One of my blogpost on SSO for O365 with ADFS which I have published in Sept. 6th 2017, is one of the most read post on ADFS and has received the views of 47216 till date, one of my close friend who is following my blog from 2017, and who is also the owner of
Hi friends, I hope you are all doing well, IDAM or Identity and Access Management sometimes become very critical and it can make or break an entire VDI design. In today’s post I am going to show you one complex IDAM integration for the Citrix Cloud Workspace. This integration involves working on with the three
Hello all, hope you are doing well, recently I got a request from one of my regular blog readers to write a detailed step-by-step creation of AVD with Azure AD joined session hosts. Also, he would like to see how we can configure FSLogix with cached mode enabled, which can help any organization that is
Enterprises which were using the Citrix ADC (Application Delivery Controller) many times need to depend on multiple 3rd party tools to get the insight of their ADC Gateway for troubleshooting user issues in the VDI environment, which is a great challenge for Citrix Admins since ADC is generally managed by the network team in any
In my last post here I have discussed about how to create the On-Premises Network Connection for the Windows 365 Enterprise based Cloud PC deployment, in today’s post I am going to write details about all the other remaining steps for the cloud PC deployment. Step 2: Create the Provisioning Policy for the cloud PC
There are lot of blogs published about windows 365 since its release in August 2nd, 2021, however in this series of blog I would like to focus on the enterprise deployment of the Windows 365 from scratch. Windows 365 is a cloud-based service that automatically creates a new type of Windows virtual machine (Cloud PCs)
Hello everyone, This is a blog post on Citrix PVS and it’s divided into three parts. 1st part of this blog series can be found here. 2nd part of this blog series can be found here. 3rd part of this blog series can be found here. Citrix PVS on Azure TP (Technical Preview) Program has been extended till 31st
MS has given the Diwali Gift to the Azure Virtual Desktop admins by the introduction of GUI based auto scale scheduler for AVD. There are definetely smiles on the faces of the thousands of AVD admins, who have struggled a lot to manage the present Auto Scale Script. There was a session on #MSignite 2021
I hope all you are doing well, if you are from the VDI world and deploying many images across regions in Azure, you might have already using the Azure Shared Image Galleries a lot. I think you might have also noticed that there is a change in the name of the Shared Image Gallery, although
The time is running out, if you have not registered yet, please do register ASAP. Citrix Converge is starting on 26th of Oct. 2021, it’s is the premiere global developer conference for Citrix partners and customers, accessible virtually and at no cost. Experts drawn from Citrix and its wider community of admins, architects and developers
I am glad to announce my blog whyazure.in is listed among Top 50 Microsoft Azure Blogs, Websites & Influencers in 2021. Currently it’s in no. 26th position in feed spot. https://blog.feedspot.com/microsoft_azure_blogs/ Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts and youtube channels in several niche categories.
As you are aware that Microsoft has recently rebranded its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service as “Azure Virtual Desktop.” At the same time, the company has announced the new price for its external user access. Let’s quickly understand how the new licensing will be. Azure Virtual Desktop pricing includes two parts. 1. User access rights:
It’s great pleasure to announce that today, I have passed the AZ-140 exam (Configuring and Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop) specialty certification, this is a brand new exam to judge your Azure Virtual Desktop skills and this exam has been released in India yesterday, it was in beta stage in many countries outside India, regardless
In any VDI technology, App delivery is an important part of the VDI Lifecycle process. Typically, in any enterprise when you will plan for the App Delivery, you can’t stick to a single method. It is unlikely that a single application delivery method will meet all the requirements of the various applications that must be
Today I have completed 1 Year in HCL, when last year same time, I was about to join HCL, it was an unusual situation, India was in complete lockdown stage due to Covid19, and my joining location was Noida and I was residing in Bangalore that time, I had to relocate to Noida after a
Hello All, as you know post-VDI deployment, during the resource optimization stage we need to make few critical changes in the Azure Environment based on the current resource utilization report. One of the important parameters of disk Utilization is the Disk IOPS. If the IOPS requirement is much less than the provisioned disk, it’s always
In any VDI environment, monitoring the performance of the overall environment is crucial to making sure all components are available and performing effectively to ensure users have a high-quality experience. There are number of tools available in the market that will provide Monitoring capabilities. Different components within the overall solution require monitoring of unique metrics
What is RBAC? When it comes to identity and access, most organizations that are considering using the public cloud are concerned about two things: Ensuring that when people leave the organization, they lose access to resources in the cloud. Striking the right balance between autonomy and central governance – for example, giving project teams the
Microsoft on 4th May has announced a forthcoming update to the Azure VMware Solution, which aims to make it easier and cheaper to migrate on-premises VMware workloads to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. The next-gen Azure VMware Solution is now in preview in the U.S. East and West Europe Azure regions, and general availability is targeted
Hello, readers hope you are all safe in this Covid-19 pandemic situation. For the last couple of months, I have got many requests to write about work from home solutions, and most of them are related to Citrix VDI deployment steps in Azure, so I have decided to start a 15 series blog to show
I know many of you are worried about the present Covid-19 situation and afraid of losing your jobs. Many of my friends have asked this questions to me during the entire lockdown period in India. I feel if you are a cloud engineer or admins and if you are afraid of job loss due to
Interesting to note that the Worlds number 1 Video Sharing App TikTok has surpassed 2 billion downloads across android and ios devices. Last December they have reported 1.5 billion downloads. And now, they have added another 50 million users in the last three months. In the last month, TikTok has reported 13 million downloads. As
As you know most of the enterprises have already deployed the ExpressRoute circuits in different regions in Azure across the Globe. But due to Covid-19 when there is a surge in WFH scenarios there are few use cases like Citrix VDI infrastructure in Azure IaaS, in this case, due to huge load users started complaining
If you believe Azure CLI is based on bash which should automatically installed in Ubuntu then you are wrong. The Azure command-line interface (Azure CLI) is a set of commands used to create and manage Azure resources. The Azure CLI is available across Azure services and is designed to get you working quickly with Azure,
In my last post here I have shown you how you can create a PowerShell docker image in your Ubuntu Server in Azure. Today I will show you how you can directly pull the docker image from docker hub. Picture Credit: Pexels.com In first Step you need to pull the docker image. docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/powershell:latest
Hello everyone, in the last six months I have seen lots of talks regarding administrating the Azure from Ubuntu and many were asking about the steps to create a docker image with PowerShell Core installed and Az module pre-installed in it. So I have created this post for them to go through the below steps.
In large enterprises, we have seen that the limit of 5 TiB Azure File Storage is not sufficient, and we sometimes need a huge file share due to backup or another requirement. However, as you all may know that by default, Azure standard file shares can span only up to 5 TiB, although the share
