Rob Zylowski

Rob Zylowski

Rob is currently a Senior Architect within Citrix Consulting Services. He was born in New York City and grew up in New Rochelle NY. He is a father of two young adults, Zoe and Max, and has been married to his wife Lorna for 30 years. Rob attended the University of Rochester both as an undergrad obtaining a BS degree in geology as well as an MBA. He worked for the first 8 years of his career in IT in many roles including Network Manager, Manufacturing Systems Manager, and Internal Consultant for both a manufacturing company and a pharma. He then worked for several independent consulting companies as a consultant for 15 years concentrating in networking, messaging, Windows Technologies, Citrix and VMware virtualization. In 2010 he joined Unidesk supporting customers both pre and post sales as well as writing many utilities to enhance the Unidesk product. He is now part of CCS working with customers to optimize XenApp and XenDesktop deployments.

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App Layering in Azure 2023 and beyond

Citrix App Layering version 4.1 was released in 2017, shortly after Citrix acquired Unidesk. This version already included connectors for…

Diving deep into the Monitor API

For a while I have wanted to better understand how to get the most useful information possible from Citrix DaaS…

Citrix App Layering and reporting

Having worked with customers for many years deploying Citrix App Layering, I know additional reporting features are in high demand.…

Revamping the User Layer Repair Utility

A little over a year ago, I created a utility to make managing Citrix App Layering User Layer Repair files…

How to approach designing your app layering strategy

I answer lots of questions every day about Citrix App Layering, and up to 30 percent of those questions boil…

Citrix TIPs: Azure Subscription Sizing

I joined Citrix Consulting three years ago, and one of my first projects was to deploy a moderate sized XenDesktop…

Expanding user layers

For a couple years now, Citrix App Layering has supported the ability to provide user persistence on non-persistent VDI platforms…

Lessons from the Field: Remote PC Access

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the increased demand it has created for all organizations to provide ways…

The User Layer Repair Utility makes it easier to clean out user layers

The Citrix App Layering user layer has been available now for several years. For a long time, it was a…

Citrix App Layering and FSLogix profile containers

As a Citrix Consulting Enterprise Architect, I work with many customers who want to optimize the way Windows and Windows…

The vDisk Replicator Utility is finally finished!

Citrix Synergy is over, and I finally have time to write this blog — the third post I have written…