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  • Notes from the field: NetScaler Upgrade Articles

    Quick win see the following article for the all you can need regarding NetScaler upgrade articles: https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX220371

  • Notes from the field: XenServer 7 mouse alignment MCS/PVS machines and XenServer 7 MCS XenTools

    Came across two bugs on a XenServer 7 deployment in combination with XenDesktop/XenApp 7.12 worth sharing: The first is a mouse alignment issue which results in VNC mouse pointer slowness or disalignment of the pointer on a console session in XenServer, the following can check the status of the usb and usb_tablet parameters on the…

  • Notes from the field: XenMobile CBA didn’t I revoked that cert?

    Just to start it off I’m assuming that the following is in place and fully configured and you are familiar with these concepts: – XenMobile 10.x cluster (XMS) – Active Directory (AD) – Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) – Active Directory Certificate Template(s) – NetScaler Gateway (NSGW) – Certificate Based Authentication (CBA) Which all of…

  • Notes from the field: XenMobile caveats

    I’ve done a couple of Xenmobile implementations and found at least two interesting caveats that stood out, when implementing XenMobile and finding resolutions for the problems you’ll get when not adding it in your deployment. No.1 NTP got introduced again with XenMobile 10.3.x to be configured in the appliance, a little tip enter in an…

  • Notes from the field: Netscaler Insight Centre not showing data

    I’ve come across an issue regarding the Netscaler Insight Centre were data is not showing all the time, at random it just fails on reporting and shows nothing. It seems that after a talk with support there is memory corruption occuring when the usage of insights memory is above 75%. Resolution shall be active in…

  • Notes from the field: Netscaler Insight Centre

    I came across an issue with Netscaler Insight with the latest build for Netscaler 11 and the same for Insight, logging did not reach the appliance regarding GUI flowcharts, we did see traffic generate from and to the Insight centre but no updates in the GUI screen, after some digging around and reporting this with…

  • Notes from the field: XenMobile the road so far

    Well it was time for an update regarding some XenMobile actions from the field, attached is an PDF with some of my ranting, enjoy the read: Notes from the field XenMobile the road so far  

  • Netscaler VPX Multiple PE

    Came across this article today http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX139485 and basically changed my current vpx3000 2vpcu and 4gb to 6gb and 4vcpu and got the goodness!

  • XenMobile some field stuff

    Thought I would share some XMS 10.1 knowledge: the tool you need when creating apns: https://xenmobiletools.citrix.com/XenMobileCloudTools-3.0/home/ the tool you need when diagnosing the environment (still BETA): https://xmdiag.cgm.citrix.com/users/signin the rolling patch #1 for XMS10.1 (cannot find this from the Citrix site but old trusty google does):                                                http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX201757 If you use SSL offloading with the netscaler test,…

  • Citrix TAAS / CIS

    A greatly unknown toolkit by many is the online Tools as a Service from Citrix where you can upload the dumpfiles of: XenDesktop XenServer XenApp Netscaler Provisioning XenMobile ByteMobile CloudBridge CPBM CloudPlatform And there will run an automatic analysis of the uploaded dump files with common issues and best practices, a nice quick and easy…

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