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If your environment is a Microsoft Active Directory-based environment and leverages Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD or AAD for short) to extend your deployment as your primary cloud-based identity provider (IdP), then you must plan to deploy the 3 modern password-less access management solutions that work with Azure AD in order to take full […]

renaissancea period of high artistic or cultural development At the cusp of a new decade, we are now firmly in the renaissance of passwordless authentication.  Passwordless authentication has been around for many years but is only now in a form where enterprises can easily consume and deploy it for their users in modern computing settings […]

The future state of password-less authentication for Microsoft Windows enterprise environments will be a combination of 3 options: Windows Hello for Business Microsoft Authenticator FIDO2 hardware security keys Of these, FIDO2 is the non-proprietary method and can be used with other IdPs (identity providers), non-Microsoft environments, as well as many consumer web services which means […]

The community-driven paperback book initiated by my friends Bas van Kaam and Christiaan Brinkhoff is available for sale on Amazon. If you haven’t picked up your copy yet, grab it now! Link to buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1797692100 Reasons to buy this book: $11.18 on the Amazon US site, with similar pricing on Amazon Germany, France, […]

It’s finally here! Full Windows SSO (single sign-on) with Windows virtual apps and virtual desktops through Citrix Workspace when using modern web authentication like Azure AD and modern access management like password-less phone sign-in with Microsoft Authenticator over the HDX remoting protocol! I know that’s a mouthful so an easier way to say it, ultra-secure […]

The Citrix Cloud-based Gateway Service is something I’ve been utilizing at large enterprises for HDX proxy traffic with great success. I wrote about it here in detail earlier this year: A closer look at Citrix Workspace and Gateway Service in Citrix Cloud for companies moving off of on-premises StoreFront and NetScaler Gatewayhttps://www.jasonsamuel.com/2019/02/11/a-closer-look-at-citrix-workspace-and-gateway-service-in-citrix-cloud-for-companies-moving-off-of-on-premises-storefront-and-netscaler-gateway/ The Gateway Service […]

Thanks to everyone that attended the session Paul Stansel and I did at Citrix Synergy in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center last week. In this session, we covered real-world experiences of several Fortune 500 customers from the field during the past year of deploying Citrix Cloud in Microsoft Azure. What should your considerations […]

“Security is an essential ingredient to a secure digital workspace. Prevention systems alone are insufficient to counter focused human adversaries who know how to get around most security and monitoring tools. Join our panel of security experts to get your Citrix-related security questions answered, no matter how big or small.” I was asked to be […]

Are you just starting out with VDI or a seasoned VDI engineer that’s been running an environment for years? I’ve found over the year that Windows-based VDI and DaaS (Desktop-as-a-Service) can be very complex and has many dependency layers you need to target in order to run a successful environment that your users will love. […]

I wrote about setting up password-less phone sign-in authentication with Microsoft Authenticator and Azure AD recently which is a great option in Public Preview right now that everyone should be testing. Many of the companies I work with use Azure AD Connect to federate Azure AD with AD FS for Office 365 and other SaaS […]