Today I’m setting up a new Storage Zone Controller for our Sharefile UK Site. Our Sharefile Infrastructure is on-premise and we host the Sharefile data as well as a connector to Network shares. Basic requirements for adding a Storage Zone: Network Access outbound to Sharefile.com – Control Planes on port TCP 443 See https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX234446 for more information. CIF/SMB Access to your…
The issue: Last week Citrix released Citrix Workspace App which replaced Citrix Receiver. Our clients have started experiencing issues launching applications since the upgrade which was working fine on Receiver. Creating a new account and signing into first time works fine, however, once the user logs off and attempts to sign in again receives an Error message:…
Today Citrix rollout the Citrix WorkSpace App that replaces Citrix Receiver in the Apple App and Google Play app stores. The Citrix Receiver was first introduced in 2009 and replaced the Online Plugin and now as Citrix turn to cloud services and the Integration of Sharefile and XenMobile its time to say goodbye.
I’m building a new Citrix lab environment on Xenserver. This includes DDCs, SQL, Netscalers some XenApp servers and some domain controllers. Now I don’t have the luxury of free power and while I’m thinking of installing solar panels I’m not there just yet. I’m usually done with my lab after 6pm and want to start…
XenServer 7.0 Mellanox I’ve been working on an issue where a trunked vlan wasn’t working when tagged in XenServer. Now this server was in a pool of 4 nodes so tricky to diagnose as they were production VMs running on the system. This all started because client using the server only need one vlan presented and this was…
This isn’t just a name change of Receiver, its a completely redesigned endpoint product that will also include Secure Hub for XenMobile, Sharefile Drive Mapper and Netscaler plugin, All for one. Burning questions on Citrix. https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2018/06/01/citrix-workspace-app-answers-to-your-burning-questions/
Citrix offers a Migration tool which is uploads local data to your Sharefile account. This is a really useful tool because multi-streams uploads making it quicker. But what if you have 700GB of data in AWS and you need to migrate this to your on-premise storage? Over the past couple of weeks, this has been my…
News: Over the last couple of months, I’ve been working on an exciting project to build an Enterprise class multi-tenant Sharefile & XenMobile MDM solution. Working with these new Citrix products pretty much completes my Citrix Portfolio. Our client already had a XenMobile and Sharefile platform in AWS so this would also be a migration project….
After years of Xen products introduced in 2008 which replaced the traditional presentation server and MetaFrame. Citrix have decided to come up with simple names for their products. It appears this is because Citrix want customers to use their own cloud offering and it makes marketing simple. There doesn’t appear to be much thought gone into…