UK Citrix User Group Spring 2020 Meeting

Posted by on March 3, 2020 No comments

Our Spring meeting is now Virtual!

Covid-19

Due to the increasing restrictions on travel and group gathers to prevent and delay the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we’re switching our Leeds meeting to a one-day virtual event. Registration is now here.

Register here

New Date!

Due to a clash with the LoginVSI VDI Performance Summit on the 2nd, We’re moving our virtual meeting to Friday 3rd April!

Agenda

10:00 Welcome & News  – UKCUG

10:15 MSIX App Attach -. All you need to know – Jim Moyle (CTP session)

11.30 Get Your End-Users Back to Work ControlUp Lindell Harry (Sponsor)

11.45 Learn to Love Regular Expressions – Guy Leech (CTP session)New link for the UKCUG Virtual XL meeting https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pzXAC3wBQ5a8Qnqzm1VV9g11.45 Learn to Love Regular Expressions – Guy Leech (CTP session)

12.15 Windows Virtual Desktop – Insights From the Performance Experts: Login VSI Lorna Crawford (Sponsor)

12:30 Comfort break

12.45  Leveraging Citrix to deploy VDI Desktops into the cloud – Neil McLoughlin  (CTA session)

13.30 There and Back Again: moving end users between on-premises and the cloud: Liquidware George Swain (Sponsor)

13:45 Lunch break

14:15 VHD Container Storage, What to use, when and why – Leee Jeffries (CTP Session)

15:00 How to use Apps2Digital to Create the most Stable, Optimised and Performant Citrix Desktop Possible – Flexxible IT Nigel Woods (Sponsor)

15:15 (Not) Just Another Microapp Session – John Moody (Citrix session)

16.00 Comfort break

16.15 The Future is Now. Work Anytime from Anywhere. Unrivalled Endpoint OS and Management for Cloud Workspaces – Stratodesk Harald Wittek / Paul Craddock (Sponsor)

16:30 Adventures in Citrix Cloud – we’ve taken the sh*t so you don’t have to – James Rankin/Dave Holborn (CTP session)

17:15 SupercalifragilisticHDXpialidocious – Zico Ratan 10ZiG (Sponsor)

17:30 Wrap up & feedback forms & £100 Amazon Gift Card prize draw

Discussions

During the day, we’ll be encouraging all participants to join in the conversation, ask questions and provide feedback via World of EUC Slack channel. You can join here and look for the #-mycugc channel.

Submit your session idea

Have a good topic, project or case study you’d think would be of interest to others for a future meeting? Submit your session idea for consideration for a future meeting

Sponsors

Our meetings are free to attend thanks to our generous sponsors. You’ll be able to speak to most of them in the exhibitor lounge at the meeting.

Register here

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UK Citrix User Group XX: Birmingham so much more to offer than a Motorcycle Museum

Posted by on April 7, 2017 1 comment

Covering topics on Netscaler, Multi-factor Authentication, Windows Profiles, Citrix layering and XenApp Essentials, this was our 20th event, and our first in Birmingham. Thanks to our excellent sponsors Liquidware Labs, Lakeside Software, FS Logix, Unicon Software, AppEsnure, Ivanti, Bitdefender, eg Innovations, ControlUp, 10Zig, Atrust, Cloudhouse and Igel this was, for the big 2 zero, a free-to-attend meeting.

 

The UK Steering Group would like to thank all the presenters for their time, effort and engaging presentations: especially for those presenters presenting for the first time at our user group. Thanks to the 3D-realtime-non-augmented-VR attendees for providing insightful feedback and great questions – possibly one of the most vocal and interactive we’ve had to date. It is always splendid to meet and greet new faces and there were a lot more for our first visit to Birmingham: and see, we do read the feedback forms with suggestions for venues.  Thanks also to those attending on-line via Go-to-Webinar. For those of you keen to know how the fancy gold microphone is getting on, it is doing just fine thanks.

post event drinks.. soft drinks for those driving – obviously

Who attends UK Citrix User Group events? For XX we had almost 100 registered and we had a good turnout on the day. While we had an international lineup in-keeping with the location’s airport, we did manage at least some people actually from Birmingham (thanks guys). That said, we appreciate the feedback that many found the venue location handier than London, we’ll bear that in mind for the future.

Again, thanks to our sponsors for this free-to-attend event. Significantly, fsLogix for the lovely lunch which had some great pie, and Unicon Software for refreshment and appreciated cookies and Lakeside Software for the post-event drinks and nibbles.

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Migration, Migration, Migration….

Posted by on March 16, 2017 No comments
To Migrate, or not to migrate, that is the question?

Will desktop migration ever end?  It wasn’t that long ago that we were all hurtling headlong towards April 8, 2014, the date when Microsoft ended the extended support of the Windows XP operating system.

Some of us made it in time, while others didn’t, and the rest just took the decision to carry on anyway and accepted the risks involved. There were even a few that decided to pay out the extortionate amounts of money required for Microsoft to continue supporting them until they had completed their migration.

Move the clock forward to today; here you are now having successfully completed your migration, and for those that moved to Windows 7, or were deploying new machines that came pre-built, you are happily running on Windows 7 with an end of extended support date until January 14, 2020, which is way off into the future. Migration is probably one of the last things on your project list, right? Well maybe not if you are looking to deploy the latest Intel-based client devices.

desktop OS share Nov2016In August 2016 Intel announced the latest ‘Kaby Lake’ processors, with the mobile versions first shipping in Q3 2016, followed by desktops and workstations due to ship in Q1 2017. So, all good so far, new, faster CPU’s, faster clock speeds, and improved graphics architecture/performance. What’s not to like?

