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Leverage OMS to analyze, predict and protect your Linux workloads

Powered by Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Platform, Operations Management Suite (OMS) provides more predictive & analytical capabilities to keep your data center healthy. Savision’s newest whitepaper is written by Microsoft MVP Janaka Rangama and is entitled: ‘Born in the Cloud: Monitoring Linux Workloads with OMS’. It provides insights on how organizations can combine existing System Center […]

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Azure RemoteApp vs RDS Azure IaaS vs Citrix XenDesktop

This is a question that is appearing again, again and again. If I want an easy way to deliver apps to my customers what should I choose if they are interested in using Azure? and Ive seen so many failing to graps what each of these solutions actually manage to deliver, so hence this blogpost.

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Storefront 3.1 Technical Preview and configuration options

With the release of Storefront 3.1, Citrix made alot of options which were earlier only available in PowerShell or a configfile available in the GUI, which makes alot more sense since WebInterface has always had alot of options available in the GUI. Now I was a bit dazzled with the numerous options that are available,

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Multitenant guide setup for Storefront and Netscaler with ICA-proxy

This is something I have been working on for quite some time… Fact it has been quite a pain in the ass to setup, but I think I finally managed to solve it properly. If anyone sees any issues or something that I haven’t adressed, please leave me a comment either below in the post

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VMware Certified Professional 6 – Network Virtualization (VCP6-NV)–Study Guide

So this is an unoffical study guide for VCP6-NV which is the second level certification for Network Virtualization from Vmware. In order to take this certification you have two options, if you are Cisco certified then you can take an foundation exam and you are good to go. If you don’t have a cisco certification

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Integrating Citrix XenDesktop 7.7 and System Center Operations Manager

With the latest release of XenDesktop, Citrix included an integration between Director and Operations Manager Management Group, which allows Operations Manager to send alerts to Director. Citrix recommends that the Director administrator account is configured as a SCOM Operator role so that they can retrieve full alert information in Director. If this is not possible,

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Setting up XenDesktop 7.7 against Microsoft Azure

Starting of the new year with a long awaited feature on my part, setting up integration between XenDesktop and Microsoft Azure which is now a supported integration in 7.7 which was released now a week ago. This integration allow us to provision virtual machines directly from Studio. NOTE: Important to note however that XenDesktop as

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Citrix HDX Optimization pack 2.0

With the late release of XenDesktop 7.7, Citrix also released a new version of the HDX optmization pack for Skype/Lync. The earlier release 1.8 had some limitations which the 2.0 release managed to fix. This is the list of improvements. Native Skype for Business 2015 UI – Provides the full Skype for Business UI experience

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“Legacy” network security layer and moving into Software-defined security/networking

In lack of finding a suiteable subject for this post, I just used the topic legacy to shine some light upon a modern problem in our infrastructure. Modern firewalls have evolved from being a device that handles ACLs to becoming to the term Next-generation firewall, where we have features like Application firewall & Application awareness

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ICA vs PCOIP

First of let me start by stating that the subject of the blogpost is purely to get more viewers… But there is some truth to it, over the last weeks there has been alot of people talking about RDP / ICA / PCOIP and that the protocol wars are over. There are multiple articles on

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