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
The last couple weeks have been a hoot. Here’s the progress that’s been made. XenServer hosts have all been setup (running 7.1) Storage (FC) and NAS have been setup All the VMs have been built, joined to the domain, patched, and prepped. The FMA Site has been configured and settings have been replicated (see ‘delivery…
So far we’ve been able to show you how to configure your MDT task sequences, customsettings.ini, and automatically update your Operating System media via OSDBuilder. Part 1: Citrix + Microsoft MDT + Powershell + Tools: The Beginning. – https://verticalagetechnologies.com/index.php/2020/03/04/citrix-microsoft-mdt-powershell-tools-the-beginning Part 2: Building multiple Citrix Images with one Microsoft MDT task sequence – https://verticalagetechnologies.com/index.php/2020/03/16/building-multiple-citrix-images-with-one-microsoft-mdt-task-sequence Part 3:…
Logon Simulators should be part of every production and test deployment. They take away the anxiety from worrying about session launch failures, access problems, and back-end issues. In this video presentation I’ll go over a handful of different vendor options that exist today. We will also drill down into the details of the pros/cons as…
Ok, where does one begin when talking about an Active/Active Citrix Deployment? I’m frazzled just thinking about it. Do I start with the Profiles, Netscalers, PVS Images, XenApp Sites…? Let’s first describe the requirements. Management has instructed the team to build a Highly Available and Stable environment that spans multiple data centers. Ready…Go! However…
Hey all and welcome to my first blog post. I was recently involved in a new Netscaler implementation. Two Netscalers (5550 MPX) were purchased and will be configured in a HA pair. They currently have 2 other Netscalers (5500 MPX) that are used for production. This project is to setup the new Netscalers in the…
Building Golden Images, Master Images, References Images (whatever you want to call them) is a necessity in today’s world. All too often I see Citrix customers using persistent VMs built manually. Sometimes 20-50 of the same VMs, going through the same manual clicks for upgrades, the same manual motions for software pushes, windows updates, etc……