My workspace journey
Living in a very cold climate used to limit my ability to grow fresh fruits and vegetables. But about a year ago, I decided to try my hand at indoor hydroponic gardening. I’ve had quite a few successes and many, many failures. But I’m getting to the point where I’m harvesting a good number of… Continue reading Draining Users from VDI Machine
Some of the best things in life comes in pairs: Peanut butter and jellyPeanut butter and chocolatePeanut butter and applesPeanut butter and bananasPeanut butter and potato chips (If you’ve never had a peanut butter and banana sandwich or a peanut butter and potato chip sandwich, you are missing out. Spectacular) And this is the thinking… Continue reading Tech Zone Live
In my house, YouTube rules the network. Not Netflix. Not Amazon Prime. YouTube There are just so many cute cat videos. ? YouTube is the biggest network consumer on my home network. Streaming media consumes 40% of my data usage and YouTube is 60% of that! My users: 3 kids. I’m concerned with bandwidth usage… Continue reading YouTube in VDI
A secret handshake or an inside joke. Fun ways for us to share information to each other, secretly. Without the historical association, others will fail to get access or understand the full meaning. Welcome to SAML SAML is a way to securely share authentication and authorization information between two parties. Most often, SAML is used… Continue reading A Intro to SAML
After I posted the blog on Direct Workload Connection, I started to think… Didn’t we already have something like this with site aggregation? I even remember when I first talked about site aggregation in 2018 that I drew up this particular diagram When we do site aggregation, we can have a user connect to on-premises… Continue reading Site Aggregation Connectivity vs Direct Workload Connection
I don’t know of anyone who likes road construction, especially road construction that sends you on a multi-mile detour you around the construction. Detours are not as efficient as the direct route. They take more time for you to get to your destination. We will usually get the best experience if we can take the… Continue reading Direct Workload Connection
Many moons ago when I first got my driver’s license, I remember driving down the road in the small town I grew up in. All of the sudden, the engine dies. Luckily, I was able to coast into a parking lot. I parked the car and popped the hood. I’m not sure what I expected… Continue reading Considerations for Cloud Desktops – Skillset
I typically spend most of my day working within my VDI environment. All of my apps and content are within the virtual desktop. However, from time-to-time, I have to do work on my end point device (typically it is because I’m capturing configuration images from within my home lab). Somehow I need to get the… Continue reading Drag and Drop
There are many technologies out there to continue letting let people work while stuck at home. A big part of the solution you use all comes down to what your typical day looked like. And by typical, I’m talking about life before lockdown. Where you an office-based user? What types of apps did you access?… Continue reading VPN Alternative for Web Apps
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2003 is the first release after the much anticipated 1912 LTSR. Between the major LTSR releases, there are numerous smaller releases that can directly impact bandwidth consumption. The previous set of tests compared the 1912 LTSR release with the 7.15 LTSR release, showing a huge reduction in bandwidth usage. The… Continue reading Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Bandwidth – 2003 vs 1912 release
