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Now that we’ve seen how to quickly get RDS services in place to support RemoteApp published app, let’s get to the meat of the matter and look at how you connect to these apps with an iOS or Android device. Microsoft has recently released the Remote Desktop Client for iOS and Android.  You download and …

Are you sitting around your house wondering what to do with yourself this December? How about logging onto the itgroove Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/itgrooveservices and having a look at our Pay It Forward Advent Calendar?! That’s right, 25 ideas of how to brighten someone’s day. Whenever I think of a good deed that someone has done …

Back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth you needed to use Citrix Presentation Server if you wanted to “publish” applications from a terminal server out to a webpage for easier yet controlled access by users. It sat on top of a Terminal Server install and provided extended functionality that mere Terminal Server users …

I recently got a new Surface 2 (as an MVP, we were given an offer I couldn’t refuse), and much to my surprise, I quite like it. Leon has a great write up (below) about why he likes his, and quite frankly, I can’t say it much better. http://leontribe.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/review-surface-2-32g-why-i-am-shocked.html On final note – I got …

After installing Veeam Enterprise Plus and enabling the WAN Acceleration feature the size of the backups did start to drop but not enough to overcome the limitations of the single Shaw “pipes” at either end of the installation.  My customer was seeing Internet performance “crawl” at each location while backups were running and, because we …

One very cool benefit of many Office365 subscription levels is the “CAL’” rights that are conferred via the O365 subscription towards on premise services.  What I mean by this is that O365, for example, confers SharePoint and Exchange CAL’s that can be used for both connection to the O365 services and your own on-premise services!  …

Itgroove and the Royals are teaming up to do their first ever Christmas tree at the Fairmont Empress Hotel’s Festival of Trees! Sean and I went for the first time last year and we enjoyed it so much, we wanted to be a part of it this year. If you’ve never been, for a donation …

  Last weekend as I was sitting in my comfy chair with my iPad in hand, I was thinking back to when I was a kid in the early 80’s. I remember being so bored some days, especially Sundays. There was nothing to do, there was nothing on TV and there were no video games …

Lekker Food Distributors Ltd. is a supplier of fine food products, including an extensive selection of cheese and specialty meats, to retailers and restaurants in British Columbia and Alberta. Present owner, Richard van Wiltenburg, purchased the family owned and Vancouver Island operated business from his father in 1985, and is proud that, 50 years later, …

I made a similar post about this for SharePoint 2010, but I wanted to update it (and make it more clear) for 2013.  Using a SQL Server alias, you’ll be able to change the database server in your SharePoint farm behind the scenes, without anyone in your SharePoint universe even knowing you’ve made a change.  …