This is all about the A-Team that made the Community driven Desktop Virtualisation Best Practice Analyser:
| Name | Picture | Nickname | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Morgan |  | Face | Andrew Morgan works as a Senior Solutions Architect with Zinopy based in Ireland. Andrew has been working in IT for over 10 years the majority of which he has spent working in server based computing VDI and private cloud solutions. Andrew frequently blogs about virtualization technologies and also provides free community based tools from his blog. Andrew is passionate about application virtualization desktop delivery and mobility products. For his activities in the End User Computing space Andrew has also been awarded the RES Software RSVP VMware vExpert and Nutanix NTC titles |
| Jarian Gibson |  | BA | Jarian Gibson is an independent consultant/solutions architect focused on application/desktop virtualization and enterprise mobility technologies based out of the Kansas City area. With more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry Jarian has worked on many assessment design and implementations projects for application/desktop virtualization solutions. Jarian has and maintains industry certifications from Citrix Microsoft and VMware to name a few. Jarian is an active contributor in the Citrix Support Forums the Citrix IRC channel and has his own website. Jarian has presented at conferences (BriForum Citrix Synergy and E2E Virtualization Conference) been named Citrix Geek of the Week recognized by Citrix as one of the top five Citrix engineers in the central region at Citrix Synergy 2011 and contributed to Desktop Virtualization Deployment Insights eBook published by Citrix. |
| Remko Weijnen |  | Hannibal | Remko Weijnen is a Solution Architect for Atlantis Computing with over 17 years of experience in the IT industry. In the last 12 years he has become a true specialist in Server Based Computing application and desktop delivery. With his developer background Remko has a unique knowledge of windows and application internals that he uses to get applications to work well in virtual environments without sacrificing security. Remko shares this unique knowledge thru his well-known blog presentations at community events such as E2E (previously PubForum) the Dutch Citrix User Group and international Citrix User Groups. On his website Remko publishes a lot of SBC and virtualization related freeware tools and scripts that assist consultants and administrators. Remko is also co-founder and steering group member of the Dutch Citrix User Group. |
| Kees Baggerman |  | Murdock | Kees Baggerman is a Senior Solution Architect at Nutanix for desktop and application virtualization solutions. Kees is a Citrix Certified Integration Architect Microsoft Certified IT Professional RES Certified Professional and RES Certified Trainer and has driven numerous Microsoft and Citrix and RES infrastructures functional/technical designs migrations implementations engagements over the years. Active in the Citrix and virtualization community Kees has been named RES RSVP for 6 years straight including being named MVP in 2011 and is recognized as a VMware vExpert in 2013, 2014 and 2015 and got awarded by Citrix as CTP in 2015. He is co-founder and member of the Board of the Dutch Citrix User Group and maintains a widely read blog. |
Hi Kees
Many thanks for the cool speach at BriForum.
I have today downloaded the tool and run it on a Windows 2008 R2 with VDA 7.6
From the 83 items only 18 are passed.
Some are failed even if the reg key is already set.
e.G. Taskoffload.
When I run the BP tool then the “DisableTaskOffload” is passed.
Do you know what the issue may be?
Kind regards
Marcel
Hi Marcel,
I ramped up a vanilla Windows 2008R2 server and ran the BPA, the tool says only 9 out of 85 checks are passed. The Disable Task Offload is failed as there’s no current value for that registry setting. In other words, I’m not able to reproduce that in my environment. The BPA checks the value of the registry key so even tho you set it on a value it can be the case that the BPA says you should set the key but just on a different value. Could you verify that?
If you run into other issues you can use the Contribute! page to submit requests or questions.
Cheers,
Kees
Hi there,
The 0.7 xml doesn’t seem to work. It gives me a message stating it is corrupt.
Regards,
Martijn
Thanks Martijn, there was a bracket missing in one of the statements. This should be corrected now.
Hi guys,
First of all, great work. I cannot seem to find any documentation on the cli usage of the tool. I would like to run this as part of my sealing script. Could you provide some info?
Regards,
Owe