On the 15th of March our third DUCUG event was held. As I was both part of the organization team and also presentated a session I was really looking forward to this event. As usual I blogged my experiences of this third DUCUG event.

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On the 8th of February 2013 the second European APPVUG event (2012 edition) was held again at the Microsoft NL Head Quarters in Amsterdam (Schiphol). This time I was only attending and as usual I wrote down my experiences of that day.

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The last day of E2EVC Hamburg 2012 started. Again the rooms are filled pretty full at this early time. Logically I blogged my experiences of this day.

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Second day of E2EVC Hamburg 2012 started with some pretty good weather, so I decided to do an walk through the city and take some photos. As it was a full long day , I stil have lots of experiences blogged on this second day.

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On the 2nd of November 2012 E2EV (aka PubForum) started with the keynote of Alex starting with the history of the PubForum/E2EVC, the agenda en house rules.

The first session is Citrix Synergy 2012 Barcelona Update by Ralph Stocker. They started with the hightlights of XenServer 6.1(live storage vmotion, batch conversion of VMware VMs), followed by XenClient Enterprise (TP 4.5 at this moment).

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On the 21nd of September 2012 we hold our second DUCUG event. We had a good crowd and good sessions. Good to see talking the guys with eachother and discussing. Logically I wrote down my experiences of this day.
 

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Welcome to the completely redesigned VanBragt.Net Virtualization website. After several years it was time for a change. The website has been moved from Mambo to Joomla, a complete new design is set-up, content is re-organized, social media is integrated and a new URL is introduced.

A new URL was necessary, because the website is already covering for years a lot more than SBC (Server Based Computing) only. Together with the URL change, also the name officially changed to VanBragt.Net Virtualization. All current links to the articles will be automatically re-directed to the new URL, so you don’t have to change your Favorites or links to website directly (although I will appreciate if you change the links). Also remember to change your RSS feed to the new URL, the old RSS URL is redirected, but I advise to use the new URL.

With the new URL and changed name I expect to continue the support the community better and offer the content in an even more attractive way.

Love to know how the new look and feel and functionality is working for you and send your comments if something is not in place right now. Although I tried to check every bit, it is still possible that something is not working or not shown in the right way. I know the fonts are not similar on all pages, but unfortunate this is not easy to fix caused by the migration from Mambo to Joomla.

Hope you like the new style and will visit VanBragt.Net Virtualization on a regularly basis.

On the 11th of June the third Citrix Day of the NGN took place. . Unfortunate less people were attending than the previous edition, while the content was really good. Beside presenting two sessions I blogged my experiences of this day.

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At the 5th of June the second CiTie event took place, a technical event organized by Citrix Benelux. Only breakout sessions were scheduled mostly around Cloud and Desktop Virtualization. It was a good event with interesting sessions and good to catch-up with several people again. Logically I I blogged my experiences of this CiTIE 2012 event again.

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My day two of Citrix Synergy US 2012 exprienceces including the general sessionsand several break-out sessions.

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Last day of Citrix Synergy 2012 US experiences.

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Citrix Synergy US 2012 has started officially. I blogged my experiences of the event and the sessions I attended.

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It's getting an tradition to start Citrix Synergy with Geek Speak live on the day before. My experiences of the Geek Speak event.

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Today our first Dutch Citrix User Group event took place. After a short introduction by Edwin Houben ( our leader of the pact ) Andres van Wingerden of Citrix started the first presentation.

The session was about the future of Citrix and Andres kindly asked not to communicate the content of the session.  It's really cool that Citrix shares such information on our first event, but logically I can not blog about this session.

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On the 9th of December 2011 the yearly Dutch VMUG event took place. The Dutch VMUG leader opened the event and he even got a visit of the MonsterVM. The keynote was held Willem van Enter and Jeremy van Doorn. Willem started the session with some good examples of the usage of current techniques en how it influence current life. The new employees are looking for a Facebook alternative for business aspects and use their own devices. Consumers are already living their personal cloud and this is moving to companies.

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More than two years ago I met Edwin Houben to start-up a Dutch Citrix User Group. We had good ideas, but a lack of time and resources we never got the chance to really get it going on.  In October 2011 the Dutch Citrix User Group was restarted with a brainstorm session with logically Edwin and five other great guys (Kees Baggerman, Ingmar Verheij, Remko Weijnen, Jon Jager and Barry Schiffer). We restarted the Dutch Citrix User Group (DUCUG) after several successful launches of Citrix User Groups (CUGS) in nearby countries.

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Today the second Citrix day of the Dutch organization NGN was held. The day started logically with a keynote by Ruben Spruijt and Roy Ramlagan. The session kicked off with the question of to create the best workplace leading to an overview of the current developments. The first topic was the amount of devices available currently especially smart phones and tablets.  Ruben continued with Consumerization of IT and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). 

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Day three of E2E VC started again at 9:00 o'clock with a session of Alex comparing XenApp with RDS functionality. I just entered at the end of the session.

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Day two of E2E VC started for me with a presentation of Aidan Finn about Hyper-V in Windows 8. He started with the increased scalability (cluster/host/VM maximum possibilities), followed by the features (hyper-v replica [disaster discovery], bitlocker and HA, Live Migration separated from Failover Clustering, RemoteFX via WAN, Virtual fibre channel adapter, guest NUMA). Aidan continued in more detail about this feature, starting with Hyper-V replica.

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E2E VC Day one started today on Friday the 18th of November. I flew probably from the smallest airport in Europa (Antwerp)  and landed just in time to pick up the last words of Alex opening.

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Day two of Citrix Synergy started with my co presentation in the session Best Practices for Migrating to the latest version of Citrix XenApp 6.5. For those attended I hope you enjoyed the session and can use the information provided.

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The day started for me with BYO and the virtual workplace (Nirvana or Neverland) session by Rene Vester, Claudio Rodriguez, Jim Moyle, Gabe Knuth, Andrew Wood and Chris Rogers.  The session started with a quick check which of the attendees are using BYO, followed by the experience and opinion of the presenters. This lead to a discussion what BYO brings and cons are. Also why using BYO pops up: is it costs or user satisfaction. Personally I think Andrew really hit the points several times why BOY is not easy, but also Claudio has some really good arguments.

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In the progress to install and configure Terminal Server fully unattended the configuration of session time out values was not delivered standard. With the release of Windows 2003 there were standard RDP policies available, fine for Windows Terminal Servers only but fatal for servers with a Citrix SBC solution (won't mention all the names here anymore) on it. See one of my first articles ever on this topic here. Don't forget this still applies to all current versions of Windows and Citrix. In those days we used a custom ADM template to configure Citrix ICA and MS RDP session time outs; one of the most popular was the True Control Template.

Read more: Configuring XenApp 6 Session TimeOuts GPO

On the 23rd of June 2011 Citrix Benelux organized for the first time (as far as I know) the Citrix Technology Information Exchange (CiTIE), which was a technical event on invitation only basis. I personally like the event a lot, there were good sessions and I really knew a lot of people, so many to talk and discuss during the day. The day exists of 4 slots of three parallel sessions. In this blog you will find my experiences of that day.

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On the 13th of April 2011 the first Citrix Day of the NGN was held. The NGN is a Dutch association mainly for system administrators and IT Professionals. The Citrix Day was visited by about 200 people, so for a first event this was a good result. I was available as an Ask an Expert person. Unfortunate there was not a specific spot arranged, so we were just between the attendees. Probably this caused that I only got a few questions to answer (the asked questions were good by the way). This gave me enough room to visit most of the sessions given my good Dutch presenters. My experiences of this day are written down in this blog.

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