Beacons in Citrix StoreFront are being used to detect if the user is trying to access the store from a local or public network. When doing Virtual App and Desktops implementations I like to configure a single FQDN setup for the Citrix Gatway and the StoreFront URL (Example: https://citrix.company.com). With this URL the end users... Continue Reading →
Citrix ADC – RDP Proxy not working on iOS Devices
If you are having problems with launching RDP connections which are tunneled over a Citrix Gateway please be aware there is a known issue when working with iOS devices. I was able to launch the session but immediately received the following error code: After reading through the release notes I found out this is already... Continue Reading →
Citrix WEM – Locked out of Management Console?
During a cleanup task in my lab environment I deleted an OU in Active Directory which contained a security group that has been assigned to the "Full Access" permission in Citrix Environment Management. When I tried connecting to the WEM infrastructure server I received the following error message: "You are not registered as a Workspace Environment... Continue Reading →
OSDBuilder – Reference Image on Steroids
The people who are following me on Twitter might have noticed that I am playing around with OSDBuilder lately. What is OSDBuilder? It is a PowerShell module from David Segura which allows you to do apply several customizations to a Windows OS image. Before I was using OSDBuilder there always have been the same repeating... Continue Reading →
MDT – Automated vDisk Imaging with BIS-F
I thought the imaging of a vDisk via Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and BIS-F is a no-brainer. Unfortunately I was wrong and spend some hours until I got a fully automated setup . So when is the right moment to start BIS-F and seal the image? We can not tigger it during the task sequence otherwise the... Continue Reading →
HDX – Fuzzy images with Thinwire+
- Guest Blog from my colleague Steffen Buck (@buck_steffen) With this blogpost I will tell you the story about fuzzy images within a Citrix XenApp environment. Julian and I worked together in a customer project. The customer has a bunch of branch offices with different bandwidths. In the headquarter and in the most branch offices,... Continue Reading →
Citrix Hypervisor – Unattended Installation with Hotfixes and NVIDIA GRID Driver
I wanted to write about automating a Citrix Hypervisor aka XenServer installation for a long time but never had the time to put all the information together. If you are looking for a guide how to silent install a XenServer with the latest updates and NVIDIA vGPU driver you came to the right place. This... Continue Reading →
NetScaler ADC – HA Failover issues with Cisco ACI
In a current customer project my job is to redesign and migrate an existing Citrix ADC environment. The responsible network administrator told me that they are having issues with the HA failover functionality since a long time. The symptoms have been looking like this: HA Failover is initiated on NS#1 NS#2 becomes the active node... Continue Reading →
ShareFile – Howto migrate an on-premise Storage Zone
In this blog post I will show you the migration process for your on-premise ShareFile Storage Zone controller including the move of the file share to a new server. There will a downtime of the ShareFile service during the migration of the files to the new share. The downtime will depend on the size of... Continue Reading →