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I wrote previously about Citrix MCS and Shared Image Galleries, with a focus being on the enablement of Ephemeral Disks in Microsoft Azure. Ephemeral disks are a massive addition to the MCS toolkit, potentially having some major impacts on Azure consumption and performance. What is an Ephemeral Disk For the most part, most machines in... Continue Reading →
Citrix MCS is growing constantly in the Azure space, one of the new features made available quietly of late, is the ability to consume the Azure Shared Image Gallery for storing images. The Azure Shared Image Gallery, or SIG for short offers several advantages associated with versioning and image replication, allowing you to version control... Continue Reading →
There is a lot of constant improvement being executed by the MCS team at Citrix, the release cadence is impressive and the feature enhancements significant. I spend a lot of time in Microsoft Azure with Citrix Cloud with a lot of happy customers. I thought it would be worth to keep a rolling tally of... Continue Reading →
I recently worked with a customer who tested deployment of Microsoft Teams on Citrix without any form of optimization. The optimization packs were hindering user acceptance and not providing adequate stability. This post is not about the why of Teams optimization or not, but rather than tactics used to tackle a side requirement – per... Continue Reading →
ADC HA Availability Set Template This post will focus on deploying Citrix Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) in Microsoft Azure using the pre-defined Availability Set deployment using a 3 Network Interface (NIC), 3 IP model. To address a load of frowning ADC people before they get grumpy, I do not for a second claim to be... Continue Reading →
This is the second part of an ongoing series around enhancing Citrix MCS within Azure. The first post focused on optimizing identity disk costs via PowerShell and Azure Automation. This is post will tackle one of the biggest impacting performance optimizations you can make to machines within Azure: Accelerated Networking. Accelerated Networking is defined by... Continue Reading →
Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) is commonly utilised to deploy non-persistent workloads into Microsoft Azure, providing image management and provisioning at scale. MCS in Azure uses on-demand provisioning which means for pooled or newly provisioned workloads (in the case of dedicated) that when the machine is not powered on, it simply does not exist. The... Continue Reading →
Citrix Cloud and Azure Active Directory is a logical combination for many customers. The integration makes sense to provide a high level of security and access controls via the Microsoft Azure AD Conditional Access engine. There have been instances, where integration with Azure Active Directory has not always consistently behaved as one might expect, in... Continue Reading →
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is Microsoft’s multi-faceted solution for performing services such as Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity Planning (BCP) execution and migration services (these days primarily wrapped into the Azure Migrate service). When deploying dedicated/persistent machines on the Microsoft Azure platform, it is often desirable to protect these workloads via ASR, providing cross-region failover... Continue Reading →
A significant number of changes on support stances are being introduced with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2003 Current Release. These changes will directly impact the supportability of many environments and need to be considered when scoping or performing any form of upgrade/implementation works. The most impactful change is the new stances on public cloud... Continue Reading →
