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A Complete Application and Desktop Delivery Solutions Overview

- Shawn Bass, Independent Consultant; Citrix Technology Professional

With a wide range of application and desktop delivery solutions available, determining which solution can best accommodate your requirements and desires is no simple matter. In this session Shawn Bass presents a completely vendor independent overview of all of the current and upcoming application and desktop delivery solutions.

Topics include:

• Server hosted VDI
• Server hosted VDI GPU Accelerated
• Terminal Services
• OS Provisioning
• Application Streaming and Virtualization
• Local Desktop/Laptop
• Web Application and Acceleration
• BladePC
• Display Protocols
• Connection Brokers

How Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 change the IT market

- Bernhard Tritsch, CTO, Immidio

  At a first glance, the latest workstation and server versions of Windows seem not to include too many unexpected features. But then there is this statement from Microsoft, saying that the new Windows enables end users to be productive no matter where they are or where the data they need resides. When compared to previous Windows versions, this sounds like a revolution. In his session, Benny Tritsch looks at Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 from the perspective of changing user requirements and new challenges when it comes to application delivery – from monolith to components, services and the cloud.

Windows Server 2008 (R2) RDS and Citrix XenApp Internals – System Components an Expert Should Know (very technical)

- Bernhard Tritsch, CTO, Immidio

As an IT professional responsible for remote desktop services and remote application delivery, you need to dig beneath the surface if you really want to understand how the technology works. So let’s go on a journey right down to the core.

This session introduces you to details about the system components required for remote sessions and RemoteApp programs. Learn how the negotiation sequence with the server works when a remote desktop client connects. Get in-depth information on application compatibility, in particular about Microsoft Remote Data Services (RDS) installation and execution modes, their impact on file system and registry, and changes introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2. Discover how to modify system settings in order to fine-tune user experience and remote desktop performance.

Comprehensive demonstrations and comparisons will help you to improve your technical and professional skills in mastering the Windows Server 2008 R2 remote desktop services platform.

Mastering User Profiles in Terminal Server and Virtual Desktop Environments

- Bernhard Tritsch, CTO, Immidio
- Shawn Bass, Independent Consultant; Citrix Technology Professional

When you talk about user profiles, you touch a very emotional aspect of people’s experience when interacting with Windows; it’s about individual workspaces, each one reflecting its owner’s personality. As an IT professional, you had better not try to reduce workspace flexibility, or your users will make your working life harder every day.

Once upon a time, when you only needed to deal with one desktop and one profile per user, things were relatively simple. But now, with remote desktops and applications delivered through ubiquitous terminal servers and the advent of virtual desktop infrastructures, we are facing a very different situation. Using a spectrum of applications from multiple desktops, with each desktop optimized for dedicated tasks, seems to be the new user paradigm both in enterprise and in home environments.

If you are being challenged to support such a scenario, then you need to learn some tactical strategies and best practices on how to deal with multiple profiles per user. From dividing and merging user settings on various Windows versions to central profile management and situation-specific adaptation, this session will introduce you to the secrets of what they call “user profile virtualization.”

How Remote Desktop Protocol Graphics and Media Remoting Really Works

- Benny Tritsch, CTO, Immidio
- Shawn Bass, Independent Consultant; Citrix Technology Professional

It’s an urban legend that Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) shipped with Terminal Services has designed shortcomings and scalability limits. How much truth is in such a legend? Are there ways to improve RDP performance for common user scenarios? And what is Microsoft doing to improve graphics remoting with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2? How good is RDP in dealing with GDI, GDI+, DirectX, OpenGL, Windows Presentation Foundation, Flash, Silverlight, videos and animations?

Let’s face it - there is a very simple goal. It’s all about improving the user experience. This means, it’s about getting faster and reducing latency when transmitting graphics and multimedia data over a network, no matter what their nature is and what the target device may be. In the best of all worlds, a user wouldn’t be able to differentiate between a local and a remote application when it comes to graphics and multimedia performance.

