For the third year in a row, Lewan has been recognized for our exemplary approach to delivery of Managed IT Services and been awarded a spot on the 2015 MSP Elite 150 list, part of CRN's Managed Service Provider 500 (MSP500) list. The Elite 150 group is recognized as large data center-focused solution providers with a strong mix of on-premise professional services as well as off-premise services.
Citrix Summit is an annual conference where partners gather to hear the latest technical and sales information. This year it was held in exciting Las Vegas at the sprawling Venetian conference center. Coverage of Summit is always tricky because, while it is a partner only event and mostly covered by NDA, there are aspects that are already public. This article will strive to keep the balance and leave what happened in Vegas--well, safely behind in Vegas.
Congratulations to Lewan Technology Solutions Architect, Kenneth Fingerlos, who has been chosen for another very notable speaking engagement - Citrix Synergy 2014. It's a highly competitive selection process and speaks to the credentials Kenneth has in this industry. If you are attending the conference in LA next month, be sure to check out his presentation on XenMobile best practices.
Lewan has once again earned a prestigious spot on CRN's 2014 list of Tech Elite 250 IT Solution Providers. This elite group of IT solution providers have invested in the training and education needed to earn the most advanced technical certifications from leading vendors.
Lewan Solutions Architect, Kenneth Fingerlos, wowed the crowd last month at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2014 with his presentation on VDI, "Virtual is Better than Physical Delivering a Delightful User Experience from a Virtual Desktop".
Great job guys! Our team worked hard to earn this and your dedication and commitment is being recognized.
After configuring our ShareFile to integrate our AD accounts using AD FS 2.0 and SAML for login, we found several user could not log in with Chrome or Firefox. They would go to the SAML login URL and then enter their correct AD credentials. The login would then fail. Using IE with the same credentials was successful. After investigation, the issue was linked to AD FS 2.0 and Chrome/Firefox, not ShareFile.
This came up recently for a customer and while it's not new news, I thought a quick reminder would be useful. There are a few key points to remember about licensing of Windows Server 2012 in server virtualization projects, these rules apply to XenServer, VMware, Hyper-V, Oracle VM, etc.:
I upgraded my Storage Center from 1.1 to the new StorageZones Controller 2.0 recently released from Citrix. This version is supposed to integrate connections for on-prem storage, network share connectors, and ShareFile connectors. I was excited to set up the Sharepoint access for my mobile users so I enabled just the Sharepoint feature on the controller install and logged into the ShareFile portal to create the connectors. However, in the portal under the Connectors tab, it told me that No Connectors-enabled StorageZones have been created…
I double-checked my configuration and everything looked right. I contact Citrix ShareFile support and apparently there is a bug in the current release. You must enable both Sharepoint and Network File Shares, even if you plan to use only one of the features, in order to create the connectors in the portal. Once I did this, the portal gave me the option to start creating connectors successfully. The bug is supposed to be fixed in the next update. Of course, I then later found out, 2 hours into troubleshooting and another call to Citrix later, That the Sharepoint connections will not show up for mobile devices for another week.
I recently had a request for a user to be able to toggle between different applications inside their Citrix XenApp desktop session with alt+tab. The Citrix receiver provides this functionality with a registry change. There are a couple ways to send the hot key combo of Alt+tab to the Citrix session, but below I will show how to pass the physical hot key combo of Alt+tab from the client workstation to the Active Citrix session window (non-fullscreen mode).
