I got myself a copy of this small book (75 pages). In this book there are step-by-step instructions, including screenshots , about securing your Citrix environment with the help of a Citrix Netscaler.

Although I’m not that deep into the whole Netscaler jibba jabba, I find this book very helpfull and it gives a lot of real world recipes to get the job done.

These are the topics:

• DMZ;
• Triple A;
• Surge/Burst;
• Content Switching;
• Zombie Cleanup;
• Disaster Recovery;
• DOS and attack preventions; (I like this topic )
• Learning application firewall;
• Access Gateway integation forn XA and XD
• Network Management.

Carmel Jacob, good job

Click here or on the image below to get your copy

In the Desktop Studio there is an option to change Advanced Host Details. It is found under: Configuration –> Hosts –> Host Name –> Change Details –> Advanced.

It looks like this:

There are a lot of questions about how-to register the VDA to the desired DDC or DDC’s. Citrix has its own Policies. And those policies are configurable in the Active Directory and in the Desktop Studio. Which is leading? And what are those settings? Must I use Active Directory Discovery (FarmGUID) or Registry Discovery (ListOfDDCs)?

The Setup:

My setup is simple:

• 2x a XenDesktop Controller (XenDesktop and XenDesktop2);
• 1x a Windows7 machine;
• The XenDesktop Controllers are hosting there own XenDesktop farm.

I’ve got myself a copy of the book: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook. In this book there is a lot and I mean really a lot nerdy stuff about the new Hyper-V role in Server 2012. It tells you, in depth, how to install/configure and maintenance a complete Hyper-V environment.

Every chapter is dived into:

• Introduction about the chapter;
• Getting Ready;
• How to do it;
• How it works.

Where possible the are some extra’s like:

• PowerShell or other scripts;
• Best practices;
• Tips and Tricks.

The book covers everything a Hyper-V nerd needs to know

Click on the logo to go directly to the book.

In this blog post I’m trying to explain how-to create a mandatory profile for Server 2012 and Windows 8. This is only for a clean windows installation. The Microsoft best practices are saying that you need to update the Mandatory profile after each software installation/update on the system.

The Test User

First we create a user named: Manny. This user is used to create the profile. You can name it any way you want. Don’t give it any profile. You can create a local user, but my test machine is also a domain controller, so I only can create an AD user.

A couple months ago I made a post about customizing the cloud gateway.The real name for that product is Citrix Receiver for Web and is part of the StoreFront Express. Digging deeper in the Receiver for Web I found that it is really easy to modify the appearance of that site. You don’t have to change all the original files. Only just one.

Terry Duchastel has made a very clean and easy how-to about branding the site. I’ve borrowed some elements from that post and put it in this simple CSS He has made a couple of links in the logon page for helpdesk purpose. That part is skipped (because I don’t want to change the default html structure). The only thing with that type of branding, is that it will be gone when an upgrade is performed.  

Welcome back, in the previous post, we have configured the CAG and the StoreFront server to enable access to the internal XenApp/XenDesktop environment with a web browser. Now we are going to enable the environment to support internal and external access with the Self Service Plugin (Dazzle). First upgrade all receivers to the latest versions. Citrix Receiver 3.2 is necessary to get this working.

Logon to the admin panel on the CAG. Edit the logonpoint that we made in part3. Make changes so that the logonpoint looks like this:

(Click title to read more..)

In my Holiday (At the moment) I’m spending some time reading the book: Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide. Normally I browse through the book and read the chapters that I like. This time was the same, but I noticed that I was reading chapter after chapter. Never had that before So I could say that this new App-V book is really "Boeiend" Like we dutchies say These are the chapters that are covered: http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-application-virtualization-advanced-guide/book#author

As you can see everything is covered and really really deep technical. Just the way we like it. So if you are an App-V dude, don’t hasitate and buy.

I’m not done reading at the moment But I will finish it soon. And keep it in a save place as reference.