Daniel Ruiz

XenDesktop

Citrix VDI-in-a-Box – 1030 Connection Error

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November 23, 2012

Issue: Was helping out a friend with a deployment of Citrix VDI-in-a-Box for their company. After setting up the environment we kept receiving a 1030 Connection error when accessing the virtual desktops from an external connection which utilized CAG 5.04. After thinking that some ACL in the firewall was missing and waited around for…
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NetScaler

Server Name Indication (SNI) and SSL VPN

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November 20, 2012

Been working a lot around PCI Citrix initiatives for the last couple of months. After speaking with some very smart Citrix NetScaler folks, they were kind enough to provide a lot of information to me around security and SSL VPN which I am sharing with you. Take notice that Windows XP…
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XenApp, XenDesktop

Outlook’s taskbar icon occassionally shows as PowerPoint

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November 19, 2012

While working on a XenApp 6.5 project for a large company, I heard from one of the IT Directors that Outlook 2010 was showing the PowerPoint icon in the taskbar… Naturally I immediately attempted to reproduce the issue and was not able to. Microsoft confirms this bug can affect you in the following scenario.…
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PVS

Provisioning Services antivirus exclusions

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November 7, 2012

Citrix wrote an excellent article about the PVS Antivirus exclusions and thought I will share it with you. In my experience with PVS, this is very crucial step as it will ensure you don’t interrupt the streaming process and/or slow things down. If you are like me and decide to…
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XenApp, XenDesktop

New XenApp/XenDesktop preview – Project (Avalon) Excalibur Technology

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November 1, 2012

Citrix has released today the Tech Preview of the new XenDesktop/XenApp version. Project (Avalon) Excalibur Technology Preview is our next-generation, unified desktop and app virtualization technology that is reinventing the delivery of Windows apps and desktops for mobility in the cloud-era. The availability of this tech preview will allow Citrix…
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