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Microsoft FSLogix Profile Containers and Folder Redirection: Should I? It Depends.

By Brandon Mitchell
Microsoft FSLogix Profile Containers and Folder Redirection: Should I? It depends.   Before FSLogix Profile Containers use of any other roaming profile solution, it has also been recommended to use them in combination with Folder Redirection to help reduce the profile load time. With Profile Containers, ...

Bay Area CUGC Event Recap–Q2 2019

By Donald Wong
​For the second year in row, a Bay Area CUGC meetup was held on my birthday. Now, I believe it's intentional and the organizers wanted to celebrate such a glorious day by inviting everyone to my party. Ok, all kidding aside, the pure coincidence of the event date sure made it challenging. However, I ...

August 2019 - Brandon Mitchell

By CUGC HQ
Member of the Month  BRANDON MITCHELL Maineville, OH, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? I work for a large, traditional grocer in the United States and use Citrix Virtual Apps and ...

Introducing PowerScale! A Community Driven SmartScale Replacement by Leee Jeffries

By Jake Walsh
Introducing PowerScale! A Community Driven SmartScale Replacement by Leee Jeffries Hello All! :) Yesterday, a CUGC Webinar took place covering a new community project called PowerScale ! (Click here for the recording and slide deck.) PowerScale is a community-driven replacement for Citrix ...

Citrix Cloud, Citrix Workspace Experience and Federated Authentication Service with Azure AD

By Wendy Gay
Citrix Cloud, Citrix Workspace Experience and Federated Authentication Service with Azure AD This is a feature that I have been waiting to test and play with for a while now, and it has arrived in private tech preview. It allows users of the Citrix Workspace Experience, using Federated Authentication ...

Northeast CUGC XL: Second Edition

By Nicolas Ignoto
Recap of the second Citrix User Group Community (CUGC) XL event in New York City. Hosted at the Microsoft Technology Center on June 25, 2019. Check out the recap video here!   Northeast CUGC XL: Second Edition The second annual Northeast CUGC XL was held at the end of June ...

Raleigh-Durham Citrix User Group Event Recap - July 18, 2019

By Alain Assaf
Raleigh-Durham Citrix User Group Event Recap - July 18, 2019 On July 18th, 2019, the Raleigh-Durham CUGC meeting took place at the Citrix Offices in downtown Raleigh. The Citrix building is located in the warehouse district and is a former steel warehouse. Original pulleys and I-Beams are still ...

Leveraging your Citrix Current Release Investment–Director Style

By James Kindon
For customers on the Current Release path for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, one of the best features available to you is the ever-growing list of cool stuff that Director Introduces. A few features that I find have not gained enough love, given how important and awesome they are, are listed ...

#CUGC500: Everything Smells Like Smoke And I'm Happy As Can Be!

By DJ Eshelman
#CUGC500: Everything Smells Like Smoke and I’m Happy As Can Be Memories from the 500th CUGC meeting in Nashville, June 20th 2019 I have never had a CUGC meeting where I had to quite literally shower to get the smell of smoke off of me. My Citrix bag from Synergy, my laptop, clothes… they ...

July 2019 – Heather Meyer

By CUGC HQ
Member of the Month  HEATHER MEYER Denver, CO, USA      What Citrix technologies are most important to your work? I work primarily with on-prem Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops. I’m a consultant, and my clients ...

Citrix Synergy 2019 Recap

By Carl Behrent
Well, another Citrix Synergy is done for the year and as always, they are a really good event full of great content and great networking. The keynote packed in a lot of announcements: New Intelligent Workspace update that includes machine learning, automation and micro-app capability Micro-app ...

Swimming to Success with Citrix Cloud

By Gareth Carson
Swimming to Success with Citrix Cloud   Introduction As a child and young man, I was involved in swimming. Many an hour was spent within the swim lane, every week, early morning and evening. This culminated in some races/galas that I took part in and sometimes I was able to bring home a medal, ...

What a Fantastic Synergy 2019 (and Match.Geek)!

By Rasmus Raun-Nielsen
Besides a lot of great information on the vision, strategy and technical improvements from Citrix, this Synergy brought some more personal experiences for yours truly. Not only did I get to meet a lot of the CUGC community members, but I also got the chance to meet the people behind CUGC and thank them ...

Citrix Synergy 2019 Revisited - Extended Edition

By Chris Jeucken
Citrix Synergy 2019 May 19 th through May 23 rd Recap Most people reading this probably will not need an introduction to Citrix Synergy. When it comes to one of our favorite vendors, this is their biggest event of the year. With lots of interesting sessions, labs, sponsors and the ability to ...

June 2019 - Katie Eubanks & Jennifer Gibbons

By CUGC HQ
Members of the Month In honor of our upcoming 500th meeting in Nashville on June 20th , we shine the Member of the Month spotlight on two CUGC HQ members who work so hard behind the scenes to make all of our local meetings and XL events happen: Katie Eubanks ...

My Citrix Synergy as a Citrix Technology Professional and Sponsor

By Samuel LEGRAND
My Citrix Synergy as a Citrix Technology Professional and Sponsor I’m sure you are aware that Citrix Synergy was held a few weeks ago in Atlanta, Georgia. This event is important for everyone in the Citrix ecosystem, and I’ve been going for a few years now. And for the third time, I came as a “VIP”! ...

Synergy 2019: An Amazing Gathering of Community

By Benjamin Crill
Synergy 2019: An Amazing Gathering of Community It's been nearly two weeks since Citrix Synergy has ended. By now most will have started reviewing the videos posted of the keynotes and breakouts (they are all on the Citrix YouTube channel if you are wondering). Keep watching and reviewing and learning, ...

Synergy 2019 Recap

By Richard Faulkner
Synergy 2019 Recap Another Citrix Synergy has come and gone. It is always a great time to see and hear what is new in technology and where we are headed for the future. It started with the keynote speeches from David Henshall, PJ Hough, and Calvin Hsu. They talked about employee disengagement ...

SwissCUGC Meetup @ Synergy

By Sacha Thomet
Citrix User Group Community was kicked off officially at Citrix Synergy in 2015 in Orlando, and this was also the first Citrix Synergy I attended. For me personally, it was a blast! This conference changed so much in my life for my Citrix Community contributions. There are two reasons for this. First, ...

Synergy 2019 Day One

By Richard Faulkner
Synergy 2019 – Day One So, the first day is in the books, and despite the venue and catering (don’t get me started) it has been excellent. The keynote kicked off with some great announcements. Satya Nadeja made a guest appearance. Citrix showed off their Workspace app, and once again showed ...