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Keeping your NetScaler A+ Rating on SSL Labs

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. [cc]add ssl cipher VPX_APLUS...

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...

Configuring Windows to behave like a Citrix Thin Client

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...

Finding Azure Storage linked to Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop MCS Catalogs

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...

Can't enable the archive for 'User' because this user object is synchronized with the on-premises directory

If you’re working with Office 365 and you’re enabling Online-Archiving thought Exchange Online this blog is probably going to be useful. If you are trying to enable Online Archiving for a user using the following command: **Enable-Mailbox -Archive** And you receive the response: The following error occurred during validation in agent ‘Windows LiveId Agent’: ‘Can’t enable the archive for ‘J...

If you’re working with Office 365 and you’re enabling Online-Archiving thought Exchange Online this blog is probably going to be useful. If you are trying to enable Online Archiving for a user using the following command: **Enable-Mailbox -Archive** And you receive the response: The followin...