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-RÂ 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…
Last week a new community platform called ICT-R published a detailed performance research regarding the Citrix ICA Visual Quality profiles. I decided to share some highlights from the research in this blog post. For all the details I recommend to read the full research on ICT-R website.
With the new release of Remote Display Analyzer, the logging functionality has been added. This is very valuable when performing user load tests with Login VSI. In this blog post, I will share how to integrate Remote Display Analyzer in a Login VSI workload.
Modern infrastructure, is it valuable or just another buzzword? Organizations like Microsoft are working hard on this type of modern infrastructure with Remote Desktop services. But what is modern infrastructure? In this blog post, I will explain the modern infrastructure and share my thoughts about this topic. Modern applications The cloud…
