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Azure and Citrix MCS Snapshot Script

Various conversations on twitter have triggered this blogpost. For those of you working in Azure and using MCS to provision servers, this will come in handy. So; MCS in azure will give you an option to rollback to your previous image and you can also use snapshots with managed disks; its not always the solution though. Earlier version of CVAD didnā€™t support managed disks, so in this scenario...

Various conversations on twitter have triggered this blogpost. For those of you working in Azure and using MCS to provision servers, this will come in handy. So; MCS in azure will give you an option to rollback to your previous image and you can also use snapshots with managed disks; its not al...

FSLogix O365 Container Sizing ā€“ The Final Word

Recently Iā€™ve been working with FSLogix on producing some storage sizing metrics for Office 365 VHD containers. Iā€™m happy to announce that this testing is now complete, and we have produced some conclusions for scalability and sizing. A white paper is available here: FSLogix Office 365 Contrainer Scalability and Sizing.pdf For those interested in the summary results, keep reading. Testin...

Recently Iā€™ve been working with FSLogix on producing some storage sizing metrics for Office 365 VHD containers. Iā€™m happy to announce that this testing is now complete, and we have produced some conclusions for scalability and sizing. A white paper is available here: FSLogix Office 365 Contr...

Protocol Wars ā€“ RDP vs ICA

With the rise of Windows Virtual Desktop I wanted to do a bit of preliminary testing on the obvious thing thatā€™s going to matter, is RDP good enough? We all know WVD will be based on a number of different Microsoft Windows Desktop/Server OSes but what we donā€™t know, is if there will be additional RDP goodies in Windows 10 Multi-User. Iā€™ve heard rumours that there may be some enhancements bund...

With the rise of Windows Virtual Desktop I wanted to do a bit of preliminary testing on the obvious thing thatā€™s going to matter, is RDP good enough? We all know WVD will be based on a number of different Microsoft Windows Desktop/Server OSes but what we donā€™t know, is if there will be addition...

Creating a custom Parallels RAS connection in LoginVSI

I was doing some load testing and needed to also connect to a Parallels RAS hosted desktop. This can be ahieved by installing the RAS client on your LoginVSI Launcher and editing the connection string as follows in the Management console: C:\Program Files\Parallels\Client\TSClient.exe s!='{Server}' t!='443' m!='2' r! u!='{Username}@{Domain}' q!='{Password...

I was doing some load testing and needed to also connect to a Parallels RAS hosted desktop. This can be ahieved by installing the RAS client on your LoginVSI Launcher and editing the connection string as follows in the Management console: C:\Program Files\Parallels\Client\TSClient.exe s!='...