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Citrix printing internals cheat sheet… Part one!

October 27, 2015 by Bas van Kaam 1 Comment

Average time to read: 9 minutes

A user clicks print, what happens next? When Citrix is thrown in the mix things work a bit differently. Although the Microsoft print basics still apply, and I’ll discuss them shortly, the way that print traffic will, or can be, routed throughout your environment depends on, one: the physical setup of your machines and printers and, two: the Citrix (print) policies configured. Due note that I will only focus on native Citrix printing and won’t go over any of the third party solutions out there.

Citrix NetScaler… The basics continued, part five. Global Server Load Balancing!

October 20, 2015 by Bas van Kaam 1 Comment

Average time to read: 6 minutes

From a NetScaler perspective Global Service Load Balancing (GSLB) can seem pretty intimidating. In short, GSLB is used as a way to manage and control the traffic flow between two (or more) separate physical locations (data centers) that are, in most cases, geographically dispersed. This can be for either load balancing purposes, high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery and so on. The mechanism behind GSLB is based on Microsoft DNS.

My personal Community Edition… The best of September 2015!

October 7, 2015 by Bas van Kaam Leave a Comment

Average time to read: 2 minutes

The amount of useful, interesting and fun to read community content in the form of blog posts, webinars, podcasts, tools etc. being shared each month can be overwhelming sometimes. This is my second attempt; I did one for August as well, in collecting some of the most popular blog post shared within the EUC community. Have fun reading.

Houdini’s guide to Citrix printing… My contribution to the first ever Virtual Expo!

October 6, 2015 by Bas van Kaam 1 Comment

Average time to read: < 1 minute

This was/is the title of my presentation, which I presented at the first ever Virtual Expo powered by Xenappblog.com on September 30^th 2015. And what a ride it turned out to be. A great event with some top-notch speakers, awesome content and for me personally it was my first ever webinar. Have a look at the recording below. I really enjoyed some of the research involved, making the slides and of course presenting all this during the Virtual Expo conference, a great initiative. Let me know what you think. Note that I’m also working on a detailed blog post to go with it, give me a few weeks. And yes, I know, I’ll make sure to keep an eye on my mouse pointer the next time :)

Citrix NetScaler… The basics continued, part four. What about SSL?

October 1, 2015 by Bas van Kaam 5 Comments

Average time to read: 9 minutes

I think we all know port 443 and the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol that goes with it right? When securing our inbound (incoming) as well outbound (outgoing) network traffic we have to deal with things like certificates, public and private key’s, certificate authorities (CA), and so on and so forth. This can be confusing. Where do certificates get applied, what is a CA, what types of certificates are there and which ones do we use? Also, once applied, how does the NetScaler actually know who it is communicating with and how is traffic secured? Using the NetScaler to offload SSL you say? Let’s have a look.

Citrix… What they’re missing or might need to work on. Just thinking out loud here.

September 15, 2015 by Bas van Kaam Leave a Comment

Average time to read: 10 minutes

During the last year or so I had couple of interesting discussions (trough CUGC, Twitter, real life etc.) on what Citrix might need to do from a business and application development perspective. Perhaps sell some of their products, reinvent, recode or reinvest in existing technology, innovate (which they’re doing) perhaps buy another company and so on and so forth. Of course it’s always easy to judge or come up with comments like these being a so-called sideline critic, but it’s not my intention to be the ‘wise guy’ here, I’m just thinking out loud, that is all.

Liquidwarelabs ProfileUnity & FlexApps overview. Version 6.5 soon to be released!

September 12, 2015 by Bas van Kaam Leave a Comment

Average time to read: 4 minutes

Last week Jason E Smith, who is the Global Director of User Management and Performance Solutions within Liquidwarelabs, showed and told me a thing or two about ProfileUnity, their User Environment Manager, including their application layering a.k.a. FlexApp solution. They are on the verge of releasing ProfileUnity / FlexApp version 6.5 (as of early October) which currently holds the status of Release Candidate 1, which is the one Jason showed me.

Citrix NetScaler… The basics continued, part three. High Availability!

September 2, 2015 by Bas van Kaam 4 Comments

Average time to read: 5 minutes

I think we are all familiar with the term High Availability, or HA in short. It simply means that if a single machine or system fails we will have another equally configured system, or multiple, in standby mode or actively participating a.k.a. active / active, ready to take over when needed. This way we won’t loose any of the functionality that the failing, or failed, machine was providing us with. Which in the case of the NetScaler could be anything from a Gateway to Load Balancing, SSL offloading, Content Switching and more. Needless to say that the Citrix NetScaler has some nifty build-in HA capabilities as well.

My personal Community Edition… The best of August 2015!

September 1, 2015 by Bas van Kaam Leave a Comment

Average time to read: 3 minutes

The amount of useful, interesting, fun to read, watch or listen to, community content in the form of blog posts, webinars, podcasts, presentations, tools etc. being shared each month can be overwhelming. It’s hard to keep track. Here are some of my personal picks during August. Enjoy!

Citrix FMA Internals… Power Management – Presentation video + slides!

August 24, 2015 by Bas van Kaam Leave a Comment

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A few moths ago, back in June, Mick Glover and I gave a presentation at the E2EVC in Berlin. Our topic was FMA Power Management. We talked about what it is, how it works, where to configure it, some specifics you need to be aware of before considering or implementing Power Management, what some of the advantages are, some of the things still missing and we gave a few examples on some more advanced Power Management features using PowerShell including a brief look into the future of Power Management.

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