We have, for a long time, been fans of thin client devices. However, if you run the numbers, it turns out that thin clients may not necessarily be the most cost-effective client devices for a VDI deployment. Just before writing...
Category: Licensing
Citrix, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
More on Provisioning Services and KMS
Last fall, we posted about Citrix Provisioning Services and Microsoft KMS activation. To briefly recap, here’s the issue: When you convert a Windows 7 OS image to a shared image for provisioning, it breaks the Microsoft license key. The way...
Citrix, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
Provisioning Services, Microsoft Licenses, and KMS
Citrix Provisioning Services, which evolved from their acquisition of the Ardence technology, enables some great concepts: Since the first time a Citrix customer deployed more than one WinFrame server, we’ve struggled with the issue of change control – how do...