Citrix Federated Authentication Services and the magical Primary Refresh Token (PRT) – How to get it? What are possible workarounds?

This is a question which I am getting asked from customers very frequently and I thought its a good idea to share some views on this topic. If you have found this blog post, I expect you already know what …

17 November 2021 citrixguyblog

Citrix ADC – SSL VPN is breaking SSO to OAuth-based WebApps

Guest Blog from Julian Jakob (@jakob_davidson)

Overview

Quick post about an OAuth-Issue with Citrix ADC’s SSL VPN. There is a missing hint in CTX225084 as this article is only refering to SharePoint deployments. OAuth can make use of …

15 April 2021 citrixguyblog

Citrix ADC – Add a Custom Notification to the Login Page

Have you ever been in the situation when you need to inform the users about a downtime of the Citrix Gateway? In most of the cases the administrator will send out an email with information regarding the downtime of the …

10 April 2020 citrixguyblog

privacyIDEA – Free of charge MFA for your Citrix Gateway

Nowadays there are still a lot of companies who are relying on a single factor authentication when publishing apps and desktops to the internet. Often this is happening because there is not enough budget for the IT department. You should …

30 November 2019 citrixguyblog

Citrix ADC – How to create a High Available Beacon Point for Citrix StoreFront

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 …

16 August 2019 citrixguyblog

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 …

30 November 2018 citrixguyblog

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 …

16 March 2018 citrixguyblog

NetScaler – Native OTP is breaking SSL VPN

If you are using NetScaler OTP authentication on your Gateway watch out when working with SSL VPN. After creating the session profile/policy I was able to connect to the Gateway and access some of the internal ressources. Unfortunately I couldnt …

24 January 2018 citrixguyblog

Citrix NetScaler SD-WAN 101 – Build a Lab Infrastructure

General

I think most of the people in the Citrix community have been reading a lot about the NetScaler SD-WAN the last months. I want to show you, how to configure the appliances to give you a straight start with …

18 October 2017 citrixguyblog

NetScaler – Create Management URL for Native One Time Passwords (OTP)

The OTP feature which is available since NetScaler 12.0 Build 51.24 is a great feature to reduce your operationg costs or implement 2 factor authentication for the first time because your company/customer wanted to save some money instead of investing …