Have several customers come to me in the last couple of months asking me “How can Azure be more affordable then an on-premise solution?” “I mean a virtual machine in Azure costs more then I can run in our datacenter”. So I have always said back to the customer “have you thought about the SAN? …
This is huge news! Microsoft Azure has for some time now had a solid IaaS platform with suppor for most of the different Windows Server roles and features, except the most importent one RDS. Since Microsoft until recently didn’t allow for use of RDS or other options like Citrix to run against Azure, (because of …
Microsoft just recently released a preview pack of a management pack that can be used to monitor Windows Server 2012 R2, good job Microsoft! You can download the preview pack here –> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39375 The management pack includes monitors for most of the Windows Server features. Including some awesome feature for Hyper-v 2012 R2, including for …
I recently took the A28 exam from Citrix and wish to share my tips and my experience with this exam. Now to compare with the 9.2 exam this was A LOT more difficult. Have to say that Citrix has really created a challenging exam which focused a lot on most of the different functions within …
When I was trying to add a remotefx video adapter to a VM running on Windows Server 2012 R2 I got an error message Error applying RemoteFX 3D Video Adapter Changes. And what is that? Well clearly its a GUI bug as I see several other have the same issues as well.The solution was to …
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So Microsoft has released the new wave of products into preview, including the next version of Katal (Azure Services) for Microsoft, called Azure Pack. This pack transforms your datacenter into Azure allowing users to sign up using plans and be able to use your infrastructure into a IaaS platform. You can download the trial for …
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So the big day is here, XenDesktop 7 is released from Citrix and with it ends the old XenApp architecture. Support for Server based session hosts is still there but the architecture is merged into XenDesktop. Other features include:App-V integrationLicense console integrated into StudioStorefront administration also from the same console.The list goes on and pictures …
With the release of the latest preview management pack from Microsoft it is now possible to monitor your fabric in Azure.http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38414 Even thou many setup a IPsec VPN connection and deploy SCOM agents like before to get more deep monitoring capability, it is still possible to use this management pack since it also covers other …
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So I have been lucky enough to have the time to try out all the new builds from Microsoft. Since R2 Beta builds of System Center and Server was released earlier today, and yes im a geek so this is how I spend my time J First of if you look at my previous post …
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During the night, Microsoft quietly announced its preview builds of Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2. The releases can be found here –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/dn205292.aspx Im already downloaded most of the stuff, but as always Things tend to Queue up since there are many geeks out there eager to try the software. Windows …
