Images by Susanne F, Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay, and my own customization. This is part 2 on Hugo site creation and hosting on GitHub pages. Check out part 1 of this deployment for better understanding. Contents: How to continue with site content update GitHub Actions Different ways to host your site Export site from WordPress to Hugo…
Photo by Haupes Co. on Unsplash When a new employee joins a company, as part of the onboarding process, the service desk team receives a ticket for VDI assignment for that employee. They route it to the Citrix team for VDI assignment. It is a very small task for the Citrix team which is, pick…
Images by Susanne F, Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay, and my own customization. I have used a few hosting websites like Hpage, wordpress.com, etc.. for a long time. But I wanted to host my website on something free and fast. I thought of using GitHub pages, but converting my WordPress site to Github pages was a very big…
Somewhere down the line, Citrix Admins need to upgrade their Citrix Site from one version to another, Example, from XenDesktop 71.5 LTSR to CVAD 1912 LTSR. For Citrix site upgrade, we have to mount the product ISO in Citrix server and run the setup file. But What about VDIs? Based on your company’s VDA usage,…
It is really exciting to share something that we know to all the people in the community. I recently started youtube video series on how to install and configure complete virtual apps and desktops (XenDesktop) site. Go through below videos and check them out: Virtual Apps and Desktops (XenDesktop) Basic Definitions: Virtual Apps and Desktops (XenDesktop)…
As part of citrix VDI life cycle, citrix admins would be tasked to update master images and update machine catalogs based on the same. For PVS update process is completely different. For MCS dynamic VDIs, we already have a GUI option in studio to update machine catalog with updated snapshot. But for MCS static VDIs,…
One of the issues where users might end up in bad mornings is at loading their VDI. If their UPM profile is huge, it takes long time for them to login. In case if we end up a user with long logon time issues, we will first have a look at user’s citrix UPM profile….
As part of day to day tasks, one of the major activity for citrix admins is to maintain free VDIs in xendesktop delivery groups. If we dont have registered free VDI machines, and when new users try to connect to VDI, they would get errors like “Cannot start VM”. So, we have to make sure…
Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay From the Storefront or Delivery Controller server. Request new certificate (either from internal or public Certification Authority) via MMC snapin Certificates -> Computer Store. Open IIS Manager. Expand server name and sites. Right click the site where Citrix for web is published (probably Default Site if you are not sure). Click “Edit…
Photo by Mehmet Turgut Kirkgoz from Pexels I was given a task to pull certificate information from our Citrix sites and servers. There are some free and paid tools to capture the information but for some reason, I wanted to write a script for it. This script pulls certificate information from websites, internal or external websites, and saves…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images</a> from Pixabay</a> Issue: Storefront servers are load-balanced with a NetScaler VIP. When users click the logout button, they should be redirected to the home page of the Netscaler VIP again. Solution: You have to modify the strings.en.js file in the C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Citrix\NameOfyourStore-Web\custom folder. Remove everything and add below content to the strings.en.js file….
If you want to test Netscaler gateway authentication or if you’re testing a Netscaler gateway theme, but don’t want to spin up servers for storefront and DDCs, you can enable the client choices option in Netscaler so that users are presented with some default client choices when they login to Netscaler gateway portal. Client choices…
If you want to install a test certificate on Netscaler to use it with Netscaler gateway or storefront, use the below commands. You will still get certificate error warnings but your Netscaler gateway or storefront load-balanced URL will work. In the below commands, change company.lab to your domain name (like homelab.local). If you need a…
I have pi-hole setup. Recently, I have updated iphone OS to 14.0.1. From the moment iphone is updated to OS version 14, internet stopped working on iphone. Toggled private address option under wifi, but no use. I have changed dns to public dns and everything worked as normal. Solution: I had to edit /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf file….
You need to choose a user attribute to store user’s alternate email in user properties while configuring netscaler SSPR. Issue: You’ve chosen a user attribute which is not in use, and configured netscaler SSPR. User, when logging in for the first time to netscaler gateway url, got questions to fill and enter alternate email id…
Export and Import Citrix ADC (Netscaler) portal theme: If you have a lot of Netscaler devices to manage, creating themes on all those Netscalers will be difficult. You can use the below process to create a theme on one Netscaler and copy it to other Netscalers. If you have too many Netscalers, connecting to Netscalers…