931652E-1599-4DF8-9B7E-63FE33F1F99C/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<div>On my next login everything worked as desired, and my PVD mapped/connected without issue. Logged into the desktop, I downloaded and installed Google Chrome, adding a shortcut to my desktop. Then I logged out, went back to the base image and applied some updates and installed Adobe Reader-- tasks that are likely common for an IT administrator. Once the image completed and my desktop was available, I logged back in and sure enough, Google Chrome was there waiting for me.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>So I decided to get a little crazy with the testing. I created a second desktop assignment (the same user, but now assigned to TWO desktops) and logged in to the newly assigned desktop, \"PVD Pool (2)\". None of my apps or test data were there. On this second desktop I installed WINRAR, and added the shortcut to the desktop, and logged back out.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><img src=\"//983BB293-3B30-4B26-A36D-60A1C167429E/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>Next, I logged in to each desktop as the original user (administrator) and was presented with two separate \"PVD environments\", with the applications I installed maintained separately to each PVD on each desktop.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><img src=\"//CC9526AE-47D9-43FA-905E-71588B2BC043/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>\r\n<div>To take it a little further, I assigned a SECOND USER to the second desktop (username Average Joe) and logged in with that account.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>To my surprise, the WINRAR application was still available-- which leads me to believe the \"Personal\" vDisk isn\'t so much \"personal\" as much as it was \"desktopanal\", which is a new word. What I mean by this is that the PVD stays with the desktop it connects to first, even if a different user is then assigned and logs in (which is what I did).</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><img src=\"//640ABB32-AFEB-4899-B688-21ADAB3E078A/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>As Average Joe I installed Firefox, logged off, then logged back in as the original user and Winrar and Firefox were both available-- again, proving that the PVD is tied to a desktop, and not just the original user assigned to it, but any user who then logs in to that desktop.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK - PART II ','','inherit','open','open','','6282-revision-4','','','2012-03-17 13:11:58','2012-03-17 13:11:58','',6282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6282-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6287,12,'2012-03-17 13:14:13','2012-03-17 13:14:13','<div>\n<div>In Part I I covered the basics of what the \"new\" Personal vDisk feature in XenDesktop 5.6 is. In this part I\'ll cover how it\'s installed/configured, and some of the interesting things I found out doing during some lab-playtime.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>The installation/configuration to enable the Personal vDisk is rather low-thrill, and that\'s a good thing because simplicity is bliss, right?</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>\n<div>On the golden Windows 7 image I created I installed the virtual desktop agent and was presented with this new screen prompting me to enable the PVD on the desktop side.</div>\n<div><strong>\n</strong></div>\n<div><strong><img src=\"//5112A56D-2801-418C-B36F-373B069B7FAE/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\n</div>\n<!--more-->\n<div>During the creation of the desktop Catalog, the new option for \"Pooled with personal vDisk\" is available, and that\'s the one I used. This creates the desktops using Machine Creation Services (MCS).</div>\n<div><strong><img src=\"//9448D709-F79C-4B06-9EE9-1DD2F304E7C1/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>Through the wizard I set the PVD to 10GB and used the P: drive.</div>\n<div><img src=\"//51D85CFA-C271-49A1-AF7F-8DCFD973AFB2/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\n<div><strong>\n</strong></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>That was basically the process to \"enable\' the feature, and I wanted to take it out for a spin. My first login actually gave me an error message about not being able to connect to the vDisk image, so I went back to my golden Windows 7 machine and updated the vDisk inventory, shut it down, and took a new snapshot. This process took a couple of minutes, but seemed to do the trick.</div>\n<div><strong>\n</strong></div>\n<div><strong><img src=\"//8931652E-1599-4DF8-9B7E-63FE33F1F99C/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\n<div><strong>\n</strong></div>\n<div>On my next login everything worked as desired, and my PVD mapped/connected without issue. Logged into the desktop, I downloaded and installed Google Chrome, adding a shortcut to my desktop. Then I logged out, went back to the base image and applied some updates and installed Adobe Reader-- tasks that are likely common for an IT administrator. Once the image completed and my desktop was available, I logged back in and sure enough, Google Chrome was there waiting for me.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>So I decided to get a little crazy with the testing. I created a second desktop assignment (the same user, but now assigned to TWO desktops) and logged in to the newly assigned desktop, \"PVD Pool (2)\". None of my apps or test data were there. On this second desktop I installed WINRAR, and added the shortcut to the desktop, and logged back out.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div><img src=\"//983BB293-3B30-4B26-A36D-60A1C167429E/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>Next, I logged in to each desktop as the original user (administrator) and was presented with two separate \"PVD environments\", with the applications I installed maintained separately to each PVD on each desktop.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div><img src=\"//CC9526AE-47D9-43FA-905E-71588B2BC043/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>\n<div>To take it a little further, I assigned a SECOND USER to the second desktop (username Average Joe) and logged in with that account.</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>To my surprise, the WINRAR application was still available-- which leads me to believe the \"Personal\" vDisk isn\'t so much \"personal\" as much as it was \"desktopanal\", which is a new word. What I mean by this is that the PVD stays with the desktop it connects to first, even if a different user is then assigned and logs in (which is what I did).</div>\n&nbsp;\n<div><img src=\"//640ABB32-AFEB-4899-B688-21ADAB3E078A/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\n&nbsp;\n<div>As Average Joe I installed Firefox, logged off, then logged back in as the original user and Winrar and Firefox were both available-- again, proving that the PVD is tied to a desktop, and not just the original user assigned to it, but any user who then logs in to that desktop.</div>\n</div>\n</div>','Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK - PART II ','','inherit','open','open','','6282-autosave','','','2012-03-17 13:14:13','2012-03-17 13:14:13','',6282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6282-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6288,44,'2012-03-19 13:21:47','2012-03-19 13:21:47','Windows Performance Monitor (PerfMon.exe) is a quick and easy way to monitor the performance of server hardware and the operating system to troubleshot problems and discover performance bottlenecks. PerfMon is flexible and has low overhead.\r\n\r\nA link to an outstanding blog post authored by a Microsoft senior support engineer on using PerfMon to monitor disk performance can be found <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/03/16/windows-performance-monitor-disk-counters-explained.aspx\">here</a>.','WINDOWS PERFORMANCE MONITOR DISK COUNTERS EXPLAINED','','publish','open','open','','windows-performance-monitor-disk-counters-explained','','','2012-03-19 13:21:47','2012-03-19 13:21:47','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6288',0,'post','',0),(6289,44,'2012-03-19 13:09:21','2012-03-19 13:09:21','','Auto Draft','','inherit','open','open','','6288-revision','','','2012-03-19 13:09:21','2012-03-19 13:09:21','',6288,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6288-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6290,44,'2012-03-29 10:31:38','2012-03-29 10:31:38','It\'s been over a year since Windows 7 SP1 was released. Starting this week, Microsoft has stopped making the service pack optional – it can no longer be blocked by the Windows <a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;id=22464\">Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit</a> — a Microsoft utility that lets corporate system administrators control when service packs are installed on their systems.','Windows 7 SP1 is no longer optional','','publish','open','open','','windows-7-sp1-is-no-longer-optional','','','2012-03-29 10:31:38','2012-03-29 10:31:38','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6290',0,'post','',0),(6291,44,'2012-03-19 13:21:03','2012-03-19 13:21:03','Windows Performance Monitor (PerfMon.exe) is a quick and easy way to monitor the performance of server hardware and the operating system to troubleshot problems and discover performance bottlenecks. PerfMon is flexible and has low overhead.\n\nA link to an outstanding blog post authored by a Microsoft senior support engineer on using PerfMon to monitor disk performance can be found <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/03/16/windows-performance-monitor-disk-counters-explained.aspx\">here</a>.','WINDOWS PERFORMANCE MONITOR DISK COUNTERS EXPLAINED','','inherit','open','open','','6288-revision-2','','','2012-03-19 13:21:03','2012-03-19 13:21:03','',6288,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6288-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6292,44,'2012-03-19 13:23:59','2012-03-19 13:23:59','Windows Performance Monitor (PerfMon.exe) is a quick and easy way to monitor the performance of server hardware and the operating system to troubleshot problems and discover performance bottlenecks. PerfMon is flexible and has low overhead.\n\nA link to an outstanding blog post authored by a Microsoft senior support engineer on using PerfMon to monitor disk performance can be found <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/03/16/windows-performance-monitor-disk-counters-explained.aspx\">here</a>.','WINDOWS PERFORMANCE MONITOR DISK COUNTERS EXPLAINED','','inherit','open','open','','6288-autosave','','','2012-03-19 13:23:59','2012-03-19 13:23:59','',6288,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6288-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6293,12,'2012-03-17 13:13:04','2012-03-17 13:13:04','<div>\r\n<div>In Part I I covered the basics of what the \"new\" Personal vDisk feature in XenDesktop 5.6 is. In this part I\'ll cover how it\'s installed/configured, and some of the interesting things I found out doing during some lab-playtime.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>The installation/configuration to enable the Personal vDisk is rather low-thrill, and that\'s a good thing because simplicity is bliss, right?</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>\r\n<div>On the golden Windows 7 image I created I installed the virtual desktop agent and was presented with this new screen prompting me to enable the PVD on the desktop side.</div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong><img src=\"//5112A56D-2801-418C-B36F-373B069B7FAE/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<div>During the creation of the desktop Catalog, the new option for \"Pooled with personal vDisk\" is available, and that\'s the one I used. This creates the desktops using Machine Creation Services (MCS).</div>\r\n<div><strong><img src=\"//9448D709-F79C-4B06-9EE9-1DD2F304E7C1/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>Through the wizard I set the PVD to 10GB and used the P: drive.</div>\r\n<div><img src=\"//51D85CFA-C271-49A1-AF7F-8DCFD973AFB2/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>That was basically the process to \"enable\' the feature, and I wanted to take it out for a spin. My first login actually gave me an error message about not being able to connect to the vDisk image, so I went back to my golden Windows 7 machine and updated the vDisk inventory, shut it down, and took a new snapshot. This process took a couple of minutes, but seemed to do the trick.