Category: ADC
Notes from the field: Citrix NetScaler, partitions, performance, and pain
On a recent joint project with my partner in crime Anton van Pelt there was a long outstanding support issue which needed our dedicated attention. Long story short we have a customer in a nice new greenfield which got migrated from F5 to NetScaler and the introduction of Citrix Gateway and migrated the backend to…
Notes from the field: Citrix Gateway DTLS fail-over UDP/TCP
On a recent troubleshoot a customer complained that after a failover all ICA sessions would do a fallback to TCP and not uplift again to UDP until the DTLS checkmark would be disabled/enabled Well this worked in the past but since 13.0 build 58.x we have the ability to create a DTLS listener VIP for…
Notes from the field: Citrix Gateway Advanced Auth RADIUS SSO not working
In the last couple of months, I came across some NetScaler redeployments regarding the latest CVE and on the other hand moving over from basic policies to advanced policies. For this to work we are depending on the AAA setup with authentication profiles to combine it all with a Citrix Gateway deployment. For RADIUS there…
Notes from the lab: Some magic, integrating Citrix resources with VMware Access
Like my friend Edwin de Bruin explains in his blog(s): Migrating from Citrix Gateway to VMware Access Workspace One: Part one (debruinonline.net) and Migrating from Citrix Gateway to VMware Access Workspace One: Part Two! (debruinonline.net) he expects me to deliver you all some magic. For this blog I’m going to start with the necessary resource…
Notes from the field: Citrix NetScaler Azure subscription-based licensing
Just a quick blog regarding a deployment model of Citrix NetScaler on Azure. There is an option to use subscription-based licensing for a deployment, meaning you pay by the hour it is running in Azure. See Deploy a Citrix ADC VPX instance on Microsoft Azure for more details. This setup was chosen by a customer…
Notes from the field: The Kerberos chronicles, the one with Citrix NetScaler
The same as my previous Kerberos blog but this time we have Citrix NetScaler in the mix with drumrolls… Kerberos Constrained Delegation henceforth to be known as KCD. This in an setup derived from the following article: Tutorial: Azure Active Directory single sign-on integration with Citrix ADC SAML Connector for Azure AD (Kerberos-based authentication) –…
Notes from the field: Citrix XenMobile / CEM don’t touch that store name!
Just a quick shout out blog to stress the importance of the store name that XenMobile / CEM uses. This default store name is called “Store”. If you by any means have changed this store name to anything else, you might run in two issues depending on different scenarios. Scenario 1: Citrix XenMobile or CEM…
Notes from the lab: Citrix StoreFront 2203 and the cannot complete request
A quick blog regarding my Citrix lab upgrade from Citrix Virtual Apps and Dekstops (CVAD) 1912CU4 to 2203 and the little StoreFront snag I hit. Summary of my setup: Two Delivery controllers Two StoreFront servers cohabitating with Director as well Two FAS servers Two WEM servers One unmanaged VDA worker And a Citrix ADC HA…
Notes from the field: Citrix Files / ShareFile MDX SSO not working
At my latest Citrix Endpoint Management customer there were some issues regarding Citrix Files / ShareFile not achieving an SSO throughout the MDX/MAM enabled applications. Everything outside the MDX/MAM application bubble would work just fine only when tunnelling through the internal only application this would fail. The setup was comprising of a dual IDP setup…
Notes from the field: Citrix CEM / XenMobile enabling Certificate Based Authentication (CBA) after enrollment
I think any consultant at some time encountered the scenario of username / password authentication being the only authentication on the Citrix Gateway setup of Citrix CEM / XenMobile. Afterwards advising the customer to use Certificate Based Authentication (CBA) and then also the sad news okay we need to reenroll all your devices for this…