Starting of the new year with a long awaited feature on my part, setting up integration between XenDesktop and Microsoft Azure which is now a supported integration in 7.7 which was released now a week ago. This integration allow us to provision virtual machines directly from Studio. NOTE: Important to note however that XenDesktop as […]
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With the late release of XenDesktop 7.7, Citrix also released a new version of the HDX optmization pack for Skype/Lync. The earlier release 1.8 had some limitations which the 2.0 release managed to fix. This is the list of improvements. Native Skype for Business 2015 UI – Provides the full Skype for Business UI experience
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In lack of finding a suiteable subject for this post, I just used the topic legacy to shine some light upon a modern problem in our infrastructure. Modern firewalls have evolved from being a device that handles ACLs to becoming to the term Next-generation firewall, where we have features like Application firewall & Application awareness
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First of let me start by stating that the subject of the blogpost is purely to get more viewers… But there is some truth to it, over the last weeks there has been alot of people talking about RDP / ICA / PCOIP and that the protocol wars are over. There are multiple articles on
Myself being quite in the starting phase of software-defined networking and all the different network virtuliazation technologies out there, I thought I would do a summurization between the largest different vendors in this market. What differenciates them (from a protocol perspective) and why on earth would we use them ? First of, network virtualization is
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So been spending a couple of days now troubleshooting a enviroment where external users “sometimes” had issues with connecting (which was completely random) and getting the 1110 and 1030 error messages and also that Wyze thin clients had issues (sometimes) as well. There was only an issue on the specific hosts which were creating
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As part of the latest release from Citrix Netscaler V11, there was an interesting feature added to the firmware. Which in essence allows ut to add a NO-IP Virtual AAA server, which allow us to add multiple resources lets say behind a CSW vServer where we only use one VIP. This is part of the
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Today Nutanix announced their list of Nutanix Technology Champions for 2016, and I am honored to be among the people on the list. Nutanix is doing alot of cool things, and alot more to come http://next.nutanix.com/t5/Nutanix-Connect-Blog/Welcome-to-the-2016-Nutanix-Technology-Champions/ba-p/6382?utm_content=buffer05396&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer I am delighted to announce the 2016 group of Nutanix Technology Champions. This year has seen enormous demand from
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From time to time we need to setup load balancing to a SSL based service or when setting up connection to a secure Storefront (which is the default) there is one thing that alot of people are missing from the config when setting up, which results in wierd issues or getting SSL handshake errors from
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So I got a question earlier today, if it was possible to load balance a specific port range within Netscaler. Now by default we cannot specify a port range when setting up a load balanced vServer or setting up services. In order to ensure that traffic from a specific endpoint going to the same backend
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