Vertical Age Technologies, LLC

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…

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…

  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…?…

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…

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…

***EDIT*** The OCD in me couldn’t go through this blog post with an ‘old’ version of VSAN.  VMware just released VSAN 2.0 with vSphere 6 update 2.  My vCenter and the…

Storage is one of the building blocks for having a solid foundation.   Even in a Home Lab you need something you can depend on.  Without a solid performing storage…

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…

*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…

One of my clients is undergoing a complete Datacenter transformation.  With this comes a lengthy list of multiple decisions on what to bring over from the old to the new.…