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UK Citrix User Group Summer 2020 meeting

Posted by on May 26, 2020 No comments
Eventbrite - UK Citrix User Group Summer 2020 Meeting

When

Tuesday 16th June 2020
10:00am to 4pm (followed by the UKCUG Super Summer Quiz!)

Where

The meeting will take place on a purpose built virtual meeting platform that will go live a week before event day. This will give you time to familarise yourself with the technology, visit our sponsors and check out the speakers. What’s more, you can take part in the live Leaderboard Challenge by answering questions during the lead up and taking part in feedback surveys and Q&A on event day. The winner will be announced at wrap up on 16th June.

Agenda

10:00   Welcome & News – UKCUG

10:15   How to Optimize User Experience when Using Remote  Protocols – Rody Kossen 

11:00   Having Fun with Application Layering – Mark Plettenberg

11:30   Optimising Citrix End User Experience for Locked Down Users – Lindell Harry from Control Up (Sponsor Session)

11:45   The REAL user experience from a cloud workspace –    Eltjo van Gulik & Ryan Bijkerk

12:15   Comfort Break sponsored by Flexxible IT  

12:30   The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Ensuring a great user experience at home – George Swain from Liquidware (Sponsor Session)

12:45   How to transform classical VDI into Intelligent Modern Environments with Windows Virtual Desktop – Patrick Köhler

13:30   Using Nutanix Xi to Burst or Fail your On Prem Citrix Deployment at a Fraction of the Cost of On Prem! – Matthew Nichols from Nutanix (Sponsor Session)

13:45   Lunch Break sponsored by Liquidware

14:15   Azure Automation – Extending Azure Automation to End Users – Leee Jeffries

15:00   Testing the Performance Impact of Windows 10 2004 Update – Lorna Crawford from Login VSI (Sponsor Session)

15:15   Citrix Evergreen Build – Iain Brighton

16:00   Wrap Up & Winner of £100 Amazon Gift Card announced

16:15  Quiz sponsored by Nutanix – F&M Hamper for the winner!

17:00   Open discussion and vbeers

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 meetings are free to attend thanks to our generous sponsors. You’ll be able to contact them all, through the virtual meeting platform on the run up to the event, during event day and for 30 days after. Please do take the time to watch their videos and download their content.

UK Citrix User Group Spring 2020 Meeting

Posted by on March 3, 2020 No comments

Our Spring meeting was Virtual!

Recording

Agenda

10:00 Welcome & News  – UKCUG

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

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

11.45 Learn to Love Regular Expressions – Guy Leech (CTP session) [SLIDES]

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) [SLIDES]

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

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

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) [SLIDES]

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