Overview Recently I had the pleasure to implement the Always On VPN mechanism from Citrix ADC. As there are three different technical possibilities, I will give you some insights about my deep dive, which should
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NetScaler – Latest Insights about Security Headers
Overview Security Headers are http header, which set additional limitations for a overall higher security when it comes to common attack mechanisms like Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Clickjacking or MIME-Sniffing. A part of most of
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NetScaler – An Identity Provider (IdP) Solution with MFA for OnPrem-Services and Citrix DaaS
Overview Recently I had the pleasure of being invited to the SwissCUGC Event in Zurich about the benefits for using Citrix ADC as an overall Identity Provider (IdP). It was really great fun and I
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NetScaler – Publishing Manageotp to External with nFactor
Overview Recently I had the requirement to publish the /manageotp Citrix ADC Native OTP Selfservice-Portal to external with the following filtering: If User hasn’t enrolled any OTP yet, log into Selfservice should be Username +
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NVIDIA vGPU – Install and Configure Delegated License Service (DLS) Appliance
Overview As the legacy NVIDIA vGPU License Manager (for Windows and Linux) is deprecated and reaches EOL on July 31, 2023, I was starting to migrate the first GRID customer to the new DLS Appliance.
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NetScaler – The ultimate Upgrade Guide
Overview As there are many changes in latest firmware builds of Citrix ADC and I was running in problems after upgrading from older 11.1 / 12.0 / 12.1 to newer 13.0 / 13.1 releases, I
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NetScaler – SSL VPN is breaking SSO to OAuth-based WebApps
Overview Quick post about an OAuth-Issue with Citrix ADC’s SSL VPN. There is a missing hint in CTX225084 as this article is only refering to SharePoint deployments. OAuth can make use of the bearer authorization token. If users
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Citrix PVS – Deploy Microsoft Remote Desktop Session Hosts with Citrix Provisioning Services
Overview There are customers who don’t need the Ferrari solutions like Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops to centralize their workloads – as native RDS works quite well. If you want to know ALL about RDS,
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NetScaler – Securing Microsoft Exchange Hybrid Deployments
Overview As most MS-Exchange-Online migrations are ending up with one Exchange-part OnPrem – it’s called Exchange Hybrid Deployment – I was thinking about the hardening of the two commonly used exchange virtual directories, Autodiscover and
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NetScaler – nFactor User Certificate Authentication – or “The Demystifying of “User-Agent” Header
Overview In a recent project I got the request for rolling out Citrix Push-OTP for about 4500 remote Users for HDX and SSLVPN Citrix Gateway (maybe I will share my experience with Push-OTP on another
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