My Citrix deployment days have passed a long time ago but there are days when I get questions from my ex-colleagues about issues they encounter and one of the recent calls I got was for an issue where a Citrix XenApp server would no longer
As mentioned in my previous post: Unable to RDP to Windows Server after uninstall Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop (VDA) agent I don’t manage or deploy Citrix environments anymore but have still retain some of my previous knowledge of Citrix. An ex-colleague of mine recently
While not very frequent, some of my ex-colleagues ask me would ask me about Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops from time to time and one of the most common question is how to determine the master image of a Machine Catalog in Citrix Virtual Apps
I recently had to perform routine patching of various Citrix ADC / NetScalers to ensure that they are up-to-date with the latest NS13.1 17.42.nc build (released Feb 23, 2022) and one HA pair in particular displayed the following message when the expected Duo MFA authentication
An ex-colleague recently reached out to me for assistance on how he could perform a network trace and analyze it for a particular Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop environment and the most common tool I usually recommend is Wireshark. The challenge he had was that
Problem You’re attempting to set up a Citrix Federated Authentication Service server to allow using Azure AD authentication with single sign-on but the configuration fails at the Authorize this service with the error: The authorization request on <CertServerFQDN><CA Name> failed: Failed to Issue certificate: CR_DISP_DENIED
I recently had an ex-colleague reach out to me about configuring the integration between Citrix ShareFile and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) as he was required to configure SAML authentication for a Citrix ShareFile portal so that it would use Azure AD as an IDP.
Those who have worked with load balancers for applications will know that it can be a pain to troubleshoot issue where the source IP address is required because from the application’s perspective, all incoming connections have the originating IP address as the load balancer. With
Problem You have a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment hosted with Citrix Cloud Connectors connecting to Citrix cloud and noticed that the management portal displays virtual machines in a machine catalog with the Power State as Unknown: This appears to only affect machines hosted
Problem You’ve noticed that Citrix ADC / NetScaler hosted on Azure is no longer reachable and attempting to use the Serial console feature in Azure administration portal fails with the following error after entering the password for the nsroot account: Nsnet_connect: No such file or
