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Windows User Profile Disks are Good but…

November 17, 2018

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With the widespread adoption of Microsoft Office 365, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox Enterprise, etc., Windows user profiles are now more bloated than ever before. In virtual workspace environments this can be a big challenge because if your users don’t have very fast access to their large user profile, user experience suffers greatly. Some type of […]

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Windows Virtual Desktop Officially Announced – My Take

September 25, 2018

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This week at Ignite, Microsoft is announcing the introduction of Windows Virtual Desktop, a multi-user version of Windows 10 Enterprise that is deployable in Azure. Please see their blog post here about it. I will have much more to say about this in future blog posts, but coupled with their heavy investments in “Remote Desktop […]

VMware Fusion 11 is Here!

September 25, 2018

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Hot on the heels of macOS Mojave’s release today, we’re proud to announce that our latest major upgrade to Fusion: VMware Fusion 11 and Fusion 11 Pro, is available now! We are incredibly proud of this release as we continue to focus on developer workflows and increasing our automation capabilities, while still improving on GPU […]

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Citrix and Microsoft 365: Extending the Value of Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop

September 25, 2018

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Citrix is excited to extend Windows Virtual Desktop through our comprehensive Citrix Workspace offering and technologies. At Ignite, Microsoft unveiled its vision for Windows Virtual Desktop, the future of the Remote Desktop platform. Available only on Azure, Windows Virtual Desktop is a new cloud-hosted service that virtualizes and delivers business applications and desktops. The new […]

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Citrix: XenApp & XenDesktop and Third-Party Software in Harmony!

August 7, 2018

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Have you ever wondered what Citrix does to ensure the released versions of XenApp and XenDesktop remain compatible with various third-party software updates from vendors like Microsoft, VMWare, or Adobe? As you may know, our technology leverages, relies upon, inter-operates with, and supports software; such as Microsoft Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft […]

Microsoft Video: Windows 7 and Office 2010 End of Support

August 3, 2018

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Make the shift from Windows 7 and Office 2010 to Windows 10 and Office 365. Learn more about Windows 7 End of Support: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/end-of-windows-7-support. This video is from the fine folks at Microsoft.

Hyper-V Nested Virtualization Explained

August 2, 2018

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Windows Server 2016 is the newest addition to the popular Windows Server family of operating systems. The 2016 version introduces several useful new features, including features specifically designed for the Hyper-V virtualization platform. The application area for the latest version of Hyper-V has been expanded due to these improvements. Nested virtualization is a new feature […]

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Key IIS metrics to monitor

August 2, 2018

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Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) is a web server that has traditionally come bundled with Windows (e.g., versions 5.0, 6.0, and beyond). IIS has numerous extensibility features. Swappable interfaces like ISAPI and FastCGI make it possible to use IIS with a variety of backend technologies, from micro-frameworks like Flask to runtimes like Node.js, along with […]

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FSLogix Containers – Search Index Considerations and Troubleshooting

August 1, 2018

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Windows Search is a feature that has existed in the Windows OS since Windows Vista, although it did exist as freeware called Windows Desktop Search for XP and Server 2003. It replaced the Indexing Service that first arrived as part of the Windows NT4 Option Pack, which was deprecated in Windows 7 and finally removed […]

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Liquidware WhatMatrix Results

August 1, 2018

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Liquidware Beats Industry Giants to Take Top Spot in Application Layering in Independent Technical Analysis Liquidware, the leading third-party provider of platform-agnostic end-user computing solutions, today announced that its FlexApp application layering software has nosed out Citrix’s App Layering and VMware’s App Volume products to take top billing in WhatMatrix’s community-curated independent analysis of application […]

Remote Desktop Manager 32-bit or 64-bit?

July 24, 2018

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Some questions in life are hard to answer, like: would you rather step on a piece of Lego barefoot every day for a week or get a single paper cut between your toes? (Don’t worry, there’s a cure.) Or in a battle between Deadpool and…actually, forget that. Deadpool would always win! But other questions are easy […]

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Consumerization of IT

Internet of Things (IoT)

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Consumerization of IT

Internet of Things (IoT)

Building the Digital Workspace for the Cloud Era

July 18, 2018

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Most digital workspace solutions will not and probably should not be built from a single product. But that does not mean we should not attempt to consolidate as much as possible in the solution stack which builds out our digital workspace. Both Citrix Workspace and VMware Workspace ONE are the common go-to solutions which tie-in most, if […]

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Citrix and utilizing it with EMS and Azure AD Joined Devices

July 18, 2018

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This is based upon a session that I presented at Citrix User Group Ireland and you can view the SlideShare presentation here –> https://www.slideshare.net/mariussandbu/citrix-with-microsoft-ems but the session was about, how can we leverage Citrix with EMS ( Enterprise Mobility and Security) and also shows the configuration for Citrix FAS together with Azure AD. Now the focus […]

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Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 3a Announcement

July 17, 2018

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Platform support is a priority at Veeam. Whether that is the latest operating systems, new storage systems or updated hypervisors, we take platform support seriously. Since Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3 has been released, a number of ecosystem changes have warranted an update ahead of the upcoming set of Veeam capabilities (due later […]

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