Public Tech Preview: Citrix Provisioning (PVS) on Microsoft Azure

Public Tech Preview: Citrix Provisioning (PVS) on Microsoft Azure Citrix Provisioning (PVS) , one of Citrix’ flagship product, now can run on Azure! Customers can easily setup and configure PVS infrastructure in the same way as on-premise and PVS Servers on Azure can stream VDAs from a single copy of a vDisk to all target VMs. One of the Top Features: These VDAs then can be exported to and power…

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LDAP channel binding changes in 2020

Microsoft announced an update that is going to disable unsigned LDAP by default. What does this mean for administrators? Long story short, but you can no longer use bindings to domain controllers over port 389. After the installation of the update you have to use either LDAPS over port 636 or using StartTLS on port 389. Both scenarios still require to add a certificate on the domain controllers. Microsoft has…

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Citrix Synergy 2019 – my thoughts and my personal review

Right back from Citrix Synergy 2019 in Atlanta I was thinking about a personal conclusion of the great event and the days with a lot of insights into the strategy and Citrix‘ ideas for the future of work. First of all, I try to list the great announcements and product upgrades Citrix gave at the keynote. David Hanshall (CEO) and PJ Hough presented a very good overview and gave a…

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XenApp 7.6 and Citrix HTML 5 Receiver

Hi all, today I found a very strange issue with a brand new Citrix XenApp 7.6 environment and Citrix HTML5 Receiver. The Receiver starts and stopped at Windows welcome screen and closed the tab again. This drove me crazy. And after some research I tried to disable the „Secure ICA“ setting of the Delivery Group. And after this, it worked. Hopefully is this is solved soon, because I know, disabling Secure…

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Microsoft Free E-Books

Anbei ein Link zu einer super E-Book Sammlung von Microsoft: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2014/07/07/largest-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-ever-including-windows-8-1-windows-8-windows-7-office-2013-office-365-office-2010-sharepoint-2013-dynamics-crm-powershell-exchange-server-lync-2013-system-center-azure-cloud-sql.aspx Marco KloseMarco Klose works as a Technical Consultant, Architect and CTO focused on Application & Desktop virtualization as well as application delivery with the Citrix product portfolio. He is specialized in Citrix virtualization, Citrix networking and Microsoft products. He has +10 years experience and holds the latest Citrix certifications and is member of the Citrix Partner Expert Council EMEA…

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Office Aktivierung: MAK auf KMS ändern

MAK Aktivierung ist unter Citrix Provisioning nicht supportet. Daher kommt es immer wieder zur Frage: „Ist es möglich die MAK – Aktivierung auf KMS zu stellen??“ Einfache Antwort: „Ja!“ Die Boardmittel liefert Office auch gleich mit aus. In gewohnter Manier erfolgt diese Migration ausschließlich auf der Commandline. Im ersten Schritt wird der Volume License Key am KMS-Server installiert: C:WindowsSystem32>cscript slmgr.vbs /ipk <<VLKEY>> Anschließend wird der Generic Key am Client bzw.…

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Relaunch

Nach längerer Downtime durch private und berufliche Verpflichtungen, möchte nun meinen Blog wieder aufleben lassen. Hier soll keine „Kopie des Internets“ entstehen! Daher verzichte ich auf das reine Kopieren von bereits durch die Hersteller veröffentlichten Artikel o.ä. Vielmehr möchte ich hier meine Erfahrungen aus der Praxis teilen und damit versuchen den Lesern und Besuchern lästiges Suchen zu ersparen. Dennoch habe ich die älteren Artikel wieder als Basis für den Relaunch…

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