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I hope all my fellow CUGC members are enjoying a healthy and happy start to 2022. The past couple of years may have hampered our ability to gather in person at local and XL events, but I’m proud to say that the CUGC community has held together just as strong as ever, and in some ways, even stronger.   As we dive into this new year, I’m announcing ...

What is Citrix Secure Internet Access? Citrix Secure Internet Access (CSIA) is a cloud-based solution that enables secure remote access to online and SaaS applications. It includes a secure web gateway, a cloud access security broker, malware protection with sandboxing, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and data loss prevention. Along ...

Top 10 Most-Read Blogs in 2021 This list of blogs spans more than just those posted in 2021. In fact, a couple of them are 2-3 years old. However, they proved to be oldies but goodies, as they were the most-read throughout the year. Thanks to all of our contributors for sharing their knowledge and continuing to be such great supporters of the CUGC ...

CUGC WANTS YOU! YES, YOU! We're looking for speakers and bloggers to contribute to CUGC local events, XLs, webinars and blogs in 2022! We have a lot of smart cookies in our community, and our virtual and in-person events are a great platform for sharing knowledge and helping out fellow CUGC members.  Feeling a little shy? No ...

I recently moved a PVS farm that consisted of 4 servers from a Single Database instance to a SQL AG instance. I wasn’t 100% sure how to do this, so I reached John Carmody, aka @c4rm0 , who sent me his blog as a reference. In this write-up, you will notice that there are very similar steps at a high level. I wanted to share my experience to confirm ...

Here's a quick little write-up for Zoom users around Citrix VDI setups who want to stop all connections coming in unless they have the Zoom HDX plugin on the Client. In other words, it prevents unoptimized connections. I needed a way to stop users from using Zoom if they didn't have the Zoom HDX Media Plugin installed on their clients from home. ...

To support your transition to Citrix Cloud, we invite you to explore the Cloud Learning Series to help you increase your cloud confidence and get the most value from your Citrix cloud service(s). The Cloud Learning Series is a collection of on-demand training content that covers cloud planning, build, rollout, management, and optimization. Each ...

In 2019, I wrote “ Suggested Leading Practises for the Secure Browsing Service ” in light of the recent sharp rise in cyber incidents and attacks against organisations of all sizes in the City of & Greater London (and worldwide). Here, I've written about some suggested field leading practises on securing access for IT administration   while ...

What is Rewrite? Rewrite refers to the rewriting of some information in the Citrix ADC appliance's requests or responses. Rewriting can assist in providing access to the requested content while avoiding exposing unnecessary details about the actual configuration of the Web site. The following are a few examples of when the rewrite feature comes ...

What is Link Load Balancing. The Citrix ADC appliance uses LLB to monitor and regulate traffic, ensuring that packets are sent over the best possible network. Outbound traffic is balanced via link load balancing (LLB) over numerous Internet connections offered by different service providers. The Citrix ADC appliance and the router are connected ...

This year has gone by so quickly. We are nearly three quarters of the way through 2021. Can you believe it? As we reflect on the year so far, our Bay Area events are still virtual.  Our leadership committee hopes that in the upcoming year we can all safely return to in-person events so we can see and meet each other again. In the meantime, here's a ...

As you know, FSLogix does have profile exclusions, and more importantly, they have two significant FSLogix profile exclusions built-in. But in this quick little blog, I will focus on a little FSLogix "gotcha" (well, not really). It's more of a MS GPO that many of us have set for specific scenarios that we needed in older Profile cases. Well, with FSLogix, ...

CTP and CTA Application for 2022 Classes Are Now Open! Are you interested in being more involved with other like-minded individuals who are Citrix technologists and are also huge fans & advocates of Citrix? Well today is your lucky day then! We are excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the CTP and CTA classes of 2022! ...

Hybrid Security Model (+ve & -ve) Using Web App Firewall on Citrix ADC  1.  What is Web - Application firewall The Citrix Web App Firewall protects websites that access important company or customer data from security breaches, data loss, and unauthorized changes. It accomplishes this by filtering both requests and responses, evaluating them ...

This guide is geared around explaining how Zoom and Citrix work together, and it will show you the architecture and provide information for what is needed on clients. There is information added in the document for education purposes as well. At the time of writing this blog, I tested everything on an older version. However, I updated some screenshots ...

Here is a quick blog around migrating Citrix Session Recording Databases to a new SQL server. This is only a single instance and it's not load balanced. It's a very basic configuration and I wanted to go into the CTX article a bit more. 1. Stop the Services on your recording server. 2. Take a full backup of existing Session Recording ...

As many of you know from my recent blogs, I am using Nutanix AOS/AHV for my Citrix environment. Before, I used VMware 100% for all workloads, including XenApp (Virtual Apps) and VDI (Virtual desktops). However, I needed to move the delivery controllers, Storefront, and all the Citrix Infrastructure pieces that make Citrix work to the Nutanix Cluster. ...

In my first blog post here,   Part 1 ,   I showed how to set up Windows Deduplication on Server 2016. This second series will show my production results and what I gained in space-saving. I estimated 18.5% in savings in the first post. However, I got 23% back. That is good, in my opinion. I enabled Windows Deduplication on my production File Server ...

As we're making preparations for our upcoming 2nd quarter Bay Area CUGC virtual event to be held on June 2nd from 2:30 - 4PM PST, I came to the realization that we did not post an events recap for our first event of the year back in March. This combined post now will provide a recap summary along with details for our upcoming event which you can register ...

We recently made a good investment in our VDI CVAD space: We purchased 28 Nutanix Nodes, and this is our first upgrade so, I wanted to break down everything we did. It was over two days, and I captured all the screenshots and documentation I could in a production environment. Nutanix does a fantastic job of documenting everything. I do have to admit, ...