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Windows 10 Media Center Replacement
Well, it’s been fun, Media Center. Your time came a bit too soon if you ask me…I’m referring, of course, to 2009 when Microsoft made the last code changes to Media Center and started slowly dropping...
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Deploying Windows 10 MDT Style
As of yesterday, MDT 2013 Update 1 is available for download – this is the much awaited update to MDT that allows for deployments using Windows 10. It requires two updates: The Windows ADK for Windows...
View ArticleReplacing Edgesight with Goliath Performance Monitor
After receiving quite a bit of feedback from my first post on Replacing Citrix Edgesight with Goliath Performance Monitor (GPM), I have decided to create a feature-to-feature comparison between...
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Chrome 45 and Citrix Storefront
If you’ve been putting off upgrading or installing Citrix Storefront 3.0, today might be the day that changes your mind. Why? Because today is the day that Google released Chrome 45 which disables...
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Getting started Installing Citrix AppDisk
The AppDisk TechPreview bits were released to the public a few days ago – you can download them for yourself if you are a partner or a customer and have active SA or SWM as of September 21st, 2015 –...
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Citrix ShareFile on NetApp
If you have used Citrix ShareFile, you probably already know that it’s a great product – either standalone, or integrated with the XenMobile Enterprise suite. One place where ShareFile can be a bit...
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FreeNAS Firmware Version does not Match
If you are using an LSI HBA in your FreeNAS system and you’ve updated your installation any time recently, you’ve no doubt run into the error on FreeNAS Firmware Version does not Match – this started...
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Customize NetScaler 10
Customize NetScaler 10 I have been meaning to create this post for some time – when NetScaler 10.1 was released, there was some confusion around the best method to customize the interface. The previous...
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Enterprise IT Performance Monitoring: Agent & Agentless vs Goliath’s...
The debate over enterprise monitoring solutions that use agentless technology VS those that use agent software has been around for as long as monitoring has existed, and I’m not going to cover it in...
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Configuring Citrix VirtualWAN
These days, you can pretty much put the term ‘Software Defined’ in front of any technology or acronym – wide area network (WAN) is the next up-and-coming example: SD-WAN. The Citrix solution is known...
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Microsoft TMG EOL – Replace with Citrix NetScaler
As you may already know, Microsoft has decided to mark its Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG – formerly ISA Server) product as end of life. Primary development on it stopped back in September of...
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NetScaler SSL vServer and CookieInsert
The Citrix NetScaler is a great load balancer with numerous options when it comes to the backend loadbalancing method and persistence settings. Here are the available persistence settings based on the...
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Citrix Storefront 3.x Configuration Tool
Anyone that has deployed Citrix StoreFront in the past has likely needed to manually edit the web.config files for either customizations or advanced functionality that simply wasn’t available in the...
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Why I Dislike Comcast
Happy New Year!! And with the new year comes new internet\TV service for the house – actually, it isn’t completely new, it’s the same service, just at a different address. Who is the ISP you ask? Why,...
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Intel NUC External Antenna
One of the primary uses for our Intel NUC is as a cable box replacement HTPC – so that means there’s always movies, recorded TV or live TV streaming to it over the network. In the past, I was able to...
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NetScaler Unified Gateway – Native Receiver
NetScaler unified gateway is one of the great new features in NS version 11. If you’ve worked with some of the more advanced features, then you may be familiar with one of the more common requests:...
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Citrix Supportability Pack – UPM Configuration Check
Citrix Supportability Pack tool highlight: User Profile Manager UPM Configuration Check The Citrix Supportability Pack was made available late last year (2015) and is meant to be a single location for...
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Demo NetScaler App Firewall
Ever want to try out the feature of the NetScaler known as Application Firewall (AppFW)? Or maybe you need to demo NetScaler App Firewall for one of your customers, but are not sure of the best way to...
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Upgrades to the Lab: Local SSD and Hypervisors
Take a look at the #HomeLab hashtag on twitter, and you will see lots of technology experts that have some pretty extensive lab environments at home – add me to that list. OK I’ve been on that list for...
View ArticleHomelab: A few weeks with XenServer and Nutanix
Earlier this month I completely re-worked my homelab – with both storage and hardware upgrades as well as the underlying hypervisors. If you’re interested in the changes made, see this post here. So...
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