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Secure ICA connection to VDA using SSL
One of the requirements of using Receiver for HTML5 internally with HTTPS StoreFront sites is to encrypt the ICA connection rather than using clear text. This is a requirement since all modern browsers...
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Create SCVMM VM Template for use with PVS Streamed VM Setup Wizard
This post outlines the general steps taken to prepare a System Center Virtual Machine Manager VM Template to be used with the Citrix Provisioning Services Streamed VM Setup Wizard. It is recommended...
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Citrix Secure Browser
Citrix Secure Browser comes as an on-premise solution with XenApp 7.8+ or as the Secure Browser service from Citrix Cloud. The Citrix Secure Browser edition is designed to combat many different...
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Azure Active Directory authentication to Citrix Cloud
This month Citrix released the ability to authenticate to Citrix Cloud using Azure as the identity provider. This unlocks the potential to secure administrative access to Citrix Cloud in many ways such...
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Active Directory user computer name caching in XenDesktop
In a XenDesktop environment, the Citrix Broker Service caches the hostname of Delivery Controllers, VDA machines and user account names in SQL. This ensures queries of Active Directory users and...
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Installing and configuring Unidesk 4.x
It has been a short time since I wrote the Unidesk 3.x blogs and a lot has changed with Unidesk in version 4. Firstly, the company itself has been bought by Citrix, which was announced at Summit in...
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Create and update the OS Layer in Unidesk 4.0.8
This post describes the actions taken to create an OS Layer in Unidesk 4.0.8 running on Hyper-V with Citrix PVS. You are also shown how to add new versions to the OS Layer for the purpose of patching,...
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Application Layers and Elastic Layering in Unidesk 4.0.8
This post describes the method’s involved in creating Application Layers and Elastic Layers to be used in a Unidesk environment running on Hyper-V with XenDesktop and Citrix PVS. This post assumes you...
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Remove orphaned Delivery Controller from XenApp XenDesktop Site
Remove orphaned, deleted, failed Delivery Controller from a XenApp or XenDesktop site. If one of your Delivery Controllers has completely failed and you deleted it’s computer object from Active...
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NetScaler Client Certificate SSL Handshake failure using SHA1 certificate...
This issue only occurs when using Internet Explorer with NetScaler. When NetScaler performs Client Certificate authentication, the SSL Handshake between the client and server fails if the protocol used...
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StoreFront High Availability and Optimal Routing
Some information on the different StoreFront high availability, aggregation and optimal routing capabilities that exist today using StoreFront from 3.5 up to version 3.8 which was released alongside...
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Using generic unoptimized Skype for Business with XenApp or XenDesktop
When it comes to Skype for Business with XenApp or XenDesktop, your first action will be to optimize the delivery of audio and video calls using the Skype for Business Optimization Pack. In some cases,...
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Reset NetScaler nsroot password
If you lose the nsroot account password, follow the below steps to reset the password back to the default password. For this example, I am running a VPX on Hyper-V. The steps will not be different or...
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Citrix Receiver for Windows Logging
List of the different types of data you can log with Receiver for Windows. General Receiver Logging Add the following values to HKLM\Software\Citrix\ (32-bit) or HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Citrix\...
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Windows Server 2016 Optimisation Script. Tested on: Windows Server 2016 build 14393.0. Description: This script disables services, removes scheduled tasks and imports registry values to optimise...
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The performance improvements of Client Drive Mapping in XenApp & XenDesktop 7.13
The following post shows test results between file transfers over Client Drive Mapping in XenDesktop 7.12 with Citrix Receiver for Windows 4.6 versus XenDesktop 7.13 with Citrix Receiver for Windows...
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Create and manage a NetScaler Cluster
The following guide provides information on how to get a NetScaler cluster up and running. NetScaler clustering can provide active-active traffic processing on 2 or up to 32 NetScaler appliances either...
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Migrate NetScaler HA pair to a NetScaler Cluster
The steps involved to migrate a High Availability NetScaler pair to a cluster without any experienced downtime. To migrate from High Availability to a Cluster, we have to remove the secondary HA...
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NetScaler nFactor authentication – Google reCAPTCHA first factor LDAP second
Integrating reCAPTCHA by Google with Citrix NetScaler is a great move towards protecting internal resources from attackers. If someone or even a bot of computers are trying to brute force an account,...
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ADFS authentication to StoreFront using NetScaler, SAML and Citrix Federated...
Since XenApp and XenDesktop 7.9 and StoreFront 3.6, it is possible to use SAML authentication with a number of external identity providers and integrate that with the Citrix Federated Authentication...
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