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New stuff for Intune

Leave a Comment / 18. December 2014 18. December 2014

So Microsoft has been busy coming with numerous updates to Intune lately. The latest updates came last week, you can see updates here –> http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoftintune/archive/2014/12/09/new-mobile-application-management-capabilities-coming-to-microsoft-intune-this-week.aspx Ability to restrict access to Exchange Online email based upon device enrollment and compliance policies Management of Office mobile apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for iOS devices, including ability to restrict …

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Problems with Netscaler and Hyper-V NIC teaming ICA error 1110

Leave a Comment / 17. December 2014 17. December 2014

Had a customer case where they had troubles with ICA sessions being terminated when connecting via Netscaler. They had a regular MPX pair setup in HA which then serviced XenApp servers which were located on a cluster of Hyper-V hosts. These hosts were running Windows Server NIC teaming switch independent Dynamic mode. The Citrix sessions …

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Windows Azure and Storage performance

Leave a Comment / 17. December 2014 17. December 2014

For those that have been working with Azure for some time there are some challenges with delivering enough performance for a certion application or workload. For those that are not aware Microsoft has put limits on max IOPS on disks which are attached to a virtual machine in Azure. But note these are max limits …

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Can I run my workload in Azure?

Leave a Comment / 2. December 2014 2. December 2014

This is a typical question I get quite often, and therefore I decided to write a blogpost to get all the facts straight and talk a bit about the cons about running workloads in Azure and why it some cases is not possible or not the best option. But note there are many use cases …

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Upcoming events and stuff

Leave a Comment / 2. December 2014 2. December 2014

There’s alot happening lately and therefore there has been a bit quiet here on this blog. But to give a quick update on what’s happening! In february I just recently got confirmation that I am presenting two session at NIC conference (Which is the largest IT event for IT-pros in scandinavia) (nicconf.com) Here I will …

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Veeam Endpoint backup – a new free backup solution for computers and physical servers

Leave a Comment / 1. December 2014 1. December 2014

Veeam has announced a couple of months back, Veeam Endpoint backup. This is a free solution for all which works for both physical servers and for regular Windows Computers. Now Since Veeam has always been working for a plain virtualization stack, we need to be aware that there are alot of differences between taking a …

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New feature in Netscaler – Admin partitions

Leave a Comment / 18. November 2014 18. November 2014

So this was announced on Synergy earlier this year, and now just arrived in the first enhancement build which is downloadable from Citrix.com NOTE: There is only a VPX available for XenServer but there is a firmware available which works on regular VPX. So what is Admin Partitions? It is a kind of Role-based access …

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Netscaler 10.5 and Storefront 2.6

Leave a Comment / 12. November 2014 12. November 2014

During a new setup for a customer we were using the latest build from Storefront 2.6 and latest NS build 10.5 (53) to ensure that there are no bugs and so on. The pre-existing Storefront was setup using regular HTTP (Not recommended) but it should work just fine. After setting up Netscaler against Storefront and …

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Veeam Cloud Connect for Microsoft Azure walkthrough

Leave a Comment / 12. November 2014 12. November 2014

With the recent release of Veeam 8, I was exited to hear that Veeam also added support for Cloud Connect Against Azure. So Cloud Connect is a option for Veeam Cloud providers to offer off-site backup for their customers. So it requires that customers already have Veeam in place, but makes it easy for them …

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Workaround for Netscaler VPX and VMware ESXi 5.5 Build 2143827

Leave a Comment / 6. November 2014 6. November 2014

This is a quick post, but Citrix has published a workaround for the trouble they have with Netsacler loosing connectivity on Vmware with the latest update. You can find the workaround here –> http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX200278 This is only until Citrix manage to fix the issue and includes it in a newer build of Netscaler