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Original blog posts about Licensing: 35

Citrix releases virtual appliance versions of their WAN accelerator. When will this be built into XenDesktop?

Back in 2007 I wrote how WANscaler could become Citrix’s secret weapon if they integrated its WAN smarts into the server-side creation of ICA (now HDX) data packets. Then in 2009, I wrote about WAN optimization again , stressing that the emergence...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 12:00 AM by Brian Madden

Filed under: WAN, Citrix, Licensing, Virtual Appliances
The difference between Microsoft's "in box" VDI solution and their "VDI Suite"

A few months ago I blogged about the irony of the Microsoft VDI Suite bundle marketed for "lower complexity" environments, while the bundle itself consists of several different and completely unrelated Microsoft products--and hooking them all...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2010 12:00 AM by Brian Madden

Filed under: VDI, Licensing, microsoft
We did it! Citrix modifies XenDesktop 4 license plans. Thank you Citrix!

As everyone reading this is painfully aware, Citrix’s XenDesktop 4 announcement was overshadowed by the fact that they decided to change the licensing model with this new release. Previous versions were licensed based on concurrent users, while XenDesktop...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2009 4:14 AM by Brian Madden

Filed under: Citrix, Licensing, XenDesktop

Blog posts from around the web about Licensing: 9

Changing XenDesktop Ports - Supporting Technologies

I had a few extra cycles this week, and I figured I had better get this second blog completed before I start four straight weeks of travel on a Hyper-V R2 XenDesktop project. Similar to my previous blog Changing XenDesktop Ports - Core Farm Ports , I...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2009 7:50 PM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xendesktop, edgesight, provisioning_services, password_manager, single_signon, lang-eng, xd4, licensing
Per User CAL Reporting Script

We have introduced a script to help the administrators tracking the usage trend of Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server (TS) Per User (PU) client access licenses (CALs), total usage of Windows Server 2008 TS PU CALs (including expired), and the usage of...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2009 6:03 PM by Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Team Blog

Filed under: WS08 R2, Licensing, Author: Saikat De
RDS CAL Single Pack now available in Retail channel

Remote Desktop Services client access licenses (RDS CALs) were formerly sold in packs of 5 and 20. Customers buying Retail RDS CALs didn’t have a choice of buying a single CAL, which meant that they had to buy the next higher CAL Pack. For example, if...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2009 11:35 PM by Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Team Blog

Filed under: Licensing, Author: Silvia Doomra

Forum posts tagged with Licensing: 162

VECD licencing workaround

A customer does not wish to enter into Microsofts subscription model that is required for VECD. At $110/user/year I can somewhat understand. The customer asked why he could not use his Windows 2008 Datacenter licenses and create a virtual desktop based on Windows 2003/2008 per user. I'm unable to...

Posted to DDI / VDI / Desktop Delivery / Bladed PCs by svendudeman on Tue, Feb 2 2010
Re: License usage issue

Btw, does anyone know of any good license monitoring and reporting tools (I dont want to use Samreport)? I want something that will generate graphs, show license utilization, etc...

Posted to Licensing by Frank Smith on Tue, Jan 26 2010
CItrix License Server

I'm upgrading from PS4.0 to 4.5. I ahve installed 4.5 on one server and and now need to install hotfix rollup pack 5 for 4.5. to do so i need to upgrade my License server to 11.6, i currently have 11.5.I want to know if it is as simple as uninstalling 11.5 and reinstalling 11.6 or there are other...

Posted to Licensing by Citrix_Newbie on Thu, Oct 22 2009