Azure Active Directory Domain Services provides a simple solution to Active Directory when deploying workloads in Azure using the Citrix Cloud XenApp and XenDesktop Service or the newly-released XenApp Essentials and XenDesktop Essentials services. Azure AD Domain Services provides AD domain controllers as a service, eliminating the complexity of setting up AD, the ongoing […]
Web browsing impact on VDI and SBC
The following are some interesting facts which have come out of LoginVSI recent research: The web browser has become the heaviest application on VDI and RDS Web advertising can account for over 25% of all CPU processing on a VDI or RDS host You can increase scalability up to 33% […]
Citrix XenApp XenDesktop VDA optimization tools
Citrix Optimizer The Citrix Optimizer is a Windows tool to help Citrix administrators optimize various components in their environment, most notably operating system with Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA). The tool is PowerShell based, but also includes a graphical UI. Citrix Optimizer can run in three different modes: Analyze – analyze […]
SQL Database Managed Instance
We’re excited to announce the preview of an additional purchasing model to the Azure SQL Database Elastic Pool and Single Database deployment options. Recently announced with SQL Database Managed Instance, the vCore-based model reflects our commitment to customer choice by providing flexibility, control, and transparency. As with Managed Instance, the vCore-based model […]
Citrix on Azure: Deployment Deep Dive
Citrix on Azure: Deployment Deep Dive April 19, 2018 11:00 AM PT/2:00 PM ET If you are considering deploying your Citrix workloads on Azure to gain cloud agility, reach and scale, our upcoming webinar is great preparation. Two experts from Citrix and Microsoft will drill down into the technical aspects […]
Cloudyn Azure Cost Management
Azure Cost Management licensed by Cloudyn, a Microsoft subsidiary, allows you to track cloud usage and expenditures for your Azure resources and other cloud providers including AWS and Google. Easy-to-understand dashboard reports help with cost allocation and showbacks/chargebacks as well. Cost Management helps optimize your cloud spending by identifying underutilized […]
Citrix XenApp XenDesktop IMA FMA comparison
Citrix has released an informative blog post in which they outline the differences between the Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop IMA and FMA architectures and also map all features of the old IMA architecture to the equivalent featuers of the new FMA architecture. XenApp 6.5 has reached end of maintenance and […]
Beyond bullet points in Microsoft Powerpoint
An old time classic book now reaches its fourth edition available at: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/microsoft_press/2018/03/28/new-book-beyond-bullet-points-using-powerpoint-to-tell-a-compelling-story-that-gets-results-4th-edition/ More details and free presentation tools can be found at the official book website at: https://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/ Contents at a glance 1 A Theater of Persuasion 2 Busting the Top 3 Myths About PowerPoint 3 The 5 Principles and 10 […]
Synchronization in an Azure AD Domain Services managed domain
The following diagram illustrates how synchronization works in Azure AD Domain Services managed domains. Synchronization from your on-premises directory to your Azure AD tenant Azure AD Connect sync is used to synchronize user accounts, group memberships, and credential hashes to your Azure AD tenant. Attributes of user accounts such as […]
Azure Boot Camp 2018 in Athens by AzureHeads.gr
On April 21, 2018, all communities will come together once again in the sixth great Global Azure Bootcamp event! Each user group will organize their own one day deep dive class on Azure the way they see fit and how it works for their members. The result is that thousands of […]
Three Reasons Gartner Thinks VDI and DaaS User Experience Matters
Gartner Analysts Nathan Hill and Michael Silver recently published a research note titled “Define and Prioritize the User Experience to Succeed with VDI and DaaS.” The article is aimed at someone preparing to adopt or refresh a remote desktop solution, and calls out some critical learnings that I’ve also noticed […]
How can I find discontinued/deprecated features?
Πρόσφατα έλαβα μια ερώτηση για το πως μπορούμε να βρούμε τα discontinued/deprecated features στο τρέχων SQL Server instance μας το οποίο θέλουμε να κάνουμε migrate σε επόμενη έκδοση. Αρχικά θα πρέπει να επισημάνω ότι ο SQL Server είναι ίσως το μοναδικό προϊόν που έχει η Microsoft που με συνέπεια χρόνια […]
Manage and Monitor SQL Server instances – Identify sessions that consume tempdb resources
Η tempdb είναι μια database την οποία μοιράζονται ΟΛΟΙ όσοι χρησιμοποιούν το instance στο οποίο αυτή υπάρχει. Στην tempdb αποθηκεύονται πολλά όπως user objects, internal objects, και version stores. Τα user objects περιλαμβάνουν global temporary tables & indexes, local temporary tables & indexes, system tables & indexes, table-valued functions output […]
Citrix HDX Adaptive Transport and EDT
The members of the Citrix HDX team, have been wanting to write a blog post about HDX Adaptive Transport and Enlightened Data Transport (EDT) ; ICA (HDX) is the Citrix main protocol and these are some of its biggest improvements ever. We will clear up misconceptions around EDT and explain what are […]
How to query the Microsoft Knowledge Base with keywords and query words
To quickly find an article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, you can search by using keywords and query words. This article lists keywords and query words that you can use in your searches. You can also find keywords and query words by looking in the “Keywords” and “Additional query words” […]
