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Password-less phone-sign with Microsoft Authenticator is very different from traditional Azure MFA I’ve written many guides on over the years.  Traditional Azure MFA (in all it’s many deployment models) required a user to know their password and once they entered it, they would get a push notification, time-based one-time password (TOTP), phone call, SMS, etc. […]

Throughout the past year, I’ve been involved with many successful projects involving services in Citrix Cloud, primarily Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service.  The advantages of having an always up to date control plane offers too many advantages for most companies to pass up.  One of the common questions that comes up is whether to […]

Citrix Synergy 2018 had a number of announcements across the product line and it was very exciting to be there and hear about all of them in person. Many attendees are asked to recap what they learned once they get back to the office and it’s almost a blur, tons of content you don’t know […]

For the longest time when I was still a Citrix Admin I did not fully understand what Citrix Cloud was. Years ago when I first heard this term I thought to myself, “Yup, as if we need another Azure or AWS to enter the playing field”. This is one of the biggest misconceptions I still […]

Congratulations to all 2017 CUGCY awardees! I’m happy to see two of the groups I help with received awards again this year! Great teamwork from all the group leaders to achieve these awards! CUGC Houston – 2017 Local Group Award CUGC Houston, congrats on the 2017 CUGCY Local Group Award! The leaders as well as […]

I’ll be first to admit it’s hard to maintain Windows Server patches, even with a full time patch management team. It seems like there’s always a new exploit which in turn means a new critical security patch around the corner these days. I help advise companies on how to make their environments better but it’s […]

I was recently working on a setup where I had 2 Azure resource groups and could not get the virtual networks (VNets) to peer between them. I had Azure AD Domain Services in one resource group and a bunch of session host servers in another resource group. The portal kept throwing this error message when […]

The ShareFile Sync for Windows client allows you to change your Sync Location on your local system in Sync Preferences. In my case I had a very large hard drive installed on my workstation as the E: drive so I chose to put my ShareFile root folder there like this: The problem was I had […]

If people don’t like to do something, they simply won’t do it and find another way. Technology has given us the choice to help find these other ways easily. The culture of the world is again changing, much like the industrial revolution brought change to how people lived 250 years ago. Doesn’t mean we’re becoming […]

The Citrix User Group Community (CUGC) had it’s first ever User Share XL webinar event centered around the topic of Security on October 5th. I was asked to present on a topic and chose a relatively new security feature on the NetScaler called Native OTP. Essentially it’s built-in multifactor authentication (MFA) for your NetScaler. I […]