Solution end-goal
In this blog series, I want to guide you through the process of using Citrix Cloud, Citrix Machine Creation Services and Microsoft Azure. The end goal is to have a Citrix solution running entirely in the cloud. I will show you every little setting and configuration needed to get it running, but I am not going to show you how to optimize and customize the user experience in this series.
Hi all,
So first off, this won’t be a technical article but an article about how I experienced Citrix PTEC and Citrix Summit this week. I am writing this from Cocoa Beach Florida while reflecting on the last week of great sessions and talks with other Citrix consultants.
Hi all,
I just came back to my blog after a really busy second half of 2018 at work and in my private life. I can’t believe that I haven’t posted anything on my own blog since March 🙁 I have held a webinar and posted some on mycugc.org instead, but I really want 2019 to also be the year where this blog will become more active. I will make sure that any blogs I post on other sites will be posted here as well after a few weeks on the primary site of the blog post.
Hi all,
Looking back at 2017 I really appreciate my family and how much support I get from them. My wife and kids are the foundation for me to be able to do the work I do and being able to give something back to the tech community that I have gotten so much from myself, so THANK YOU to them.
2017 was finally the year that I got started blogging, and even though it has been a while since I have posted on this site I have had a blog post on www.mycugc.org in the meantime and I have a few coming up as well. The next post will be on my newly released documentation script for Citrix XenServer if you have seen my twitter post I have started putting up my scripts at https://github.com/mracket
2017 was also the year where I got the honor of becoming a member of the Citrix CTA program. This is something that I am really proud of since the programs like CTA and CTP has always been filled with people that I have gone to for knowledge and help on installation and configuration of Citrix related software.
When I am looking into 2018 I have several goals I hope to achieve. The first is to keep blogging on this site and also do some more posts on mycugc and maybe also FSLogix which I have also been lucky enough to do in 2017. The next goal I have is to do a presentation in English in front of a live audience, I have already gotten a good opportunity from Eric aka. @XenAppBlog for a webinar which will be my first English presentation and hopefully a lot of fun.
Besides the above, I just want to wish you all a happy new year and I hope you all have a fantastic 2018.
/Martin
Hi,
I have just been at Citrix Synergy for my first time and I have to say it was awesome. I started the week early with instructor led labs on Sunday and Monday and then had an almost full schedule for the regular Synergy week. You can see my whole schedule in the bottom of this post.
One of my main goals for the week was to network with others that I have only talked to online and try and meet new people as well. To be honest this is actually a difficult task for me, but I did manage to talk to some great people that shared information and insights and I really appreciate that! During my week, I talked some automation with Dave Brett and he showed me some of the work he has been doing on using Octoblu with Citrix NetScaler and it is really impressive. Thanks Dave for sharing!
I also talked some IoT and PowerShell with Chris Matthieu who is one of the co-founders of Octoblu and besides from knowing a lot Chris also shares a lot and listens to input from the community. I really hope to be able to create some good workflows with Octoblu and sharing them with the community so thank you Chris for being so inspiring and helping me get started with Octoblu. After my instructor led lab with Chris and Peter I posted what we did on the lab and my thoughts about it. You can read that here: http://citrixlab.dk/?p=257
On the knowledge side, there was a lot of good sessions, but to mention two that stood a bit clearer to me than the others were SYN306 with Andy Wood and Jim Moyle and SYN132 with Thomas Berger, Christian Reilly and James Bulpin. The first session with Andy and Jim was both very fun to attend and the scripts and work they presented was great and something that you can take home and apply to just about every customer with PVS installed. The second session was great because of the views that was presented and the way it was presented.
Besides the regular sessions I also had a fireside chat session about IoT and Octoblu. This session was good because of the relaxed attitude, the questions from both James Bulpin and the audience and lastly the awesome demos from Dave Brett and Tobias Kreidl. Dave showed of Octoblu turning on and off vServers and auto-scaling of web servers, and Tobias showed what Octoblu can do for home automation.
The keynote session with General Colin Powell was also one of the best presentation I have ever heard. When he talked he was so inspiring, the way he told stories from his time as secretary of state really inspired me and from what I picked up from the crowd everyone else had the same feeling. The way General Colin Powell talked about leadership and how to be a leader seems like something every leader should hear and think about.
If I get a chance to go to Synergy next year my main goal will be the same and after this year I do think I will be a lot easier to go and talk with just about anyone who wants to talk about Citrix and automation.
If you are not following the people I have mentioned here on twitter you should really do so, here are their twitter profiles:
https://twitter.com/JamesBulpin
https://twitter.com/gilwood_cs
https://twitter.com/chrismatthieu
https://twitter.com/xenappblog
My schedule was:
LAB608: Workspace IoT makerspace
LAB609: Deploying Workspace Environment Management for XenApp and XenDesktop
LAB615: Deploying and automating Citrix solutions with Citrix Cloud and AWS
KEY001: Vision Keynote
KEY002: Technology Keynote
SYN413: Microsoft Containers in a Citrix world
SYN306: Solving PVS challenges with simple shell scripts
SYN103: Citrix App Layering
SYN131: Citrix Workspace IoT
SYN401: Fireside chat with IoT experts about automating Citrix with Octoblu
KEY004: Innovation Super Session – General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.)
SYN132: It’s the end of work as we know it
SYN330: Optimize and scale your XenApp and XenDesktop platform the CTP way
SYN205: Hot Topics Roundtables
SYN106: Fantastic four: the do’s, don’ts and lessons learned of Citrix implementations