Virtualization, EUC, and Computing in General
Ever want to try out the feature of the NetScaler known as Application Firewall (AppFW or simply WAF)? Or maybe you need to demo NetScaler App Firewall for one of your customers, but are not sure of the best way to show it off? Well, that’s understandable because App Firewall is powerful and demoing it can be a bit tricky. In this post I’ll cover two of the biggest hurdles in showing off AppFW: Working … Read more…
Citrix Supportability Pack tool highlight: User Profile Manager UPM Configuration Check The Citrix Supportability Pack was made available late last year (2015) and is meant to be a single location for all the tools you might ever need to troubleshoot an issue in your Citrix farm – and by farm, I mean any of the components of the installation: XenDesktop Legacy XenApp Printing Graphics Web Interface …the list goes on Think of this as a … Read more…
NetScaler unified gateway is one of the great new features in NS version 11. If you’ve worked with some of the more advanced features, then you may be familiar with one of the more common requests: Make a NetScaler Gateway (CAG) the target vServer of a content switching vServer. Fortunately, this is exactly what Unified Gateway does – essentially, Unified Gateway is a content switching vServer with one of the possible target vServers as a non-addressable … Read more…
One of the primary uses for our Intel NUC is as a cable box replacement HTPC – so that means there’s always movies, recorded TV or live TV streaming to it over the network. In the past, I was able to direct wire and use the ethernet port giving 1Gbps speed which is more than enough. But now that we moved, that is no longer an option – fortunately, I installed an Intel AC-7260 wireless card … Read more…
Happy New Year!! And with the new year comes new internet\TV service for the house – actually, it isn’t completely new, it’s the same service, just at a different address. Who is the ISP you ask? Why, it’s Comcast. Admittedly, I am one of the outliers in their “median network usage” calculation between lab traffic, cloud backups, and (legitimate) streaming traffic – and I also probably know and care more about security and networking than a … Read more…
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…
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…
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…
These days, you can pretty much put the term ‘Software Defined’ in front of any technology or acronym – wide area network (WAN) is the next up-and-coming example: SD-WAN. The Citrix solution is known as Citrix Virtual WAN and it is a part of the CloudBridge product line – more information is available here. What is Virtual WAN exactly? It is an appliance that allows multiple WAN connections at your remote offices to be virtualized into a … Read more…
The debate over enterprise monitoring solutions that use agentless technology VS those that use agent software has been around for as long as monitoring has existed, and I’m not going to cover it in great detail as there is nothing new: Agent monitoring: Able to gather numerous data points, including those not otherwise exposed Communication can be configured and secured Need to install, maintain an agent Additional software can introduce extra load Agentless monitoring: No … Read more…