Join presentation virtualization geek and computer graphics expert Benny Tritsch in an in-depth look at how desktop, application and media remoting works. After attending his session, you will have no excuse for not knowing what RDP is good for.

Tech Therapy: TS vs. VDI

- Benny Tritsch, CTO, Immidio
- Shawn Bass, Independent Consultant; Citrix Technology Professional
- Rick Dehlinger

VDI is still one of the most hyped technologies in the industry. It ’s hip, it’s cool, and, well, it’s virtual! But what about Terminal Server (err, Remote Desktop Services)? Despite TS’s proven history and broad installation base, some of industry pundits insist that TS is going the way of the dodo bird.

In this ‘alternative format’ session, Benny Tritsch, Shawn Bass and Rick Dehlinger explore the battle between TS and VDI. Come join Dr. Karl Friedrisch von Dehlingerhausen as he attempts to help Terrence Singletary and Viktor Dean Ignacio sort out their differences and accept the things they share in common.

XenApp Fringe Benefits

- Rich Crusco
- Rick Dehlinger

There are many cool features built into XenApp that don’t get a lot of press.  Now that Citrix has changed their licensing model, a lot of these features are available to a wider audience.  These features can help a system administrator gain higher visibility of their overall environment, automate routine tasks and checks and better control and manage their infrastructure.  After attending this session, the attendees will have a better understanding of built in tools as well as gain knowledge on how to tailor these tools to their unique needs.

Overview of the new features in RDS in Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7

- Alex Yuschenko

Overview of the new features in Remote Desktop Services (previously known as Terminal Services) in Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7

• RDWeb Access
• Connection Broker & Load Balancing
• RDS Gateway
• TS Easy Print
• Licensing
• VDI

How Receiver, DAZZLE, Merchandize server, Workflow Studio and Powershell can help you automate you IT

- Rich Crusco

Management tools for deploying, managing, and maintaining servers, desktops, and applications have come a long way. With the introduction of virtualization to the toolset, it in some ways has made the process of infrastructure management a lot more flexible, but it has also introduced another level of complexity to the equation.  What we need now are new and better ways to simplify and automate our operations of information technology.

After attending this session, the attendees will have a better understanding of how they can leverage technology and tools to automate their IT departments.

Storage in a Citrix world

- Peter Bats, Citrix Systems

With the introduction of XenServer and Provisioning Services, all Citrix konsultants should have a fair amount of storage skills! This presentation will give you an introduction to shared storage, what it is and how it’s used in a XenServer and Prvisioning server environment. You will also learn Citrix best-practise for designing and implementing XenServer and Provisioning Services with shared storage.

Citrix XenDesktop vs VMware View – A technical smackdown

- Rick Dehlinger

Head to head comparison between the two technologies.

How to use EdgeSight in a production environment!

- Commaxx
- Will be held in norwegian

Rise and shine if you care for your users

“Citrix sucks!…”, “The application sent an error message, but I dont know what it said….”, “I need a new PC! mine is slow”…

Citrix EdgeSight monitors the users experience of your IT-solution and gives valuable information to technical persons and managers.

Grab a cup of coffee and listen to Haakon Flender tell about how EdgeSight is used in the real world.

 

Essentials for…. Virtualization (Inside VMware, XenServer and Hyper-V)

- René Vester

Rene Vester have been working with Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX projects. His sessions is a call to debate and dialogue about what is essential for us to get benefits from virtualization. There a more than one way to view any scenario but as we are hearing words like financial crisis it might be worth our time to reevaluate. For what is important if not to improve the value of the businesses IT, and deliver a better service to the end-users or customers?

Rene will walk through strengths, weaknesses and give his view on what will be happening in the virtualization space, with a primary focus on server virtualization.

Geek Speak Debate – TS vs. VDI

- Rick Dehlinger ++++++