Azure Lab Services (formerly DevTest Labs) is designed to allow for the rapid creation of Virtual Machines for testing environments. A variety of purposes and use cases can be serviced using DevTest Labs, for example, Development Teams, Classrooms, and various Testing environments. The basic idea is that the owner of the […]
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It’s probably no secret that half of the IT blogs out there are running on WordPress or a similar Platform. WordPress is easy to use, simple, and requires little maintenance to run – what’s not to love?! As with any Website – it doesn’t matter how good the back-end code […]
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Azure Firewall was released for preview this week, so I thought I would give it a quick try and look at some of the features available. The firewall provides the following features at the current time: Built-in high availability – built into the Azure Platform, so no requirement to create […]
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When using any environment that provides virtual desktops at scale, it makes sense to have only the required number of resources running at the right time – rather than all of the resources all of the time. The usual approach to this is to use power management – so unused […]
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Azure Traffic Manager is designed to provide traffic routing to various locations based on a ruleset that you specify. It can be used for priority (failover), weighted distribution, performance, and geographic traffic distribution. The failover option is similar to GSLB – and works in a similar way, so I am […]
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Sometimes there is a requirement to Load Balance StoreFront using a method other than NetScaler. Although rare (in my experience!) this does occasionally happen when NetScaler is perhaps not being used for Remote Access – in an internal only environment for example. In this post I will explain how to […]
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In this post I’ll be going through how I have configured GSLB for NetScaler Gateway in Azure, and the various elements required for this type of configuration. Firstly – I began by setting up the background infrastructure to demonstrate this test. Namely, 2x Active Directory DCs within two Azure Locations […]
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NetScaler, as I am sure you are aware, is a superbly powerful Application Delivery Controller. One of the most useful features is the use of Responder Policies/Actions, and Backup vServers to indicate that a service is down or to provide access to an alternative service for end users. Let’s say […]
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Improving the Resiliency of Your XenDesktop Environment – StoreFront Multi Site and NetScaler GSLB for StoreFront Thursday, February 22, 2018 – 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST (6:00 PM to 7:00 PM GMT) This Webinar focuses on improving XenDesktop environment resiliency using StoreFront Multi Site and NetScaler GSLB. This will cover the setup […]
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Recently I have been testing out something new – Project Honolulu from Microsoft. I first heard about this on Twitter (thanks to Eric @XenAppBlog), and was interested in what it could offer straight away. Project Honolulu is a new way to manage Windows Server – using a web based method, that […]
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Recently I’ve been doing a lot of work on large deployments that require active/active or active/passive setups, whereby options to fail over to a DR site are either required as part of the design, or presented as future enhancement to the customer. Most of these have been fairly open questions […]
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I’ve been blogging a lot this year on the merits of Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM) and the various features it provides. Another feature is I/O Priority – which enables us to manage the priority of I/O operations for a specified process: To demonstrate this, I am going to run […]
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