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.

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:

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When installing the Citrix Receiver you can give the following setup switch: ALLOWADDSTORE=A|N|S

• A = Always, allow adding and removing stores;
• N = Never, allow adding and removing stores;
• S = Secure (https) stores allowed.

When the client is already deployed the following registry key can be changed to change this behavior:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Woe6432Node\Citrix\Dazzle\AllowAddStore

Welcome back, in this part I’m going to talk about the configuration between the CAG and StoreFront server. While I’m typing this blog there are some new releases. First off all the new version of the Receiver Storefront is v1.1. And there are new Citrix Receivers clients for OSX and Windows. All of my testing is done with the new versions. (As of April 2012)

I want to point out that this blog is how-to configure the StoreFront and the CAG (VPX) without the Self Service Plug-In (that blog comes later). What I’m going to show is how users connect to the environment with the help of a webbrowser (So only the Storefront StoreWeb site).

When creating a new vDisk, there is a question if you want the file to be dynamic or fixed. When choosing dynamic, the size of the VHD file would grow when demanding more space. Until the size has reached the size of the disk. In my environment I have a dynamic vDisk from 60GB. The VHD file size is 30GB. When deleting files from the vDisk this size doesn’t shrink.