Microsoft related

6

Feb

Architecture, AWS, Azure, Citrix, Google, IoT, Microsoft related

Bas van Kaam

Defining your IoT strategy – first things first!

Are you, or is your company thinking about offering IoT services to its/your customers? If so, you (or they) have probably noticed that there is a lot to think about and that it goes way beyond the technology and/or tools involved. For most organisations, it requires a different mindset and a curtain degree of resourcefulness as well…
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28

Nov

Microsoft related, Virtualization, XenApp, XenDesktop

Bas van Kaam

Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop Platinum edition — a true Gem. You agree?

Throughout the years there have been countless discussions about the potential added value of the Citrix XenApp and/or XenDesktop Platinum license, and rightfully so since you roughly pay about 1/3 more when compared to an Enterprise license, at least as far as XenApp goes.
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15

Aug

Architecture, Book, Citrix, Community, Education, FMA, Inside Citrix, Microsoft related

Bas van Kaam

Inside Citrix – The making of & lessons learned!

Now that my book is out in the open I get a lot of questions about my approach. People are really interested to find out how long it took me to complete, what kind of tools I used, where I found the time, what drove me to write a book in the first place and…
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27

Oct

Citrix, Microsoft related, Printing, XenApp, XenDesktop

Bas van Kaam

Citrix printing internals cheat sheet… Part one!

A user clicks print, what happens next? When Citrix is thrown in the mix things work a bit differently. Although the Microsoft print basics still apply, and I’ll discuss them shortly, the way that print traffic will, or can be, routed throughout your environment depends on, one: the physical setup of your machines and printers…
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27

Apr

Containers, Docker, Linux, Microsoft related

Bas van Kaam

Containers? Docker? Docker on VMware. Docker on Windows. Docker on Citrix?

With all the excitement going on around Docker, and containerisation in general, including the latest rumours around Microsoft’s Nano Server, I thought it might be useful to have a closer look at this technology to see what it can and cannot do and when it might be a good time to actually start using it…
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7

Apr

-1000 series, Basics, Microsoft related, PowerShell, XenDesktop 7

Bas van Kaam

Desired State Configuration & the Citrix XenDesktop DSC Tech Preview

Desired State Configuration (DSC)… Ring any bells? No? It should by now. Although it isn’t a technology or concept thought up by Citrix, it is still very much applicable to Citrix components and infrastructures. DCS is a (still relatively) new management platform for Windows PowerShell allowing you to configure, apply and maintain a certain desired…
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15

Dec

Desktop virtualization, Microsoft related, The FMA internals collection, XenDesktop 7

Bas van Kaam

XenDesktop 7.x internals continued… The Server VDA in more detail.

Although the new FMA based Server VDA has been built from the ground up it still has a lot of similarities when compared to the ‘old’ ICA protocol stack deployed with XenApp 6.5 and earlier versions. However, unlike XenApp, the VDA (Virtual Delivery Agent) directly communicates with the Delivery Controller, it does this through the…
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17

Sep

Data Center, Desktop virtualization, Microsoft related, Nutanix, Storage, VMware

Bas van Kaam

Block vs file level storage, VMware VMFS, NTFS and some of the protocols involved.

During the past few months I have spend a considerable amount of time looking at various storage related topics. Among others I discussed Web Scale technology as part of converged and software defined architectures, with Nutanix being one of the main vendors, next I also took a, somewhat, deeper dive into the wondrous world of IOPS…
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19

Aug

Desktop virtualization, Microsoft related, The FMA internals collection, XenDesktop 7

Bas van Kaam

How to: Rebooting your XenDesktop 7.x application servers.

Sounds easy enough right? Rebooting your XenDesktop Site’s application servers. When your Site isn’t that big and you don’t have a few hundred machines running or you have to deal with 24/7 shifts and so on, it can be fairly straightforward. I don’t want to spend to much time on why we would want, or…
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26

Jun

Microsoft related, PowerShell, The FMA internals collection, XenApp, XenDesktop 7

Bas van Kaam

Configuring Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Desktop publishing and Limited Visibility!

With the merge of XenApp into XenDesktop’s Flex Management Architecture (FMA) a lot changed, for most XenApp admins it meant they had to rethink their designs and as a result it was back to the drawing board. Take application, or resource, publishing for example, we now have to deal Delivery Groups and Machine Catalogs, nothing…
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