Leee Jeffries

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Active/Failover with NetScaler Access Gateway Edition

NetScaler is a great product, the Virtual Appliances share the same code base as the physical appliances and are still powerful Application Delivery Controllers. But what if you didn’t buy an ADC? What if you bought NetScaler Access Gateway Edition? This flavour of the appliance is primarily for Citrix ICA Proxy and is designed for remote access. Due to the fact that it’s a basic appliance I c...

NetScaler is a great product, the Virtual Appliances share the same code base as the physical appliances and are still powerful Application Delivery Controllers. But what if you didn’t buy an ADC? What if you bought NetScaler Access Gateway Edition? This flavour of the appliance is primarily for...

Office 2010 Activation with Server 2016 KMS

You may have recently or are in a situation where you are building a new KMS Server to service your 2016 Server estate. The issue is that you don’t want multiple KMS Servers and still have some Office 2010 floating around. Office 2010 KMS Service will not install out right on Server 2016 but… it does actually work. Here’s how to get it installed. Download the Office 2010 KMS Host License Pac...

You may have recently or are in a situation where you are building a new KMS Server to service your 2016 Server estate. The issue is that you don’t want multiple KMS Servers and still have some Office 2010 floating around. Office 2010 KMS Service will not install out right on Server 2016 but… it...

Server 2016 Licensing – Know your numbers!

Server 2016 licensing has really mixed things up for clients and unfortunately it can be a bit tricky to understand what the score is with regards to what is needed. I’ve spent some time with a client this week looking at this topic and I wanted to share what was discovered. With 2012 licensing you have DataCenter licensing and Standard licensing, DataCenter licensing allows you to license the...

Server 2016 licensing has really mixed things up for clients and unfortunately it can be a bit tricky to understand what the score is with regards to what is needed. I’ve spent some time with a client this week looking at this topic and I wanted to share what was discovered. With 2012 licensing ...

Profile Management – Whats the big deal?

Profile Management is a big subject; there are so many different solutions out there that cater to “profiles”. Before we get into it, let us discuss what a profile is. You are a user; you use Outlook, OneNote, Chrome and Excel. You select preferences within these products, you select windows preferences to organise your icons, choose which your default printer etc… is and these are your settin...

Profile Management is a big subject; there are so many different solutions out there that cater to “profiles”. Before we get into it, let us discuss what a profile is. You are a user; you use Outlook, OneNote, Chrome and Excel. You select preferences within these products, you select windows pre...

Citrix and HTML5 Video Players – What gives?

So many of us are being asked a simple question by our clients:-Please can we reuse our existing thin clients / PCs with the latest iteration of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. The answer is usually yes, with the latest tranche of changes in Web Technology and everything shifting away from Flash to HTML5 for video I have come across a few scenarios recently where this causes issues and I wanted ...

So many of us are being asked a simple question by our clients:-Please can we reuse our existing thin clients / PCs with the latest iteration of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. The answer is usually yes, with the latest tranche of changes in Web Technology and everything shifting away from Flash t...