We’ve been working with a number of our customers to help them to move their workloads to the cloud using Microsoft’s Azure platform. During this time these companies have discovered many different benefits to the changes that they have made. This article describes some of those benefits at a high level, we’ll be diving in…
Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop Logon Slow or Delay – Please Wait for the User Profile Service Applies to:- Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016 Citrix XenApp 6.5, 7.x Citrix UPM Roaming Profiles Folder Redirections or Remote Home Directory The Problem When you log on to a Published Desktop, there is a delay while…
Free SSL Certificates! | SSL Certificates for Free! For more than the last decade, I’ve been heavily involved in the process to validate and issue SSL Certificates, the evolution to more robust encryption methods and the general world-shift to using HTTPS as a default for all Web based communications. The Story so Far We’ve all…
Recently we completed a project for a large not-for-profit client who has circa 50 x offices and over 350 staff, many working in highly-regulated and/or secure environments where gaining remote access to corporate services has been notoriously difficult. Our client initially was inving a Direct Access solution, however, after discussion with Carbon around Microsoft’s roadmap,…
Since December last year, Carbon have been privileged to be part of the Microsoft Azure Files Backup technical preview designed to help Microsoft test and improve this service. As a result of ours and many others efforts, Microsoft have announced that this is now in full Public Preview – available for clients who have an…
Anyone find noisy, dusty, hot equipment annoying? Particularly when it sits in the corner of your office whirring away, only to fall over and need fixing – meaning downtime for your business. Even if it doesn’t break, you’ll still need to maintain it (so it doesn’t) and upgrade and update both hardware and software every…