So I noticed the other day that Citrix and Equnix are teaming up in order to bring the cloud “closer” to the customers by leveraging SD-WAN technology from Citrix and connecting it directly with a Equinix Performance hub. So why would this be an option? For instance customers who are leveraging Azure or maybe Office365 …
One of the things I often find in Azure deployments is the lack of RBAC usage, which is quite easy now in the new portal and integrated quite easily with AzureAD. By default the one that creates the a Azure Subscription has the role of Owner which has full rights to view/manage and can create …
Now with the release of XenDesktop 7.12 I’ve been quite busy testing the new preview of Adaptive Transport for HDX. Now one thing that it took some time for me to understand is that as it states “Transport Protocol” so you can still use ThinWire for instance over Adaptive Transport just like you did before. …
So today Microsoft released a public preview of Pass-trough authentication Azure AD which allows for SSO against Azure Active Directory without the hazzle of Active Directory Federation Services + Certificates and Public IP addresses. You can download the new version here –> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47594 Now a couple of cool things behind this concept, the Pass-trough authentication …
Setting up Azure AD Pass-trough authentication with Azure AD Connect Read More »
So with XenDesktop 7.12 released today I finally got a bit more information on what’s available in the new release. One of the features which was announced was Local Host Cache support is finally back, before I got the time to dig into the material Bas Van Kam did a great blog post on it …
Citrix XenDesktop 7.12 and new updates and in-depth on HDX Enlightened Data Transport Read More »
Now I’ve previosly blogged about some of the other networking component in AzureStack (Software Load Balancing) and Distributed Firewall which are essential components on how we can achive a software-defined network. Now both the dfW and SLB are just components that operate in the data plane, but would not be possible without a central component …
Being heavily invested in Azure these days, and what I often see is that people want to leverage Azure and all the new cool technology that becomes available there but often the price is to high when doing the calculations based upon what they already have, and now with the release of N-series in Azure, …
So been a busy day with a lot of new interesting stuff coming out, especially from Amazon’s conference Reinvent, where they announced loads of new stuff. This post is just a quick summary of the news I’ve managed to gather so far. There has also been alot of updates happening before the conference started, for …
So again end of november and another successfull MYCUGC SIG Webinar, where we had over 150 attendees which is a number we are wery happy for considering this is our second webinar! I’ve also posted a blog post on the networking SIG with the Q&A session from todays webinar, which can be found here –> …
Networking SIG webinar–MAS deep dive and Container Orchestration Read More »
Following up on the previous AzureStack blogpost (Software load balancing –> http://msandbu.org/azurestack-breakdown-of-load-balancing-component/) I wanted to continue on the firewall component, which is also a new component which is now part of Windows Server 2016 as well. The solution in place in AzureStack is the same one that is available in Azure aka (Network Security Groups) …
