During another Great E2EVC Conference, my friend Ronnie Hamilton and I presented a session on the greatness of Netscaler Insight and we planned to share the following presentation afterwards as there were a number of sizing recommendations and figures that didn’t lend themselves to a presentation!

In this presentation you’ll find the following topics:

• What is Netscaler Insight.
• Demo of insight data natively from Insight manager.
• What’s it available in (licensing).
• Deploying Insight in 5 minutes.
• Integrating it into director.
• How can it be deployed.
• What’s new in version 11.
• Netscaler Sizing Considerations.
• Insight Manager Sizing considerations.

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A big thank you to Ronnie and E2EVC for the great trip. See you soon!

In this post you will find the presentation deck and two utilities I have written for this technology to help empower the user to configure settings.

Synopsis:

As I mentioned in my presentation, this technology is really cool, but it needs work. For a 1.0 it’s very promising but we need to use it in anger and log the bugs with Citrix to get them fixed. This technology  alike Citrix remote PC is not a silver bullet, but it is a very useful utility in your toolbox for concentrating on the low hanging fruit during a migration.

Don’t let a single user or application in a department hold up user migrations by using this technology to keep the application local until you have time to come back to it.

Question: “You mentioned there’s a work around for getting ‘local app access’ to work without requiring desktop viewer?”

Yes, I’m a complete eejit, in both sessions I told you I would show you a way to get around this…. Then completely forgot! To get this working without needing desktop viewer, rename the cdviewer.exe executable in the ica client program folder to something else!

Presentation:

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Reverse seamless VDI helper:

with the reverse seamless VDI helper tool, you can present this application to users In their virtual desktop to allow them to manage which applications are presented to their virtual desktop without having to lead the user through the registry.

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Revere Seamless local desktop helper:

with the reverse seamless local desktop helper tool, you can distribute this tool out to your users to control which folders from which shortcuts are brought up to the virtual desktop.

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Source code:

Because life is about education, here’s the source code if you want to expand it yourself:

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