This month Microsoft released the new version of Windows, release 1903. This release comes with new features and improvements. This blog post will cover some new features and the potential optimizations in a VDI scenario.
Performance data is a recurring topic on my blog. It is important to have data from multiple sources when doing performance analysis. Collecting the performance data from a Nutanix environment running AHV is a bit different compared to VMware ESX or Citrix XenServer. This blog post will cover how to…
As you may have noticed this week a new release of Remote Display Analyzer (RDA) has been released. This release contains some interesting new features that can help you analyze the remote display protocol of various vendors. This blog post will cover some of the new features.
Automation is key when doing performance testing. This is required to ensure performance tests are running in a clean state and produces consistent results. For a ICT-R research, additional automation was required in the base automation script for Citrix Cloud. But the behavior of the script was inconsistent using the PowerShell…
When doing performance researches the data that is collected during the tests are very important to understand the impact. Without the data, you are not able to prove the real impact. In a recent ICT-R research an impact was noticed using Remote Display Analyzer (RDA) in SBC scenario. Collecting all the data…
Many organizations have the same problem; Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) is in place but struggle to get their 3rd party applications or custom made applications updated, especially for those machines where users installed software themselves. Since ConfigMgr Current branch version 1806 Microsoft made it possible to update these…
The login time is a key metric that has a big effect on the user experience. The login times are often included in service-level agreements to ensure a good user experience. When applying changes in your environment you want to avoid increasing login times. With Login VSI you can extract the login times…
The last couple of months there is more and more buzz around MSIX. With the Windows 10 1809 release, MSIX packages are fully supported and the MSIX packaging tool is out of preview. For a ICT-R research, I collected interesting results with the new MSIX format running in a VDI…
