E2EVC 2022 Athens
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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.
Automatic Citrix VDA Upgrade
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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.
DuCUG 2022-2
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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.
E2E VC Berlin 2022 Day 2
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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 ߘ頴o 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.
E2E VC Berlin 2022 Day 1
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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.
DuCUG 2022-1
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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).
Migrating (persistent) VDIs from on-prem to Citrix Cloud
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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.
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