UK Citrix User Group Autumn 2019 meeting

Posted by on July 16, 2019 No comments
Eventbrite - UK Citrix User Group Spring 2019 Meeting

When

Thursday 5th September 2019
09.30am to 5.30pm (followed by drinks reception until 7pm)

Where

200 SVS, Glasgow
5th Floor, 200 St Vincent Street
Glasgow
G2 5SG

Transport

200 SVS is a short 5 minute walk from Glasgow Central Station or an 8 minute walk from Queen Street Station.
The nearest Parking can be found at Cadogan Square off Douglas Street or Q Park on Waterloo Street.

Accommodation

CitizenM Hotel ~£90 per night (8 min walk)
Malmaison Glasgow ~£120 per night (5 min walk)
Abode Glasgow ~£110 per night (4 min walk)

Agenda

09.30 Registration opens. Coffee and pastries

10:00 News  – UKCUG

10:15 How we migrated 5000 VDI Desktops with zero downtime and a lesson in communication – Neil McLoughlin (Community session) [Slides]

11.00 FSLogix Application Masking – Jim Moyle (Sponsor Session) [Video]

11.15 Coffee break

11.45 WVD and Liquidware, Better Together – George Swain, Solutions Architect, Liquidware (Sponsor Session) [Slides]

12.00 SD-WAN Getting Started –  Leee Jeffries (Community session) [Slides]

12:45 Optimizing Group Policy processing on Citrix Virtual Apps – James Rankin (CTP Session) [Slides]

13:30 Lunch

14:30  Troubleshooting Windows Problems using PowerShell – Guy Leech (CTA session) [Slides]

15:15 Coffee break

15:45 Citrix ADC Duress codes and other useful tips – Steven Wright (Citrix session) [Slides]

16:30 Round Table.  Bring your issues, questions and opinions for our lively discussion slot

17:15 Wrap up & feedback forms & prize draw

17:30 Networking Drinks

19:00 Carriages

Join online

If you can’t make it to Glasgow, we try and broadcast our meetings online via GotoWebinar. You will need to register here. We can’t guarantee great audio or visuals, as they a dependent on A/V facilities in the venue and reliable internet connections but we’ll do our best. We’ll monitor the questions feed so you can ask presenters questions during each session. The best experience will also be from being in the room.

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.

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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 Summer 2019 meeting

Posted by on May 14, 2019 No comments
Eventbrite - UK Citrix User Group Spring 2019 Meeting

When

Thursday 6th June 2019
09.30am to 5.30pm (followed by drinks reception until 7pm)

Where

58VE London
58 Victoria Embankment
London
EC4Y 0DS

Transport

58VE is well connected by underground situated between Temple, a 6 minute walk, and Blackfriars, a 3 minute walk, both on the Circle and District Line.
Blackfriars Pier, situated directly outside 58VE, offers river bus links along the Thames through central London from Putney to Woolwich.
There are a number of bus stops around 58VE with bus routes running parallel to Victoria Embankment on Fleet Street, across Blackfriars Bridge and a night service along Victoria Embankment.

Accommodation

Z Hotel City ~£145 per night (6 min walk)
Premier Inn Blackfriars ~£151 per night (4 min walk)
Crowne Plaze London City ~£300 per night (4 min walk)

Agenda

09.30 Registration opens. Coffee and pastries

10:00 News & Synergy update  – UKCUG

10:15 Windows 10 – Performance tuning for VDI – Mark Pletenberg (CTP session)

11.00 Microsoft Office Optimisations in a Stateless Desktop – FSLogix/Microsoft (Sponsor session)

11.15 Coffee break

11.45 EGInnovations (sponsor session)

12.00 Citrix Cloud on Azure – Our Experience, Thoughts and Tips – Omar Hempsall (community session)

12:45 Citrix Workspace to organize, guide and automate work – Neil Collins (Citrix session)

13:30 Lunch

14:15 Modern application delivery methods and when to use them – Liquidware (sponsor session)

14:30 Is your desktop secure? Really? – Guy Leech (CTA session)

15:15 How Citrix Cloud can add value to Windows Virtual Desktop – Jim Moyle (CTP session)

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Round Table.  Bring your issues, questions and opinions for our lively discussion slot

17:15 Wrap up & feedback forms & prize draw

17:30 Networking Drinks in the fabulous top floor lounge with a balcony overlooking the Thames

19:00 Carriages

Join online

If you can’t make it to London, we try and broadcast our meetings online via GotoWebinar. You will need to register here. We can’t guarantee great audio or visuals, as they a dependent on A/V facilities in the venue and reliable internet connections but we’ll do our best. We’ll monitor the questions feed so you can ask presenters questions during each session. The best experience will also be from being in the room.

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.

Eventbrite - UK Citrix User Group Spring 2019 Meeting