Last week I published a blog post around ProfileUnity named: The future looks bright for User Environment and Workspace Management, which, looking at the numbers was very well received – if you’ve missed it you can find it here. Today I’d like to focus on a more specific, and well-known issue that has been with us for many years and does tend to cause some headaches from time to time: the last write wins. Again, this will underline the power and flexibility that ProfileUnity brings to the table.
The ultimate Citrix printing internals cheat sheet – version 2.0
When I was working on my ultimate Citrix XenDesktop internals cheat sheet just a couple of weeks ago I also got asked (thanks, Jamie) if I would consider updating my printing internals cheat sheet. After giving this some thought – which took me about a minute – I decided this was a great idea and got right to it. Although printing, especially on SBC environments is quite stable, in the sense that not a lot has changed throughout the last couple of years when it comes to the architecture, pathways, traffic flow and so on, I managed to rewrite a great deal (almost all) of the material published earlier and to include a bunch of new facts, figures and ‘nice to knows’ along the way. All this, together with the renewed look and feel, freshly created images and the addition of a Table of Contents will greatly enhance your reading experience, I’m sure. If you download a .PDF copy that is.
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 and, two: the Citrix (print) policies configured. Due note that I will only focus on native Citrix printing and won’t go over any of the third party solutions out there.
Houdini’s guide to Citrix printing… My contribution to the first ever Virtual Expo!
This was/is the title of my presentation, which I presented at the first ever Virtual Expo powered by Xenappblog.com on September 30th 2015. And what a ride it turned out to be. A great event with some top-notch speakers, awesome content and for me personally it was my first ever webinar. Have a look at the recording below. I really enjoyed some of the research involved, making the slides and of course presenting all this during the Virtual Expo conference, a great initiative. Let me know what you think. Note that I’m also working on a detailed blog post to go with it, give me a few weeks. And yes, I know, I’ll make sure to keep an eye on my mouse pointer the next time :)
What you need to know about Windows Server 2016 and containers going forward!
Microsoft has just released Tech Preview 3 (TP3) of their Windows Server 2016 Operating System introducing local container support among some other goodies. In this short post I’d like to share with you some ‘nice to know’ facts with regards to Windows containerisation as it stands today and moving forward.