So for the first time in my life I’m actually headed to Citrix Synergy! Now I have always been present at Synergy the last couple of years, using the live streaming options but this time ill actually be there and join a bunch of my fellow CTP’s and other people I’ve been waiting to meet …
XenApp Essentials is the new Azure only offering which provides us with a easy way to deliver Desktop as a service for end-users and is now available in the Azure marketplace.. This offering is now in GA and this blog post is an introduction to the service and how to configure it properly for the …
After a lot of discussions with other colleagues in the end-user computing space (Yes you know who you are!)There has been a lot of questions around Citrix and Azure Stack and what can we actually deliver there today? Therefore I wanted to write this blogpost to explain the current limitations and what we can actually …
Microsoft has always been heavily committed to the datacenter and has a large footprint with Hyper-V & System Center. If we dial the clock back five years, Microsoft released Azure Pack, which was their first big attempt at a complete integrated private cloud offering and which was meant as a private offering of Microsoft Azure. …
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The last weeks I’ve been involved with working on Goliath’s guide on troubleshooting and understanding the Citrix ICA & HDX stack, which can be found available for download here –> http://bit.ly/2o5v9me To be perfectly honest I did not contribute much, most has been done by the support team at Goliath and I did a small …
Understanding & troubleshooting the ICA/HDX protocol Read More »
This is a follow-up from my earlier blogpost around –> http://msandbu.org/security-aspects-when-moving-to-the-public-cloud/ and the purpose about this post is highlighting the security aspects on IaaS services. with IaaS we have the capabilities to provision a set of virtual machines and have different supporting services around it. The purpose of this post is going to be focusing …
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One of the cool things with Azure Resource Manager is that we can define central policies which can either be deployed to resource groups or entire subscriptions which can be used to for instance define policies that * We can only deploy to North and West Europe* We can only deploy Windows Server 2012 Datacenter …
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So the last couple of days I’ve been watching closely on the keynotes at #GoogleNext, where Google was showing alot of the new enhancements to their platform. So a couple of weeks back they also introduced a new relational database service which is geo syncronous as well called Spanner Now up until now Google has …
Announcements at Google Next 17 and price cut on IaaS Read More »
So this is based upon a session I had at Hackcon a couple of weeks back. There are more and more businesses moving or adopting public cloud one way or another, it can be SaaS, PaaS or traditional IaaS features to move their existing datacenter to the cloud. Now if we look at the cloud …
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One of the cool features introduced in TP3 is the ability to do marketplace syndication between AzureStack and the public Azure marketplace. This allows us to provide all the different services and images in the public Azure marketplace trough AzureStack. You need to register your AzureStack deployment with an active Azure Subscription first in order …
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