Microsoft recently announced that System Center Advisor (A cloud service) was going to be free of charge. For those that do not know what System Center Advisor is, it is as I said a cloud service powered on Azure and SQL. It consists of a web service, which communicates with agents through a gateway server. …
So a friend on mine asked me yesterday if it was possible to disable users from running *.exe files from the local user profile on the terminal server?And my quick response was yes this is possible!But what options do we have? Microsoft has numerous options out-of-the-box for locking down the environment through group policy, the …
Microsoft has done a lot of work behind the concept «Cloud OS» which is a term for Windows Server 2012 and as the name implies it has a lot of integration to Azure. As a standard function in Windows Server you have the ability to do backup directly to Azure (Using Windows Server Backup) you …
Veeam recently just announced that there are more awesome features that will be available in B&R Version 7 (Which is going to be available Q3 2013) Which are vPower and Virtual Lab. These features have been available for a while but just not for Hyper-V just Vmware, but it seems that Veeam sees that Hyper-V …
Countdown to Veeam V7 and news for Windows Server and Veeam MP Read More »
Since the countdown began to Veeam Backup and Replication V7, Veeam has released some new features, which are going to be included in the upcoming version. (Read more about it here à http://go.veeam.com/v7.html ) And as a part of this, the SharePoint Explorer. This includes granular restoration of objects within a SharePoint content database. I …
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So I decided to try the ARP guard functionality in Hyper-V 2012 and see how it works, and in the same case check if it is possible to change the Mac address. I took a look at what documentation Microsoft had around the subject http://blogs.technet.com/b/wincat/archive/2012/11/18/arp-spoofing-prevention-in-windows-server-2012-hyper-v.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831823.aspx And what they say here is that I am …
This guide has been written with Netscaler build 73 and Operations Manager 2012 SP1 (on WS2012) with the management pack from Citrix. Operations Manager 2012 supports monitoring network devices either through SNMP (v1, 2 and 3) or through just basic ICMP. Citrix has made a management pack solution, which you can use to enhance the …
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When Citrix released Excalibur they also included a whole bunch of Powershell which allows you to run Powershell cmdlets to alter anything. If you are inside the Studio console you can see that there is a PowerShell window there, which shows all of the cmdlets that you have run. and how does this help ? …
Now Citrix released a beta build of Excalibur a couple of months ago, which shows the next generation of XenDesktop and XenApp architecture. (Well actually just XenDestkop, since the XenApp architecture is disappearing) In addition, with this release we have some fancy choices for how to manage the machines within XenDesktop. Excalibur will add additional …
Been busy the last couple of months so therefore it has been a bit quiet here. I am having a huge focus on certifications forward since I want to expand my horizon, the last month I have focused a lot of Windows Server 2012 and Citrix Netscaler.Right now, I have a couple of other certifications …
