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EPA scans are not for everybody
A customer of one of my Citrix Consulting colleagues recently came up with an interesting request. Like many others they are using Citrix NetScaler’s Access Gateway Enterprise Edition module to grant remote secure remote access to applications and desktops. Additionally, they use a client management and software distribution solution to deploy the EPA plugin to client computers and therefore wanted to suppress Access Gateway offering ...
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Autolaunch with Storefront
This is part 3/3 on customizing StoreFront Services "Receiver for Web" stores using JavaScript. In the first two we looked at how to hide apps and make them sticky. Today we'll look into Autolaunch, meaning an application starting automatically right after a user logs into the "Receiver for Web" Store. With StoreFront Services 1.2, if you have a single resource of type "desktop" (this can be a ...
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Sticky (Mandatory) Apps with Storefront
This is part 2/3 about customizing Storefront Services “Receiver for Web” stores using JavaScript (updated to reflect the changes invoked with StoreFront Services 1.2). Check out part 1/3 on how to hide applications and part 3/3 on how to autostart applications. One of the cool new features of Storefront Services is the concept of "subscriptions". Users can pick resources they use most often and by subscribing ...
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Uncommon Names
When using client certificates - be it stored on a SmartCard or not - as an authentication method for NetScaler modules such as Access Gateway Enterprise or AAATM, the authentication profile allows you to automatically extract the Common Name (CN) and pre-populate the user name field in the login form. Also, it locks the field making it uneditable. While this is a very handy feature, there ...
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Hiding in the Clouds
As you have probably heard, StoreFront Services (a part of CloudGateway) will replace Web Interface. Because StoreFront Services follows a different design approach towards more interoperability through a framework, a more modern and scalable architecture (moving away from J#), state of the art authentication methods, subscription services and many more, some of the grown tricks and tweaks the community has developed over the years no ...
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bash-ing XenServer
Recently one of my fellow Consulting colleagues asked around whether anybody knew of a script to export all VM names and the MAC addresses of their virtual interfaces. A list like this could be useful not only for tracking and network management purposes (think of NAC) but also to create DHCP reservations (For Linux geeks, you can probably stop reading here because I don't want ...