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…
NTFS Stream: First, change to a directory on an NTFS drive from within a command prompt. Next, type ‘echo hello > test:stream’. You’ve just created a stream named ‘stream’ that is associated with the file ‘test’. Note that when you look at the size of the test it is reported as 0, and the file…
Important Points: What is the process to upgrade the firmware in GSLB configuration? If your GSLB is in Active-Active configuration, you can pick any NetScaler in your GSLB environment and upgrade the firmware. While a particular NetScaler is rebooting, you can go to Traffic Management, GSLB, Sites and check which node is down. After…
NetScaler NSIP shows a white page on the browser while using a custom theme: Note: Below steps work only when using a custom theme. /var/netscaler/gui/admin_ui – folder will have files and folders required to load the GUI admin portal when you connect to NSIP via the browser. When you upgrade your firmware to the next…
Mostly, all the companies that use Citrix NetScaler Gateway, want to customize their NetScaler Gateway URL, like changing the logo, background image, Titles, etc. All of this can be done with a theme and Citrix has a direct way of doing this, by creating something called a portal theme. You can go to this option…
Photo by Oğuzhan Akdoğan on Unsplash It is the Citrix team’s responsibility to check the Citrix license server usage and report to the usage. We do not have license usage monitoring and notification directly in all the Citrix versions. Citrix Director shows the information but we have to login to the Director portal to see this alert. It…
Today’s complex Web configurations often require different responses to HTTP requests that appear, on the surface, to be similar. When users request a webpage, you may want to provide a different page depending on the user’s geographical location, browser specification, or languages the browser accepts, and the order of preference. You might want to drop…
Interview question: All the services assigned to Netscaler vserver are up. But still, vserver is showing as “DOWN” state. Why? This article contains the probable reasons for the status of a virtual server being marked as DOWN on NetScaler. Status of NetScaler Virtual Servers The virtual servers on a NetScaler appliance can have any of…
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…
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…