Stefanos Evangelou 
There are a lot of blog directory websites which can be used to promote your blog on the Internet. Some of the most notable ones are the following. There are various Search Engine Optimization (SEO) metrics and techniques for a website and I will dedicate a separate blog post on how to optimize your website ... Read more
Windows Controlled Folder Access policy overview The Windows Controlled Folder Access policy can be set in an RDS-based or other enterprise environment via GPO. The policy requires at least Windows Server 2019 or Windows 10 1709 version. The policy enables various filesystem level security countermeasure against common malware attacks. The policy can be found in ... Read more
Introduction Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (VAD) Local Host Cache (LHC) is a high availability mechanism which, when enabled, allows end user connections to be established even when the Citrix VAD database instance is not online/available. Citrix LHC mechanism is replacing the older DB Connection Leasing mechanism. Connection Leasing will eventually be deprecated in subsequent ... Read more
Cloud infrastructure architecture and application/software architecture diagram software is very important when designing and communicating the architecture of a new or existing infrastructure, whether that be cloud, on-prem or hybrid. Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio is one of the leading software packages for data center diagram design. A Visio stencil is a collection of masters associated ... Read more
This article provides Dell server and storage capacity planning resources. When designing server and storage solutions from Dell, the following Web resources are highly useful:
This post is also available in audible format on my podcast. The post discusses the most common and widely used data exchange formats. There are various scenarios in which both software and systems engineers need a way to exchange data between users, systems, scripts and applications using mutually understandable protocols and formats. The most widely ... Read more
A Citrix health checklist can assist when reviewing an environment for configurations that might cause future problems, not necessarily existing problems. Health Checks tend to focus on non-functional qualities like the following: Carl Stalhood has put together a very useful health checklist article for Citrix environments. The health check list covers the following Citrix components ... Read more
Introduction to troubleshooting DNS and network issues This article discusses troubleshooting DNS and network issues. The article describes how to use the dig and nslookup tools to test DNS settings and troubleshoot name resolution issues. Microsoft Windows uses nslookup, while Mac OS X and Linux use dig. You can use these tools to determine the IP address associated with ... Read more