</div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong><img src=\"//8931652E-1599-4DF8-9B7E-63FE33F1F99C/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></strong></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<div>On my next login everything worked as desired, and my PVD mapped/connected without issue. Logged into the desktop, I downloaded and installed Google Chrome, adding a shortcut to my desktop. Then I logged out, went back to the base image and applied some updates and installed Adobe Reader-- tasks that are likely common for an IT administrator. Once the image completed and my desktop was available, I logged back in and sure enough, Google Chrome was there waiting for me.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>So I decided to get a little crazy with the testing. I created a second desktop assignment (the same user, but now assigned to TWO desktops) and logged in to the newly assigned desktop, \"PVD Pool (2)\". None of my apps or test data were there. On this second desktop I installed WINRAR, and added the shortcut to the desktop, and logged back out.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><img src=\"//983BB293-3B30-4B26-A36D-60A1C167429E/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>Next, I logged in to each desktop as the original user (administrator) and was presented with two separate \"PVD environments\", with the applications I installed maintained separately to each PVD on each desktop.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><img src=\"//CC9526AE-47D9-43FA-905E-71588B2BC043/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>\r\n<div>To take it a little further, I assigned a SECOND USER to the second desktop (username Average Joe) and logged in with that account.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>To my surprise, the WINRAR application was still available-- which leads me to believe the \"Personal\" vDisk isn\'t so much \"personal\" as much as it was \"desktopanal\", which is a new word. What I mean by this is that the PVD stays with the desktop it connects to first, even if a different user is then assigned and logs in (which is what I did).</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div><img src=\"//640ABB32-AFEB-4899-B688-21ADAB3E078A/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>As Average Joe I installed Firefox, logged off, then logged back in as the original user and Winrar and Firefox were both available-- again, proving that the PVD is tied to a desktop, and not just the original user assigned to it, but any user who then logs in to that desktop.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK - PART II ','','inherit','open','open','','6282-revision-5','','','2012-03-17 13:13:04','2012-03-17 13:13:04','',6282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6282-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(6296,16,'2012-03-20 02:20:37','2012-03-20 02:20:37','Sometimes it becomes necessary to reset the Citrix License Console admin password. It is actually a very straightforward operation once you know how to do it.\n<ol>\n	<li>Open the server.xml file located in C:\\Program Files\\Citrix\\Licensing\\LS\\conf\\</li>\n	<li>There should be an entry that begins with &lt;user firstName=\"System\" id=\"admin\"...</li>\n	<li>Replace the contents between the quotes of password=\"\" and replace it with a simple plain-text password. This is only a temporary password. The contents will be encrypted</li>\n	<li>Change passwordExpired=\"false\" to passwordExpired=\"true\"</li>\n	<li>Save and close the xml file</li>\n	<li>Restart the Citrix Licensing Server service</li>\n	<li>Log into the Licensing Console using the username admin and the password you set in Step 3</li>\n	<li>You should be prompted to reset the password upon logging in</li>\n	<li>Re-open the server.xml file and verify that the password=\"password ou</li>\n</ol>','RESETTING CITRIX LICENSE SERVER PASSWORD','','inherit','open','open','','6294-revision','','','2012-03-20 02:20:37','2012-03-20 02:20:37','',6294,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6294-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6297,16,'2012-03-20 02:21:37','2012-03-20 02:21:37','Sometimes it becomes necessary to reset the Citrix License Console admin password. It is actually a very straightforward operation once you know how to do it.\n<ol>\n	<li>Open the server.xml file located in C:\\Program Files\\Citrix\\Licensing\\LS\\conf\\</li>\n	<li>There should be an entry that begins with &lt;user firstName=\"System\" id=\"admin\"...</li>\n	<li>Replace the contents between the quotes of password=\"\" and replace it with a simple plain-text password. This is only a temporary password. The contents will be encrypted</li>\n	<li>Change passwordExpired=\"false\" to passwordExpired=\"true\"</li>\n	<li>Save and close the xml file</li>\n	<li>Restart the Citrix Licensing Server service</li>\n	<li>Log into the Licensing Console using the username admin and the password you set in Step 3</li>\n	<li>You should be prompted to reset the password upon logging in</li>\n	<li>Re-open the server.xml file and verify that the password=\"password you set\" is now an encrypted string representing the new password you just entered</li>\n</ol>\nGood luck!','RESETTING CITRIX LICENSE SERVER PASSWORD','','inherit','open','open','','6294-revision-2','','','2012-03-20 02:21:37','2012-03-20 02:21:37','',6294,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6294-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6298,16,'2012-03-20 02:22:43','2012-03-20 02:22:43','Sometimes it becomes necessary to reset the Citrix License Console admin password. 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Now until <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">July 28, 2012</span>, there are (8) extensively discounted Single Expansion <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10280/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">UCS B-Series Blade Servers </span></a>and <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">C-Series Rack-Mount Server </span></a>Packs that are fully configured and ready to be implemented in any data center. This is a great opportunity for any company to experience the next-generation of data center platforms with Cisco\'s UCS at an exceptionally low entry point.\r\n\r\n<strong>NEW B230 &amp; C260 Expansion Packs</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Blade-pack1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6306\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Blade-pack1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"523\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><strong>Expansion Pack Bundle Description : 8 N</strong><strong>ew bundles </strong>have been added to the <em>Q3 Smart Play Program Expansion Packs </em>comprising of (4) B230 blade and (4) C260 rack systems.  The difference between each offering is a combination of type of processor (E7-2870 and E7-2860) and available memory.  </span></span>\r\n\r\n For further information and pricing on these Cisco Smart Play Bundle Promotions, please email <a href=\"mailto:insidesales@eGroup-us.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">insidesales@eGroup-us.com</span></a> or call 1877-eGroup-1.','CISCO HAS EXCITING ADDITIONS TO THEIR SMART PLAY PROGRAM','','publish','open','open','','cisco-has-exciting-additions-to-their-smart-play-program','','','2012-03-22 22:39:56','2012-03-22 22:39:56','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6303',0,'post','',0),(6304,13,'2012-03-22 22:33:44','2012-03-22 22:33:44','','Blade pack','','inherit','open','open','','blade-pack','','','2012-03-22 22:33:44','2012-03-22 22:33:44','',6303,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Blade-pack.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6305,13,'2012-03-22 22:32:36','2012-03-22 22:32:36','Cisco’s <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10265/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Unified Computing Systems</span></a> (UCS) has acquired the reputation of leading the next-generation of data center platforms by merging together the IT needs of computing, networking, storage access and virtualization into one unified system.\n\nCisco has recently announced NEW additions to their Q3 Cisco Smart Play bundles. Now until <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">July 28, 2012</span>, there are (8) extensively discounted Single Expansion <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10280/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">UCS B-Series Blade Servers </span></a>and <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">C-Series Rack-Mount Server </span></a>Bundles that are fully configured and ready to be implemented in any data center. 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This is a great opportunity for any company to experience the next-generation of data center platforms with Cisco\'s UCS at an exceptionally low entry point.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Blade-pack.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6304\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Blade-pack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"855\" height=\"379\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><strong>BUNDLE DESCRIPTIONS</strong>:  <strong>8 new bundles </strong>have been added to the <em>Q3 Smart Play Program Expansion Packs </em>comprising of (4) B230 blade and (4) C260 rack systems.  The difference between each offering is a combination of type of processor (E7-2870 and E7-2860) and available memory.  </span></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFor further information and pricing on these Cisco Smart Play Bundle Promotions, please email <a href=\"mailto:insidesales@eGroup-us.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">insidesales@eGroup-us.com</span></a> or call 1877-eGroup-1.','CISCO HAS EXCITING ADDITIONS TO THEIR SMART PLAY PROGRAM','','inherit','open','open','','6303-revision-2','','','2012-03-22 22:34:36','2012-03-22 22:34:36','',6303,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6303-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6308,13,'2012-03-22 22:37:33','2012-03-22 22:37:33','Cisco’s <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10265/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Unified Computing Systems</span></a> (UCS) has acquired the reputation of leading the next-generation of data center platforms by merging together the IT needs of computing, networking, storage access and virtualization into one unified system.\r\n\r\nCisco has recently announced NEW additions to their Q3 Cisco Smart Play bundles. Now until <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">July 28, 2012</span>, there are (8) extensively discounted Single Expansion <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10280/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">UCS B-Series Blade Servers </span></a>and <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">C-Series Rack-Mount Server </span></a>Bundles that are fully configured and ready to be implemented in any data center. This is a great opportunity for any company to experience the next-generation of data center platforms with Cisco\'s UCS at an exceptionally low entry point.\r\n\r\n<strong>NEW B230 &amp; C260 Expansion Packs</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Blade-pack1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6306\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Blade-pack1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"781\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><strong>Expansion Pack Bundle Description : 8 N</strong><strong>ew bundles </strong>have been added to the <em>Q3 Smart Play Program Expansion Packs </em>comprising of (4) B230 blade and (4) C260 rack systems.  The difference between each offering is a combination of type of processor (E7-2870 and E7-2860) and available memory.  </span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFor further information and pricing on these Cisco Smart Play Bundle Promotions, please email <a href=\"mailto:insidesales@eGroup-us.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">insidesales@eGroup-us.com</span></a> or call 1877-eGroup-1.','CISCO HAS EXCITING ADDITIONS TO THEIR SMART PLAY PROGRAM','','inherit','open','open','','6303-revision-3','','','2012-03-22 22:37:33','2012-03-22 22:37:33','',6303,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6303-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6309,13,'2012-03-22 22:37:48','2012-03-22 22:37:48','Cisco’s <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10265/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Unified Computing Systems</span></a> (UCS) has acquired the reputation of leading the next-generation of data center platforms by merging together the IT needs of computing, networking, storage access and virtualization into one unified system.