Stephane Thirion

Cloudify my Lab with Microsoft Azure (reload)

January 17, 2017October 14, 2019

Stephane Thirion Azure, Citrix, Cloud, CloudBridge, CloudBursting, Microsoft, NetScaler, vpn, XenApp, XenDesktop

3 years ago I wrote this blog Cloudify my lab with Microsoft Azure, since, many things moved on on the Microsoft side, more options, Netscaler available as well in Azure, I though it was time to update and extend this blog. Here is what you will need if you want to do it by yourself, this is...

CloudBursting XenApp / XenDesktop in Azure 1/2

January 14, 2017October 14, 2019

Stephane Thirion Azure, Cloud, XenApp, XenDesktop

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Being able to extend your existing infrastructure to a cloud provider is a great option if you need more power for a specific period. In a previous blog (XenApp on Azure, is it really that easy ?) I show you how to have a fully existing infrastructure, fully hosted in Azure, in few click and...

XenApp on Azure, is it really that easy ?

January 14, 2017October 14, 2019

Stephane Thirion Azure, Cloud, XenApp

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I read everywhere deploying XenApp on Azure (full Cloud) was very easy, but I always wanted to try how easy it was. So let’s do this, let’s check how it works and follow the step by step. There is a (short) video of this step by step at the end of the blog post. First,...

Citrix Summit 2017 – Thoughts

January 10, 2017October 14, 2019

Stephane Thirion 2017, Citrix, Citrix Summit, CTO Thoughts, CTP Thoughts, Partner, Summit

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I wasn’t able to attend Summit this year for several reasons… Anyway, this week in Anaheim, during Citrix Summit partner event, many announcement were been made. I will just sum up what has been unleashed and how, as a CTP, Citrix partner and CTO of my company, I see / understand it. By partner, I mean knowledge...

…As the Future Repeats Today

December 26, 2016October 14, 2019

Stephane Thirion Crystal ball, CTO, end of year, IT, trend

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2016 is over ! I won’t say this year was very exciting on the IT / Technical side… The was some announcement here and there but nothing very BIG, I mean seeing software vendor companies working together against others, changing licensing model and getting rid of a bunch of people is the usual of what’s...

VMware VMtools installation with XenDesktop / XenApp 7.x VDAs

November 29, 2016October 14, 2019

Stephane Thirion best practices, Citrix, vda, vmtools, vmware, XenApp, XenDesktop

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It’s time to update this “popular” blog post with latest version from VMware and Citrix products. Many people still install VMware tools 10.0.6 as is and don’t try to optimize this middleware / drivers to work with Citrix VDAs 7.x. To do so, run the setup to proceed to a Custom installation And then click...

Migrating FSMO roles Windows 2016 Server

October 20, 2016October 14, 2019

Stephane Thirion Active directory, AD, FSMO, FSMO Roles, Microsoft, Migration, Windows 2012R2, Windows 2016

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At the end of this blog, if you want to go further with 2016 migration (DHCP, ADFS…) go to check Eric (my Norwegian CTP fellow) blog here As Microsoft Windows 2016 became available, it is time to update my lab. Before destroying everything to rebuilt, I like to migrate things and test everything. For this...

FCUGC – French Citrix User Group Community

October 16, 2016October 14, 2019

Stephane Thirion Citrix User Group, CUGC, FCUGC, User Group

This post is in french Le CUGC Français est enfin la ! Après plusieurs années de tentatives diverses et surtout avariées, c’est parti ! Pour vous inscrire sur le site officiel, c’est pas la : https://www.mycugc.org/page/france La première rencontre sera sous la forme d’un after work le 9 Novembre 2016, cela nous permet de rapidement lancer...

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