We manage a Citrix farm where users primarily launch a full desktop environment. From there, they can also connect to other applications running in Citrix Silo’s or access external Citrix farms. As an user environment manager (UEM), we utilize Ivanti Workspace Control (IWC). When a user logs onto the primary desktop, the endpoint hostname is […]
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Due to lifecycle management (LCM), we replaced several Citrix NetScaler appliances with new ones. Although we conducted thorough acceptance tests before putting them into production, unfortunately, we experienced an annoying issue once they were operational. Some users complained that they saw a spinning progress bar after they successfully logged on to the Citrix NetScaler. It […]
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As a big fan of Unifi products, I manage multiple Unifi sites from a self-hosted UniFi Network Application across various locations. Sometime after migrating from my UniFi Security Gateway USG-3 to an UniFi UXG Lite and upgrading from UniFi Network Application 7.x.xx to UniFi Network Application 8.x.xx, I suddenly noticed that I could no longer […]
Senior Consultant at PepperByte.
A “security.txt” file is a standard proposed by security researcher Ed Foudil in 2017 as a way for websites to define a security policy. It’s akin to the well-known “robots.txt” file which specifies rules for web crawlers. The security.txt file allows website owners to provide information to security researchers about how to report security vulnerabilities […]
Senior Consultant at PepperByte.
Recently, we worked on upgrading a Citrix NetScaler VPX from version 13.0 to the latest 14.1 build. The Citrix NetScaler VPX, which had been running for quite some time, had not been upgraded because it still used features and functionalities, including Classic Policies, which essentially needed to be replaced by Advanced Policies starting from the […]
Senior Consultant at PepperByte.
In the past, it was possible to upload your NetScaler configuration file (ns.conf) to the Citrix Insight Service, which would then conduct an automated health check of the configuration. You would receive a report detailing any potential issues, best practices not followed, and so on. This was incredibly helpful during setup. Unfortunately, Citrix discontinued this […]
Senior Consultant at PepperByte.
For managing several environments, we utilize Ivanti Automation Manager, leveraging Microsoft SQL Server as the database. According to the documentation, Ivanti Automation Manager does not support “SQL Server Always On availability groups,” and unfortunately, there is no mention of using a “SQL Server multi-subnet failover cluster.” Supported database systems https://help.ivanti.com/res/help/en_US/IA/2024/Admin/Content/48735.htm Within our environments, however, the […]
Senior Consultant at PepperByte.
Recently, I worked on a project where the workload needed to shift from using a Citrix Published Desktop to a physical laptop, with locally installed applications. As always, there are applications that, for various reasons, cannot be moved from the Citrix Published Desktop to the physical laptop. For these applications, we chose to offer them […]
Senior Consultant at PepperByte.
After we recently upgraded our environment to Ivanti Workspace Control 10.12.0.0, we suddenly encountered issues with Citrix Published Applications. Users trying to launch a published application received an error “Application can’t be started…(Instant Passthru could not be resolved) Although we had not made any changes to the Citrix XenApp Publishing integration within the Ivanti Console, […]
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Keep in mind to check your custom Administrative Roles so now and then, so that all required departments are provided the necessary information within the console!
Senior Consultant at PepperByte.