This post, is based upon a session I had for a partner in Norway. How can we use Netscaler to optimize web content? Let’s face it, the trends are chaging * Users are becoming less patient (meaging that they demand that applications/services respond quicker. (more then 40% of users drop out if the website takes […]
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So this is part two of my securing XenApp enviroment, this time I’ve moved my focus to Storefront. Now how does Storefront need to be secured ? In most cases, Storefront is the aggregator that allows clients to connect to a citrix infrastructure. Im most cases the Storefront is located on the internal network and
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With Netscaler 10.5, Citrix announced the support for SAML Identity Provider on the Netscaler feature. That basically meant that we could in theory use the Netscaler as an identity provider for Office365 / Azure AD. Now I have been trying to reverse engineering the setup since Citrix hasen’t created any documentation regarding the setup. But
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So a couple of days ago, Microsoft announced the preview for site recovery for physical and Vmware servers. Luckily enough I was able to get access to the preview pretty early. Now for those who don’t know the site recovery feature is built upon the InMage Scout suite that Microsoft purchased a while back. About
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Earlier today Microsoft announced the long awaited feature which allows us to take backup of virtual machines directly in Azure. Now before today Microsoft didn’t have any solution to do backup of a VM unless doing a blob snapshot or some third party solution. You can read more about it here –> http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/03/26/azure-backup-announcing-support-for-backup-of-azure-iaas-vms/ The IaaS
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Now I had the pleasure of talking PCI-DSS compliant XenApp enviroment for a customer. Now after working with it for the last couple of days there are lot of usefull information that I thought I would share. Now PCI-DSS compliance is needed for any merchant who accepts credit cards for instance an e-commerce size. Or
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As I’ve mentioned previously, looks like the Azure AD time is running on speed or Red Bull, anyways they are active! today they announced a new preview of their universal tool Azure AD Connect (Which is going to replace DirSync and AAD Sync) So there are alot of new features in preview in this new
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So after someones request I decided to write a blogpost about this We needed a new storage server in our lab enviroment. Now we could have bought a all purpose SAN or NAS, but we decided to use regular Windows Server features with Storage Spaces, why? Because we needed something that supported our protocol needs
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So since I’ve been working on FVP the last couple of days, I decided to go a simple test. First of I have one VM which is not accelerated by anyway, then I move it to a write trough mode (meaning that writes are not accelerated since Pernix needs to maintain writes to the datastore.
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Most these days are including some sort of Powershell module for their software, why? becuase it opens up for automation ! As I mentioned in one of my previous posts I’ve started playing around with PernixData in our lab enviroment and I was reading around on the different KB articles when I saw that “Hey!
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