Hereby an overview from blog posts I created on the Nutanix site.
FSLogix Containers Cleanup Script
28 February 2024 : Script is updated with extra option to only delete Office cache container. When you have a share with FSLogix containers you probably want to keep this in sync with you active directory. Users who are deleted, inactive or disabled can still claim space on the file…
Create a Microsoft Failover Cluster on Nutanix
This simple blog post will show you how to create a Microsoft Failover Cluster on Nutanix. (Focussing only on the witness disk). There are some blogposts available already: https://next.nutanix.com/installation-configuration-23/microsoft-failover-cluster-msft-on-nutanix-38573 https://www.vmwaremine.com/2015/09/04/deploy-microsoft-failover-cluster-on-nutanix/ But not one is showing the real steps for the witness disk. So I decided to share this with you.…
Citrix ADC / NetScaler IPv6 Black and Whitelist
In this blog post from begining 2020 I created a black and white list for IPv4. Here is an update to achieve the same but then for IPv6. If you dont have IPv6 running already read this post 😉 Note 1: The defaults are just for example and you need…
Enabling IPv6 on Citrix ADC and create simple IPv6 to IPv4 proxy
I’m seeing more and more IPv6 implementations in the wild. And even IPv6 only Citrix ADC gateways. I decided to write this blog post to get a head start how-to enable IPv6 and create a simple IPv6 load balancer (with IPv4 backend service) on the Citrix ADC. First we need…
Cleaning up VM SnapShots on Nutanix without breaking Citrix MCS
When you are running Citrix VADs on a Nutanix HCI environment you are one of the lucky ones having an awesome infrastructure. (Or when you are not happy about it give me a call/email, and I make sure you will be happy again). The only thing is all those snapshots…
Running Nutanix Community Edition On An External Disk
My lab is (was) running a VMware ESX cluster which I wanted te change to Nutanix Community Edition (CE). One requirement to run Nutanix is at least 2 disks. My Intel NUCs are model NUC8i7BEK and only have space for 1 NVME disk. There is an extra SATA connector available…
Warn Users They Are Using a Legacy Browser
Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer will be out of supported starting 15 July 2022 for certain Windows 10 versions. (more info here). Here is a responder policy for the Citrix ADC which you can bind to a gateway, lb, cs, etc to alert users they need to use a different…
Rewrite StoreFront Logo Based On Group MemberShip
Some service providers are hosting environments for different customers. So they all just stick to the default StoreFront logo (top left). After some branding and customisation the StoreFront page can look like this: Now I want that logo to be different for the member of ad group: “Microsoft Employees”. My…
Add Link or Comment to Citrix ADC Logon Page
Update 05-04-2021: Changed the loginschema to show the link above login button and changed script.js to match css. Update 23-12-2021: Removed typo in the login schema, thanks Sander Bierman 😉 You are probably reading this as you found out the hard way that rewriting the logon page (AAA virtual server /…
PowerShell script to detect CWA version and notify end user
Update 10-05-2021: Updated the script to include XenApp sessions as well. And removed some typo’s. If you are running Microsoft Teams in a Citrix environment you know you need to have the correct version of the Citrix Workspace App (CWA). If the version is to old users don’t have an…
LAB Update
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…