Follow the below steps to create a custom block page for blocked sites in pihole for HTTP sites: In terminal, run sudo nano /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf If you do not have this file, create a file with the same name in the same path. If it is already there, you will see PRIVACYLEVEL=0 in the file already….
Issue: The user’s VDI has a client drive redirection policy enabled, and it is set to prohibit drives. From the VDI user is not able to see his laptop’s drives ( C and D etc). This is as per design and working as expected. When this policy is prohibited, by default, the user cannot see…
We’ve seen an issue recently: Users login to netscaler gateway url and click on the application. It shows the steps like connection in progress, loading profile, negotiating capabilities, processing group policies etc, and immediately disappears. Troubleshooting: In Citrix director, under trends, logon performance. Check the logon performance time for the users who had this issue….
Let’s look at steps on configuring a Citrix high available site for applications. These are high level steps only. Not a step by step article. Based on your user count and how critical is the application, create 4 DDCs. Two in North India Datacenter, and two in south India datacenter (or you can create 1…
Photo by Peter Jones on Unsplash Below are some of the documentation practices that I came across. Create documentation as you design and implement something new in the environment. From Owen’s mycugc post, Check if you pass Bus Test. When you write a script add a help section explaining what it does. Similarly, when you…
Issue: When users try to open the application, they get a black rectangle screen instead of the whole application. Cause: The issue could be because of the monitor(s) that users attached to their laptop (or desktop). Ask users to remove all the external monitors and test launch the application on their laptop screen alone. Solution:…
A GSLB configuration consists of a group of GSLB entities on each appliance in the configuration. These entities include the following: GSLB Sites GSLB Services GSLB Virtual Servers Load Balancing or Content Switching Virtual Servers ADNS Services DNS VIPs GSLB Sites A typical GSLB setup consists of data centers, each of which has various network…
By default client drives, usb drives, com ports, printers etc redirection from user’s devices to citrix applications is allowed. On Windows machines, printer redirection works. They can see their local printers in citrix application sessions. But in macbook it doesnt work by default. Follow below process to make it work in macbook. Solution: Create a…
ICA Only: If you don’t have enough Citrix Gateway Universal licenses installed for all of your Gateway users, then we can use ICA Only option. This option disables SmartAccess and VPN features but does not require any additional licenses. Note: most Citrix ADC Editions come with built-in Gateway Universal Licenses. If we dont need smartaccess,…
Storefront Aggregation A core functionality of StoreFront is the ability to aggregate and de-duplicate “common” application and desktop resources from multiple Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) Sites. This functionality is commonly referred to as multi-site aggregation. Duplicate applications and desktops are identified based on matching Application Display Name and Application Category properties. This functionality has been available in…