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Looking back at 2020 and Work From Home

The end of 2020 is nearing so it’s the time to look back at this year, I can say it was a hectic year for me as a Consultant. From PoC to production We just started a Proof of Concept (PoC) with a new customer in February to show that

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From PoC to production during Covid-19

In the beginning of this year I was asked to look at a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (VAD) environment which wasn’t performing great. Customer’s users were constantly complaining about performance and stability. The environment was set up in a mix of outdated software versions, which weren’t always compatible with

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Creating a Memory dump Citrix MCS/PVS and Hypervisor

When you need to debug some issues with your current deployment, you’re probably asked to create a memory dump. When you’re deployment is a traditional VM than that’s no issue, if you are using PVS than the memory dump is probably disabled because the PVS optimization disabled it or you

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Remote DPI scaling for Windows

With the release of Windows 2016 Microsoft changed the way users could change their DPI size in a Remote Desktop Session, it inherited the setting from the end point. This would be the Laptop/Desktop or Thin Client the users are using to connect to the Remote desktop. When users needed

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Upgrading Wyse from 8.6 to 9.0

Today I was asked to upgrade the customers Thin Clients, all Wyse TC’s, to the latest version (version 9.0). They would like to use the latest Citrix Workspace App and the possibility to use the Microsoft Teams optimization for Citrix. They already tried upgrading from version 8.6 to 9.0 but

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Upgrading Nvidia firmware

During the last couple off days I needed to update the firmware from the Nvidia Tesla T4 card in our servers. When following the installation steps provided by HPE I ran into some issues, so I decided to create a step by step guide on how to update the firmware.

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Reset Windows Rearm count

When working with Machine Creation Services we discovered that the Clients all have the same CMID. A different CMID is needed to activate using KMS services. We searched for a solution and everyone mentioned rearming the machine, but then we received the message that we can’t rearm. We then searched for a solution

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NetScaler: Using groups membership to Authenticate

When using the NetScaler Gateway 10.x and you need to allow remote users access based on their group membership, you can use the Active Directory groups. To configure this create an Active Directory group and set the following settings on the LDAP server within the NetScaler go to: NetScaler Gateway > Policies> Authentication/Authorization> Authentication> LDAP

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New Policy Settings in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8

With Windows server 2012 and Windows 8 Microsoft added some new features, they also created the proper Group Policy configuration options for this. With Windows server 2012 and Windows 8 they added 160 new items which are only compatible with Windows server 2012, Windows 8 or Windows RT. They added

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