
Citrix Policy Templates
Citrix ships Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) with several built-in policy templates that can be used as a starting point for setting up the polices in a CVAD environment. These policy templates can be used to optimize the environment and user experience. When using these templates, it is important...
Citrix ships Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) with several built-in policy templates that can be used as a starting point for setting up the polices in a CVAD environment. These policy templates can be used to optimize the environment and user experience. When using these templates, it is important...

The impact of patching MDS on Windows 10 in a virtual desktop infrastructure
On May 14th 2019 a group of security advisors, together with Intel, publicly announced, yet again, vulnerabilities in the Intel CPUs called Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS). These vulnerabilities are also known as Fallout, RIDL (Rogue In-Flight Data Load) and ZombieLoad. On the same date, major vendors like Microsoft, Google, Amazon...
On May 14th 2019 a group of security advisors, together with Intel, publicly announced, yet again, vulnerabilities in the Intel CPUs called Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS). These vulnerabilities are also known as Fallout, RIDL (Rogue In-Flight Data Load) and ZombieLoad. On the same date, major vendors like Microsoft, Google, Amazon...

Moore’s law of Windows 10 1903
Every 6 months Microsoft releases a new version of Windows 10. Last month Microsoft has released version 1903 with plenty of new features and improvements. But based on previous researches we have seen a Moore’s law of Windows 10. This research will focus on the performance and user experience impact...
Every 6 months Microsoft releases a new version of Windows 10. Last month Microsoft has released version 1903 with plenty of new features and improvements. But based on previous researches we have seen a Moore’s law of Windows 10. This research will focus on the performance and user experience impact...

The true difference between Citrix Visual Quality profiles
The visual quality of a Citrix session has a huge influence on the user experience. Last year we published a research about the Citrix visual quality profiles with interesting results. This research is an updated version covering the true difference between the Citrix visual quality profiles including always lossless and...
The visual quality of a Citrix session has a huge influence on the user experience. Last year we published a research about the Citrix visual quality profiles with interesting results. This research is an updated version covering the true difference between the Citrix visual quality profiles including always lossless and...

Performance comparison Windows 2016 vs Windows 2019 RDSH
If you are thinking about updating your Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) environment from Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2019, one of the considerations is the impact this change has on user density and performance. There are other considerations as well, application compatibility and support for example, but this...
If you are thinking about updating your Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) environment from Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2019, one of the considerations is the impact this change has on user density and performance. There are other considerations as well, application compatibility and support for example, but this...

Effect of cumulative updates on Windows 10 in a VDI environment
Every month Microsoft releases a cumulative update for Windows 10 and other supported operating systems. These updates contain improvements and fixes that will improve the quality of Windows 10. But do these updates have an impact on the performance in a VDI context? This research will compare different cumulative updates...
Every month Microsoft releases a cumulative update for Windows 10 and other supported operating systems. These updates contain improvements and fixes that will improve the quality of Windows 10. But do these updates have an impact on the performance in a VDI context? This research will compare different cumulative updates...

Important: Influence of Citrix & Login VSI on the results
Over the last couple of months, a lot of new insights have been shared on GO-EUC. After publishing one of our results, we received some feedback regarding these results within the Slack channel. It appears that some of the test results were affected by a specific setting, in the OS,...
Over the last couple of months, a lot of new insights have been shared on GO-EUC. After publishing one of our results, we received some feedback regarding these results within the Slack channel. It appears that some of the test results were affected by a specific setting, in the OS,...

The Impact of Spectre, Meltdown and L1TF in a virtualized RDSH environment
In 2018 the CPU hardware vulnerabilities Spectre, Meltdown and later L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF, also known as ForeShadow) made headlines. Hardware and software vendors released firmware updates and software patches to mitigate these vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, depending on the workload, these mitigations come with a performance impact. This GO-EUC research focusses...
In 2018 the CPU hardware vulnerabilities Spectre, Meltdown and later L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF, also known as ForeShadow) made headlines. Hardware and software vendors released firmware updates and software patches to mitigate these vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, depending on the workload, these mitigations come with a performance impact. This GO-EUC research focusses...

The true power of VMware OSOT in VDI
Optimizing the golden image is one of the best practices when creating a VDI environment. There are multiple tools available that can help you out with applying all these optimizations. This research will take a closer look at the VMware Operating System Optimization Tool (OSOT) and the performance benefits when...
Optimizing the golden image is one of the best practices when creating a VDI environment. There are multiple tools available that can help you out with applying all these optimizations. This research will take a closer look at the VMware Operating System Optimization Tool (OSOT) and the performance benefits when...
