Author: Lal Mohan
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Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) – Primer For On-Prem Vs Azure
Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) is a compelling technology these days for provisioning virtual machines quickly and easily in Citrix environments. The whole technology is built around simplicity and requires just a supported hypervisor that utilizes snapshots to create additional VMs on the fly. There isn’t much required from a supporting infrastructure point of view…
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Microsoft DirectAccess breaks Citrix/XenApp application launches – Fix
If you have implemented DirectAccess for your users so that they could connect to corporate network whilst they work from home, you might have come across this issue while using Citrix. Users would be able to connect to Storefront portal and authenticate themselves but when they try to launch applications it fail. Users will also…
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NetScaler VPX monitor error – Timeout during SSL handshake stage
I came across this by accident while setting up NetScaler GSLB for a Citrix solution for one of my customers. The service groups in NetScaler were giving an error message for the monitoring probes – https and CITRIX-XD-DDC (both secure). The NetScaler was VPX running 11.1.63.9nc firmware. Last response: failure – Time out during SSL…