Dave Brett

Whilst attending @XenAppBlog Automation Framework Masterclass in London last month Eric and I started to talk about how we could automate and bring some NetScaler Unified Gateway goodness to the course.  This (obviously) peaked my interest and I started to look into using NITRO to automate a NetScaler Unified Gateway build so that the students […]

Last week whilst attending the Automation Framework Masterclass in London (check the link for more details and to register) run by Eric from Xenapp Blog we started chatting about the configuration of the virtual VyOS Router and what extra functionality we could bring to the table. In my lab I use Microsoft Routing and Remote Access to […]

Something really cool happened this week. NetScaler in Microsoft Azure got a revamp! This is something that I have been waiting to happen for ages and finally Microsoft, Citrix and NetScaler are supporting multiple network interfaces and Global Server Load Balancing in Azure! This for me is huge! So many people who run Citrix infrastructure […]

I have been working on a community monitoring project for a little while now that is aiming to provide you with a free platform to get a high level overview of your Citrix Estate.  As I have said before, the aim of this is not to compete with the likes of ControlUp etc as they do a […]

When using Citrix NetScaler to present a web accessible service using GSLB the NetScaler and GSLB has the ability to automatically fail over between sites and return the public IP Address of the currently live service.  This is great and a massive plus for any deployment, however, what if the internet connection goes down at […]

“It would be great if we could enable the developers to enable and disable their own Citrix NetScaler Load Balancer vServers by just sending an e-mail in.  It would mean they could manage their own objects on the NetScaler without any input from IT and without the need to provide access to the NetScaler Itself” This […]

I have been a big fan of Citrix Octoblu and what it can bring to your estate for a while now.  I was thinking about how I could “smarten up” the monitoring scripts I have been developing and thought that using Octoblu Triggers would be a good idea as once the error data from the […]

I have had a lot of requests for my free monitoring tool and am really glad to be getting some great feedback about how it’s all working. That said, I can’t test everything and tend to test the scripts on Windows Server 2012 and up (my bad I know!). So today when I got an […]

In my last post I published the scripts I use for monitoring a Citrix Platform and showed you how to set up and configure a monitoring server so you get a high level “up / down” view of whats happening out in your estate. Today I will be adding Citrix Director and Workspace Environment Management into the […]

A while ago I wrote some monitoring software to get a high level view of whats happening on your Citrix XenApp 6.5 Estate.  Details of this can be found here: XenApp 6.5 Monitoring Tool I have had loads of requests to update this to support XenDesktop 7.x and to be honest its something I have […]

I have been meaning to get round to posting about Citrix ShareFile for some time now.  Citrix ShareFile is an enterprise file sharing tool that Citrix provide with the ability to use both on-premises and cloud based storage repositories and more importantly to validate and control where and who has access to your company data. The […]

We can now move onto Part 7 and the final part of this series, The Nice Bits The previous parts in this series can be found by using the below links. Part 1 – Summary of NetScaler, XenDesktop, FAS and Google Part 2 – Pre-Reqs Part 3 – Google oAuth Setup Part 4 – Citrix Federated […]

We can now move onto Part 6 of this series, Configuring StoreFront to allow access! The previous parts in this series can be found by using the below links. Part 1 – Summary of NetScaler, XenDesktop, FAS and Google Part 2 – Pre-Reqs Part 3 – Google oAuth Setup Part 4 – Citrix Federated Authentication […]

We can now move onto Part 5 of this series, The NetScaler! The previous parts in this series can be found by using the below links. Part 1 – Summary of NetScaler, XenDesktop, FAS and Google Part 2 – Pre-Reqs Part 3 – Google oAuth Setup Part 4 – Citrix Federated Authentication Services In this […]