This was a session that I was going to present on NIC 2018, but because of a conflict, I was unable to attend. Therefore I decided to write a blog post on the subject instead since I see a lot of traffic against my earlier article on the subject (http://msandbu.org/what-is-azure-stack-and-want-is-the-architecture/) where I spoke a lot …
A While back Microsoft announced a new Load balancing tier in Microsoft Azure called Azure load balancer standard, which is a new SKU of the existing load balancing service in Azure, which is still in preview when I’m writing this blogpost. Azure provides different load balancing solutions, where we have Application Gateway (provides layer 7 …
Always amusing when I see on social media “Is this year going to be the year of VDI?” Which has been going back a lot of years already? The issue with VDI projects back in the day (Starting to write like an old guy…) was that the architecture and storage didn’t quite scale to that extent …
Is this the year of Unified Application Delivery? Read More »
There has been a lot of new enhancements done to the networking stack in Windows 10 and Server 2016, which I wanted to write a bit more about. Earlier I wrote a bit about TCP Fast Open which was available in Windows 10 and Microsoft EDGE to reduce the initial TCP SYN process http://msandbu.org/increasing-microsoft-edge-performance-using-tcp-fast-open-on-netscaler/ but looking …
Earlier today Citrix announced publicly that they have bought the company Cedexis. (If you didn’t catch the news you can read the official blogpost here –> https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2018/02/12/citrix-acquires-cedexis/) Being the tech-curious mind that I am, and started to read through the official blogpost didn’t give me any clarity in what kind of value it would actually …
My thoughts on Citrix buying Cedexis and what it is? Read More »
In my previous blog post I did a short overview of the different cloud vendors, a bit about their focus areas and also a bit about strengths and weaknesses. The blogpost can be found here –>http://bit.ly/2CrBgZA .In this post I want to focus more on IaaS and the offerings surrounding it, first I want describe …
Cloud Wars – IBM vs Microsoft vs Google vs Amazon IaaS Read More »
So a short blogpost on a issue I faced this week. Working at a customer this week we were working on setting up Citrix with SAML based authentication from MyApps Portal using Azure Active Directory. In order to setup this properly we needed to implement Citrix FAS in order to do SSO directly from a …
Citrix FAS with Azure AD and Error 404 Not Found Read More »
Looking back and 2017 there has not been as much activity as I’ve planned on my blog and one of the main reasons for this is because I have been quite caught up in work. Again one of the main reasons is because my work takes me back and forth between multiple products, platforms and …
Cloud Wars IBM vs Microsoft vs Amazon vs Google – Part 1 Overview Read More »
A question came a couple of days ago, to do a refresh on this blogpost since this is a topic that appears frequently on Twitter from time to time so therefore I decided to do a rewrite of this blogpost. So why should we choose Citrix over Microsoft RDS? Isn’t RDS good enough in many …
One of the issues with a RDS/Citrix/Horizon enviroment is actually capturing how the experience feels like for an end-user and being able to detect and see how the end-user sees the logon process. Most monitoring tools today focus on the performance on the terminal servers looking at CPU/Memory and storage available or looking at services …
Review – Goliath application availability monitor Read More »
