GPOIT Book – Group Policy Objects for IT Administrators

Now that Christmas is approaching and the end of the year for companies, What better than to invest a little in training! I leave you with one of these books that is worth checking out, to fully exploit the GPOs of our beloved Active Directory… Xavier Genestós brings us this dark world closer to this dark world in a simple way with magnificent explanations and practical examples.

XenDesktop – UPM slow loading of profiles

Hello I'm Oscar Mas on occasions, we may find that when implementing the UPM system in a XenDesktop environment, over time and based on various characteristics, We can observe that the loading of the profile becomes excessively slow and this causes despair to the end users. We will always recommend you to enable the redirection of certain folders through Citrix policies in addition to certain paths that we put in this post!

Raspberry Pi – Uses of Bluetooth

Very good, In this article I wanted to document some utility that I got from one of the Raspberry that is around the house, I have a mini USB bluetooth device that I connected to the Pi, I'll give you a couple of scripts in case you may be interested: One will first detect us if we are ready to execute an action; and the second will connect a wireless speaker!

XenDesktop – SQL Mirroring with Witness

I'm Oscar Mas and I want to show you how to implement a Mirror system with Witness based on Microsoft SQL Server, which is a perfect and recommended example to have our XenDesktop database in high availability. In this way we will be able to have a mirror with Microsoft SQL failover.

NirCmd – Old tool for automating tasks

Today I put you a utility that this week has saved me from a rather curious task, it turns out that in a client I had to correct something in X users, We don't know how to automate the task since it's not modifying a registry key, cannot be done by command, Not even GPO, etc… and requires user intervention. So curiously I found a tool that among many functionalities it has, One of them is to send key combinations to the screen, so we can open an app & send him the keyboard shortcuts we need to check an option.

Citrix StoreFront 3

Finally back to the routine, A long and more than enjoyable vacation is over, So we resume everything pending! We are back with excellent news. Citrix recently released the 3.0 StoreFront with great and new features! Among them a new user interface that is assimilated to the app stores, unifying the user experience across all Receiver clients and being able to customize these interfaces more easily!

Session Recording in Citrix XenApp 7.6 Feature Pack 1

One of the main novelties brought by the Feature Pack 1 Citrix XenApp or XenDesktop 7.6 was the retrieval of user session recordings in Citrix, being able to record on video any interaction of users with corporate apps; formerly known as SmartAuditor and now as Session Recording. While it is true, for now it is only supported on server OS., so on desktops we will still have to wait!

Migrating from vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance

With this great tool from VMware Labs, we will be able to migrate our vCenter server installed on Windows to the VMware vCenter Appliance linux appliance, will migrate the SQL Server database to vPostgres and all major services, interesting, isn't it? We will finally be able to easily migrate vCenter from Windos to Linux, with the savings that come with it on licenses!

Migrating from vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance

With this great tool from VMware Labs, we will be able to migrate our vCenter server installed on Windows to the VMware vCenter Appliance linux appliance, will migrate the SQL Server database to vPostgres and all major services, interesting, isn't it? We will finally be able to easily migrate vCenter from Windos to Linux, with the savings that come with it on licenses!