Author: Bas van Kaam

Father of three, EMEA Field CTO @ Nerdio, Author of the book Van de Basis tot aan Meester in de Cloud, Co-author of the book Project Byte-Sized and Yuthor of the book: Inside Citrix – The FlexCast Management Architecture, over 500 blog posts and multiple (ultimate) cheat sheets/e-books. Public speaker, sport enthusiast­­­­­­­­: above-average runner, 3 x burpee-mile finisher and a former semiprofessional snooker player. IT community participant and initiator of the AVD User group Community world wide.

The need of doing User Environment Management on (all) your digital workspaces… and not just virtual

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Throughout the years I have had the pleasure of visiting dozens of companies to talk about their ‘digital workspace’ challenges. Projects ranged from thousands of users/machines to just a few hundred. Some of these challenges were related to physical desktops, some to virtual, some were on-premises, some were cloud-based. I’ve worked for retail companies, financial, travel, in healthcare, etc. No matter their branch and/or size, they all dealt with the same types of issues.

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Windows 10 multi-user (it’s coming) – All facts and speculations listed

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Speculations around a multi-user Windows 10 version really took off with the absence of the RDSH role in one of the first Windows Server 2019 preview releases (build nr 17623). Back in March, the 20th of 2018 to be a bit more precise. Rumors about a multi-user Windows 10 version already existed, of course, but until then weren’t publicly shared, at least not as explicit as throughout the last couple of months. Let’s see what we know today.

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Convert all your machines into (permanent or temporary) fully functional, fully managed thin client devices, in under three minutes!

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If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Well, not in this case. The IGEL UDC3 software, which stands for Universal Desktop Converter, transforms any x86 based machine into a fully functional and managed thin client device, and does it fast.

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10 books I recommend reading – both for inspiration and practical purposes

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I’d like to share with you 10 books I have read throughout the last year or so. I do not read dozens of books per year, nor do I read fictional books – I just don’t have the patience. When I read I want to learn something, preferably something I can apply both personally as well as professionally. Here are 10 titles I enjoyed very much and knowing my audience, so to speak, I’m pretty sure you will too, with an exception here and there. Per book I’ve included a short description as well as the accompanying ISBN numbers. Continue reading 10 books I recommend reading – both for inspiration and practical purposes

Inside Citrix: The Prologue and first three chapters are online and available for download

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A moment I’ve been looking forward to for the past couple of weeks! I’ve just published the Inside Citrix prologue and the first three chapters – just to get you started. Click the link the below or directly visit chapters page via the main menu. Throughout the coming months, I’ll try and publish at least one chapter per week, though I might skip a week here and there, so bear with me.

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All chapters of Inside Citrix – The FlexCast Management Architecture published online!

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Just over two years ago, around May the 16thmy book became available on Amazon, the paperback version that is. Two months later, the Kindle version was finished as well. Today I’m announcing the (soon to be) online availability of all chapters here on basvankaam dot com.  Continue reading All chapters of Inside Citrix – The FlexCast Management Architecture published online!

E2EVC (Epic edition) Amsterdam is a wrap – notes, announcements, video’s & photo’s

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The E2EVC – Experts to Experts Virtualisation Congress (Epic edition) Amsterdam took place from Friday the 8th till Sunday the 10th. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of E2EVC, go here– you’re missing out if you don’t. The following are a few notes from sessions I attended and people I spoke to. I’ve also included a few images here and there.

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Innovation and making progress! Liquidware – you’ve heard about them before, right?

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Even though I’m no longer employed by Liquidware, I still very much like the technology and people involved. In today’s post, I want to highlight some of the major product updates they have launched throughout the last couple of months – it’s pretty impressive. If you are going to be at E2EVC (Amsterdam) next week, make sure to stop by their session, I’ve picked up a glimpse and it’s going to be good. It’s on Saturday at 10:50 and goes by the session name: Go Hybrid. Applications, Profiles, and Data accessible via On-prem and Cloud. Presented by David Bieneman – Co-Founder and CEO of Liquidware.

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I’m joining (the) Technical Fellows – Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

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No, I didn’t switch companies, I’m perfectly fine where I am now. Technical Fellows is a Dutch initiative, founded by multiple experienced and seasoned IT professionals – trust me, these guys are really good. To be honest, I am by far the least technical and knowledgeable person in the group. Read on…

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