Leee Jeffries

If you are supporting any sort of remote desktop platform then you know the pain when you start getting calls flooding in about slow performance or unavailable desktops/apps and then the barrage of software packages you then have to open to see the real status of your server estate. Well, what if you could be notified as the problems starts to arise rather than after its risen and started affe...

If you are supporting any sort of remote desktop platform then you know the pain when you start getting calls flooding in about slow performance or unavailable desktops/apps and then the barrage of software packages you then have to open to see the real status of your server estate. Well, what i...

Recently I’ve had the privalege of working with FSLogix Profile and 365 Containers to support user personalisation on Virtual Desktops. Whilst working with this solution I’ve gone through iterations of various storage solutions and recently landed (with a little help on the design areas) on a Scales-Out-File-Server (SOFS). The SOFS allow us to host files that are meant to be continuously avai...

Recently I’ve had the privalege of working with FSLogix Profile and 365 Containers to support user personalisation on Virtual Desktops. Whilst working with this solution I’ve gone through iterations of various storage solutions and recently landed (with a little help on the design areas) on a S...

If you think you have a NetScaler A+ rating on SSL labs, re-try your test and you might not anymore. The new AEAD Ciphers have been added to NetScaler as of build 12.0.56.20. To maintain an A+ Rating you need to modify your cipher suite to include these ciphers. Here is a code snippet for you, change the cipher group name to match your own or create a new one. add ssl cipher VPX_APLUS_CIP...

If you think you have a NetScaler A+ rating on SSL labs, re-try your test and you might not anymore. The new AEAD Ciphers have been added to NetScaler as of build 12.0.56.20. To maintain an A+ Rating you need to modify your cipher suite to include these ciphers. Here is a code snippet for yo...

A common question I receive is how to convert existing workstations to thin clients, well….. there are solutions such as Igel Desktop Convertor, Thin Kiosk, Citrix Desktop Lock and Citrix Workspace Environment Manager Transformer; but what about a few windows tweaks to achieve a similar scenario? In my experience, desirable behaviour from a thin client solution is as follows: No domain j...

A common question I receive is how to convert existing workstations to thin clients, well….. there are solutions such as Igel Desktop Convertor, Thin Kiosk, Citrix Desktop Lock and Citrix Workspace Environment Manager Transformer; but what about a few windows tweaks to achieve a similar scenari...

If you are working with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.16 MCS in Azure, you will be using On-Demand provisioning. If you’re not sure what this means, check out this blog article from Citrix. https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2017/09/01/provisioning-xendesktop-on-azure-just-got-a-lot-faster/ It’s really important to understand the behaviour in the latest release as it is greatly different from prev...

If you are working with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.16 MCS in Azure, you will be using On-Demand provisioning. If you’re not sure what this means, check out this blog article from Citrix. https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2017/09/01/provisioning-xendesktop-on-azure-just-got-a-lot-faster/ It’s rea...