Christiaan Brinkhoff

Building the Digital Workspace of the Future can be a interesting road to follow. To prepare your environment for a Public Cloud, such as Microsoft Azure, there are different approaches to follow. Microsoft provides a great method to replicate, failover and/or migrate your on-premises servers to Azure with the service named Azure Recovery Service, what actually 1:1 replicates […]

As being a Sr. Workspace Consultant in the Netherlands, I constantly looking for great tools to make my work easier to do. One of the new products that attracted my interest is the ControlUp NetScaler Monitoring software. The new FREE available – hot off the press product – from our friends of ControlUp. With the […]

One of the biggest Citrix and Microsoft partnership announcements over the last year was definitely the replacement of Azure RemoteApp by XenApp Essentials. The new cloud-based virtualization solution from Microsoft Azure, delivered through the Citrix Cloud. Citrix XenApp Essentials is the most simplified and fastest way to deliver Windows apps from Microsoft Azure to any […]

At Synergy, Citrix announced a new version of their own User Environment Management software called: Citrix Workspace Management – or WEM in short. As you may know already – Citrix acquired Norskale VUEM last year, in September and renamed it afterwards to Citrix Workspace Environment Manager. Read the whole announcement article here. WEM is a user […]

At Citrix’s Synergy user conference this week, what has been hold in the Orange County Convention Centre in Orlando, Kirill Tatarinov started of the new vision keynote with a great shout-out to the Citrix Technology (Community) Professional (CTP’s)! Before all the new announcements started, a personal video message from F1 driver Max Verstappen and a […]

At the beginning of this year, at Citrix Summit, Citrix announced that the partnership with Microsoft will be increased and will hit the Accelerator – what did resulted in several awesome releases of Citrix components in the Microsoft Azure Cloud, one of them, for example is the RemoteApp replacement XenApp Essentials and XenDesktop Essentials did […]

About one year ago, at Synergy 2016, Citrix and ViewSonic announced the HDX Ready Pi. The low-cost Citrix endpoint, what can be used to launch your XenApp and XenDesktop virtual apps and Desktop. It is based on the Raspberry Pi version 3 hardware and it performs just like a normal thin client – but only […]

As you probably know, on 22nd December 2016, Citrix renamed their Lifecycle Management Services to Citrix Smart Tools. In short: The tool that provides service delivery management – Cloud-based control – to optimize, build, scale, check, and migrate existing or new Citrix XenApp or XenDesktop environments – all taking place from the Citrix Cloud. As […]

I’ve written about the FSLogix Container solution in the past. About 6 months ago, I wrote an article about FSLogix named – Office365 on a non-persistent Citrix Desktop – were I describe how you can implement FSLogix on a Citrix XenApp (RDSH) non-persistent environment for making use of Office365 – Exchange Online / Cache Mode […]

Citrix just upgraded their NetScaler VPX in Microsoft Azure (official article). There were some limitations before the upgrade that I mentioned in one of my previous blogs. Most of them are now gone, what makes it possible to take NetScaler deployments in Azure to a new level! You can now add extra network interfaces, what […]

Citrix just released their latest XenDesktop/XenApp 7.13 Current Release version, and like always, it includes an new version of StoreFront (3.9). So in addition to my other blog, How to install and configure XenDesktop 7.13, including Windows 10 (MCS) virtual desktop, or when you need to perform an single server StoreFront 3.9 installation. I wrote […]

In addition to my previous blogpost, How to Build your Citrix Disaster Recovery environment in Microsoft Azure, and of course, when you need to proceed the NetScaler setup in Azure for your own Citrix (hybrid) environment, I created this blog article, to show you how to get familiar with the configuration steps that must be […]

One of the great Platform Services of Microsoft Azure is DRaaS, what stands for Disaster-Recovery-As-A-Service or also named as Recovery Services in the Azure ARM Portal. A simple, cost-effective and fast solution to build up a complete Recovery Site in the Azure Cloud, with no need to buy own hardware that needs to be available […]

As you probably know already, Citrix just released a new Current Release version of their XenDesktop/XenApp software last week. Just as every new version, it includes new features and all the fixes. In last year, 2016, Citrix released over 4 new releases, what is pretty much. For 2017 Citrix will bring you 2 more current […]