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My truth on EUC, with a touch of #DevOps

This post was originally posted on my blog at  https://www.cloudsparkle.be/2020-10-19-EUC-DevOps/ on October 19, 2020. See what I did there? Some sneaky clickbait. But just keep reading; I promise the rest…
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Bart Jacobs’s Toolbox Inventory

Back in March 2020, just before things got really weird, I finally started my own blog: https://www.cloudsparkle.be/. My very first post was also published on this very site here: https://www.carlwebster.com/bart-jacobss-toolbox-copyadgroupmembers/). For…
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The Citrix Cloud Connector and the Network

This article was posted originally at https//mycugc.com/... Let's talk Citrix Cloud. More specifically, the Citrix Cloud Connector and its relationship with your network. So, what is the Cloud Connector? Docs.citrix.com…
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Does the Cloud fail?

The short answer: yes. The consultant answer: it depends. One could also ask the question "Should the Cloud fail?" My answer is: yes, failures are bound to happen in the…
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To Cloud or not To Cloud?

It was truly amazing to see all the feedback and discussion after my latest blog post. So first of all, I would like to thank you for that. In case…
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Deploying Printer Drivers for Citrix XenApp

Printers and printer drivers aren’t an exiting technology as the latest HDX Features in XenApp 7.12 and so on. But every Citrix admin out there has ran into issues with printers and printer drivers at one point or another. And we’ve all been felt the same need at least once: how do I get those print drivers out there without breaking everything?

Sure, XenApp 6.5 has had a driver replication feature for a long time, but that isn’t without flaws… So I wanted something different, something where I was in control.

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XenServer Ghost Devices Woes

As you may recall from my previous article, XenServer and HP Firmware Woes,  I was involved in a rather large XenServer upgrade project. Anyone that has done some XenServer updates/upgrades surely has…
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XenServer and HP Firmware Woes

It's a virtual world nowadays. But sometimes, even in a virtual world, physical problems can be a real pain. Recently I was involved in upgrading/migrating an outdated XenServer 6.0 setup,…
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Active Setup and Non-Responding Internet Explorer

A few days ago, Carl wrote a very interesting article on "strange" IE behavior here: https://www.carlwebster.com/internet-explorer-10-and-11-open-to-blank-white-screen-or-become-unresponsive/ This made me remember an issue I had dealt with earlier, very similar to the…
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Another HRP, another picadm.sys bug?

Picadm.sys you say? A few years back I already wrote about picadm.sys issues: https://www.carlwebster.com/the-curious-case-of-the-slow-file-transfer/ Citrix has been updating picadm.sys numerous times since then, and also did in the latest release: HRP06.…
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Curious Case FP2

At Synergy 2013, Citrix announced XenApp 6.5 FP2, among other things. I have been looking at this announcement with a kind of special interest, my first curious case, which you…