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VMware PowerCLI automation for vSphere environmental checks
Read more: VMware PowerCLI automation for vSphere environmental checksThe TASK New automation efforts are often born from the need to automate repetitive tasks. I was a dedicated virtualization consultant from 2017 to early 2024. During that time, I’d often get engaged to help out customers who were running into performance and scalability issues with their vSphere environments, sometimes it started with the dreaded…
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Before / after metrics for Citrix environments using free and built-in tools/scripts
Read more: Before / after metrics for Citrix environments using free and built-in tools/scriptsIntro This post builds on a post I’d written last year on , where a client asked me to implement “Citrix direct workspaces” and wanted to show the before / after You might be engaged by your client or employer to investigate a performance issue. The request could come when you’re properly caffeinated and ready…
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Citrix + 2FA 🍪fix for “you cannot logon using a smart card”
Read more: Citrix + 2FA 🍪fix for “you cannot logon using a smart card”Here’s a quick blog post on how to fix issues you might have connecting to a Citrix access layer where you’ve got 2FA via Duo/Okta/etc in place After putting in your 2FA info, you might see the following on the StoreFront page Within your browser, copy/paste in the following For EDGEedge:/settings/SiteData?Search=cookies For Chromechrome://settings/siteData?search=cookies Search for…
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Measuring the impact of ‘Direct workload connect’ on Citrix Cloud session brokering time with ControlUP / CQI
Read more: Measuring the impact of ‘Direct workload connect’ on Citrix Cloud session brokering time with ControlUP / CQIIn this blog post, I’m going to talk about a Citrix cloud feature you might have heard of, but not implemented. It’s called Direct workload connect:https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-workspace/optimize-cvad/workspace-network-location.html In this post, I will review how to get it working, and most important of all , how to measure the impact of implementing the feature using numbers. I…
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Citrix CTA for 2021!
Read more: Citrix CTA for 2021!Towards the beginning of the pandemic, I had read some interesting discussions about “staying productive” during the pandemic. At the time, the discussion I was following was on twitter. As you might be aware, no discussion is ever FINAL on twitter. Some folks believed 2020 was a good time to learn a new language, learn…
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CVAD 1912 UPL removal issues and fix
Read more: CVAD 1912 UPL removal issues and fixI noted some interesting (annoying?) unexpected behavior with UPL-enabled CVAD 1912 MCS master image machines over the weekend when I should have been playing DOOM ETERNAL At a client site , we un-installed CVAD 1912 to remove the UPL components. We did this for two reasons 1 – A default install of CVAD 1912 w…
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Citrix UPL and FSLOGIX – the best of both worlds
Read more: Citrix UPL and FSLOGIX – the best of both worldsI’ve been working with Citrix technology for 7 years, and most of that time has been working in the slow-moving world of financial industry ITThat being said, I left that world last summer, to work for a small company here in Quebec, called ProContact.ca. I wanted to focus on SMB, where I felt I could…
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Export-STFConfiguration / Import-STFConfiguration fails
Read more: Export-STFConfiguration / Import-STFConfiguration failsOn a few new Win 2012 / Win 2016 systems I’ve setup on my home lab over the past week , I’ve noted various error messages on attempting the following simple Powershell cmdlet based process which you would use to export the config of a working StoreFront server to a new StoreFront server. Citrix details…