Managing OS Layers, platform, apps and user with Citrix App Layering

Citrix App Layering is a new solution from Citrix for designing our OS layers., Software or User Data. In January 2017 Citrix acquired Unidesk, in order to have a tool that allows us to reduce the number of images to be kept, both in desktop pool environments and RDHS servers. We will arrange the OS in separate layers, the tools and drivers that are needed, as well as isolating each app in different layers; which we can then associate and deliver as we see fit, either per user or per VDA machine. We will be able to have a single layer of our corporate Windows, that when we need to update we will do it only once, and we will display it to the rest of the images.

Using Citrix AppDisk

I'm going to leave you a post with one of the great novelties that the version has brought us 7.8 from Citrix!!! We now have the ability to add application layers to OS base images, both Desktop and Server, so we can have a base image and customize them with different layers of applications to deliver them to different departments. Let's go, A marvel, We will be able to add as many layers of applications as we are interested in, or update them individually and only manage a base image!

VMware Mirage – Deploying driver layers

En este post veremos una de las maravillas de VMware Mirage, que es el despliegue de drivers de forma remota a los equipos centralizados, podremos crear nuestras propias colecciones de drivers por equipos y desplegarlos todos con un click! Qué más fácil que si queremos cambiar a un usuario de equipo le enviemos todas sus capas actuales (UNDER, Apps, datos de usuario) más la nueva de drivers de su nuevo portátil!