I am working on a project to migrate from windows 7 embedded OS on Dell WYSE & HP T430 thin clients to a Linux based OS (elux from Unicon) and connecting to Citrix back-end infrastructure running to Citrix 1912 LTSR. This issue is not limited to Linux/eLux and can be seen on Windows end-point also. … Continue reading Black screen with EDT MTU enabled and connecting to Citrix 1912 LTSR from Linux based OS (eLux) on thin client

The below article is divided in three parts, enabling session reliability, configuring the XD/XA TCP profile on the Netscaler and performing ICA latency test.    Session reliability  Session reliability enables sessions to automatically reconnect to their Citrix receiver sessions after recovering from a network glitch, by default the session timeout is 180 seconds or 3 … Continue reading Session reliability and XD/XA TCP profile on XenDesktop 7.15 & NetScaler Build 11.X

Case Study in the area of Distributed Applications and Web Services   Abstract In order to achieve distributed applications based on web services and achieve the goal of collaborative working while accessing file shares securely and communicate using messaging, audio and video; the solution would be to utilise cloud web services such as Amazon web … Continue reading Distributed Applications and Web Services

Thanks to the team at ContolUP, they have created a free logon simulator which provides a detail logon process for the purpose of troubleshooting Citrix VDI logon issues. You can download the free tool from  https://www.controlup.com/controlup-logon-simulator/ Simple and effective  After installing the tool, launch it and populate it with the relevant information.   Click the … Continue reading VDI Logon simulator

The objective of this document is to explain how to create a certificate signing request with a private key using NetScaler, completing the CSR process with the certificate authority, extracting the required certificate files and finally uploading and installing the certificates on hosts. Private Key creation process Logon to the NetScaler as you first need … Continue reading NetScaler and StoreFront SSL certificate creation and install process

There are several boot options to choose from when deciding the vDisk delivery method to end Points, the idea is to deliver a file called the bootstrap file to the end point entities to tell it which PVS server to contact to stream down the image. TFTP With this this method the file is called … Continue reading PVS BDM Partition configuration

Citrix Access Gateway is a secure application access solution that allows users to access applications from anywhere. I will illustrate how I configure end-to-end ICA communication to back-end Citrix resources via the NetScaler Access Gateway. Citrix Components required: NetScaler Gateway NetScaler Load balancer Delivery Controller StoreFront server Resources Public SSL certificate Internal SSL certificate Configuration … Continue reading Citrix Access Gateway and StoreFront configuration

  NB: Please keep in mind that accessing the Monitoring DB will cause Excel to read a lot of data from it. This means that you’ll see Excel consume significant CPU and RAM resources and you might see some overhead on the broker as well as on the SQL server Prerequisite:  You need to have Power … Continue reading Extracting historical data from the Citrix Monitoring service OData API.

Concept Enable HA (High availability) while retaining the initial configuration of the Primary NetScaler.  This is accomplished by ensure the initial NetScaler with the working configuration initiates the synchronization and not the NetScaler with “blank” configuration.  Otherwise you will be left with two NetScaler’s with “blank” configuration Steps to perform High availability You will need … Continue reading Enabling NetScaler HA Pair Synchronization

Introduction A content switch virtual server enables a single entry point for traffic which then gets directed to different load balancing servers hosting different content (see below diagram from Citrix Docs.) You can use content switching to configure the appliance to redirect requests to different servers with different content on the basis of various client … Continue reading End Point Analysis with content switching for Access Gateway (NS 10.5 Build 57.7 inc)