Category: Citrix
Notes from the field: Citrix Cloud Connector we’re having trouble signing you in
Recently I’ve encountered an issue after installing the Citrix Cloud Connector on new Windows Server 2022 machines. The configuration on my first machine went just fine until the sign-in, here my interest got peeked because I still have IE11 on my box, strange that it uses the sign-in for Citrix Cloud. Well let’s test the…
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 lab: Citrix ShareFile and VMware Access SSO
When configuring Citrix ShareFile for an SSO experience with your Microsoft Active Directory setup we have the following guides to use it from Citrix. See How to Configure Single Sign-On (SSO) for ShareFile (citrix.com) Well I’m having my setup with another Identity Provider in my own lab and still want to achieve an managed SSO…
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…
Notes from the field: Another cannot complete your request with Citrix FAS
We’ve all seen it time and time again some misconfiguration with Citrix StoreFront and/or Citrix FAS and you’ll be getting the cannot complete your request message in your screen. Digging in the StoreFront logs and you’ll be seeing the most interesting messages of error kind in which you would think am I a rocket professor?…
Notes from the field: VMware UAG and Citrix ADC scenario’s
On a recent project we were testing some scenario’s for the usage of VMware Blast BEAT through Citrix ADC. For some more information regarding Blast see the following article: VMware Blast Extreme Optimization Guide | VMware Normally you would see that the Citrix ADC setup is an SSL-BRIDGE vserver with accompanying UDP vserver on the…
Notes from the lab: Citrix ADC and VMware ESX 7u1/7u2
First things first. Citrix ADC at this time isn’t supporting VMware ESX 7.0.1 according to the following article: Support matrix and usage guidelines (citrix.com) This is something that obviously will get supported in due time. But for the people who are running it just as I am in the lab you would see issues like…
Notes from the field: Citrix StoreFront forcing connections through Citrix Gateway
On a recent customer project there was the need to migrate off of VDA TLS encryption and migrate the connections from StoreFront to Citrix Gateway. The customer previously had StoreFront direct connections and used the VDA TLS encryption setup to provide a TLS encrypted session to the desktop or applications. The VDA TLS encryption setup…
Notes from the field: Citrix FAS request not supported
On a recent Citrix FAS deployment I’ve encountered the following error: “Request not supported” when logging in to a published application or desktop. Article https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX218941 explains that re-enrollment of the domain controller authentication template or another custom template for Kerberos usage should resolve the error. A little bit of a background on the environment, an…