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ByKees Baggerman February 3, 2011March 23, 2013

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Kees Baggerman·Senior Technical Director at Nutanix – Former Citrix CTP – NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor – 15+ years in EUC

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This is my first post on my new config, this is where I’ll be gathering my thoughts and solutions on problems of which I run in to in my work as technical consultant on Application Delivery.

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Kees Baggerman

Kees Baggerman is Senior Technical Director — Performance & Solutions Engineering R&D at Nutanix, where he leads a global team responsible for defining how enterprise applications are delivered on the Nutanix platform. A former Citrix Technology Professional and NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor, he has spent 15+ years driving EUC strategy and technical direction across architecture, product, and customer success. He has been writing here since 2011 — sharing what he learns at the intersection of platform engineering and enterprise IT.

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Senior Technical Director at Nutanix - Former Citrix CTP - NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor - 15+ years in EUC

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Citrix | CVAD

Citrix: Web Interface delay on First Page
ByKees Baggerman July 12, 2011June 19, 2013 1 min read

Recently I did an installation of the Citrix Web Interface 5.4 and noticed a delay on displaying the first page after restarting the server, this problem happened also when I restarted the IIS Service. I found CTX117273 : Background After restarting IIS, or rebooting the Web Interface…

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Citrix | CVAD | Microsoft

Solving authentication errors on MS SQL while setting up XenDesktop 7.6
ByKees Baggerman November 17, 2014 3 min read

During a lab setup of XenDesktop 7.6 I used a Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 instance which I installed before while setting up the rest of my lab environment. While the database setup worked seamlessly for other environments it seemed that I couldn’t access the SQL server from the XenDesktop Setup wizard.…

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Nutanix | PowerShell

Updated: VM Reporting Script for Nutanix AHV with Powershell
ByKees Baggerman April 8, 2019June 17, 2019 2 min read

Here I found myself wondering around the twitter sphere where I found this little gem posted by Aaron Parker: “Out-HtmlView – HTML alternative to Out-GridView # PowerShell https:// buff.ly/2UBPq6x “. This made me modify the current VM Reporting script for AHV and now the script will output…

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Automation Manager | Microsoft

Change CDrom drive letter with PowerShell
ByKees Baggerman February 5, 2011March 23, 2013 1 min read

Here’s just a little Powershell script to change the CDrom drive letter to another drive letter, most customers use a standardized drive letter for this type of drive. (gwmi Win32_cdromdrive).drive | %{$a = mountvol $_ /l;mountvol $_ /d;$a = $a.Trim();mountvol z: $a} This script looks up the cdrom…

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Configuring Citrix NetScaler Gateway with Azure MFA
ByKees Baggerman September 25, 2014September 25, 2014 5 min read

While closing up on one of my projects we started a proof of concept with two factor authentication based on Microsoft Azure MFA. Azure Multi-Factor Authentication is the service that requires users to also verify sign-ins by using a mobile app, phone call, or text message. You can use it…

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Citrix: XenDesktop and local storage + IntelliCache
ByKees Baggerman June 23, 2011June 17, 2013 8 min read

I found this great blogpost by Christian Ferber : During recent events there have been a lot of requests for XenServer IntelliCache. Some of the contacs knew pretty well what IntelliCache is doing under the hood and some of them didn’t. I would like to summarize a kind of the most frequent…

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