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Citrix Synergy 2017 Recap, News & Product Updates

[fa icon="pencil'] Posted by Lewan Solutions [fa icon="calendar'] June 16, 2017 [fa icon="tags'] Managed Services, Virtualization, Citrix XenMobile, Citrix, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft, Citrix XenApp, Citrix Storefront, Citrix XenDesktop, Lewan News & PR, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Azure

This year’s annual Citrix Synergy conference took place in sunny Orlando, FL at the end of May. The event never disappoints and once again indicates that it’s going to be an exciting year for Citrix customers!

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Citrix Profile Management Done Correctly (Part 2 of 2)

[fa icon="pencil'] Posted by Lewan Solutions [fa icon="calendar'] April 27, 2017 [fa icon="tags'] Citrix, Microsoft, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, Google, Microsoft Outlook

This post is a continuation of Citrix Profile Management Done Correctly Part 1.

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Citrix Profile Management Done Correctly (Part 1 of 2)

[fa icon="pencil'] Posted by Lewan Solutions [fa icon="calendar'] March 23, 2017 [fa icon="tags'] Citrix, Microsoft Exchange, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop

Are you experiencing slow logons for your Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop environments? Is it slow even though it’s running on the latest greatest hardware and the environment is brand new?

The culprit is likely a misconfigured Profile Management solution.

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Citrix Summit Recap: New Product Releases & Feature Updates

[fa icon="pencil'] Posted by Lewan Solutions [fa icon="calendar'] March 8, 2017 [fa icon="tags'] Virtualization, Citrix XenMobile, Citrix, Citrix XenServer, Linux, Citrix XenApp, Citrix Storefront, Citrix XenDesktop, Networking, Unidesk, Cloud Computing, NetScaler, Microsoft Azure, Nutanix

It’s coming up on two months since I attended Citrix Summit 2017 and there have been numerous releases, products and features I’m now excited to be able to share with you! Here's a rundown of what's new.

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How to Score an A Grade on Your Citrix NetScaler SSL Virtual Servers

[fa icon="pencil'] Posted by Lewan Solutions [fa icon="calendar'] February 14, 2017 [fa icon="tags'] Virtualization, Citrix, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, NetScaler

Have you had your external SSL based Virtual Servers on a Citrix NetScaler scanned? Scanning with free utilities such as ssllabs.com can ensure that you have the proper certificate chain on the NetScaler to avoid any certificate errors on browsers. In addition, this can flag any security issues with your SSL based virtual servers.

But what if you don’t get an “A”? Let’s look at what causes a lower letter grade, and what you can do to improve your score.

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How to Fix Applications Not Working with Citrix MCS or PVS

[fa icon="pencil'] Posted by Lewan Solutions [fa icon="calendar'] December 6, 2016 [fa icon="tags'] Virtualization, Citrix, Microsoft, Managed Infrastructure & Helpdesk

I always encourage clients to use the single image management solutions provided by Citrix. When done correctly, Machine Creation Services (MCS) and Provisioning Services (PVS) deployments can significantly decrease administrative overhead of managing images.

Updating the gold/master image and deploying read-only copies ensures not only consistency and ease of use in the environment, but makes the environment user-proof. Unfortunately, sometimes when clients implement MCS or PVS, it doesn’t play well with their current applications. These hurdles can make a client want to abandon single image management, but we can utilize tools that are already built into the Active Directory environment to resolve these issues. Here's how.

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How to Perform Single Image Management in Azure Resource Manager with Citrix XenApp

[fa icon="pencil'] Posted by Phillip Martin [fa icon="calendar'] October 12, 2016 [fa icon="tags'] Virtualization, Citrix, Microsoft, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, How To Guide, PowerShell, Microsoft Azure

Citrix and Microsoft appear to be re-kindling their partnership and Azure could soon be the Citrix preferred cloud hosting solution. Check out this video at the 13:00 minute mark.

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Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) vs. Machine Creation Services (MCS)

[fa icon="pencil'] Posted by Lewan Solutions [fa icon="calendar'] September 30, 2016 [fa icon="tags'] Virtualization, Citrix, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, Managed Infrastructure & Helpdesk

Deploying Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) with your new XenApp/XenDesktop site? Consider the benefits of Machine Creation Services (MCS) first.

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NetScaler Website Redirection - The Nice & Elegant Way

[fa icon="pencil'] Posted by Lewan Solutions [fa icon="calendar'] August 10, 2016 [fa icon="tags'] Citrix, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, How To Guide, NetScaler

Did you know that you can configure NetScaler so users don’t have to type in the https:// when going to StoreFront or the NetScaler Gateway URLs?

More often than not, this is accomplished using a crude method in which port 80 http Virtual Server is configured on the same IP as the https site and the Redirect URL field in the protection section of the Virtual Server is set. While this works just fine, it unfortunately also renders a permanently Down Virtual Server in the Load Balancing screen.

Good news though, there is a better way to configure the redirection that renders all of the Virtual Servers as Up by using Responder Policies.

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Bug FIx: View Templates Folder in Azure Resource Manager Premium Storage

[fa icon="pencil'] Posted by Phillip Martin [fa icon="calendar'] July 20, 2016 [fa icon="tags'] Citrix, Microsoft, Citrix XenApp, How To Guide, PowerShell

I recently ran into a snag where my Citrix XenApp Session Host was created in my Azure Premium Storage account. When you capture an image as a template, Azure places the template in the same storage account in which the server is currently running.

The Template folder is hidden by default in the ARM portal. You can use Azure Storage Explorer to navigate and see the Templates folder to get the template path and vhd name. However, the Storage Explorer doesn’t show the Template folder in the Premium Storage account. I can only guess that this is a bug. 

Here’s a work around by running a few PowerShell commands. Now I’m able to see the Template folder right from the ARM portal. 

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