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Microsoft, Citrix, 2019, 1808.2 etc…

October 16, 2018November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion

Citrix CTP meetings are done and Microsoft Ignite came right after. While Citrix is at (re) organising products, teams and marketing, Microsoft delivers OSes at a pace that force the industry to adapt. The whole Microsoft echo-system is in the urge to adapt and many fails to follow the speedy Microsoft delivery. Windows Server 2019...

My lab died… Now what ?

February 28, 2017November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Azure, Cloud, home lab, HomeLab, hosting, ovh

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When I woke up this morning, I guessed something was wrong as I didn’t had wifi with my phone… My homelab died with at least a disk faillure, maybe memory module damage.. Anyway, my XenServer @ Home is dead for good. Remember this ? Project XenServer @ Home back in 2008 then 2011 I’ve made almost all...

CloudBurtsting XenApp / XenDesktop in Azure 2/2

February 1, 2017November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Azure, Cloud, XenApp, XenDesktop

In the first part of this blog [CloudBursting XenApp / XenDesktop in Azure 1/2] I showed you how to use Citrix Studio console to add a hosting connection to Azure from your local Delivery Controller, to create a Machine Catalog and provision Virtual Machines directly in Azure. In another blog [Cloudify my Lab with Microsoft...

Cloudify my Lab with Microsoft Azure (reload)

January 17, 2017November 5, 2019

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

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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, 2017November 5, 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...

Citrix Summit 2017 – Thoughts

January 10, 2017November 5, 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...

Microsoft Office (Exchange) 365 – RDSH Myth

June 27, 2016November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Azure, Citrix, Exchange, Exchange365, Horizon, Microsoft, Office365, OST, RDSH, Storage, vmware, XenApp

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For many years now, the everything in cloud is happening more and more, among all the services / software available as a services, most of the vendor are promising a cheaper way to manage their software and a much more simple way to manage it.. I know some of you will disagree with what I writing...

Are we missing something ?

April 18, 2014November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Crystal ball, Data, Desktop, Dropbox, MAM, MDM, RDSH, Sharfile, VDI, Windows

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As you might know I’m the CTO of a super cool company here in France (Activlan) base around Paris and one side of my job is to watch in my crystal ball to know what our customers will need and how they could use us to remain on top of their productivity with their IT. Reducing...

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