{"id":280,"date":"2009-12-11T13:32:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=280"},"modified":"2009-12-11T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:33:07","slug":"stream-local-desktops-with-citrix-provisioning-server-part-of-xendesktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Stream local desktops with Citrix Provisioning Server (part of XenDesktop)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Stream a desktop? What is that?”\u00a0 Well, it’s something like making an image and then deploying it (ala Norton Ghost).\u00a0 The cool thing is that clients *ALWAYS* PXE boots from the image, nothing is installed locally.<\/p>\n

So you can make one image, and then run a whole room or building full of machines off that one image, and never install anything locally.<\/p>\n

As I install it and mess around with it, I’m posting notes on my wiki.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the video that caught my eye.\u00a0 (Note that Ardence was acquired by Citrix in 2006.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Citrix says:<\/a><\/p>\n

“Citrix Provisioning Services\u2122 for Desktops uses streaming technology to deliver a single, standard desktop image-\u2013operating system and software stack-\u2013on-demand to physical desktops from a network service. The shared desktop image is configured, delivered and managed centrally, reducing total costs, increasing security and flexibility, and enabling an uncompromised user experience.”<\/p>\n

Here it is in action in a lab at University of Nebraska (ODDS is a Dell term for On-Demand Desktop Streaming<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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