So in my Hyper-V enviroment all of hosts are administered by Virtual Machine Manager. The other day I needed to deploy Citrix XenClient to a hyper-v host (Since its the only hypervisor that is supported for the syncronizer part) Now by default when installing XenClient it sets up the TomCat service running on port 443. …
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So the last couple of days have all been about VMworld, with the keynotes being fullpacked regarding to updates and new stuff that are coming. The list is long with updates and rebranding of different products and new suites that are available. A funny story thou is that VMware releasted today a Workspace Suite (Which …
Now Microsoft has made alot of improvements with the latest RemoteFX feature in 2012 R2, (Now i’ve written a bit of the requirements of remoteFX before –> http://msandbu.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/remotefx-and-vgpu-2012r2-requirements/) Most important thing to remember about remoteFX vGPU is that it is only supported on Enterprise Client OS (Therefore Windows 7 and 8 Enterprise SKUes) It also …
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Microsoft released today a managment pack to monitor Office365 from System Center Operations Manager. The MP is available from here –> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43708 In order to setup the monitor you first need a global administrator account in the subscribtion account. You can do it here –> https://portal.office.com/UserManagement/ActiveUsers.aspx NOTE: The global administrator account does not require to …
Netscaler has the ability to use something called TCP profiles, which allows “non-TCP” experts to customize the Netscaler based upon what application is being used or what kind of network is be used or devices that are accessing the service. Now this might be the easiest performance tuning feature on the Netscaler. The different profiles …
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Now I just recently became aware from Twitter that the 10.5 Netscaler monitor for Storefront is not working properly for HTTPS enabled Storefront servers. The problem with the monitor is that it uses an IP based check (and not a hostname based check) which would allow the monitor to work properly since the digital …
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Earlier today, Citrix released their updated System Center Configuration Manager connector to XenDesktop 7.5. It can be downloaded from here –> http://www.citrix.com/downloads/xendesktop/product-software/xendesktop-and-xenapp-75-connector-for-sccm.html note that it requires an mycitrix account in order to download it. So what does it do ? well a couple of things. Mostly it’s about pushing software out to regular clients and …
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Yesterday, Veeam released their new management pack which for the first time includes support for both Vmware and Hyper-V. Now I have gotten a lot of questions regarding (Why have Hyper-V monitoring if Microsoft has it ?) well Veeam’s pack has alot more features included, such as capacity planning, heat maps and so on. The …
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Now Microsoft recently released their new management pack for SQL Server, which included new dashboard views for SQL administrators. Now this is nice and it gives a clear overview of the current configuration and what’s happening at the time. Now it supports most the SQL versions, except 2014 (yet…) Version 32-bit SQL Server on 32-bit …
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Dell introduced their new VRTX platform last year. For those who haven’t heard about VRTX it it was the start of fully-converged hardware solutions from Dell. Its a nifty piece of hardware which allows for up to 4 nodes and 25 harddrives to share midplane allowing for simultaions access to the storage. It is also …
