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From the 4th till the 6th of November 2022 E2EVC Athens (called Acropolis) took place. With nice weather conditions (except Sunday), a nice venue and (logically) a good atmosphere E2E VC was a great success again. My experiences of this event are written down in this blog.
In May a blog article was posted on the Citrix website announcing a new feature VDA upgrade. With this functionality Citrix is offering a possibility to upgrade the Citrix Virtual Desktop Agent (VDA) on persistent VDIs from the Citrix consoles. This functionality is only available in the DaaS service (formerly known as CVAD Service/ Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service). In this article I will take a look at this functionality.
On the 28th of September we organized our second event of the year. The event was held again at our 'home' location De Duikenburg in Echteld. In this blog the experiences of this special day as we also celebrated our 10 year anniversary.
After the sessions on the first day we had a dinner together at the event location and after that I ended up with a large group of Dutchies and Erik 😉 to drink a couple of beers together. It was a nice evening/night, but it became not too late to be fresh and fruity available at the start of day 2. Pretty much people made it to the first sessions of the day actually, I won’t make any remarks on the state of everyone. Nevertheless read my experiences of day 2 of E2EVC Berlin 2022 further in this blog.
From Friday the 10th of June till Sunday the 12th of June E2EVC Berlin was taken place. My first in-person event abroad after the COVID period. It was good to see that lots of people were there again. My experiences of day one is in this blog, the second day will follow shortly.
As all COVID restrictions are lifted in the Netherlands we as the DuCUG Steering Committee could finally organize a full DuCUG event again after an edition in October 2021 with limited attendees. Below you can read my experiences of DuCUG 2201-1 event (aka DUCUG#20).
While the transition to the Cloud is really starting also the move to the Citrix Cloud for the CVAD Control Plane components is becoming reality. Some organizations will make move the VDIs/Multi-session hosts to a Cloud platform as well, but there will be also a group that will keep the VDIs/Multi-session hosts still within their own on-prem datacenters. When using persistent VDIs (without Citrix provisioning techniques) one of the logical requirements would be that the user will be able to connect to his own VDI after the move to CVAD service. In this article I will discuss the possibilities to arrange this movement with preserving the current assignments.
Read more: Migrating (persistent) VDIs from on-prem to Citrix Cloud
Almost two years ago we held our last in-person DuCUG event and around 1 ½ year ago we needed to postpone (and later actually cancel) our already fully planned first event in 2020, logically all based on the COVID 19 pandemonic.
However we were back on the 29th of September. Still with a limited amount of people but nevertheless good to see the Dutch community crowd again. This time Barry opened the event. Logically this time besides thanking the sponsors we also needed to mention the COVID period and the journey we went through organizing events in such a specific period.
I think most of the Citrix admins have already seen this behavior but did not bother much as it was just an IT admin that has the issue or a few sporadic users. However in some cases it can hit a lot of users and you need to do something about it. At a customer we run into this issue during the migration to Citrix Cloud, so I quickly created a script to fix this for their scenario. In this small article I will explain why the behavior is there and of course the script to fix it quickly.
Read more: Different Desktop Name is shown to the user within the Citrix Portal
VDI Drones is a performance/stress test system, which differs with other products in this area that the load is generated by preconfigured tests without actual user interaction. Therefore no scripting is required. Logically this is paid product, however the Drone component is allowed to be used for free. In this Glance at Free article I will take a look how this free component can be used.
When you are a returning visitor on my website you probably already know that I have done several product selections for VDI monitoring. Out of those selections I have knowledge and experiences with a large list of monitoring solutions around the VDI landscape…….for Windows operating systems. When a customer asked me to execute a product selection for Linux VDIs with the focus on End User Experience monitoring I could not use lot of my experiences. In this article I will write down my experiences during the product selection.
It does not look that long however the first version of the Linux VDA is already released almost six years ago. Citrix did work hard on the Linux VDA and added lots of functionality and enhancements in those six years. What I hear out of the field Linux VDAs are still a niche market, but the demand is growing especially in engineering companies. When you are a Windows guy (just like me) and start working with delivering Linux VDAs you will see there is still a (big) gap that (can) bring some challenges. In this article I will give my opinion where I see challenges with a Citrix Linux VDA.
For one of my customers we were optimizing actions, configurations and connections between the datacenters. One of the goals was to connect the VDIs in the datacenter to supporting components in the same datacenter while using one central image (PVS vDisk in this case). Not a big thing in my mind, but shortly somebody asked something similar. So probably there is a demand for it. In this short quick article I will share what I have set-up.
Read more: Quick Post: Determine VDI datacenter location and perform actions based on location
With the COVID-19 crisis the use of video meeting “products” became even more important than it already was in 2020. Logically the higher demand also caused that such functionality also needed to be started within a Citrix session. Beside the big ones like Zoom and Teams, there are also lot of other platforms. Although the use of webcam in Citrix is not rocket science, I noticed several questions/issues at customers. In this article I will dive into the requirements and configuration required to use a webcam within a Citrix session.
Our second 2019 event (DuCUG 2019-02, now also known as event #17) held at the Sta@rt near the Apenheul. Traditionally Niek Boevink opened the event with a nice, interesting and funny presentation. Of course again a big thanks to the platinum sponsors.
