In today’s organizations there is a high level of expectation from our users that they will always have access to our email even from year’s past. From the business there is a high level of expectation that we will retain email for the predetermined amount of time required from a legal and compliance perspective. History […]
Microsoft Ignite News
Microsoft Ignite is here and there is much to talk about. During the first day keynote Microsoft brought news of a strategy that focuses on Digital Transformation for business. They showcased examples that covered how companies like BMW is managing vehicles remotely using Azure and Azure IOT. Also highlighting Facebook that recently rolled out Office 365 […]
Live and Uncut: Current Status at VMWorld – Diversity in IT
Diversity in IT can be a challenging topic to discuss while it’s relevance is so important. In the past 5 years there is more and more awareness around how IT can improve its awareness in within this arena. The industry as a whole is predominantly male, and there are only approximately 23% women that have careers in […]
The Importance of Identity Management within an Office 365 Implementation
Microsoft cloud offerings transition your organization into a modern enterprise providing access to your corporate information without having onsite infrastructure. If you are planning to implement Office 365, then there are considerations for designing proper organizational identity management. The decisions made should ensure a secure user login experience, and seamless access to corporate resources within […]
Keep Your Web Apps Running Lean & Mean
Web apps - from websites to SharePoint® - are getting more complex, which means troubleshooting can get complicated when there’s a slowdown. But, keeping things in high gear is easier than you think. Join Phoummala Schmitt, Theresa Miller and Steven Hunt in this webinar to learn how to deliver high performance of web applications powered […]
Microsoft and Citrix: A New Cloud-based Application Virtualization Service
Azure Remote App is the current Microsoft solution for cloud-based application virtualization. The offering is very similar from a conceptual perspective to Citrix XenApp and offers the ability to run your corporate applications on Windows Server in the cloud. Similar to Citrix XenApp that companies have been deploying locally within their enterprises for years; this […]
The Evolution of Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, and Storage
The last two decades have seen major innovations in the storage space. Theresa Miller looks at the evolution of storage and the impact the changes have had on business over the past 20 years in this executive summary. Read for more insight on the following key takeaways: Storage options have become longer-lasting with faster performance […]
Setting Up a Test Lab Environment for Citrix XenApp 7.6
Recently I completed a Pluralsight course that revolves around setting up a Test Lab for your Citrix XenApp 7.6 environment with installation demos and conceptual deep dives. While this course focuses on your Citrix Test Environment the concepts transfer to knowledge that you can apply to your production environment too! During this course we cover the […]
Rockin’ a Rock Solid VDI Infrastructure
At Briforum Boston 2016 Jarian Gibson and myself presented about the Secret Sauce about Outlook Performance in a VDI Deployment”. This topic is multifaceted spanning everything from your Exchange and Outlook configuration to your VDI deployment configuration. So in the spirit of VDI this post will cover some of the vital aspects of your VDI […]
Monitoring Desktops? The Case for Monitoring Desktops in the SMB market.
The Small and Medium Business (SMB) market has been such a big part of my life for the past 12 years that sometimes I forget the stark contrast between it and the enterprise world. I asked a question of some of my peers online last week in relation to desktop monitoring. Their responses were the […]