Leee Jeffries

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Free Load Balancing with Citrix Netscaler

To start – This is aimed at Small to Medium businesses that need something better than Microsoft NLB but cannot afford an expensive enterprise solution. I want to add before I get into details that the paid version of Citrix NetScaler are awesome and worth the money you pay for them. They’re not just load balancers and Citrix remote access; the possibilities really are endless; here’s some off ...

To start – This is aimed at Small to Medium businesses that need something better than Microsoft NLB but cannot afford an expensive enterprise solution. I want to add before I get into details that the paid version of Citrix NetScaler are awesome and worth the money you pay for them. They’re not ...

XenDesktop Database Testing and Troubleshooting

XenDesktop and its database connection is a tricky one, back in the old days of 6.5 you had a single connection. Now you have each service instance registered in the database with multiple connections from these services. When you’ve complete a farm upgrade and you can no longer log into Studio or when a single service starts to flap and you see errors in the event viewer it can be a little na...

XenDesktop and its database connection is a tricky one, back in the old days of 6.5 you had a single connection. Now you have each service instance registered in the database with multiple connections from these services. When you’ve complete a farm upgrade and you can no longer log into Studio ...

Failure – Timeout During SSL Handshake Stage

I came across this error the other day when trying to load balance a couple of Skype for Business servers. These servers were 2012 R2 based and there wasn’t anything special about the certificate. After scratching my head thinking of things for a while and trying this and that, I resolved myself to using Wireshark to capture packets and review. Wireshark did not show me much; the connection w...

I came across this error the other day when trying to load balance a couple of Skype for Business servers. These servers were 2012 R2 based and there wasn’t anything special about the certificate. After scratching my head thinking of things for a while and trying this and that, I resolved mysel...

Citrix Provisioning Services Slow Boot Time and Poor Performance

-——-Update 07.10.19 I was reliably informed by a nice gent called Chris Ohara who came across my article that there is a better way to work out the MTU for PVS. The below method I outlined actually finds the MSS (Maximum Segment Size). Later versions of PVS above version 6.1 include the header in their MTU setting so the setting of 1506 may actually be correct. There is a tool that can be use...

-——-Update 07.10.19 I was reliably informed by a nice gent called Chris Ohara who came across my article that there is a better way to work out the MTU for PVS. The below method I outlined actually finds the MSS (Maximum Segment Size). Later versions of PVS above version 6.1 include the header i...

Welcome

Firstly; thanks for visiting, I’ve been contemplating setting up a blog for a very long time and have finally taken the leap. As everyone is I’m extremely busy with work and get little time for play so am looking at efficient ways to blog on the go if possible. I work with a lot of technical detail utilising tons of different software in the IT arena so have plenty to share. My main focus is...

Firstly; thanks for visiting, I’ve been contemplating setting up a blog for a very long time and have finally taken the leap. As everyone is I’m extremely busy with work and get little time for play so am looking at efficient ways to blog on the go if possible. I work with a lot of technical d...