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I had to write this blog post after a rather long haul in attempting to resolve an issue with a Sophos XG Firewall and its Web Filtering Policies. The Web Filtering Policies on XG Firewalls are assigned to users based on them being logged into a windows machine via a certain IP. This is fine …
A while ago LoginVSI announced that LoginAT was going to be released in an Express Edition. This meant that anyone could use LoginAT to verify applications in Virtual Environments for FREE! So, what is LoginAT? LoginAT is a Virtual Appliance that you can run on most HyperVisors which collates screengrabs of applications that …
Various conversations on twitter have triggered this blogpost. For those of you working in Azure and using MCS to provision servers, this will come in handy. So; MCS in azure will give you an option to rollback to your previous image and you can also use snapshots with managed disks; its not always the solution …
There was a bit of a stir on Twitter last week about how Citrix don’t provide a method for consultants or technical enthusiasts to learn about Citrix Cloud post the 30 day trial. Martin Therkelsen had the idea of a few of us grouping together to get a shared tenancy similar to the Citrix CTP’s, …
Recently I’ve been working with FSLogix on producing some storage sizing metrics for Office 365 VHD containers. I’m happy to announce that this testing is now complete, and we have produced some conclusions for scalability and sizing. A white paper is available here: FSLogix Office 365 Contrainer Scalability and Sizing.pdf For those interested in the …
With the rise of Windows Virtual Desktop I wanted to do a bit of preliminary testing on the obvious thing that’s going to matter, is RDP good enough? We all know WVD will be based on a number of different Microsoft Windows Desktop/Server OSes but what we don’t know, is if there will be additional …
I was doing some load testing and needed to also connect to a Parallels RAS hosted desktop. This can be ahieved by installing the RAS client on your LoginVSI Launcher and editing the connection string as follows in the Management console: 1C:\Program Files\Parallels\Client\TSClient.exe s!='{Server}’ t!=’443′ m!=’2′ r! u!='{Username}@{Domain}’ q!='{Password}’ a!=’#1′ The full syntax for the …
I recently completed some work to spin up an entire Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop testing environment in Azure with LoginVSI and FSLogix all installed automatically. I decided to write this blog post as I stumbled across a thread on twitter about people having some issues deploying the VDA with SCCM due to the multiple …