This is something I wanted to write about for some time now, after the release of XenDesktop 7 but there are only 24 hours in one day so therefore I didn’t have the time before now But the purpose of this post is to really say that Storefront is slow….. Don’t get me wrong it …
Wow this has been a huge day for both Microsoft and Citrix.First of Microsoft announced today publically that they are making RemoteFX clients for all mobile platforms (Maybe part of the Mohoro DaaS?) Which means that Microsoft VDI and with Storage dedup might make MIcrosoft a better alternative and gain some lost grounds there, because …
A New secret from Citrix Citrix just recently released a new build of its Netscaler appliance and also included a provider to integrate with Virtual Machine Manager even thou it is very hidden from the naked eye. Open up Netscaler GUI web-console and up in the right corner you have the downloads pane. under here …
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A suberb day so far! earlier today I received information from the Education team from Citrix that I received my beta result from the XenDesktop 7 exams, and I passed them all! Thats the 200, 300 and 400 exams! Then later on today I just got a email from Microsoft which has honored me, by …
With the release of XenDesktop 7 I was eager to see if there were any integrations with Configuration Manager, but no not yet…. Citrix also recently released an update to the Configuraiton Manager connector (Project thor) and there it was announced that Citrix is wokring on a new project called Loki, which is a connector …
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This is going to be a long one, and I want it done properly! Since I have seen multiple blogs containing the same recipe over and over again on how to setup networking within Virtual Machine Manager I have yet to see a blog post that actually describes and shows how it all links together, …
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Many might have noticed that little banner on the right side of my blog, well of right now I have my first official sponsor and of course it had to be veeam I have had some offers before but Veeam is something I work with everyday and enjoy working with. Veeam is an interesting product …
So this is a discussion I often meet, and will come across more the next weeks and months ahead I belive Many of the customers I work with are often a full blowen Citrix customer or more forwards Microsoft. Many are facing the discussion mobility how do we embrace it ? (or from another point …
Well I had the pleasure of playing around with Windows Server 2012 R2 scale-out file server with a JBOD SAS chassis. Then I wanted to try the storage tiering feature in R2. So in my case I had a SAS chassis with 4 SSD drivers and 12 7K First I created a storage pool for …
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Another fancy feature from within Configuraiton Manager is the ability to create VHDs direcly from the console by using a task sequence. Think of the possibilities of creating golden images by bulding a VHD file and then importing this direcly into SCVMM. In order to do this process there are a couple of requirements.* You …