\r\n\r\nCisco has recently announced NEW additions to their Q3 Cisco Smart Play bundles. Now until <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">July 28, 2012</span>, there are (8) extensively discounted Single Expansion <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10280/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">UCS B-Series Blade Servers </span></a>and <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">C-Series Rack-Mount Server </span></a>Bundles that are fully configured and ready to be implemented in any data center. This is a great opportunity for any company to experience the next-generation of data center platforms with Cisco\'s UCS at an exceptionally low entry point.\r\n\r\n<strong>NEW B230 &amp; C260 Expansion Packs</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Blade-pack1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6306\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Blade-pack1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"523\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><strong>Expansion Pack Bundle Description : 8 N</strong><strong>ew bundles </strong>have been added to the <em>Q3 Smart Play Program Expansion Packs </em>comprising of (4) B230 blade and (4) C260 rack systems.  The difference between each offering is a combination of type of processor (E7-2870 and E7-2860) and available memory.  </span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFor further information and pricing on these Cisco Smart Play Bundle Promotions, please email <a href=\"mailto:insidesales@eGroup-us.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">insidesales@eGroup-us.com</span></a> or call 1877-eGroup-1.','CISCO HAS EXCITING ADDITIONS TO THEIR SMART PLAY PROGRAM','','inherit','open','open','','6303-revision-4','','','2012-03-22 22:37:48','2012-03-22 22:37:48','',6303,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6303-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6310,13,'2012-04-16 13:17:14','2012-04-16 13:17:14','Cisco’s <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10265/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Unified Computing Systems</span></a> (UCS) has acquired the reputation of leading the next-generation of data center platforms by merging together the IT needs of computing, networking, storage access and virtualization into one unified system.\n\nCisco has recently announced NEW additions to their Q3 Cisco Smart Play bundles. Now until <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">July 28, 2012</span>, there are (8) extensively discounted Single Expansion <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10280/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">UCS B-Series Blade Servers </span></a>and <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">C-Series Rack-Mount Server </span></a>Packs that are fully configured and ready to be implemented in any data center. This is a great opportunity for any company to experience the next-generation of data center platforms with Cisco\'s UCS at an exceptionally low entry point.\n\n<strong>NEW B230 &amp; C260 Expansion Packs</strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Blade-pack1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6306\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Blade-pack1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"523\" /></a>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><strong>Expansion Pack Bundle Description : 8 N</strong><strong>ew bundles </strong>have been added to the <em>Q3 Smart Play Program Expansion Packs </em>comprising of (4) B230 blade and (4) C260 rack systems.  The difference between each offering is a combination of type of processor (E7-2870 and E7-2860) and available memory.  </span></span>\n\n For further information and pricing on these Cisco Smart Play Bundle Promotions, please email <a href=\"mailto:insidesales@eGroup-us.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">insidesales@eGroup-us.com</span></a> or call 1877-eGroup-1.','CISCO HAS EXCITING ADDITIONS TO THEIR SMART PLAY PROGRAM','','inherit','open','open','','6303-autosave','','','2012-04-16 13:17:14','2012-04-16 13:17:14','',6303,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6303-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6311,23,'2012-03-23 00:29:19','2012-03-23 00:29:19','Is your company still running SharePoint 2007? Has your company been considering an upgrade to SharePoint 2010? Well here\'s another compelling reason to upgrade - Microsoft\'s Mainstream Support will end on 10/9/2012.\r\n\r\nSee this link for more information...\r\n<a href=\"http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&amp;qid=&amp;alpha=SharePoint+Server+2007&amp;Filter=FilterNO\" target=\"_blank\">http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&amp;qid=&amp;alpha=SharePoint+Server+2007&amp;Filter=FilterNO</a>\r\n\r\nWhat does this mean? Here is Microsoft\'s explanation on what that means...\r\n\r\n<strong>What is the difference between Mainstream Support, Extended Support, and online self-help support?</strong>\r\n<table width=\"80%\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Support provided</strong></p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Mainstream Support phase</strong></p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Extended Support phase</strong></p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Paid support (per-incident, per hour, and others)</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Security update support</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Non-security hotfix support</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Requires extended hotfix agreement, purchased within 90 days of mainstream support ending.</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">No-charge incident support</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Warranty claims</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Design changes and feature requests</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Product-specific information that is available by using the online Microsoft Knowledge Base</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Product-specific information that is available by using the Support site at Microsoft Help and Support to find answers to technical questions</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<strong>Note: </strong>A hotfix is a modification to the commercially available Microsoft product software code to address specific critical problem\r\n\r\nSee this link for the FAQ...\r\n<a href=\"http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy\" target=\"_blank\">http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is your upgrade plan?</strong>','SHAREPOINT 2007: MAINSTREAM SUPPORT ENDS 10/9/2012','','publish','open','open','','sharepoint-2007-mainstream-support-ends-1092012','','','2012-03-23 00:29:19','2012-03-23 00:29:19','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6311',0,'post','',0),(6312,23,'2012-03-23 00:10:49','2012-03-23 00:10:49','','Auto Draft','','inherit','open','open','','6311-revision','','','2012-03-23 00:10:49','2012-03-23 00:10:49','',6311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6311-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6314,23,'2012-03-23 00:22:03','2012-03-23 00:22:03','Is your company still running SharePoint 2007?  Has your company been considering an upgrade to SharePoint 2010?  Well here\'s another compelling reason to upgrade - Microsoft\'s Mainstream Support will end on 10/9/2012.\r\n\r\nSee this link for more information...\r\nhttp://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&amp;qid=&amp;alpha=SharePoint+Server+2007&amp;Filter=FilterNO\r\n\r\nWhat does this mean?  Here is Microsoft\'s explanation on what that means...\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSee this link for the FAQ...\r\nhttp://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy','SHAREPOINT 2007: MAINSTREAM SUPPORT ENDS 10/9/2012','','inherit','open','open','','6311-revision-2','','','2012-03-23 00:22:03','2012-03-23 00:22:03','',6311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6311-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6315,23,'2012-03-23 00:23:11','2012-03-23 00:23:11','Is your company still running SharePoint 2007? Has your company been considering an upgrade to SharePoint 2010? Well here\'s another compelling reason to upgrade - Microsoft\'s Mainstream Support will end on 10/9/2012.\r\n\r\nSee this link for more information...\r\nhttp://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&amp;qid=&amp;alpha=SharePoint+Server+2007&amp;Filter=FilterNO\r\n\r\nWhat does this mean? Here is Microsoft\'s explanation on what that means...\r\n\r\n<strong>What is the difference between Mainstream Support, Extended Support, and online self-help support?</strong>\r\n<table width=\"80%\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Support provided</strong></p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Mainstream Support phase</strong></p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Extended Support phase</strong></p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Paid support (per-incident, per hour, and others)</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Security update support</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Non-security hotfix support</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Requires extended hotfix agreement, purchased within 90 days of mainstream support ending.</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">No-charge incident support</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Warranty claims</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Design changes and feature requests</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Product-specific information that is available by using the online Microsoft Knowledge Base</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Product-specific information that is available by using the Support site at Microsoft Help and Support to find answers to technical questions</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\">X</p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<strong>Note: </strong>A hotfix is a modification to the commercially available Microsoft product software code to address specific critical problem\r\n\r\nSee this link for the FAQ...\r\n\r\nhttp://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>What is your upgrade plan?</strong>','SHAREPOINT 2007: MAINSTREAM SUPPORT ENDS 10/9/2012','','inherit','open','open','','6311-revision-3','','','2012-03-23 00:23:11','2012-03-23 00:23:11','',6311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6311-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6316,23,'2012-03-23 00:27:43','2012-03-23 00:27:43','Is your company still running SharePoint 2007? Has your company been considering an upgrade to SharePoint 2010? Well here\'s another compelling reason to upgrade - Microsoft\'s Mainstream Support will end on 10/9/2012.\r\n\r\nSee this link for more information...\r\n<a href=\"http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&amp;qid=&amp;alpha=SharePoint+Server+2007&amp;Filter=FilterNO\" target=\"_blank\">http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&amp;qid=&amp;alpha=SharePoint+Server+2007&amp;Filter=FilterNO</a>\r\n\r\nWhat does this mean? 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Has your company been considering an upgrade to SharePoint 2010? Well here\'s another compelling reason to upgrade - Microsoft\'s Mainstream Support will end on 10/9/2012.\r\n\r\nSee this link for more information...\r\n<a href=\"http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&amp;qid=&amp;alpha=SharePoint+Server+2007&amp;Filter=FilterNO\" target=\"_blank\">http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&amp;qid=&amp;alpha=SharePoint+Server+2007&amp;Filter=FilterNO</a>\r\n\r\nWhat does this mean? 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Has your company been considering an upgrade to SharePoint 2010? Well here\'s another compelling reason to upgrade - Microsoft\'s Mainstream Support will end on 10/9/2012.\n\nSee this link for more information...\n<a href=\"http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&amp;qid=&amp;alpha=SharePoint+Server+2007&amp;Filter=FilterNO\" target=\"_blank\">http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&amp;qid=&amp;alpha=SharePoint+Server+2007&amp;Filter=FilterNO</a>\n\nWhat does this mean? 