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Microsoft and Citrix have both made significant investment in the "Modern Workplace" or "Workspace" over the last 18 months, and the landscape for operating in this new fashion has been consistently maturing for a while now. I look at how I operate since starting my current role over a year ago, I am a full... Continue Reading →
I wanted to take the time to clarify a few bits that have bitten some customers around the Azure MFA, Azure MFA for Office 365 and Conditional Access side of things and how they fit together Azure MFA for Office 365 Azure MFA for Office 365 is not the same as "full" Azure MFA or... Continue Reading →
One of the many benefits of WEM, and arguably the most important one, is the crazily reduced logon times you can gain by transferring actions and environmental setup tasks that would traditionally be handled by Group Policy Preferences or logon scripts. I wont go into detail about this here, as by now we mostly know... Continue Reading →
On a recent engagement deploying NetScaler 12.0 Load balancing for Exchange 2016, we stumbled across an issue whereby when proxying Exchange 2010 mailbox connections via the NetScaler load balanced Exchange 2016 Servers using RPC/HTTP, the connections would hang for an extended duration (timeout settings on the VIP) before falling back to RPC. When bypassing the... Continue Reading →
A more common theme and demand arising within the WEM space now that its gained such a large amount of traction, is the ability to handle multi-site or multi-region Folder Redirection (USV) and Profile locations within native WEM configuration. At first glance this can appear to be more complex than it actually is, so I... Continue Reading →
As a first timer to Citrix Synergy this year, I was blown away at the pure scale of the event that Citrix put on. I expected the event to be awesome, but had no idea how amazing not just the conference is, but how priceless the chance to meet with the community, and the inner... Continue Reading →
One of the cool new features of WEM 4.6 is the ability to directly call Storefront resources as WEM applications and push into relevant Start Menu's or desktops the same as you would any other WEM driven application. We have been able to achieve the same result previously by utilising the receiver selfservice.exe with a... Continue Reading →
A short while back I wrote a rant about my dislike of the tile management in Windows 10, and my view on trying not to manage these tiles with tools such as Workspace Environment Management. I have had some fun across a few projects since I wrote that post, and my view on managing them... Continue Reading →
Azure MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) is fast becoming a topic being discussed with pretty much all my customers, even those that have an existing MFA solution in place, but are realising they may already be entitled to the offering from Microsoft as part of their +Security bundles within the Office 365 space. The addition of the... Continue Reading →
