Month: December 2015

Citrix Storefront 3.x Configuration Tool

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Anyone that has deployed Citrix StoreFront in the past has likely needed to manually edit the web.config files for either customizations or advanced functionality that simply wasn’t available in the StoreFront GUI. In fact, Citrix has released a ‘StoreFront web GUI Assistant‘ that allows you to import then modify the web.config files – it was updated October 30, 2015 to support StoreFront 3, but it really didn’t support any of the more advanced features, and … Read more…

NetScaler SSL vServer and CookieInsert

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The Citrix NetScaler is a great load balancer with numerous options when it comes to the backend loadbalancing method and persistence settings. Here are the available persistence settings based on the type of vServer: Persistence Type HTTP HTTPS TCP UDP/IP SSL_Bridge Source IP YES YES YES YES YES CookieInsert YES YES NO NO NO SSL Session ID NO YES NO NO YES URL Passive YES YES NO NO NO Custom Server ID YES YES NO … Read more…

Microsoft TMG EOL – Replace with Citrix NetScaler

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As you may already know, Microsoft has decided to mark its Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG – formerly ISA Server) product as end of life. Primary development on it stopped back in September of 2012 and mainstream support ended in April of 2015. The Microsoft TMG product has been around since 1997 under a few different names – Microsoft Proxy Server, Microsoft ISA Server, and currently Forefront Threat Management Gateway. It provides multiple protections using forward\reverse proxy, … Read more…