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Double check that VMware View Agent installation and config is correct. As the installation progresses, select \"Log In As Current User\".\r\n\r\n2. Verify that disclaimers and login banners are not in use when PCoIP is in use as the display protocol. (<a title=\"Black View Client log in screen when using PCoIP\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1016961\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>) \r\n\r\n3. Confirm that userinit is configured to pass login credentials successfully. (<a title=\"Confirming that Userinit is configured properly\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1028975\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\r\n\r\n4. Ensuring proper chaining with GINA is processing successfully. (<a title=\"Confirming that the GINA is chaining correctly\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1029075\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\r\n\r\n5. Double check Microsoft Group Policy to confirm that no GPOs are conflicting. (<a title=\"Ensuring that there are no conflicts between Group Policy Objects and View virtual desktops\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1027446\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\r\n\r\n6. Confirm that \"Interactive Logon: Do Not Require CTRL+ALT+DELETE\" Group Policy is disabled. (<a title=\"Single Sign-on in VMware View Manager does not work\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1026797\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)','VMWARE VIEW: TROUBLESHOOTING SINGLE SIGN-ON','','publish','open','open','','vmware-view-troubleshooting-single-sign-on','','','2012-03-23 16:07:42','2012-03-23 16:07:42','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6319',0,'post','',0),(6320,6,'2012-03-23 15:03:34','2012-03-23 15:03:34','If you are having to enter your credentials in twice to access VMware View, when you have single sign-on enabled in your environment, then read below for some helpful troubleshooting tips:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n1. Double check that VMware View Agent installation and config is correct. As the installation progresses, select \"Log In As Current User\".\n\n2. Verify that disclaimers and login banners are not in use when PCoIP is in use as the display protocol. (<a title=\"Black View Client log in screen when using PCoIP\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1016961\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>) \n\n3. Confirm that userinit is configured to pass login credentials successfully. (<a title=\"Confirming that Userinit is configured properly\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1028975\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\n\n4. Ensuring proper chaining with GINA is processing successfully. (<a title=\"Confirming that the GINA is chaining correctly\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1029075\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\n\n5. Double check Microsoft Group Policy to confirm that no GPOs are conflicting. (<a title=\"Ensuring that there are no conflicts between Group Policy Objects and View virtual desktops\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1027446\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\n\n6.','VMWARE VIEW: TROUBLESHOOTING SINGLE SIGN-ON','','inherit','open','open','','6319-revision','','','2012-03-23 15:03:34','2012-03-23 15:03:34','',6319,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6319-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6321,6,'2012-03-23 15:42:51','2012-03-23 15:42:51','','VMwareView','','inherit','open','open','','vmwareview','','','2012-03-23 15:42:51','2012-03-23 15:42:51','',6319,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMwareView.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6322,6,'2012-03-23 16:05:06','2012-03-23 16:05:06','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMwareView.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6321\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMwareView.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"60\" /></a>\n\nIf you are having to enter your credentials in twice to access VMware View, when you have single sign-on enabled in your environment, then read below for some helpful troubleshooting tips:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n1. Double check that VMware View Agent installation and config is correct. As the installation progresses, select \"Log In As Current User\".\n\n2. Verify that disclaimers and login banners are not in use when PCoIP is in use as the display protocol. (<a title=\"Black View Client log in screen when using PCoIP\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1016961\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>) \n\n3. Confirm that userinit is configured to pass login credentials successfully. (<a title=\"Confirming that Userinit is configured properly\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1028975\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\n\n4. Ensuring proper chaining with GINA is processing successfully. (<a title=\"Confirming that the GINA is chaining correctly\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1029075\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\n\n5. Double check Microsoft Group Policy to confirm that no GPOs are conflicting. (<a title=\"Ensuring that there are no conflicts between Group Policy Objects and View virtual desktops\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1027446\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\n\n6. Confirm that \"Interactive Logon: Do Not Require CTRL+ALT+DELETE\" Group Policy is disabled. (<a title=\"Single Sign-on in VMware View Manager does not work\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1026797\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)','VMWARE VIEW: TROUBLESHOOTING SINGLE SIGN-ON','','inherit','open','open','','6319-revision-2','','','2012-03-23 16:05:06','2012-03-23 16:05:06','',6319,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6319-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6323,6,'2012-03-23 16:07:08','2012-03-23 16:07:08','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMwareView.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6321\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMwareView.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"60\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you are having to enter your credentials in twice to access VMware View, when you have single sign-on enabled in your environment, then read below for some helpful troubleshooting tips:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n1. Double check that VMware View Agent installation and config is correct. As the installation progresses, select \"Log In As Current User\".\r\n\r\n2. Verify that disclaimers and login banners are not in use when PCoIP is in use as the display protocol. (<a title=\"Black View Client log in screen when using PCoIP\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1016961\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>) \r\n\r\n3. Confirm that userinit is configured to pass login credentials successfully. (<a title=\"Confirming that Userinit is configured properly\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1028975\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\r\n\r\n4. Ensuring proper chaining with GINA is processing successfully. (<a title=\"Confirming that the GINA is chaining correctly\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1029075\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\r\n\r\n5. Double check Microsoft Group Policy to confirm that no GPOs are conflicting. (<a title=\"Ensuring that there are no conflicts between Group Policy Objects and View virtual desktops\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1027446\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\r\n\r\n6. Confirm that \"Interactive Logon: Do Not Require CTRL+ALT+DELETE\" Group Policy is disabled. (<a title=\"Single Sign-on in VMware View Manager does not work\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1026797\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)','VMWARE VIEW: TROUBLESHOOTING SINGLE SIGN-ON','','inherit','open','open','','6319-revision-3','','','2012-03-23 16:07:08','2012-03-23 16:07:08','',6319,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6319-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6324,6,'2012-03-23 16:07:14','2012-03-23 16:07:14','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMwareView.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6321\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/VMwareView.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"60\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you are having to enter your credentials in twice to access VMware View, when you have single sign-on enabled in your environment, then read below for some helpful troubleshooting tips:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n1. Double check that VMware View Agent installation and config is correct. As the installation progresses, select \"Log In As Current User\".\r\n\r\n2. Verify that disclaimers and login banners are not in use when PCoIP is in use as the display protocol. (<a title=\"Black View Client log in screen when using PCoIP\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1016961\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>) \r\n\r\n3. Confirm that userinit is configured to pass login credentials successfully. (<a title=\"Confirming that Userinit is configured properly\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1028975\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\r\n\r\n4. Ensuring proper chaining with GINA is processing successfully. (<a title=\"Confirming that the GINA is chaining correctly\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1029075\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\r\n\r\n5. Double check Microsoft Group Policy to confirm that no GPOs are conflicting. (<a title=\"Ensuring that there are no conflicts between Group Policy Objects and View virtual desktops\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1027446\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)\r\n\r\n6. Confirm that \"Interactive Logon: Do Not Require CTRL+ALT+DELETE\" Group Policy is disabled. (<a title=\"Single Sign-on in VMware View Manager does not work\" href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1026797\" target=\"_blank\">LINK</a>)','VMWARE VIEW: TROUBLESHOOTING SINGLE SIGN-ON','','inherit','open','open','','6319-revision-4','','','2012-03-23 16:07:14','2012-03-23 16:07:14','',6319,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6319-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6328,12,'2012-03-26 15:13:02','2012-03-26 15:13:02','Now that we\'ve covered what it is, how you install/configure it, and how it REALLY works (\"caring\" more about the assignment to the desktop than to the user), I\'ll explain why I think the technology is great, how it will help, but also why it\'s not the \"end game\" most of the end user computing world is looking for.\r\n\r\nFirst, there are several reasons why I think this technology is a great step forward. It allows the virtual desktop to be much more \"user-friendly\" in that the user can customize it, install their own applications, and make it the way THEY want it-- versus being \"constrained\" by the way the IT department wants their desktop to be. This increases user buy-in and morale, and can help push a proof of concept over the last hurdle.\r\n\r\nIt minimizes the amount of management required for \"dedicated\" desktops, as you still have a single image to patch, install standard apps on to, etc. It\'s also a technology from a 3rd party that used to charge per user, but is now included at no additional cost into the XD offering.\r\n\r\nIt took almost no time at all to configure and set up, and has worked flawlessly since-- it doesn\'t require re-learning an entire solution. These are all great and important things.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nHowever, where I see this falling short today is that it requires a user-to-desktop assignment in a 1:1 manner, the same way dedicated desktops do. To recap quickly, what this means is when a user logs in for the first time, they are assigned a specific desktop (let\'s say XD15), and every time they log in moving forward, they will receive the SAME desktop (XD15).