Who am I?

Samuel LEGRAND

Owner and IT Consultant at LegSam Consulting a French consulting company specialized in Microsoft and Citrix infrastructures. Trying to:
– Design, implement and maintain Citrix solutions for our customers (from 10 to 40000 CCUs) with the following guideline “Keep it F**king simple”
– Share my technical adventures/problems/solutions here (www.tech-addict.fr), here www.twitter.com/legsam59 or during communities events
– Learn from others, learn to others (trainer at Exia-Cesi, a French group specialized in training and higher education, Citrix Subject Matter Expert)

Since 2017, I’ve been awarded as a Citrix Technology Professional. The Citrix Technology Professionals (CTP) Program provides an opportunity for participants to gain deeper insight into Citrix strategies and technologies, including advance knowledge of planned projects. Awardees engage with Citrix leaders to help shape the future of cloud computing technologies that enable mobile workstyles, providing valuable input on business needs and feedback on product strategy.

Since 2018, I’ve been awarded as a VMware vExpert. The VMware vExpert program is VMware’s global evangelist and advocacy program. The program is designed to put VMware’s marketing resources towards your advocacy efforts. Promotion of articles, exposure at VMware global events, co-op advertising, traffic analysis, and early access to beta programs and VMware’s roadmap. The awards are for individuals, not companies, and last for one year.

Since 2018, I’ve been awarded as a Parallels VIPP. The Very Important Parallels Professional Program (VIPP) was created to give its members a better understanding of the technologies around Parallels® Remote Application Server (RAS) while providing critical and valuable feedback to key stakeholders within the Parallels organization. In this program, selected IT professionals will meet with Parallels leaders, working together to shape the future of remote access and cloud computing solutions.

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Public Speaking:

November 2019 – E2EVC Lisbon – Citrix ADC GSLB On Microsoft Azure Step-By-Step

October 2019 – E2EVC Tokyo – Disaster Recovery Plan: how to be ready when it happens?

June 2019 – E2EVC Berlin – Storage Spaces Direct and Storage Replica on Azure

June 2019 – E2EVC Berlin – Load Testing your infrastructure and your applications using Itexis

January 2019 – CUGC XL Florida – Orlando – First Step in the Cloud Using Microsoft Azure to support your Citrix Disaster Recovery Plan

November 2018 – myCUGC – Online webinar – Planning your Citrix Apps and Desktops disaster recovery

November 2018 – E2EVC – Athens – How to increase security and have a better UX for remote worker?

October 2018 – CUGC Norway – Oslo – How to increase security and have a better UX for remote worker?

May 2018 – Citrix Synergy – Anaheim – XenMobile toolbox using powershell scripts #SYN715

April 2018 – E2EVC – Cape Town – Disaster recovery of XenApp: state of the art

September 2017 – Citrix UK User Group – London – How to manage a XenApp 7.x environment (updated with 7.14:))

September 2017 – Club des Experts Citrix France – Paris – How to manage a XenApp 7.x environment (updated with 7.14:))

June 2017 – French Citrix User Group Community – 3rd meeting – System optimizations using Citrix Workspace Environement Manager

June 2017 – E2EVC – Prague – Whats new from Citrix Synergy 2017 – Citrix CTP’s panel view

June 2017 – E2EVC – Prague – To be or not to be LTSR? That’s the question!

June 2017 – E2EVC – Prague – How to manage a XenApp 7.x environment (updated with 7.14:))

June 2017 – Club des Experts Citrix France – Paris – French Citrix Community, what’s new?

April 2017 – French Citrix User Group Community – 2nd meeting

March 2017 – E2EVC 2017 Tokyo, Japan

March 2017 – E2EVC 2017 Sydney, Australia

December 2016 – Citrix UK User Group – London – Large scale load testing in Citrix environment

November 2016 – E2EVC – Rome – Display modes in XenApp/XenDesktop 7.x

September 2016 – Club des Experts Citrix France – Paris – Co-presenting REX Thinwire vs H264 vs Legacy with Frederic SERRIERE

July 2016 – Citrix UK User Group – London – How to choose the right Citrix display protocol in a XenDesktop 7.x branch office deployment?

June 2015 – E2EVC – Berlin – Large Scale Load Testing

December 2014 – Club des Experts Citrix France – Paris – StoreFront deployment automation

October 2014 – E2EVC – Barcelona – Bandwidth usage and optimization with XenDesktop 7.x

September 2013 – Club des Experts Citrix France – Paris – XenDesktop 7 – How to manage SQL high availability?