I hate to be the one to spoil the party, but I’ve got some bad news for you. Microsoft are only planning on supporting Windows 10 on the Kaby Lake platform, which means for those of you still running Windows 7, which, by the way, is just over 40% of the market if you take a look at the figures on the graph. If you are wanting to deploy Kaby Lake-based hardware in your current Windows 7 environment, then you could end up finding yourself being unsupported yet again.

So, what are your options?

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UK Citrix User Group XIX Review: Civilised Engineering

Posted by on December 4, 2016 No comments
Citrix UK User Group logo

Thanks to our excellent sponsors (AppEnsure, ExtraHop, Liquidware Labs, Nutanix, Uniprint, AppSense, Atlantis Computing, eg Innovations  FS Logix and UniDesk) this was, yet again, a free-to-attend meeting.

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The Steering Group would like to thank all the presenters for their time, effort and engaging presentations: especially for those presenting for the first time at the user group. Thanks to the 3D-realtime-non-augmented-VR attendees for providing insightful feedback and great questions. It is always splendid to meet and greet new faces. We had more chairs this time with your own special little desk: see, we do read the feedback forms.  Thanks also to those attending on-line via Go-to-Webinar. We a couple of niggles early doors, but also a fancy new microphone that just about survived the event unbroken, hopefully that helped.

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Who attends UK Citrix User Group events? For XVIX over 110 registered and we had about 70% turn up on the day – with a number of on-the-door registrations (which is always possible btw). It is mainly end users of attendees on the day but, you know here in the UK, we enjoy inclusivity. Of those attending  :-

  • 70% end users/partners – we did see lots of new faces (looked to be about a third). Thanks to the experienced hands who made the trek down/across/up and for the select group who caught a cheeky mid-session pint, but still came back.
  • 10% from Citrix. As always, good to see you – especially during the Interesting Licensing and Value Questions that came up in the Round Table. A user group needs the support and focus from the vendor to be successful and we appreciate your contribution. All being well we could well have a special event in 2017, focused on meeting with the engineering teams directly. I’ve likely already said to much… LOOK..! Over there! Its a squirrel!
  • 1% came from Sponsors
  • The rest put “other” for those of you who like completeness.

Again, thanks to our sponsors for this free-to-attend event, especially Liquidware for the lovely lunch which had some great pie, and Appensure for refreshment and Extrahop for the post-event drinks and eats.

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Death, Taxes and The Evolution of the Enterprise Desktop – are you prepared?

Posted by on September 5, 2016 No comments

In life we all know a few things are for certain — besides the obvious “death and taxes” — another certainty is that there will also ALWAYS be change.

This maxim can especially be applied to the IT industry and certainly about the desktop/workspace/user/BYOD/DAAS/VDI/SAAS landscape we are seeing morph before our eyes. All of these options certainly raise plenty of questions to an organization trying to figure out what their go-forward desktop strategy should look like.

  • “How do I get started?”
  • “What are the best options for me now and in the long-term?”
  • “How do I keep from making expensive mistakes?”
  • “Am I actually PREPARED to act on my decisions when I want to or more importantly when I NEED to?”

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Welcome to the new UK Citrix User Group!

Posted by on October 4, 2010 No comments

Welcome!

Citrix UK User Group logo

Welcome to the new-look UK Citrix User group!

Introducing the UK Citrix User Group

A few dedicated Citrix engineers and consultants decided the UK had gone without a proper Citrix user group for long enough. So over a beer, a plan was hatched and the results of which you are now reading. It’s still early days, but it’s a start and we look forward to growing the group to become an established part of the Citrix community in the UK over the next few years.

Meetings

We don’t want the group to become a London-only user group, and plan to hold meetings around the country. We welcome suggestions on suitable venues and you can post your own suggestions in the various regional group forums.

Membership

Membership is currently free, although we are investigating the option of having a tiered membership system where a paid membership gives you a number of additional benefits such as discounts on Citrix courses and exams, and access to the Citrix Community Lab infrastructure.

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UK Citrix User Group Winter 2019 meeting

Posted by on October 23, 2019 No comments

Recording

The Gotowebinar recording can be viewed here

Agenda/Slides

09.30 Registration opens. Coffee and pastries

10:00 News  – UKCUG

10:15 Citrix Cloud and the Enterprise – Gareth Carson (CTP session) [Slides]

11.00 Azure NetApp Files – Jake Walsh  (CTA session) [Slides]

11.30 Coffee break

11.50. Sponsor session (ControlUp)

12.00 Our changing relationship with the computer  – James Bulpin (The ultimate Citrix geek-out session) [Slides]

12.45 Automating your lab builds using Automation Framework –  Leee Jeffries (Community session) [Slides]

13:15 Lunch

14:15 “The intersection of security and UX” or “How to f*ck hackers without f*cking your users too”  James Rankin & Dave Brett (Double CTP Session) [Slides]

15.00 Advanced application scripting – Dennis Span (CTP Session) [Slides]

15:45 Coffee break

16:15 Replacing LoginVSI with PowerShell? – Samuel Owens (Community session) [Slides]

16.45 Customer case study – Citrix Virtual Apps, O365, FSLogix, Outlook, & OneDrive – Jani Kohonen, (CTA session) [Slides]

17:15 Round Table.  Bring your issues, questions and opinions for our lively discussion slot

17:45 Wrap up & feedback forms & prize draw

18:00 Networking Drinks

19:30 Carriages

Submit your session idea

Have a good topic, project or case study you’d think would be of interest to others? Submit your session idea for consideration for a future meeting

Sponsors

Our meeting are free to attend thank you to our generous sponsors. You’ll be able to speak to most of them in the exhibitor lounge at the meeting.