\r\n\r\nSo for every user you need a virtual desktop.\r\n\r\nThere are a few reasons for this, and they\'re all good reasons.\r\n\r\nThe PVD is \"assigned\" to a desktop for the user, and it stays put on that desktop. It HAS TO stay on that desktop because the \"PVD layering\" does not get loaded at login. It gets loaded at boot time to allow it to access drivers, system services, and low-system level components some applications require. If this \"disk layering\" was handled at login, you\'d lose that.\r\n\r\nIt\'s also good to note that this is the same situation with Unidesk-- a technology very similar to the RingCube PVD technology.\r\n\r\nYou might be thinking \"well that\'s not a big deal, I\'ll have a desktop for each user (which you may already be doing) and they\'ll be able to do everything they need. This still sounds great!\", and I couldn\'t blame you for it. But this 1:1 mapping of user to desktop creates what\'s known as the \"Concurrency problem\".\r\n\r\nLet\'s say you have a total of 1000 users that connect to your virtual desktop environment each day. They\'re broken out into separate shifts of 250 users each, so at any given time, 250 connections and virtual desktop are in use. You\'d still need 1,000 desktops provisioned (1 for each user), even though 750 of them wouldn\'t be used at any given time in the day.\r\n\r\nIt\'s because of this that a lot of (specifically) VDI solutions combine different desktop pool types, with some as non-dedicated, and now likely some without the PVD feature. The PVD pools could be used for \"power users\" or executives, and the non-persistent \"floating\" desktops could be used for task workers. It adds a little bit of management overhead, but not much considering the power of the solution. And it\'s likely this is how things will remain for the near term-- it\'s an acceptable solution/design.\r\n\r\nTo me, and also to Gunnar (we had a good discussion around this a few times now), the ideal solution for Personal vDisk / Persistent Disk / Unidesk would be to have the PVD, whatever the name is, float with the user and require no desktop assignment. You could create a pool of only the # of desktops needed at any given time and regardless of which desktop the user was connected to, their PVD would \"snap-in\" and they\'d have access to their data, profiles, and self-installed applications. That\'s the sweet spot.\r\n\r\nUntil then, keep the concurrency problem in mind when doing your designs, and be sure to give yourself plenty of disk space in your PVD-- you\'ll find yourself installing more apps than you originally planned for (I know I did).','Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK - PART III','','inherit','open','open','','6325-revision-3','','','2012-03-26 15:13:02','2012-03-26 15:13:02','',6325,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6325-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6329,12,'2012-03-26 15:15:38','2012-03-26 15:15:38','Now that we\'ve covered what it is, how you install/configure it, and how it REALLY works (\"caring\" more about the assignment to the desktop than to the user), I\'ll explain why I think the technology is great, how it will help, but also why it\'s not the \"end game\" most of the end user computing world is looking for.\n\nFirst, there are several reasons why I think this technology is a great step forward. It allows the virtual desktop to be much more \"user-friendly\" in that the user can customize it, install their own applications, and make it the way THEY want it-- versus being \"constrained\" by the way the IT department wants their desktop to be. This increases user buy-in and morale, and can help push a proof of concept over the last hurdle.\n\nIt minimizes the amount of management required for \"dedicated\" desktops, as you still have a single image to patch, install standard apps on to, etc. It\'s also a technology from a 3rd party that used to charge per user, but is now included at no additional cost into the XD offering.\n\nIt took almost no time at all to configure and set up, and has worked flawlessly since-- it doesn\'t require re-learning an entire solution. These are all great and important things.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nHowever, where I see this falling short today is that it requires a user-to-desktop assignment in a 1:1 manner, the same way dedicated desktops do. To recap quickly, what this means is when a user logs in for the first time, they are assigned a specific desktop (let\'s say XD15), and every time they log in moving forward, they will receive the SAME desktop (XD15).\n\nSo for every user you need a virtual desktop.\n\nThere are a few reasons for this, and they\'re all good reasons.\n\nThe PVD is \"assigned\" to a desktop for the user, and it stays put on that desktop. It HAS TO stay on that desktop because the \"PVD layering\" does not get loaded at login. It gets loaded at boot time to allow it to access drivers, system services, and low-system level components some applications require. If this \"disk layering\" was handled at login, you\'d lose that.\n\nIt\'s also good to note that this is the same situation with Unidesk-- a technology very similar to the RingCube PVD technology.\n\nYou might be thinking \"well that\'s not a big deal, I\'ll have a desktop for each user (which you may already be doing) and they\'ll be able to do everything they need. This still sounds great!\", and I couldn\'t blame you for it. But this 1:1 mapping of user to desktop creates what\'s known as the \"Concurrency problem\".\n\nLet\'s say you have a total of 1000 users that connect to your virtual desktop environment each day. They\'re broken out into separate shifts of 250 users each, so at any given time, 250 connections and virtual desktop are in use. You\'d still need 1,000 desktops provisioned (1 for each user), even though 750 of them wouldn\'t be used at any given time in the day.\n\nIt\'s because of this that a lot of (specifically) VDI solutions combine different desktop pool types, with some as non-dedicated, and now likely some without the PVD feature. The PVD pools could be used for \"power users\" or executives, and the non-persistent \"floating\" desktops could be used for task workers. It adds a little bit of management overhead, but not much considering the power of the solution. And it\'s likely this is how things will remain for the near term-- it\'s an acceptable solution/design.\n\nTo me, and also to Gunnar (we had a good discussion around this a few times now), the ideal solution for Personal vDisk / Persistent Disk / Unidesk would be to have the PVD, whatever the name is, float with the user and require no desktop assignment. You could create a pool of only the # of desktops needed at any given time and regardless of which desktop the user was connected to, their PVD would \"snap-in\" and they\'d have access to their data, profiles, and self-installed applications. That\'s the sweet spot.\n\nUntil then, keep the concurrency problem in mind when doing your designs, and be sure to give yourself plenty of disk space in your PVD-- you\'ll find yourself installing more apps than you originally planned for (I know I did).','Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 PERSONAL VDISK - PART III','','inherit','open','open','','6325-autosave','','','2012-03-26 15:15:38','2012-03-26 15:15:38','',6325,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6325-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6331,35,'2012-03-26 17:37:55','2012-03-26 17:37:55','Some of the biggest challenges in enterprise IT  come from managing third party software. If you\'ve ever written a batch file to script an Adobe installation and set default options or you\'re worried about data security from Skype file and screen sharing, check out the <a href=\"http://customadmx.sourceforge.net/\">CustomADMX project</a> on SourceForge.\r\n\r\nWhat is an ADMX file? From <a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709647(WS.10).aspx\">Technet</a>, ADMX files are a standards-based XML file format for storing registry-based policy settings. If you use Group Policy on newer Windows servers, you\'re already using them. ADMX files let you create new Group Policy settings that are easy to manage using existing Group Policy tools. This means no more writing scripts just to edit registry settings! ADMX files can be used to manage Vista and newer workstations and Windows Server and newer servers.\r\n\r\nWith the CustomADMX project, the hard part is already done for you. It comes with a graphical installer and you can choose which software you would like to manage. Here\'s just some of the configurable settings:<!--more-->\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>7-Zip</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Control default compression and encryption options for archives</li>\r\n	<li>Manage the Windows context menu appearance</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>Java</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Modify the Java update schedule and frequency (or disable entirely)</li>\r\n	<li>Change the user notification about update availability</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>Skype</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Disable new version checking</li>\r\n	<li>Limit TCP/UDP ports and connections</li>\r\n	<li>Disable new version checking</li>\r\n	<li>Disable file sharing, screen sharing, Facebook integration, and more</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>Adobe Acrobat, Reader, Air, and Updater</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Control update behavior and disable if desired</li>\r\n	<li>Enforce requirements for digital signatures</li>\r\n	<li>Disable Javascript execution in PDFs</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>DoubleGIS Mapping Software</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Hide/Show different UI elements</li>\r\n	<li>Manage proxy server settings</li>\r\n	<li>Control product update behavior</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou can try all of these features on a test workstation without making any changes to your domain. Choose \"Local Mode\" when you run the installer to have the ADMX files placed locally.\r\n\r\nCustomADMX is open-source (GPLv2), which means it\'s available for anyone to use free-of-charge. You can also contribute to the project and share any custom ADMX files you might be using in your environment so that others can benefit.','MANAGE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE WITH CUSTOMADMX','','publish','open','open','','manage-third-party-software-with-customadmx','','','2012-03-26 18:14:08','2012-03-26 18:14:08','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6331',0,'post','',0),(6332,35,'2012-03-26 17:31:02','2012-03-26 17:31:02','Some of the biggest challenges in enterprise IT  come from managing third party software. If you\'re ever written a batch file to script an Adobe installation and set default options or you\'re worried about data security from Skype file and screen sharing, check out the <a href=\"http://customadmx.sourceforge.net/\">CustomADMX project</a> on SourceForge.\n\nWhat is an ADMX file? From <a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709647(WS.10).aspx\">Technet</a>, ADMX files are a standards-based XML file format for storing registry-based policy settings. If you use Group Policy on newer Windows servers, you\'re already using them. ADMX files let you create new Group Policy settings that are easy to manage using existing Group Policy tools. This means no more writing scripts just to edit registry settings!\n\nWith the CustomADMX project, the hard part is already done for you. It comes with a graphical installer and you can choose which software you would like to manage. Here\'s just some of the configurable settings:\n<ul>\n	<li>7-Zip</li>\n<ul>\n	<li>Control default compression and encryption options for archives</li>\n	<li>Manage the Windows context menu appearance</li>\n</ul>\n	<li>Java</li>\n<ul>\n	<li>Modify the Java update schedule and frequency (or disable entirely)</li>\n	<li>Change the user notification about update availability</li>\n</ul>\n	<li>Skype</li>\n<ul>\n	<li>Disable new version checking</li>\n	<li>Limit TCP/UDP ports and connections</li>\n	<li>Disable new version checking</li>\n	<li>Disable file sharing, screen sharing, Facebook integration, and more</li>\n</ul>\n	<li>Adobe Acrobat, Reader, Air, and Updater</li>\n<ul>\n	<li>Control update behavior and disable if desired</li>\n	<li>Enforce requirements for digital signatures</li>\n	<li>Disable Javascript execution in PDFs</li>\n</ul>\n	<li>DoubleGIS Mapping Software</li>\n<ul>\n	<li>Hide/Show different UI elements</li>\n	<li>Manage proxy server settings</li>\n	<li>Control product update behavior</li>\n</ul>\n</ul>\nYou can try all of these features on a test workstation without making any changes to your domain. Ch','MANAGE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE WITH CUSTOMADMX','','inherit','open','open','','6331-revision','','','2012-03-26 17:31:02','2012-03-26 17:31:02','',6331,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6331-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6333,35,'2012-03-26 17:32:04','2012-03-26 17:32:04','Some of the biggest challenges in enterprise IT  come from managing third party software. If you\'re ever written a batch file to script an Adobe installation and set default options or you\'re worried about data security from Skype file and screen sharing, check out the <a href=\"http://customadmx.sourceforge.net/\">CustomADMX project</a> on SourceForge.