I just finished presenting at the first ever online Microsoft Meet Community event around Windows Virtual Desktop. Thank you, Microsoft NL and Christiaan Brinkhoff for the invite. And of course a big thank you to all who joined my session. As promised during the presentation, here is my slide deck. Hopefully some of you learned, heard, or saw something new today. If you have any questions, let me know or feel free to reach out to any of the companies I mentioned. I’m sure they won’t mind ;)
Continue ReadingMS Community event: Windows Virtual Desktop. Here’s what I will be talking about
Have you registered already? No? Well, you better hurry up than. They are nearing a 1000 participants and I’m not sure what the limit will be. Go here to do so. While it was planned to be an in-person event, it will now be a virtual event only, due to the COVID_19 pandemic. Have a look at the agenda, Microsoft MVP’s exclusively and some very interesting topics. Let me tell you about mine for a bit.
Continue ReadingThe ultimate cheat sheet page
Average time to read: < 1 minuteThroughout the last couple of years, I have published multiple, so-called ultimate cheat sheets around the FMA, Citrix printing, and application layering. But also around IoT networking and IOPS in general, for example. Looking through my website statistics I can see that these articles or small e-books are by far the most popular, even the older ones. Because of this, and because I like to have them a bit more organized myself – they really come in handy from time to time – I decided to bundle them all into one page, for your convenience. The ultimate cheat sheet page, if you will. Next to this blogpost, you’ll also find it here (the page itself).
The ultimate Citrix XenDesktop 7.x internals cheat sheet!
Ever wondered what happens after a user fills in his or her username and password? What the difference is between internal and external user authentication, resource enumeration and the accompanying launch process? Or what about Web-Interface and StoreFront, do they both have the same authentication mechanism? What are the differences between the server and desktop VDA’s? What about the VDA and XenDesktop internals, what happens inside a VDA when a resource is launched? How does a connection get brokered? Read about this and more during the next 8 (mini) chapters.
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