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The future of RemoteApp and Windows 10 VDI from Azure with Citrix Cloud

Leave a Comment / 12. August 2016 12. August 2016

So today Citrix announced some pretty big news, that moving ahead Microsoft will stepping down development on their Azure RemoteApp feature in Azure, and that Citrix will taking over with a new feature called XenApp Express or (RemoteApp 2.0) which appears to be some further development of their Citrix Cloud offering. Microsoft will continue to …

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Is low latency enough? Optimizing TCP for optimal ICA traffic

Leave a Comment / 10. August 2016 10. August 2016

So I decided to write this blogpost to actually show the effects of TCP optimization on Citrix. I’ve been stating that you should always change the TCP profile for NetScaler Gateway because the default is BAD. So therefore I decided to do a bit research to see what kind of effect will a simple TCP …

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What is Containers and container ecosystem

Leave a Comment / 8. August 2016 8. August 2016

Having doing alot of work into containers lately, I can happy to say that I finally understand the concept of it all! When I first started reading about Containers I was like, WTF?? is this like a new concept of virtual machines or just some phase? Well it took some time to get used to …

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My session at VirtualExpo – Access and authentication methods in Citrix

Leave a Comment / 3. August 2016 3. August 2016

So for those that haven’t heard of VirtualExpo yet, it is a full day virtual conferce which is arranged by my fellow Norwegian Trond E Haavarstein or @xenappblog. This is the third time the event is going to be hosted, and look forward to a day with alot of good content and great speakers on …

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Application availability and Auto-scaling with AVI–Benchmarking

Leave a Comment / 2. August 2016 2. August 2016

So the last couple of days has been spent on reading up on the latest ADC updates as part of the WhatMatrix.com category for ADC’s which is coming soon! As part of that I’ve looked at alot of the tradisional ADC vendors in the market, which comes from a physical appliance world and has entered …

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Configuring AlwaysON on NetScaler 11.1

Leave a Comment / 31. July 2016 31. July 2016

One of the cool new features in NetScaler 11.1 is a feature called AlwaysON, now NetScaler has had a VPN agent setup for a long time now, and in 11.1 it got a huge overhaul! AlwaysON is a VPN feature which will trigger the VPN agent to logon after a user is a logged into …

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Clientless access with NetScaler 11.1 and Storefront 3.6

Leave a Comment / 30. July 2016 30. July 2016

One of the questions I’ve been getting alot lately is the ability is about the new NetScaler 11.1 UI RfwebUI and the ability to log directly to the UI and display all the different applications directly from the NetScaler UI instead of being redirected to the StoreFront Web site. This is of course possible but …

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Does data locality matter? My Perspective on Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces Direct and RDMA

Leave a Comment / 27. July 2016 27. July 2016

With the uprise in Hyperconverged technology it is interesting to see how the different vendors in the market has embraced different architectures in their implementation . I’ve previously blogged about how VMware, Microsoft and Nutanix has done this –> http://msandbu.org/storage-warshci-edition/ Now therefore I decided to dig a bit deeper into the way Microsoft has implemented …

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Overview of Azure Active Directory, Subscriptions, Accounts & Role based access control

Leave a Comment / 26. July 2016 26. July 2016

So in the beginning there was nothing! Venturing in Azure these days, you might lose the overview you once had and now with the introduction of Azure RBAC and having multiple subscriptions, probably many Azure Active Directories, mixing Microsoft and Work accounts it might be confusing how it all blends together. So therefore I decided …

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Azure virtual machine speed test

Leave a Comment / 26. July 2016 26. July 2016

When sizing an enviroment in Microsoft Azure it is important to remember what kind of performance you can expect from the different virtual machine instance types in Azure, because there are alot of different aspects you need to think about when setting up virtual machines. Now by default there are different instance types, which defines …

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