How to Become a Citrix Jedi

Presenting at the last MyCUGC event was truly an honor. See my full blog on “How to Become a Citrix Jedi” located on the MyCUGC website – https://www.mycugc.org/blogs/cugc-blogs/2018/03/12/how-to-be-a-citrix-jedi

Presenting at the last MyCUGC event was truly an honor. See my full blog on “How to Become a Citrix Jedi” located on the MyCUGC website – https://www.mycugc.org/blogs/cugc-blogs/2018/03/12/how-to-be-a-citrix-jedi
I’m at the point now where the Datacenter#2 has Networking, Storage, and Hosts ready for me to use. That means it’s VM building time. You pretty much need the identical components you have for your existing site. Remember the key focus here is Highly Available and reliability. So if one datacenter goes down, the other…
SmartAccess and SmartControl let you change ICA connection behavior (e.g. disable client device mappings) based on how users connect. Decisions are based on NetScaler Gateway Virtual Server name, Session Policy name, and Endpoint Analysis scan success or failure. Carl Stalhood has a great blog on how to configure/setup Smart Access. You can find it here: http://www.carlstalhood.com/smartaccess-smartcontrol-netscaler-11/…
Many companies wish to customize portions or add their little quirks/branding to sections of the Netscaler Gateway/Unified Gateway logon page. With the introduction of 11.x, customizing the logon page has became increasingly easy. This blog post will cover adding a disclaimer/footer to the logon page. This can be done via the ‘EULA’ section of the NG….
I recently had to figure out which Functional Level goes to which Citrix version/release. I figured I would provide the full list as of Citrix 2209 along with some of the Powershell code I used to gather details. Citrix says “The functional level controls which product features are available to machines in the catalog. Setting…
Not too long ago I saw a post on twitter referencing Citrix ADC (Netscaler) sizing recommendations based upon the License edition. This wasn’t meant to ‘size’ the ADC to support a number of sessions, it was to notify you that based upon your license/bandwidth edition, there are CPU/Memory restraints. So even if you give the…
I’ve had the pleasure of using Citrix App Layering for the past few weeks. I have to say it’s pretty addicting. Immediately after using the product I could see it’s potential. What started out as a POC/Demo turned into a layering frenzy. First the OS layer, the Platform layer, then an App Layer. Now we…