Virtualization, EUC, and Computing in General
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…
Customize NetScaler 10 I have been meaning to create this post for some time – when NetScaler 10.1 was released, there was some confusion around the best method to customize the interface. The previous method involved using scripts to copy the customized files at boot time – see http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX122271 for details. I know many people are already on NetScaler 11, but for those that have not yet upgraded and are still on 10.5 this should be … Read more…
If you have used Citrix ShareFile, you probably already know that it’s a great product – either standalone, or integrated with the XenMobile Enterprise suite. One place where ShareFile can be a bit tricky is file recovery – file restores are a manual process and involve some PowerShell. Fortunately, there are built in APIs that allow 3rd party solutions to integrate and make restoration a bit easier – for example when your local storage zone is … Read more…
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…
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…