Virtualization, EUC, and Computing in General
The AppDisk TechPreview bits were released to the public a few days ago – you can download them for yourself if you are a partner or a customer and have active SA or SWM as of September 21st, 2015 – the download is available here. This release is branded as XenApp and XenDesktop 7.7 and includes the following experimental features (as well as some features from a previous tech preview release): AppDisks AppDisks on vSphere … Read more…
If you’ve been putting off upgrading or installing Citrix Storefront 3.0, today might be the day that changes your mind. Why? Because today is the day that Google released Chrome 45 which disables NPAPI completely – no more manual-enable-workaround. From: https://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation September 2015 In September 2015 (Chrome 45) we will remove the override and NPAPI support will be permanently removed from Chrome. Installed extensions that require NPAPI plugins will no longer be able to load … Read more…
After receiving quite a bit of feedback from my first post on Replacing Citrix Edgesight with Goliath Performance Monitor (GPM), I have decided to create a feature-to-feature comparison between Edgesight 5.x, Desktop Director\Insight, and Goliath Performance Monitor. With this comparison, it should be clear that GPM is more than capable of replacing your existing Edgesight deployment and Desktop Director, while a useful utility, it isn’t and wasn’t meant to be an Enterprise monitoring solution for Citrix … Read more…
This post will cover upgrading the NetScaler code from 10.5 to 11 – more specifically, this covers upgrading from NetScaler 10.5 build 55.8007.e as discussed in my previous post here. The upgrade process is fairly straight forward – download the firmware from Citrix, then login to the web GUI under System, and select ‘Upgrade Wizard’. Note 1: If you are upgrading an HA pair, read this Citrix article first Note 2: If you are upgrading from NetScaler 10.1, … Read more…
The NetScaler ‘E’ – or enhancement – releases sometimes contain important or very useful features – when Citrix XenMobile was originally released, it required that the NetScaler use the latest ‘e’ release. One feature of particular interest in the latest e releases is the ability to use a vServer for both content switching AND Access Gateway. This may not be that valuable for some organizations, but if you don’t have many external IP addresses, this … Read more…
A brief history of Citrix EdgeSight and Director Citrix EdgeSight 5.4 was released in 2011 with added support for XenApp 6.5 on Server 2008 R2 and SQL 2008 R2. EdgeSight has an overwhelming amount of detail about your XenApp 6.5 farm; it has alerting, tons of reports built on SQL Reporting services, a realtime dashboard, user and device troubleshooters…and then some. The staggering amount of data and tools available in EdgeSight were also one of … Read more…
Attention all Citrix users, admins and engineers in the North Florida area! A Citrix User Group is starting up near you! We need to get the official MyCUGC page support, so head on over and register/join at www.mycugc.com – then go to the Group listing and request to join the North East Florida Group. Rather than create individual groups for a Jacksonville Group, Tallahassee Group, Gainesville Group and everywhere in between – why not consolidate … Read more…
Found an issue on NetScaler 10.5 build 54.9 which allows an SSL-Bridge vServer to be the target LB vServer of an SSL Content Switching vServer. If you leave this configured, it will crash the packet engine and the NetScaler will soft reboot. This is not a supported configuration, but it should also not let you make said configuration in the NetScaler – this is fixed in build 57.7 – if not an earlier build. The … Read more…
The NetScaler can do A LOT – not just Citrix Access Gateway – the URL transformation, rewrite and responder engines are unbelievably powerful. One of the more common requests is to modify a URL so that it can be different for internal\external access or a different URL for a different set of users, even the ability to append a folder path to an existing host so that users don’t need to know the entire path … Read more…
Despite setting the HDX policy to use client time zone, the time was still different on the client than the endpoint. Checking the usual places in the registry and some W32TM queries revealed nothing… w32tm /query /source w32tm /tz Then I manually tried to change the time zone on the XD machine…error – can’t! Time to check permissions. Looks like users need to have the ‘Change the time zone’ right for this to work, and … Read more…