Category «Citrix»

Sophos SATC woes with Sophos Anti-Virus

I had to write this blog post after a rather long haul in attempting to resolve an issue with a Sophos XG Firewall and its Web Filtering Policies. The Web Filtering Policies on XG Firewalls are assigned to users based on them being logged into a windows machine via a certain IP. This is fine …

Azure and Citrix MCS Snapshot Script

Various conversations on twitter have triggered this blogpost. For those of you working in Azure and using MCS to provision servers, this will come in handy. So; MCS in azure will give you an option to rollback to your previous image and you can also use snapshots with managed disks; its not always the solution …

Getting Started with Citrix SDWAN

A lot of organisations today use an expensive MPLS network to connect all their branch offices. With the fast emergence of online services and consumer driven products like Office 365, these networks are becoming increasingly strained. Where an MPLS network was originally designed for Thin Client and more traditional share-based access, we are now seeing …

Citrix Farm Migration and Advanced Filtering

I was in a situation recently where a migration was necessary between two separate Citrix Farms, one being live and long standing with published applications and another being a published desktop. Migrating users between these two environments was straight forward using some powershell scripting to apply some filtering to the old farm. In earlier releases …

Citrix SDWAN – DHCP Bug – Fixed

In the latest build of SDWAN there is currently a big relating to the configuration editor UI. When setting up a site, make sure you hit the Audit button before placing any config. When delivering DHCP on a client SDWAN appliance if these below steps are not followed the DHCP server will not start but …

Keeping your NetScaler A+ Rating on SSL Labs

If you think you have a NetScaler A+ rating on SSL labs, re-try your test and you might not anymore. The new AEAD Ciphers have been added to NetScaler as of build 12.0.56.20. To maintain an A+ Rating you need to modify your cipher suite to include these ciphers. Here is a code snippet for …