How to compare Microsoft / Citrix hotfixes via ControlUp

During the last couple of months, we have received many requests to add a hotfix management tool to ControlUp that will enable viewing, comparing and ultimately installing hotfixes on multiple target computers. I wanted to use this blog post for 2 purposes, first, update you guys that we ARE working on …

Finally – use ControlUp on any PC !

Hi Everyone,

One of the major features requested by our users is the ability to run ControlUp from a PC (typically a laptop) that is not a member of the corporate domain. Until now, domain membership was a mandatory prerequisite for the machine running ControlUp. Mainly road-warrior IT consultants, cloud admins and freelance experts were impacted …

ControlUp is going commercial

Today ControlUp is entering its commercial phase. With thousands of systems administrators and IT specialists around the world using ControlUp to make their day-to-day monitoring and management more efficient and responsive, we feel like this is the time to start offering licensing packages for sale to larger organizations.
 
With the new pricing we have …

ControlUp use case – performing bulk server maintenance

As ControlUp worldwide user community grows, we keep receiving more and more excited e-mails from systems administrators that find ControlUp useful for their day-to-day management and maintenance tasks. I thought I would share a typical use case reported by one of our US-based enterprise customers.

In an environment that includes hundreds of Citrix XenApp terminal servers …

ControlUp 1.2 – all the new and cool stuff

We are excited to release ControlUp 1.2 which includes more than a few additions from our community wishlist. Here’s a summary of the new features we hope will become your favorite:

Monitoring features – ControlUp is now much friendlier to the performance monitoring crowd, with a suite of monitoring innovations so cool they deserve …

ControlUp boosts real-time monitoring features in new version

The new version of ControlUp is currently undergoing beta testing and will be available for download within the next weeks.

Numerous IT pro’s around the world use ControlUp as a monitoring dashboard by sorting resource tables by different performance counter columns, such as CPU, memory usage, disk queue, etc. If you are among them, here’s a …

ControlUp is the official management tool for Citrix Ready Virtual Lab!

When we launched ControlUp four months ago, we got great coverage and support from Citrix to our product. Citrix have covered ControlUp in its blog (here and here) and was instrumental in getting the word out and helping ControlUp getting tremendous traction within the Citrix community.

Like many ISV and Citrix partners, for us …

Controlling user sessions remotely using ControlUp and Remote Assistance

Many administrators overlooking terminal server farms are reporting various issues while attempting to assist end users remotely using the ICA Shadowing feature. Citrix recommends resorting to Microsoft Remote Assistance in some cases, such as when multiple monitor or Aero issues …