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System Center Management Pack for VMM Fabric Dashboard 2012 R2 released

Leave a Comment / 17. July 2013

Today Microsoft released a Management Pack for VMM 2012R2 Fabric (or a dashboard view) Which can be found here –> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39635 If you want to install this, there are a couple of prerequistes that you need to take care of.(Which are not stated on the download page)First you need to install some additional management packs […]

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Managing Ubuntu Clients with Configuration Manager

Leave a Comment / 16. July 2013

Microsoft recently released a preview of System Center 2012 R2 and with it, they released a new version of the additional clients for Configuration Manager. You can download them from here –> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39360 The pack includes clients for: AIX Version 7.1, 6.1, 5.3 Solaris Version 11 (SPARC and x86) , 10 (SPARC and x86), 9

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Azure and IOPS performance

Leave a Comment / 16. July 2013

Many are thinking about moving to the cloud or at least look at the possbilities, and some might wonder can my workload function in the cloud ? or perhaps you are thinking of deploying Citrix in the cloud? For many the failure of Citrix implementations are tied to the SAN or perhaps the IOPS to

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Monitoring Exchange 2013 with Operations Manager 2012

Leave a Comment / 15. July 2013

Microsoft just released a Management Pack for Exchange 2013 and it couldn’t arrive fast enough The installation is simple as pai, download and import via management packs. You can download the management pack from here –> This Mangement Pack require the same prerequisites as the previous ones. You have one of the following versions of

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Azure and price comparison with On-premise

Leave a Comment / 12. July 2013

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?

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Citrix on Microsoft Azure

Leave a Comment / 9. July 2013

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

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Monitoring Windows Server 2012 R2

Leave a Comment / 6. July 2013

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

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A28 Netscaler 10 exam

Leave a Comment / 6. July 2013

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

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Error adding a RemoteFX video adapter to a VM running Windows Server 2012 R2

Leave a Comment / 1. July 2013

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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Azure Pack configuration for Windows Server 2012 R2

Leave a Comment / 28. June 2013

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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