\n\nWhat is an ADMX file? From <a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709647(WS.10).aspx\">Technet</a>, ADMX files are a standards-based XML file format for storing registry-based policy settings. If you use Group Policy on newer Windows servers, you\'re already using them. ADMX files let you create new Group Policy settings that are easy to manage using existing Group Policy tools. This means no more writing scripts just to edit registry settings! ADMX files can be used to manage Vista and newer workstations and Windows Server and newer servers.\n\nWith the CustomADMX project, the hard part is already done for you. It comes with a graphical installer and you can choose which software you would like to manage. Here\'s just some of the configurable settings:\n<ul>\n	<li>7-Zip</li>\n<ul>\n	<li>Control default compression and encryption options for archives</li>\n	<li>Manage the Windows context menu appearance</li>\n</ul>\n	<li>Java</li>\n<ul>\n	<li>Modify the Java update schedule and frequency (or disable entirely)</li>\n	<li>Change the user notification about update availability</li>\n</ul>\n	<li>Skype</li>\n<ul>\n	<li>Disable new version checking</li>\n	<li>Limit TCP/UDP ports and connections</li>\n	<li>Disable new version checking</li>\n	<li>Disable file sharing, screen sharing, Facebook integration, and more</li>\n</ul>\n	<li>Adobe Acrobat, Reader, Air, and Updater</li>\n<ul>\n	<li>Control update behavior and disable if desired</li>\n	<li>Enforce requirements for digital signatures</li>\n	<li>Disable Javascript execution in PDFs</li>\n</ul>\n	<li>DoubleGIS Mapping Software</li>\n<ul>\n	<li>Hide/Show different UI elements</li>\n	<li>Manage proxy server settings</li>\n	<li>Control product update behavior</li>\n</ul>\n</ul>\nYou can try all of these features on a test workstation without making any changes to your domain. Choose \"Local Mode\" when you run the installer to have the ADMX files placed locally.','MANAGE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE WITH CUSTOMADMX','','inherit','open','open','','6331-revision-2','','','2012-03-26 17:32:04','2012-03-26 17:32:04','',6331,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6331-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6334,35,'2012-03-26 17:32:26','2012-03-26 17:32:26','Some of the biggest challenges in enterprise IT  come from managing third party software. If you\'re ever written a batch file to script an Adobe installation and set default options or you\'re worried about data security from Skype file and screen sharing, check out the <a href=\"http://customadmx.sourceforge.net/\">CustomADMX project</a> on SourceForge.\r\n\r\nWhat is an ADMX file? From <a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709647(WS.10).aspx\">Technet</a>, ADMX files are a standards-based XML file format for storing registry-based policy settings. If you use Group Policy on newer Windows servers, you\'re already using them. ADMX files let you create new Group Policy settings that are easy to manage using existing Group Policy tools. This means no more writing scripts just to edit registry settings! ADMX files can be used to manage Vista and newer workstations and Windows Server and newer servers.\r\n\r\nWith the CustomADMX project, the hard part is already done for you. It comes with a graphical installer and you can choose which software you would like to manage. Here\'s just some of the configurable settings:<!--more-->\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>7-Zip</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Control default compression and encryption options for archives</li>\r\n	<li>Manage the Windows context menu appearance</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>Java</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Modify the Java update schedule and frequency (or disable entirely)</li>\r\n	<li>Change the user notification about update availability</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>Skype</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Disable new version checking</li>\r\n	<li>Limit TCP/UDP ports and connections</li>\r\n	<li>Disable new version checking</li>\r\n	<li>Disable file sharing, screen sharing, Facebook integration, and more</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>Adobe Acrobat, Reader, Air, and Updater</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Control update behavior and disable if desired</li>\r\n	<li>Enforce requirements for digital signatures</li>\r\n	<li>Disable Javascript execution in PDFs</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>DoubleGIS Mapping Software</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Hide/Show different UI elements</li>\r\n	<li>Manage proxy server settings</li>\r\n	<li>Control product update behavior</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou can try all of these features on a test workstation without making any changes to your domain. Choose \"Local Mode\" when you run the installer to have the ADMX files placed locally.','MANAGE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE WITH CUSTOMADMX','','inherit','open','open','','6331-revision-3','','','2012-03-26 17:32:26','2012-03-26 17:32:26','',6331,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6331-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6335,35,'2012-03-26 17:32:30','2012-03-26 17:32:30','Some of the biggest challenges in enterprise IT  come from managing third party software. If you\'re ever written a batch file to script an Adobe installation and set default options or you\'re worried about data security from Skype file and screen sharing, check out the <a href=\"http://customadmx.sourceforge.net/\">CustomADMX project</a> on SourceForge.\r\n\r\nWhat is an ADMX file? From <a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709647(WS.10).aspx\">Technet</a>, ADMX files are a standards-based XML file format for storing registry-based policy settings. If you use Group Policy on newer Windows servers, you\'re already using them. ADMX files let you create new Group Policy settings that are easy to manage using existing Group Policy tools. This means no more writing scripts just to edit registry settings! ADMX files can be used to manage Vista and newer workstations and Windows Server and newer servers.\r\n\r\nWith the CustomADMX project, the hard part is already done for you. It comes with a graphical installer and you can choose which software you would like to manage. Here\'s just some of the configurable settings:<!--more-->\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>7-Zip</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Control default compression and encryption options for archives</li>\r\n	<li>Manage the Windows context menu appearance</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>Java</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Modify the Java update schedule and frequency (or disable entirely)</li>\r\n	<li>Change the user notification about update availability</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>Skype</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Disable new version checking</li>\r\n	<li>Limit TCP/UDP ports and connections</li>\r\n	<li>Disable new version checking</li>\r\n	<li>Disable file sharing, screen sharing, Facebook integration, and more</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>Adobe Acrobat, Reader, Air, and Updater</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Control update behavior and disable if desired</li>\r\n	<li>Enforce requirements for digital signatures</li>\r\n	<li>Disable Javascript execution in PDFs</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>DoubleGIS Mapping Software</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Hide/Show different UI elements</li>\r\n	<li>Manage proxy server settings</li>\r\n	<li>Control product update behavior</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou can try all of these features on a test workstation without making any changes to your domain. 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If you use Group Policy on newer Windows servers, you\'re already using them. ADMX files let you create new Group Policy settings that are easy to manage using existing Group Policy tools. This means no more writing scripts just to edit registry settings! ADMX files can be used to manage Vista and newer workstations and Windows Server and newer servers.\r\n\r\nWith the CustomADMX project, the hard part is already done for you. It comes with a graphical installer and you can choose which software you would like to manage. 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Choose \"Local Mode\" when you run the installer to have the ADMX files placed locally.\r\n\r\nCustomADMX is open-source (GPLv2), which means it\'s available for anyone to use free-of-charge. You can also contribute to the project and share any custom ADMX files you might be using in your environment so that others can benefit.','MANAGE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE WITH CUSTOMADMX','','inherit','open','open','','6331-revision-8','','','2012-03-26 17:42:29','2012-03-26 17:42:29','',6331,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6331-revision-8',0,'revision','',0),(6340,35,'2012-03-26 18:33:29','2012-03-26 18:33:29','Some of the biggest challenges in enterprise IT  come from managing third party software. If you\'ve ever written a batch file to script an Adobe installation and set default options or you\'re worried about data security from Skype file and screen sharing, check out the <a href=\"http://customadmx.sourceforge.net/\">CustomADMX project</a> on SourceForge.\r\n\r\nWhat is an ADMX file? 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Here\'s just some of the configurable settings:<!--more-->\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>7-Zip</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Control default compression and encryption options for archives</li>\r\n	<li>Manage the Windows context menu appearance</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>Java</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Modify the Java update schedule and frequency (or disable entirely)</li>\r\n	<li>Change the user notification about update availability</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>Skype</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Disable new version checking</li>\r\n	<li>Limit TCP/UDP ports and connections</li>\r\n	<li>Disable new version checking</li>\r\n	<li>Disable file sharing, screen sharing, Facebook integration, and more</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>Adobe Acrobat, Reader, Air, and Updater</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Control update behavior and disable if desired</li>\r\n	<li>Enforce requirements for digital signatures</li>\r\n	<li>Disable Javascript execution in PDFs</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n	<li>DoubleGIS Mapping Software</li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Hide/Show different UI elements</li>\r\n	<li>Manage proxy server settings</li>\r\n	<li>Control product update behavior</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\nYou can try all of these features on a test workstation without making any changes to your domain. Choose \"Local Mode\" when you run the installer to have the ADMX files placed locally.