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,…
***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 ESXI hosts have now been updated. For a nice blog on what’s new, you can read this – (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2016/02/10/whats-new-for-virtual-san-6-2/) *********** In Part 1 of…
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 solution the experience will suffer and no matter how great the application is written, it won’t function. In this blog post i’ll walk through the…
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 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…
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. This post will focus on transitioning their current virtual machine anti-virus protection to a new solution. The new solution is System Center Configuration Manager/Endpoint Protection in…
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…