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How to Check the MS Teams Optimization State The situation   Many of us now use MS Teams on Citrix desktops (also because of Covid-19). For MS Teams to run satisfactorily, the “Citrix Teams optimization” should always be active. This isn’t always the case, often the client is not ready for the optimization or requirements are missing, especially ...

Nvidia vGPU Passthrough from ESXi to a Citrix CVAD ECU Environment Hello, I wanted to share my experience setting Nvidia vGPU passthrough from ESXi to a Citrix CVAD ECU environment. I will say this was my first experience with this, and we had help from Patrick Coble, Rody Kossen, and my work colleague and Citrix Engineer Mike Niegos. We worked ...

Citrix Cloud Integration with Azure AD MFA for Administrators In today's blog, we are going to discuss enabling Azure MFA for administrators who will login to Citrix Cloud for administration. Azure Integration for Citrix Cloud will provide a secure way to access your Citrix Cloud environment for administrative purposes by leveraging the existing ...

In this short blog, I am going to show you how to upgrade ControlUp from 8.1 to 8.2 and show some basic screenshots of ControlUp SOLVE. I am excited because ControlUp 8.2 is changing the game and introducing some great features. I am not a ControlUp employee, and this is my experience and opinion only. ControlUp has saved me many times in my areas ...

This year, International Women's Day is on March 8 th and I have personally been using this day for the last couple of years to reflect on our CUGC Women in Technology mentorship program and its accomplishments.   About the program The program was started in 2016 by three female Citrix Technology Professionals (CTPs): myself, Jo Harder, and ...

In my first blog post here,   Part 1 ,   I showed you how to set up Windows Deduplication on Server 2016. This second post will show you my production results and what I gained in space-saving. I estimated 18.5% in savings in the first post. However, I got 23% back. That is good, in my opinion. I enabled Windows Deduplication on my production File ...

Windows 2016 Deduplication on FSLogix Containers and ODFC  During the time of running my Shrink Scripts (yes, I have a couple I go back and forth with) for FSLogix, I noticed that my 4TB drive is used more and more. There wasn’t really anything I could do at this point other than adding disk space (call me old, but I try to optimize as much space ...

About three years ago, I posted a blog about how to perform an unattended installation and configuration of Citrix StoreFront with Ivanti Automation. It did the installation, the creation of a new store and it added a second StoreFront server to the server group. Since most organizations are stepping away from (still awesome) tools like Ivanti Automation ...

Technology never stops changing, but you likely already knew that. Gartner recently released a new report talking about the future of network security, introducing: Secure Access Service Edge, SASE, (pronounced: sassy). Although it may sound complicated, it is simpler than it seems. You may actually be familiar with its components already. SASE ...

Infrastructure as Code is the new way of deploying a fully working Citrix environment, if you have tried configuring a new Delivery Group on Citrix Cloud Studio using only PowerShell, then you most likely have run into the following error message: "The users configuration has been manually modified and cannot be changed by studio" Depending on whether ...

A Warm CUGC Welcome to the new CTP and CTA Classes of 2021!  Congratulations and welcome to the newest members of the  Citrix Technology Professional (CTP)  and  Citrix Technology Advocate (CTA)  classes of 2021! And, of course, we are so happy to see all of the returning members in each program! Each year, Citrix awards Citrix technologists hailing ...

A Tribute to Citrite Chris Gissing The Citrix UK team are saddened to announce to the Citrix and CUGC communities that Chris Gissing passed away suddenly last week. A near 20-year Citrite, Chris was all about 4 things: family, people, community, and technology. If you have worked with Citrix products, Chris' work and passion probably ...

2020 CUGC XL Recap – What A Year! When we kicked off last year with our CUGC XL: Texas event at Space Center Houston, none of us had a clue it would be our only in-person XL of 2020.  The global pandemic may have slowed down our momentum, but our local group leaders stepped up to the challenge and we were able to quickly pivot and shift our ...

Thank you for staying connected with CUGC throughout 2020! Despite 2021 getting off to a bit of a rocky start, we at CUGC are starting the new year off with gratitude – for you. The pandemic forced us to stop meeting in person and move our local group and XL events online, taking away a mainstay of our community. But you showed up and turned a challenge ...

I recently converted from VMware to AHV, and I wanted to show how I did Nutanix Files 3.7 with FSLogix. While I haven’t moved everything over yet, I have tested this very hard, and it’s solid as iron. I still use VMware for my datacenter servers, but we wanted our Citrix Environment on all Nutanix because it’s a solid product, and it’s simplified so ...

I recently ran into having to create a chunk of MCS dedicated machines for this COVID-19 situation the world is in. MCS Dedicated machines are very different from MCS Pool machines. One of the HUGE differences is updating the machine’s images and updating the targets. As you are aware, MCS Pooled is very similar to PVS and it’s a nice update feature ...

We recently purchased a 28-Node Nutanix setup. We currently have a good chunk of Citrix VAD in VMware. During the design, I was a bit confused about what plugin went where. After looking back, it’s now very straightforward. With that in mind, I wanted to take the opportunity and put this little quick guide together so that people who go through this ...

This quick write-up isn’t anything advanced. Most of you out there know this, but some may still question it. We know there is a lot of documentation around PVS and Martin Zugec is updating a lot of this within Citrix Tech Zone . This is more of a confirmation that running a defrag on the VHDX on a merged vDisk is still needed on today’s PVS server ...

In this article, I would like to show you how easy it is to deploy applications from the Citrix Cloud using Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service based on Windows Virtual Desktop. While I will only cover basic deployment in my article, I think it gives a very good impression that Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service even simplifies Windows Virtual ...

Compliance, The Ultimate Convenience… Achieving a positive user experience and a successful information security program can be a good team building process. Create that positive user experience by keeping it simple with the three T’s of Technology: Teamwork, Training and Testing.   Teamwork - Developing a good relationship between your end ...