\r\n\r\nCustomADMX is open-source (GPLv2), which means it\'s available for anyone to use free-of-charge. You can also contribute to the project and share any custom ADMX files you might be using in your environment so that others can benefit.','MANAGE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE WITH CUSTOMADMX','','inherit','open','open','','6331-autosave','','','2012-03-26 18:33:29','2012-03-26 18:33:29','',6331,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6331-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6341,44,'2012-03-19 13:12:46','2012-03-19 13:12:46','','Auto Draft','','inherit','open','open','','6290-revision','','','2012-03-19 13:12:46','2012-03-19 13:12:46','',6290,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6290-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6343,44,'2012-03-29 10:31:36','2012-03-29 10:31:36','It\'s been over a year since Windows 7 SP1 was released. Starting this week, Microsoft has stopped making the service pack optional – it can no longer be blocked by the Windows <a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;id=22464\">Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit</a> — a Microsoft utility that lets corporate system administrators control when service packs are installed on their systems.','Windows 7 SP1 is no longer optional','','inherit','open','open','','6290-revision-2','','','2012-03-29 10:31:36','2012-03-29 10:31:36','',6290,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6290-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6344,44,'2012-03-29 10:32:41','2012-03-29 10:32:41','It\'s been over a year since Windows 7 SP1 was released. Starting this week, Microsoft has stopped making the service pack optional – it can no longer be blocked by the Windows <a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;id=22464\">Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit</a> — a Microsoft utility that lets corporate system administrators control when service packs are installed on their systems.','Windows 7 SP1 is no longer optional','','inherit','open','open','','6290-autosave','','','2012-03-29 10:32:41','2012-03-29 10:32:41','',6290,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6290-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(6345,44,'2012-03-29 11:05:40','2012-03-29 11:05:40','Setting up ESXi 5 iSCSI multipathing with jumbo frames can be confusing and complex. The process is much easier in vSphere 5 than it was in previous versions, and it’s no longer necessary to do the configuration from the command line. Here\'s a <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu-HyD3E3cw\">link</a> to an excellent instructional video that walks you through the entire process.','Setting up ESXi 5 iSCSI multipathing with jumbo frames ','','publish','open','open','','setting-up-esxi-5-iscsi-multipathing-with-jumbo-frames','','','2012-03-29 11:05:40','2012-03-29 11:05:40','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6345',0,'post','',0),(6346,44,'2012-03-29 11:03:49','2012-03-29 11:03:49','Setting up ESXi iSCSI multipathing with jumbo frames can be confusing and complex. The process is much easier in vSphere 5 than it was in version 4, and it’s no longer necessary to do the configuration from the command line. Here\'s a <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu-HyD3E3cw\">link</a> to an excellent instructional video that walks you through the entire process.','','','inherit','open','open','','6345-revision','','','2012-03-29 11:03:49','2012-03-29 11:03:49','',6345,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6345-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6347,44,'2012-03-29 11:05:29','2012-03-29 11:05:29','Setting up ESXi 5 iSCSI multipathing with jumbo frames can be confusing and complex. The process is much easier in vSphere 5 than it was in previous versions, and it’s no longer necessary to do the configuration from the command line. Here\'s a <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu-HyD3E3cw\">link</a> to an excellent instructional video that walks you through the entire process.','Setting up ESXi 5 iSCSI multipathing with jumbo frames ','','inherit','open','open','','6345-revision-2','','','2012-03-29 11:05:29','2012-03-29 11:05:29','',6345,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6345-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6349,29,'2012-03-29 13:55:04','2012-03-29 13:55:04','The Cisco UCS M3 servers have been officially announced.\r\n\r\nRecently I had the opportunity to get my hands on a B200 M3 at Cisco’s lab in RTP NC.\r\n\r\nHere is a breakdown of the new B 200.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Same Half width blade form factor</li>\r\n	<li>2 x hot plug SAS / SATA – HDD / SSD</li>\r\n	<li> 2 x Flexible Flash 16  GB SD Cards (see picture below)</li>\r\n	<li>24 x DDR3 DIMMs (twice as much as the previous model!)</li>\r\n	<li>Dual 2 x 10 Gb optical modular LOM (dedicated for VIC  1240)</li>\r\n	<li>Internal USB 2.0 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href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/B200M3_3.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6352\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/B200M3_3-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI will continue to post information as I get my hands additional new UCS technology!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','UCS B200 M3, hands on look.','','publish','open','open','','ucs-b200-m3-hands-on-look','','','2012-03-29 13:58:02','2012-03-29 13:58:02','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6349',0,'post','',0),(6350,29,'2012-03-29 13:52:06','2012-03-29 13:52:06','','B200M3_1','','inherit','open','open','','b200m3_1','','','2012-03-29 13:52:06','2012-03-29 13:52:06','',6349,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/B200M3_1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6351,29,'2012-03-29 13:53:03','2012-03-29 13:53:03','','B200M3_2','','inherit','open','open','','b200m3_2','','','2012-03-29 13:53:03','2012-03-29 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19:54:46','2012-03-30 19:54:46','EMC Data Domain\'s DD Boost protocol offers many benefits over other backup technologies.  For starters, DD Boost allows the backup servers to communicate directly with the Data Domain appliance without the need to emulate tape.  Another advantage of deploying DD Boost is the use  of  Interface groups.  Interface groups allow multiple physical network interfaces to be used as a private, load-balancing network.  While these features of DD Boost alone make this protocol a great option, the real \"magic\" lies in the use of Distributed Segment Processing.\n\nDistributed Segment Processing, or DSP, performs many of the data deduplication functions on the backup server, eliminating the need to transmit duplicate data across the network.  The obvious benefits of this are that backup jobs are faster, more efficient, and since the data has already been deduplicated, the replication transmission to a disaster recovery site can be begin immediately.\n\nWithout 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that control the user\'s profile.\n\nMost Citrix environments with this problem use roaming profiles to manage their employees files and folders.  While this is a good practice, using folder redirection along with roaming profiles typically yields the best results.  Folder redirection settings in Windows Server 2008 can be found in <em>User Configuration\\Polices\\Windows Settings\\Folder Redirection</em>.\n\nWhen using folder redirection along with roaming profiles, be sure to exclude the redirected folder from roaming by enabling the setting <em>User Configuration\\Administrative Templates\\System\\User Profiles\\Exclude directories from roaming profile</em>.  In the <em>Prevent the following directories from roaming with the profile</em> box type the list of folders that were set in the Folder Redirection policy.','Troubleshooting Slow User Logon Times In a Citrix XenApp Environment','','inherit','open','open','','6368-revision','','','2012-03-30 20:31:57','2012-03-30 20:31:57','',6368,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6368-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6371,35,'2012-03-31 03:21:56','2012-03-31 03:21:56','VMware has released several patches that address vulnerabilities in older ESX and ESXi versions. These patches should be installed as soon as possible to preserve the security of VMware installations.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>ESX 3.5-4.1 and ESXi 3.5-4.1 should install available patches to address a ROM Overwrite vulnerability that allows privilege escalation in Windows 2000 through 2003 R2 guests (<a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1515\">CVE-2012-1515</a>).</li>\r\n	<li>ESX 4.0 should install available patches to update the service console to kernel-400.2.6.18-238.4.11.591731 and fix multiple inherited vulnerabilities (\r\n<a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2482\" target=\"_new\">CVE-2011-2482</a>, <a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-3191\" target=\"_new\">CVE-2011-3191</a>, and <a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4348\" target=\"_new\">CVE-2011-4348</a>). The patch for ESXi 4.1 is still pending.</li>\r\n	<li>ESX 4.0 should install available updates to patch Kerberos vulnerabilities (<a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4862\">CVE-2011-4862</a>).</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAs always, the easiest way to patch your VMware hosts is with VMware\'s <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/update-manager/overview.html\">vSphere Update Manager</a>. Update Manager, combined with VMware vMotion, lets you safely patch your critical virtual hosts without maintenance windows, service interruptions, or costly downtime.\r\n\r\nTo be alerted of security advisories as they are released, you can <a href=\"http://lists.vmware.com/mailman/listinfo/security-announce\">sign up for email notifications</a>. Advisories are also published on the <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories\">VMware website</a>.','NEW VMWARE SECURITY PATCHES AVAILABLE','','publish','open','open','','new-vmware-security-patches-available','','','2012-03-31 03:21:56','2012-03-31 03:21:56','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6371',0,'post','',0),(6372,35,'2012-03-31 03:03:46','2012-03-31 03:03:46','VMware has released several patches that address vulnerabilities in older ESX and ESXi versions. These patches should be installed as soon as possible to preserve the security of VMware installations.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYou can <a href=\"http://lists.vmware.com/mailman/listinfo/security-announce\">sign up for email notifications</a> of new security advisories, which are also published on the <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories\">VMware website</a>.','NEW VMWARE SECURITY PATCHES AVAILABLE','','inherit','open','open','','6371-revision','','','2012-03-31 03:03:46','2012-03-31 03:03:46','',6371,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6371-revision',0,'revision','',0),(6373,35,'2012-03-31 03:04:46','2012-03-31 03:04:46','VMware has released several patches that address vulnerabilities in older ESX and ESXi versions. These patches should be installed as soon as possible to preserve the security of VMware installations.\n<blockquote>VMware ROM Overwrite Privilege Escalation\n\nA flaw in the way port-based I/O is handled allows for modifying\nRead-Only Memory that belongs to the Virtual DOS Machine.\nExploitation of this issue may lead to privilege escalation on\nGuest Operating Systems that run Windows 2000, Windows XP\n32-bit, Windows Server 2003 32-bit or Windows Server 2003 R2\n32-bit.\n\nVMware would like to thank Derek Soeder of Ridgeway Internet\nSecurity, L.L.C. for reporting this issue to us.\n\nThe Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (<a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/\" target=\"_blank\">cve.mitre.org</a>)\nhas assigned the name CVE-2012-1515 to this issue.</blockquote>\nYou can <a href=\"http://lists.vmware.com/mailman/listinfo/security-announce\">sign up for email notifications</a> of new security advisories, which are also published on the <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories\">VMware website</a>.','NEW VMWARE SECURITY PATCHES AVAILABLE','','inherit','open','open','','6371-revision-2','','','2012-03-31 03:04:46','2012-03-31 03:04:46','',6371,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6371-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(6374,35,'2012-03-31 03:19:12','2012-03-31 03:19:12','VMware has released several patches that address vulnerabilities in older ESX and ESXi versions. These patches should be installed as soon as possible to preserve the security of VMware installations.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>ESX 3.5-4.1 and ESXi 3.5-4.1 should install available patches to address a ROM Overwrite vulnerability that allows privilege escalation in Windows 2000 through 2003 R2 guests (<a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1515\">CVE-2012-1515</a>).