Chances are, as a Citrix Administrator you have seen random unexplained connectivity issues. Most of which never seem to be resolved by updating (removing or reinstalling) the Citrix\XenApp client. Here is one quick registry tweak to try before you decide to rebuild the host pc or VM. Note, these anomalies tend to be only associated with Windows XP hosts. Continue reading “terminal services licensing issues” »
A plea to the US Department of State on their decision to move email services to the cloud.
I firmly believe a large majority of the technical community is absolutely astonished by this news. We all know continuing to host the existing Exchange infrastructure “in house” would offer significant cost savings, especially when you layer in a cost conscious virtualization initiative (Citrix, VMware, etc.) and retrofit existing software and hardware.
The US Governments Interior Department is posed to pay out $34.9 million dollars to Google to host email services for 90,000+ employees. This is of course all after turning down a $50.3 million dollar contract with Microsoft for Office 365. It’s seems like interior department was bound and determined to take more of a cloud based approach to email rather than continue hosting the infrastructure internally. As a pragmatist, it would be awesome to see how the two competing contracts played out in an effort to better understand why sourcing email to the cloud was considered over using the traditional “in house” method.
Was it the cost of licensing? Continue reading “Department of Interior concerns” »
