I came across this wonderful resource page – Virtualizing Business Critical Enterprise Applications which talks about the successful cases and best practice to deploy the enterprise applications on top of vSphere, such as Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, Oracle DB. This is exactly what I need, as I am currently working on a big scale deployment … Continue reading Virtualizing Business Critical Enterprise Applications
Ten Printing Rules With Citrix XenApp
Since Presentation Server 4.0 (CPS 4.0) use the Citrix Universal Printer Driver based on EMF for client printers, especially with Windows Clients.User Policy\ICA\Printing\Universal Printing = Use universal printing only Presentation Server 4.0 Printing Enhancementshttp://support.citrix.com/article/CTX108170 Client network printer (network printer connected to the client) should also be mapped by EMF and the print output should go … Continue reading Ten Printing Rules With Citrix XenApp
VMware’s Best Practice/Recommendation for Extents
VMFS-5 has increased the VMDK file size limits to 2TB, and allows the extents up to 64 TB. However, using Extent is not recommended by VMware unless you absolutely have to use it. Read more details in this article: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/02/vmfs-extents-are-they-bad-or-simply-misunderstood.html
Disable Audio/Video Features in Lync Client
By default, the Audio/Video is enabled in Lync client. In some scenarios, you may want to disable them. There are two way to achieve this: The first solution is based on the user – control the user policy in the Lync control panel as following: The second solution is based on the computer – modify … Continue reading Disable Audio/Video Features in Lync Client
Test Lync Mobility Service Without Internet and WLAN
In my sandbox environment, there are no Internet connection or wireless LAN. I thought I won’t be able to test the Lync Mobility service (How to deploy Lync Mobility Serivce) until I found ‘Virtual Router Manager’. It turns my laptop into a Ad-hoc for my iPhone to access the sandbox environment. It is really awesome!! … Continue reading Test Lync Mobility Service Without Internet and WLAN
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