</li>\r\n	<li>ESX 4.0 should install available patches to update the service console to kernel-400.2.6.18-238.4.11.591731 and fix multiple inherited vulnerabilities (\r\n<a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2482\" target=\"_new\">CVE-2011-2482</a>, <a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-3191\" target=\"_new\">CVE-2011-3191</a>, and <a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4348\" target=\"_new\">CVE-2011-4348</a>). The patch for ESXi 4.1 is still pending.</li>\r\n	<li>ESX 4.0 should install available updates to patch Kerberos vulnerabilities (<a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4862\">CVE-2011-4862</a>).</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAs always, the easiest way to patch your VMware hosts is with VMware <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/update-manager/overview.html\">vSphere Update Manager</a>. Update Manager, combined with VMware vMotion, lets you safely patch your critical virtual hosts without maintenance windows, service interruptions, or costly downtime.\r\n\r\nYou can <a href=\"http://lists.vmware.com/mailman/listinfo/security-announce\">sign up for email notifications</a> of new security advisories, which are also published on the <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories\">VMware website</a>.','NEW VMWARE SECURITY PATCHES AVAILABLE','','inherit','open','open','','6371-revision-3','','','2012-03-31 03:19:12','2012-03-31 03:19:12','',6371,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6371-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(6375,35,'2012-03-31 03:21:06','2012-03-31 03:21:06','VMware has released several patches that address vulnerabilities in older ESX and ESXi versions. These patches should be installed as soon as possible to preserve the security of VMware installations.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>ESX 3.5-4.1 and ESXi 3.5-4.1 should install available patches to address a ROM Overwrite vulnerability that allows privilege escalation in Windows 2000 through 2003 R2 guests (<a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1515\">CVE-2012-1515</a>).</li>\r\n	<li>ESX 4.0 should install available patches to update the service console to kernel-400.2.6.18-238.4.11.591731 and fix multiple inherited vulnerabilities (\r\n<a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2482\" target=\"_new\">CVE-2011-2482</a>, <a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-3191\" target=\"_new\">CVE-2011-3191</a>, and <a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4348\" target=\"_new\">CVE-2011-4348</a>). The patch for ESXi 4.1 is still pending.</li>\r\n	<li>ESX 4.0 should install available updates to patch Kerberos vulnerabilities (<a href=\"http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4862\">CVE-2011-4862</a>).</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAs always, the easiest way to patch your VMware hosts is with VMware\'s <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/update-manager/overview.html\">vSphere Update Manager</a>. Update Manager, combined with VMware vMotion, lets you safely patch your critical virtual hosts without maintenance windows, service interruptions, or costly downtime.\r\n\r\nTo be alerted of security advisories as they are released, you can <a href=\"http://lists.vmware.com/mailman/listinfo/security-announce\">sign up for email notifications</a>. Advisories are also published on the <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories\">VMware website</a>.','NEW VMWARE SECURITY PATCHES AVAILABLE','','inherit','open','open','','6371-revision-4','','','2012-03-31 03:21:06','2012-03-31 03:21:06','',6371,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6371-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(6412,32,'2012-04-09 21:16:50','2012-04-09 21:16:50','A health insurance provider in Tennessee was recently fined $1.5 million by the U.S. Department of Health &amp; Human Services for a violation that occurred in October of 2009.  The violation, a loss of protected health information, occurred when 57 computer hard drives were taken from a training facility while employees were preparing to relocate.  The PHI data on the hard drives was also unencrypted.  The company also provided free credit reporting to nearly all of its 3.1 million customers since it could not determine the actual number of affected customers.\r\n\r\nWe all know the complexities and costs of managing large geographically separated fleets of desktops.  Just maintaining hardware, OS patches and AV software updates tend to consume all of the small amount of resources that most small to mid-size companies have in their IT budget.  And that doesn\'t even start to add the complexities of encrypting data at rest on those fleets of pc\'s.\r\n\r\nAn often talked about benefit of Virtual Desktops is data security.  However, I\'m not sure that discussion sinks in deeply since we\'re all worried about how much RAM we might need and how many IOPS we have to plan for in order to avoid the dreaded boot storm.  But, this benefit is real and in this case all the thieves would have walked away with COULD have been some dumb thin clients.  In the VDI world the PHI that was stored on these disks would have never left the data center and had any of the trainees or trainers stored PHI data on their desktops, the data would still have remained in the data center.\r\n\r\nI realize there are long lists of pro\'s and con\'s along with ROI and TCO models that companies must go through prior to choosing or not choosing VDI but, these 1.5 million reasons go a long way to proving that VDI can provide many more benefits to businesses than just easier patch or software deployment tasks.','1.5 Million Reasons for VDI','','publish','open','open','','1-5-million-reasons-for-vdi','','','2012-04-09 21:25:02','2012-04-09 21:25:02','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6412',0,'post','',0),(6377,24,'2012-03-31 15:01:56','2012-03-31 15:01:56','When you go to set up a server in the data center it usually requires planning and coordination between independent teams such as the network, server, storage, and application teams.   Depending on the size of the company and how the internal organization is set up this can become a huge hassle and take weeks to accomplish the simplest items.  Also, when you go to move a server to a different location, usually this means changing its IP address.  And as we all know changing an IP address on a server is usually not simple or fun (Huge understatement).  It can affect applications that point to it, you might need to change rules on a firewall, etc.  Cisco FabricPath gives you the foundation for building highly scalable datacenter network and moving server locations with none of these issues.  It does this by making the network look like a single virtual switch when looking from the outside in.\r\n<!--more-->\r\nSo how does it do this?  When a server or an end user sends an Ethernet frame, FabricPath takes the frame and encapsulates with a FabircPath header which consists of the source and destination addresses.  The source address being the address of the switch which received the frame, and the destination address being the switch to which the frame is going to.  When the frame arrives at the destination switch it is de-encapsulated and delivered to the destination host.  Here is a graphic from Cisco that shows the process.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/fabricpath-part-1-what-is-fabricpath-and-why-use-it/white_paper_c11-605488-1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6379\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6379\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/white_paper_c11-605488-1-300x117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSo what are the benefits to implementing FabricPath?  Well besides being just awesome and fun to implement, Cisco has given us the following:\r\n\r\n– Cisco FabricPath is extremely simple to configure. In fact, the only necessary configuration consists of distinguishing the core ports, which link the switches, from the edge ports, where end devices are attached. There is no need to tune any parameter to get an optimal configuration, and switch addresses are assigned automatically.\r\n\r\n– A single control protocol is used for unicast forwarding, multicast forwarding, and VLAN pruning. The Cisco FabricPath solution requires less combined configuration than an equivalent Spanning Tree Protocol-based network, further reducing the overall management cost.\r\n\r\n– Static network designs make some assumptions about traffic patterns and the locations of servers and services. If those assumptions are incorrect, a situation that often happens after a while, complex redesign may be necessary. A network based on Cisco FabricPath can be modified as needed in a nondisruptive manner for the end stations.\r\n\r\n– The capabilities of Cisco FabricPath troubleshooting tools surpass those of the tools currently available in the IP world. The ping and traceroute features now offered at Layer 2 can measure latency and test a particular path among the multiple equal-cost paths to a destination within the fabric.\r\n\r\n– A device that does not support Cisco FabricPath can be attached redundantly to two separate Cisco FabricPath bridges with enhanced virtual PortChannel (vPC+) technology, providing an easy migration path.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThese are huge benefits.  You don’t have to tune the parameters, you can modify the FabricPath configuration with no downtime, and the modified ping command.  As a network admin these are all things we have wished we have had for many years now.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSo when would you use FabricPath?  Pretty much in any datacenter design that you wanted to build that is easy to configure, highly scalable, and easy to manage.  Data centers today are typically built in small layer 2 blocks.  In a Cisco NX-OS environment today all switching is usually handled by vPC.   While this removes spanning-tree seems sufficient here are some reasons from Cisco and why FabricPath is so much better.\r\n\r\n• Cisco FabricPath is simple to configure and to manage. There is no need to identify a pair of peers or configure PortChannels. All the devices in the fabric have the same role and same minimal configuration.\r\n\r\n• Cisco FabricPath is flexible and does not require a particular topology. Even if the network is currently cabled for the classic triangle vPC topology, Cisco FabricPath can accommodate any design that might be needed in the future.\r\n\r\n• Cisco FabricPath does not use or even extend Spanning Tree Protocol. Even a partial introduction of Cisco FabricPath has a beneficial effect on the network because it segments the span of Spanning Tree Protocol. Because it is an optimization of Classical Ethernet, vPC still requires Spanning Tree Protocol on top of it to address certain scenarios.\r\n\r\n• Cisco FabricPath can be extended easily without degrading operations. Adding a switch or a link in a Cisco FabricPath fabric does not result in a single frame loss. It is thus possible to start with a small network and extend it gradually, as needed.\r\n\r\nHere is a graphic from Cisco showing the two different datacenters.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/datacenter.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6378\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/datacenter-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI hope this has given an overview on FabricPath and the benefits to using it.  Check back soon for my next port on FabricPath.  FabricPath part 2:  How to implement FabricPath.','FabricPath Part 1:  What is FabricPath and why use it?','','publish','open','open','','fabricpath-part-1-what-is-fabricpath-and-why-use-it','','','2012-03-31 15:04:37','2012-03-31 15:04:37','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=6377',0,'post','',0),(6378,24,'2012-03-31 14:54:15','2012-03-31 14:54:15','','datacenter','','inherit','open','open','','datacenter-2','','','2012-03-31 14:54:15','2012-03-31 14:54:15','',6377,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/datacenter.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6379,24,'2012-03-31 14:54:20','2012-03-31 14:54:20','','white_paper_c11-605488-1','','inherit','open','open','','white_paper_c11-605488-1','','','2012-03-31 14:54:20','2012-03-31 14:54:20','',6377,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/white_paper_c11-605488-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),