QUICK NOTE: Microsoft just updated its support matrix for Lync 2013 (Finally) Where Netscaler is listed as supported for Reverse Proxy and for Load balancing –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dn788945 You can also read the deployment guide for Netscaler and Lync here –> http://www.citrix.com/content/dam/citrix/en_us/documents/partner-documents/microsoft-lync-2013-citrix-netscaler-deployment-guide.pdf
Earlier today, Google published a article regaring how hackers can exploit a vulnerability in the SSL 3.0 protocol. Which you can read more about here –> http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.no/2014/10/this-poodle-bites-exploiting-ssl-30.html You can also read more about the specific attack in detail here –> https://www.openssl.org/~bodo/ssl-poodle.pdf Microsoft recommends that you disable SSL 3.0 using Group Policy on Windows Computer, since …
Today I presented on the Netscaler masterclass on the subject, System Center and Netscaler and here is my presentation –> https://www.slideshare.net/secret/uSy62iG3eeoaFY My talk consisted about using the different integrations between System Center and Netscaler, primarly on * Virtual Machine Manager and Netscaler (Using the load balancer extention to deploy load balancing rules for service templates)* …
With the recent announcement of the ShellShock vulnerability many vendors have done a great job with coming with patching / fixes to close the vulnerability. Citrix has released an knowledge article which shows what Citrix products are affected here –> http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX200217 But! Citrix has also released an update to AppFirewall signature to include fixes to …
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Had a case earlier today where a customer wanted to configure Netscaler to authenticate with UPN instead of SamAccountName. And using UPN instead of SamAccountName makes sense in many cases, since it easier for users to remember their email-address instead of their username. So in this scenario my samAccoutName is msandbu and my UPN is …
On the next Netscaler Masteclass in October I will be presenting a session, regarding System Center and Netscaler. To talk about different forms of integration and monitoring. For those who aren’t familiar with the Masterclass it is a webinar series that is hosted by Citrix, which are hosted once a month. So sign up here …
Now since the release of 10.5 I have been able to test alot of the new features in the latest release. Citrix has also released new versions of Insight and Endpoint clients for Windows & Mac to match the new release. The upgrades have so far for my part have been non-problematic (in case of …
A couple of days ago I was involved in a case where ICA sessions were suddenly disconnected and the users were unable to reconnect. The setup was a simple ICA-proxy access gateway using the latest build (126) and there were no error messages on the Storefront server. After involving Citrix support they recommended that we …
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So there has been some fuzz regarding the latest release of Netscaler 10.5 (also codename Tagma) which should been the death of Java GUI within Netscaler. Not quite there yet.. So what has Citrix improved / added in this feature ? Well it is quite a lot. Citrix states that they have added over 100 …
In the many releases of Netscaler VPX (Starting with builds after 9.2) have had some minor issues with additional latency when running on VMware. This has been a known issue for quite some time, and of course there has been a workaround available as well. NetScaler VPX Appliance Issue ID 0326388: In sparse traffic conditions …
