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 …
Continue readingCitrix FAS – Notes from the Field
Citrix Federated Authentication Service (FAS) is one of the most highly underrated features of the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop suite. FAS offers you modern authentication methods to your Citrix environment doesn’t matter if it is operated on-premises or running …
Continue readingVirtual Apps and Desktops – 1912 LTSR is breaking Delivery Controller Unattended Installation
When doing unattended installation of the Citrix Delivery Controller take care when you are planning to move to the latest 1912 LTSR release which was released before Christmas. After changing the installation sources from the previous Current Release (1909) the …
Continue readingCitrix 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 …
Continue readingCitrix 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 …
Continue readingCitrix 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 …
Continue readingOSDBuilder – 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 …
Continue readingMDT – 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 …
Continue readingHDX – 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 …
Continue readingCitrix 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 …
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