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Creating a custom ESXi ISO image for your home lab NUC (NUC7i7BNH) environment
Working on my home lab I ran into an issue with the Intel NUCs I used. The standard ISO of ESXi 6.5 does not recognize the NICs in the NUCs. This is not surprising but still irritating. This short blog...
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The story of my home lab from a spare room to a war room
As most understood correctly I started to work for Citrix in April, some thought it as a fools joke but it’s not. Working for Citrix in product management is understanding material, how things work. At...
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Liquidware ProfileUnity v6.7.6 – Profile storage as a service on Object based...
Customers are moving to the cloud, with servers, services and slowly with desktops. Recent studies show that customers moving their desktops to the cloud is not going fast but it will get there. The...
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Any device, anywhere, any time… Chromebook vs Raspberry Pi
Started working for Citrix a month ago and the mantra of Citrix is that you can work from anywhere on any device at any time. I’ve been in IT since ’93 and worked with Citrix products since ’96. As...
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What about the robots?
Last week I watched a youtube video about Google I/O 2018 conference. It was a video about how Google assistant made appointments for a client. The video showed a very advanced Google assistant...
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Avanite – A journey beneath the waves of the web
From the 8th until the 10th of June E2EVC aka Pubforum landed in Amsterdam. 150+ geeks off all kinds gathered. Some amazing products were presented during E2EVC, one of them I will discuss in this...
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(Re-)gain control of your web-data with Avanite and cleanup user profiles –...
In my last blog, I wrote about cookie handling by news sites as presented at E2EVC. Avanite was presenting their solution there and I thought it would be a good idea to give it a test ride. Avanite...
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Deploying your Citrix workload on-premises; From XenApp 6.5 to today
On the internet, in several mailing and blog, I see messages that migrating from Citrix XenApp 6.5 to Citrix XenApp 7.18. XenApp 6.5 is nearing its end of life date soon and customers will need to...
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Beware of the catch-22 when setting up Google security
This morning I went to a party my daughter had organised the day before. Lot’s of youngsters, teenagers and students, around with their mobiles. Party went on all night long and when I arrived to were...
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Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop, An Azure only Windows offering
Last week at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced Windows Virtual Desktop or WVD shortened. Microsoft was working on a multi-user version of Windows 10 for some time. Among community members, the...
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Microsoft acquires FSLogix to enhance Office365ProPlus
Microsoft announced Windows Virtual Desktop at Microsoft Ignite. A few weeks out and the world has changed already. Microsoft acquired FSLogix to fill a couple of gaps. As you might remember FSLogix...
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The year(s) of VDI, DaaS, IoT, AI, ML, Women in IT or…..
We’re nearing the end of 2018 and it’s time to look back, what was the buzzword this year? Next, to looking back I want to take a look at 2019, what will be the buzzword in 2019? Some topics are...
View ArticleLegacy apps, traditional apps – The box of Pandora is open
Buzzwords, society is filled with them. Buzzwords can cause confusion as not everyone agrees or understands them. I too use buzzwords. Often because they are handy with a 280 character limit on...
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Monitoring Citrix – a vendor overview
Monitoring availability, performance and uptime. Topics that are utmost important in 2019 for any organisation. Citrix is one of most used solutions providing end users access to applications,...
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DIY: Light board
Presenting is one of the tasks working for Citrix. I enjoy presenting but I enjoy the interaction with the public even more. When writing on a whiteboard one is faced away from the audience which is...
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What if… What if I want to shadow you, watch you computer screen without you...
There is a functionality that comes with Microsoft Terminal Server Connection Client, the one we all know as MSTSC, that will surprise some of you. MSTSC has functionality, it has been there for a...
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DIY: Light board, Part2 – Setup
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog on a light board I built, read about how to build one right here: https://robbeekmans.net/euc/diy-light-board/. Is this new blog I will talk you through the setup of the...
View ArticleDIY: Light board, part 3 – proof of the pudding
The proof of the pudding is in the tasting the saying goes. So after writing two blogs about a light board, – read part 1 here: https://robbeekmans.net/euc/diy-light-board/ and part2 here:...
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Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop, a comprehensive overview
Last year at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced Windows Virtual Desktop also named WVD. Windows Virtual Desktop is an Azure-only service. Back in the early days, I wrote a blog on it –...
View ArticleApples, butterflies and the usual mayhem when rules stand in the way of...
In the news we have seen various reports about the Apple macbook keyboard issues. Apple’s new keyboard design, introduced in the 2017 models, called a butterfly design fails with some users. Apple has...
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