A customer asked me recently can I configure load balancing for my Application Catalog service on Configuration Manager, since It runs on Silverlight im unsure how it will work… Sure you can!The Application Catalog in Configuration Manager consist of two components, the Application Catalog Web Service Point and the website point. Now when you install …
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So Citrix has released (a couple of weeks ago) beta exams of their upcoming XenDesktop 7 exams (Which are at the moment free for the taking for a limited time on pearson-vue.com)There are three exams http://training.citrix.com/cms/index.php/certification-links/new-certs/#beta-exams 1Y1-200 Managing Citrix XenDesktop 7 Solutions Beta Exam which is equivilant to CCA on XA/XD 1Y1-300 Deploying Citrix XenDesktop …
Today Microsoft released a Management Pack for VMM 2012R2 Fabric (or a dashboard view) Which can be found here –> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39635 If you want to install this, there are a couple of prerequistes that you need to take care of.(Which are not stated on the download page)First you need to install some additional management packs …
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Microsoft recently released a preview of System Center 2012 R2 and with it, they released a new version of the additional clients for Configuration Manager. You can download them from here –> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39360 The pack includes clients for: AIX Version 7.1, 6.1, 5.3 Solaris Version 11 (SPARC and x86) , 10 (SPARC and x86), 9 …
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Many are thinking about moving to the cloud or at least look at the possbilities, and some might wonder can my workload function in the cloud ? or perhaps you are thinking of deploying Citrix in the cloud? For many the failure of Citrix implementations are tied to the SAN or perhaps the IOPS to …
Microsoft just released a Management Pack for Exchange 2013 and it couldn’t arrive fast enough The installation is simple as pai, download and import via management packs. You can download the management pack from here –> This Mangement Pack require the same prerequisites as the previous ones. You have one of the following versions of …
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Have several customers come to me in the last couple of months asking me “How can Azure be more affordable then an on-premise solution?” “I mean a virtual machine in Azure costs more then I can run in our datacenter”. So I have always said back to the customer “have you thought about the SAN? …
This is huge news! Microsoft Azure has for some time now had a solid IaaS platform with suppor for most of the different Windows Server roles and features, except the most importent one RDS. Since Microsoft until recently didn’t allow for use of RDS or other options like Citrix to run against Azure, (because of …
Microsoft just recently released a preview pack of a management pack that can be used to monitor Windows Server 2012 R2, good job Microsoft! You can download the preview pack here –> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39375 The management pack includes monitors for most of the Windows Server features. Including some awesome feature for Hyper-v 2012 R2, including for …
I recently took the A28 exam from Citrix and wish to share my tips and my experience with this exam. Now to compare with the 9.2 exam this was A LOT more difficult. Have to say that Citrix has really created a challenging exam which focused a lot on most of the different functions within …
