I’m running my lab for years now. And it is always a changing thing. But last week I got my hands on an very old Citrix NetScaler MPX5550. It’s way past his warranty and I saved it from getting shredded 😉 In my home I have a small 19″ rack…
Random background in StoreFront and NetScaler logon pages
Perform the following steps to get a random background picture on the StoreFront and NetScaler logon page. For a demo visit https://portal.tyl.nl and refresh the page a couple of times. StoreFront: First we start by gathering all the background pictures you want (dont forget copyrights) ; Upload the pictures to…
Harden on-premises XenMobile appliance(s)
The Citrix XenMobile (Citrix Endpoint Management) on-premises appliance comes default with no hardening. This means that running SSLLabs against the mdm ssl_bridge you will get the following score: As you can see not the best setup 😉 I noticed that a lot of XenMobile, on-premises, environments aren’t hardend. So here…
Citrix ADC / NetScaler update to LDAPS
Microsoft is going to release an update which will turn off unsigned LDAP requests on Domain Controllers. This update will be released in March this year (2020). More information here: ADV190023 Although I assume everyone is already using LDAPS instead of LDAP like everyone already mitigated the ADC’s back in…
Citrix ADC / NetScaler Client IP or Subnet Black and Whitelist
Because all the commotion about the NetScaler vulrenability I decided to share my Client IP black and white list. This script will create a pattern set which you can fill with ip’s or subnets. This pattern set is used in a policy expression which is used in a responder policy.…
Citrix Endpoint Management in combination with Android Enterprise
Update 21-01-2022: The working order it a bit different so this blogpost is updated. Since Android Enterprise is the way forward, I decided to write up a complete walk-through how-to implement this in a Citrix Endpoint Management (XenMobile) environment. You can enable and use this in the On-Premises and Cloud…
Citrix ShareFile User Migration Script
Here is a nice PowerShell script I’ve created to migrate user from a specific Storage Zone to another Storage Zone. You can batch migrate users so it will only do the amount specified. Run the script and it will ask for ShareFile credentials. Those will be saved in a file…
Self Service Plugin / StoreFront / Merchandising Server / Citrix Access Gateway (Part4)
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…
Self Service Plugin / StoreFront / Merchandising Server / Citrix Access Gateway (Part3)
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…
Self Service Plugin / StoreFront / Merchandising Server / Citrix Access Gateway (Part2)
In Part1 I was talking (euhh typing) about the Citrix Receiver and the Self Service Plugin. Today it’s time for the Merchandising server (I will type MS from now on). The MS is an virtual appliance which helps you deploy/update/configure/maintain the Citrix Receiver and plug-ins for Windows and OSX systems.…
Self Service Plugin / StoreFront / Merchandising Server / Citrix Access Gateway (Part1)
Here’s a little blog post about the StoreFront Express (CloudGateway Express) behind a Citrix Access Gateway and the Merchandising server. What I want is to deliver the Self Service Plugin to the end users as easy/simple as possible. In Part 1 I’m going to show you what the Citrix Receiver…