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It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, really because I haven’t had much to say and the rest of the blogsphere has already said it.  However recently, I’ve had some interesting discussions which prompted me to write something.

Some background – For the last 5 weeks I’ve been in meetings and discussions with many vendors around data retention and eDiscovery based on a project our legal department is sponsoring.  I’ve met with at least half a dozen eDiscovery vendors from StorIQ, Digital Reef, Commvault, Symantec, etc. but the last couple days we’ve been talking with other IT people in my industry (chemical manufacturing) around their processes and procedures on the topic.  Some of the companies we spoke to said something that really struck a chord with me regarding home directories.

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Just got a new Droid Incredible. I have to say its rather incredible. Posting this from WordPress Android app!

I honestly haven’t had anything interesting to write about so here’s a quick and dirty Powershell script for XenApp Commands (Powershell for XenApp) which you can download from My Citrix.

I’ve always found it annoying that there was no real quick way to get a list of all your apps and which users or groups have access.

get-xaapplications | get-xaapplicationreport | select browsername, account

With that being said…I suck with Powershell but I’m trying to learn as much as I can about it. I’ve never been a savvy scripting, programmatic kinda guy…something I’d like to change!

I was messing around with some different themes and I broke my original theme with the Lake George header. The current theme is just temporary for now. Although I do like it, we’ll see!!!

Apparently the server that tonydimaggio.com is being hosted on over at GoDaddy is having some hardware related issues.  I’m being told they’re actively being worked on and should be resolved in the next 24-48 hours (great SLA huh?)  I guess that’s what you get with “Economy Linux Hosting”

Anyhoo…I apologize for any inconvenience

Tony

I’m finally back in NJ after another superb BriForum!  I’ve gone this far so here is my rundown on day 3 of BriForum…

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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!  There were so many great sessions today that were in the same time slots, it made picking which sessions to attend really hard!  Here’s what I decided to do:

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I’m in Chicago this week attending BriForum.  If I can only attend one conference, it’s BriForum.  BriForum is not like most industry conferences that you might attend.  It’s totally independent from a vendor perspective.  Its not like TechEd where you hear Microsoft drill you with marketing fluff, of VMWorld where you’re forced to listen about how they’re the only real hypervisor in the game.  At BriForum you get all of it, in heavy doses of real deep technical discussions.

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Ok, so I’ll explain my personal thoughts on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure – aka VDI.  Some of this comes in light of Brian Madden’s recent article on VMware’s View product and the future of their hypervisor.  However, even before that article was posted by Brian, I made similar comments during the VMware Communities Podcast over a month ago.  What I said was that VMware had no business being in the desktop and application delivery workspace and that they should focus on what they do best, hypervisors and VM management.  I got some flack for the comment with statements like “Why shouldn’t VMware be allowed to expand their business”…”you’re just a legacy Citrix guy”…”I feel bad for Terminal Server people.  They work extremely hard to deliver a desktop to users that they end up hating”  Well, here is the truth, users don’t like VDI either!….at the moment.
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