Jeremy Saunders

Citrix Synergy 2013 Slide Deck for SYN328: Learn why AppDNA should be a part of every consultant’s toolkit

July 11, 2013

Here’s my presentation that I’ve uploaded to SlideShare from my Citrix Synergy 2013 session on why AppDNA should be a part of every consultant’s toolkit. Unfortunately SlideShare currently doesn’t support animations, so some of the slides are not well presented when viewed in this manner. I’ll work to separate out the animations and make this […]

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Wow…I am now a CTP

July 10, 2013

Wow…What a year I’m having! I am one of the privileged recipients of a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) award for 2013! I am extremely humbled and honoured to now be part of this incredibly talented group I refer to as the crème de la crème of IT Professionals throughout the World.

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My First Big Professional Speaking Gig

July 2, 2013

It has always been my career goal to speak at one of the big international and highly recognised IT conferences. My initial focus was to speak at a Citrix Synergy conference. I planted the seed a few years ago for Synergy 2010, but the submission lacked the coolness, the wow factor, some good takeaways, and […]

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AppDNA Team using Podio to create a community and share scripts

June 27, 2013

The Citrix AppDNA Team has created a workspace in Podio to build a community, share scripts and ideas, and to help extend the capabilities of AppDNA. You’ll first need a Podio account, which will need to be added to the Citrix AppDNA Extensions Workspace. At the time of this posting the only way this can […]

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AppDNA 6.3 Now Available

June 27, 2013

Citrix just shipped another small AppDNA release today. Version 6.3 is now available for download, and the documentation is available on eDocs. The key new product features are:

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Enabling the Active Directory JET Database Performance Monitor Counters

June 20, 2013

When monitoring the performance of Domain Controllers there are certain counters over and above the default ones that will provide you with advanced information to ensure that they are sized and performing correctly. These are the JET Database Performance Counters.

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AppDNA Tech Tip – Importing apps when there is no installer

June 19, 2013

Citrix has recently introduced me to an advanced component of AppDNA that allows the import of apps when a real installer is unavailable. This component is called the AppDNA MSI Generator. The MSI Generator should only be used in the follow two scenarios: Applications that are known to be just flat files/folders with no real […]

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AppDNA is now included with XenDesktop 7 Platinum, or is it just a tease?

June 19, 2013

I was excited by the recent announcement during the Citrix Synergy 2013 keynote that an AppDNA license will be included with the upcoming release of XenDesktop 7 Platinum edition. Yes! Now one of my favourite tools, so needed in this space, gets to shine alongside the flagship products. This sparked so much excitement and conversation […]

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Script to set the Adobe Print As Image option

September 12, 2012

Having deployed a new printing solution in a large University environment, we were faced with all sorts of printing errors, slow printing, and out of memory errors on the printers themselves; specifically when printing PDFs. This is related to how the PDFs are processed, which becomes a challenge in a higher education environment where the […]

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PaperCut Client Launch or Logon Script for Windows

September 11, 2012

Having deployed PaperCut print management software in a large University environment, we were faced with the challenge of how to ensure that the client (pc-client-local-cache.exe) launched successfully and consistently at every logon to meet all the use cases. We also had to consider how we were going to specify the different types of command line parameters. […]

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