Weekly End User Computing roundup for 15-22 July 2026: NetScaler CVE-2026-8451 still exploited, a record Windows Patch Tuesday, Entra retiring SMS/voice MFA, XenServer 9 preview, Nutanix and vSphere deadlines, Intune E3/E5 changes and more.

A few weeks ago, I did a research with Leee Jeffries for GO‑EUC on NVMe memory tiering versus traditional swap in VMware ESXi. VMware ESXi Memory Management Reimagined: NVMe Tiering vs Traditional Swap | GO-EUC The article sparked some great discussions and there is an important caveat when it comes to vGPU desktops that I want to highlight. vGPU Desktops Always Need Full DRAM Here’s the thing that often trips people up: every VM with a vGPU requires all of its RAM to be rese

A new feature available since vSphere 8.0 U2 is federated authentication with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) and provision the users with SCIM. This is really nice since it is now possible to create Single Sign On, leverage Conditional Access policies and Multi Factor Authentication (MFA). In this blog I will explain step by step how to configure this and how to mitigate a in my opinion big fat no no required in the original documentation: Expose vCenter to the

Last year I wrote a little blog about power consumptions and created a little dashboard to see if we can save some power. Link: Monitor Performance while reducing power usage/ C02 Emission ? Yes we can! (debruinonline.net) In the past many best practices preached: disable power management features! Policy to High Performance. No delay is acceptable! Electricity is cheap...but the world has changed. I noticed that when I talk about saving power 90% of the time the discussion i

Last week I had the privilege to attend to VMware Explore in Barcelona! A lot of awesome sessions, meeting friends, acquaintances and getting a beer (or two…or...) During the trip one of the customers who accompanied us pointed out to me if we ever looked at power consumption and the possibility to reduce it. Personally it did cross my mind but to be honest most of the time we put everything in high performance to get the best performance possible. The world has changed, pric

Let’s play around with the Citrix Hypervisor and Citrix Provisioning Services. It’s been a while since I used Citrix Hypervisor in a production or even in my lab environment so let’s see if we can still run this nested on a VMware ESXi 7 host and stream a virtual desktop on it😊 I tried log all my steps and create screenshots.. Remark that I all ready had a running Citrix environment in place (Delivery Controller, License server, Provisioning Server(s), Storefront, ADC etc.)

In my daily job insight in performance statistics of the VMware vSphere environment can make my job al lot easier. When going live with a newly build environment or especially when there is an issue with performance. Getting meassurements is key here so the discussion is about facts and not about assumptions. The effect of the changes you implement are shown (or not so you can continue the quest). Of course there are solutions out there like vRops but licenses can be an issue