Impact of GPU Acceleration on Browser CPU Usage GPU acceleration is en vogue. After slowly but steadily moving out of the 3D niche it has arrived in the mainstream. Today, applications like Microsoft Office leverage the GPU, but […] Read more
Measuring the Impact of Folder Redirection – Application Launch & SMB Version This is the fifth in a series of articles on folder redirection by Aaron Parker, Helge Klein and Shawn Bass. Part one: How Folder Redirection Impacts UX & Breaks Applications […] Read more
Visualizing the Impact of Folder Redirection – Start Menu Search This is the third in a series of articles on folder redirection by Aaron Parker, Helge Klein and Shawn Bass. Part one: How Folder Redirection Impacts UX & Breaks Applications […] Read more
Vendors: Why We Do Not Need Your PowerShell SDKs My recent post about things I dislike about PowerShell provoked some interesting reactions (see the comments). Several readers argued that PowerShell is not supposed to be a full-blown programming language […] Read more
What I Hate About PowerShell With all the love PowerShell is getting these days one might think that the golden age of (Windows) scripting has finally begun. Maybe it has. But one man’s nirvana can […] Read more
How Folder Redirection Impacts UX & Breaks Applications This is the first in a series of articles on folder redirection by Aaron Parker, Helge Klein and Shawn Bass. Part one: this article Part two: Visualizing the Impact of […] Read more
XenDesktop 7.6 VDA CPU & Memory Footprint If you install the Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 Virtual Desktop Agent (VDA) on a small Windows 7 VM, you may be in for a big surprise, and not a good one. […] Read more
Which Version of Citrix GoToMeeting Are You Running? Last updated: 2017-01-21. This article still applies to the latest versions of GoToMeeting. The high disk space usage has not been solved yet. Am I running the latest version of […] Read more
Splunk Revolution Award I am more than happy to announce that I won a Splunk’s Revolution Award in the category developers. The winners were presented on the big screen during the keynote. My […] Read more
Compacting Client Hyper-V VHDX Files Virtual hard disks have the same tendency to grow in size as regular disks have to fill up. Deduplication is a great way to battle this, but unfortunately it is […] Read more
VCNRW – Your Friendly Local Virtualization Community In the past years I have attended many different conferences and user group meetings. Apart from the fact that every single one of them was great and definitely worth the […] Read more
What’s New in uberAgent 2.0 The most important change in version 2.0 of uberAgent is the new architecture. In addition to that we have made many other improvements, significantly reducing the agent’s footprint while increasing […] Read more
Real-World Example: WiX/MSI Application Installer Creating an installer that does not suck is hard. The tools available are expensive, inadequate, overly complicated and/or poorly documented (pick any combination). WiX is one of the better choices. […] Read more
What Is Splunk and How Does It Work? You have probably heard of Splunk, but can you describe what it does to a colleague in a few sentences? That is not easy. Splunk does not belong in any […] Read more
My Beautifully Fast WordPress Webserver Note: The installation described in this article worked very well for me. However, nine years after publishing this post I replaced this setup with a more modern dockerized installation that […] Read more
My Hyper-V Server in the Cloud There are many possible reasons for wanting a fast server well connected to the internet. Some may want to move their lab from their powerful but heavy laptop to the […] Read more
Conferences and Community Meetings I Attend(ed) 2014 I love to learn, teach and network. Conferences and community meetings are the perfect events for that. As in previous years I try to attend as many events as I […] Read more
Is my App Running on Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp? How do you programmatically determine if an application is running in a session accessed over a remoting protocol (i.e. ICA aka HDX or RDP)? It may be Citrix’ strategy to […] Read more
Windows 8 Client Hyper-V: Internet Access Without 2nd NIC Having a hypervisor built right into the client operating system is a great thing, especially if it is as fast and stable as Client Hyper-V found in Windows 8. The […] Read more
Splunk App Development Tips – Working with Splunk This is a collection of useful tips and resources for developing Splunk apps. For an explanation of the available app types please see my earlier article on the topic. Read more
Splunk App Development Tips – Which App Type to Choose When you start with developing apps for Splunk the first big question you hit is a bit unexpected: which technology do you work with, which app type do you choose? Read more
Citrix ShareFile Sync on a New Computer with Existing Data Switching over to a new computer is certainly fun for a geek, but getting back to a perfectly tuned configuration can be a lot of work, whether you synchronize (part […] Read more
Customizing and Installing the Lenovo W540 Having made the switch from my trusty Lenovo T520 to the W540 here is my account of what works well and what does not. If you wonder what made me […] Read more
What DNS Pointer Records and Tweetups Have in Common Tools that monitor network traffic typically work with IP addresses, not server names. Humans, on the other hand, seem to prefer names over cryptic numbers. Most tools deal with that […] Read more
Now you can PROVE that it’s not Citrix but the backend! You have been there: end-users are complaining and your boss demands an explanation why “Citrix is slow” – again. You, the XenApp/XenDesktop admin, desperately look at Task Manager and Perfmon, […] Read more
Finding the Perfect Laptop, 2014 Edition My current laptop is nearly three years old. That is a pretty long time, and I have contemplated getting a new machine more than once in the last years. I […] Read more
Determining the Size of a Folder without Access or Permissions Imagine you need to determine the size of a directory, but you do not have access to it and cannot change the permissions, either. Such a situation is common with […] Read more
Error Connecting to C$: Device Attached to the System is not Functioning When I tried to connect to the administrative file share C$ on my wife’s computer I got the error A device attached to the system is not functioning. The other […] Read more
Migrating from Citrix UPM back to Roaming Profiles This article is part of Helge’s Profile Toolkit, a set of posts explaining the knowledge and tools required to tame Windows user profiles. As you may be aware Citrix Profile […] Read more
Some of the Best Splunk Marketing Slogans Extracted from Splunk.exe If you have ever been to a conference with a Splunk booth you will have noticed their t-shirts. They are all black with a cool slogan printed in white. When […] Read more
