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
A Citrix Active/Active Deployment – Part 4
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…
A Citrix Active/Active Deployment Part 3
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…
Citrix App Layering – With Extra Frosting
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…
A Citrix Active/Active Deployment Part 2
Since Part 1 has been published we have learned a little bit more about the overall design of the environment. Let’s recap the initial requirements. Management has instructed the team to build a Highly Available and Stable environment that spans multiple data centers. Each technology component must be separate in each datacenter. Which means, no sharing…
A Citrix Active/Active Deployment Introduction
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…
Citrix – Smart Access – Conditional Clipboard Access
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/…
Citrix Xenapp/Xendesktop 7.9 Database Migration – SQL Express to Mirror
For brand new Xenapp/Xendesktop implementations you are given the option to build out the Site quickly using SQL Express. While SQL Express may be supported, it’s certainly not recommended. Any Citrix XA/XD production site/farm should be installed into a full version of SQL. Many Citrix projects start out as ‘Proof of Concept’ or Trial phase,…
Netscaler-11-Disclaimer-Footer-on-Gateway
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….
Citrix, what if Session Pre-launch could…
*Citrix Session Pre-Launch* Let’s face it. EUC is all about the user experience and Users don’t like waiting around for things. Nor should they, especially when we have tools available to dramatically help. I’m talking about Citrix’s Pre-Launch feature. For those not familiar, Pre-Launch gives you the ability to Launch a users’s session before they actually…