Archive for August, 2010
XenDesktop 4 SP1 is the First Enterprise-Ready SHVD Platform
With the release of Service Pack 1 XenDesktop 4 is the first enterprise-ready SHVD platform. This was announced by Burton Group, a division of Gartner, recently.
Burton Group developed evaluation criteria a server-hosted virtual desktop (SHVD) has to meet to become enterprise ready. The criteria include 53 features which are focused on security, management and user experience. The evaluation criteria is categorized in required, preferred and optional features.
With Service Pack 1 XenDesktop 4 meets 100% of the required features.
For more information about Burton Group, the evaluation criteria and Service Pack 1 for XenDesktop just visit the following links.
Delegated Administration and Configuration Logging for XenDesktop 4
As part of the previously mentioned service pack 1 release for XenDesktop 4 Citrix now released two additional components: delegated administration and configuration logging.
Delegated adminstration:
This feature allows you to control which administrator can do what in your XenDesktop farm. For example which desktop group he can control. Mainly it is absolute similar to the delegated administration functionality which is available in XenApp since several years.
Configuration logging:
Configuration logging allows you to keep track of administrative changes made to your Desktop Delivery controllers (DDC). For example if a Desktop group was created or a virtual desktop was shutdown through the Delivery Services Console, Presentation Server Console or a custom scripts using MFCOM this is logged and available as a report for later clarification.
Citrix released a video which is explaining and demoing these features in detail.
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