Most of the time when I come into existing NetScaler deployments, it is often only deployed as a simple load balancer to do SharePoint / Exchange or some web front-end, while that is of course a viable option this can also be done with other viable options such as HAProxy, Nginx Plus and so on, […]
Improving website performance using Citrix NetScaler Read More »
If you’re a large enterprise and have multiple NetScaler instances for different purposes such as a VPX for Exchange or SharePoint and another one to NetScaler Gateway and even a cluster for front-end eCommerce webshops, and with mulitple locations in the mix as well there are a couple of things you want to have place
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NetScaler IP Reputation which is a pretty new feature and is as of now only included as part of Platinum, is one of the few Cloud Based Services that Citrix has included in NetScaler so far. Now IP Reputation is a pretty simple yet effective means to get updated list of “known bad IP addresses”
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One of the cool features Citrix MAS which most haven’t seen yet, is the ability to use it as a NITRO API Proxy, So this is something that I spoke about on the MYCUGC Networking webinar, so I decided to write a blogpost on it as well. So for instance in a fully managed enviroment,
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I’m currently invovled in a PoC on setting up a redudant NetScaler deployment in Microsoft Azure, now it’s been some time since I had a session on setting up NetScaler and Azure on the NetScaler Masterclass so I decided to do a post on setting up High-availability pair NetScaler on Azure and what you need
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So I noticed the other day that Citrix and Equnix are teaming up in order to bring the cloud “closer” to the customers by leveraging SD-WAN technology from Citrix and connecting it directly with a Equinix Performance hub. So why would this be an option? For instance customers who are leveraging Azure or maybe Office365
Citrix SD-WAN and Equinix better together Read More »
One of the things I often find in Azure deployments is the lack of RBAC usage, which is quite easy now in the new portal and integrated quite easily with AzureAD. By default the one that creates the a Azure Subscription has the role of Owner which has full rights to view/manage and can create
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Now with the release of XenDesktop 7.12 I’ve been quite busy testing the new preview of Adaptive Transport for HDX. Now one thing that it took some time for me to understand is that as it states “Transport Protocol” so you can still use ThinWire for instance over Adaptive Transport just like you did before.
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So today Microsoft released a public preview of Pass-trough authentication Azure AD which allows for SSO against Azure Active Directory without the hazzle of Active Directory Federation Services + Certificates and Public IP addresses. You can download the new version here –> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47594 Now a couple of cool things behind this concept, the Pass-trough authentication
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So with XenDesktop 7.12 released today I finally got a bit more information on what’s available in the new release. One of the features which was announced was Local Host Cache support is finally back, before I got the time to dig into the material Bas Van Kam did a great blog post on it
Citrix XenDesktop 7.12 and new updates and in-depth on HDX Enlightened Data Transport Read More »
