When hosting multiple customers on the same Netscaler solution you can use Responder to customize Netscaler Gateway logon page.
In this article I’ll show you how you can remove the Password 2 field which gets there by default if you enable Radius.
Head over to System – Settings – Configure Advanced Features and enable Responder.
Then connect to your Netscaler via WinSCP and make a copy of index.html and login.js which are located in/netscaler/ns_gui/vpn
I’ve called mine *_custom.* in this example. Edit index_custom.html so it points to login_custom.js
Then head into Responder – Action. Add your https://FQDN/index_custom.html
Create a policy and replace example.com with your FQDN.
The final step is to bind this new Responder Policy to your Access Gateway vServer.
So as you can see this is a very easy way for you to customize Netscaler Gateway logon page for various customers and attached a policy to the proper vServers.
I believe this can also be done with REGEX and rewrite rules, but that’s not my field of expertise. Please share below if you know.
The final step is to make sure these customizations stick after reboot.
- Create a catalog \var\custom
- Create the file rc.netscaler in /flash/nsconfig with this command line : cp -R /var/custom/* /netscaler/ns_gui/
- Copy all folders from /netscaler/ns_gui to /var/custom
- Save and reboot the appliance.
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In my previous post 7 Reasons Why You Need to Learn App-V 5 I listed the main reasons to go with App-V 5. What wasn’t in that list was that Citrix will no longer support Application Streaming in Windows 8/2012 on XenDesktop 7.
When doing a VDI / Hosted Desktop project the storage cost will be a huge part of your project. So what if you could reduce that with 80-95% and at the same time lower the storage impact?
With the introduction of the Share Content Store you can do this out of the box. Simply enable Share Content Store and you’re good to go.
Below is the disk usage for the applications installed (main picture). So instead of using 2,40 GB you see that all those applications only consume 78,4 MB on disk. That’s huge savings.
Please not that when doing Shared Content Store you need high availability which can easily be solved by leveraging DFS-R.
So is it just glory with App-V 5? Of course not, there’s currently a really bad bug in the current version. If you’re running VDI, refresh at login with a large number of applications targeted to Users, the Start Menu will flicker / hang for a couple of minutes.
This is normally not a problem in a Hosted Desktop scenario where you redirect the Start Menu and give access to the applications shortcuts hosted on a file share with ABE.
I’ve created a new App-V 5 Training Course to get you up to speed. This is the fastest and easiest way to learn Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.
So if you want to become an App-V 5 expert, you better get started. Microsoft App-V 5 is becoming the de facto standard and WILL be the way we handle applications in the near future.
For those who have been following my blog for some time know that I’m a big fan of PHD Virtual Backup or at least used to be. I’ve been following PHD since it’s early days. Unfortunately the company has grown to fast and the superb support has disappeared. Doesn’t matter how great the product is if support doesn’t work, especially when it comes to backup. So I reached out on Twitter and got a tip about Alike Backup for XenServer.
I’ve been running Alike Backup side by side with PHD Virtual Backup and have now decided to go with Alike. The best part, it’s FREE for single host server. That’s perfect for me since I have one XenServer and one Hyper-V server.
The setup is straight forward, the difference is that Alike Backup runs inside a OS and PHD Virtual Backup is an appliance.
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I’m just back from Citrix Synergy 2013 in LA Anaheim. It was awesome to connect with friends, customers and blog readers. There was a lot of exciting announcements, but in this blog post I will focus on XenDesktop 7 and the integration with App-V 5.
During the keynote Citrix didn’t announce that its Application Streaming feature is dead and won’t be supported in Windows 2012. Read this article from TechTarget for more information Citrix kills its Application Streaming feature, directs users to App-V.
Inside the Citrix Studio console you’ll be able to configure your App-V 5 Management and Publishing server.
Another new feature is the possibility to publish multiple installed and App-V 5 applications on the fly. This is a feature we’ve been awaiting for years.
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In my last blog 7 Reasons Why You Need to Learn App-V 5 I talked about how important it is for you to start playing around with App-V 5.
Since all Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop and RDS should be running App-V 5 with Shared Content Store it’s important to leverage Windows 2012 and SMB 3.0 as I wrote about in this post Make your network 10x faster.
With App-V 5 you can easily publish all packages from a folder. This is the PowerShell script I’m running at startup for my XenApp 6.5 VM’s streamed with Provisioning Services.
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We’ve been doing server virtualization for years and hopefully most businesses run the majority of their servers on a hypervisor from Citrix, VMware or Microsoft by now.
With the release of Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 the same is going to happen to the application space. I remember back in the days when VMware took off, those consultants got some pretty amazing projects at their hands.
The same is happening now, so you better learn App-V 5 today.
At Citrix Synergy next month the learning lab “Implementing Excalibur on Microsoft Hyper-V” is running every day. Attendees will learn about next-generation delivery architecture of Excalibur with Microsoft’s newest operating system and System Center 2012 SP1. This is not a coincidence!
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In this blog post I will show you my Prepare for PVS script that contains Best Practices obtained after years of experience with Provisioning Services.
Let’s say you’re going to run Windows Updates. Well since you’ve already launched the Target Optimizer tool, that services is disabled and you need to head into services, enable and start it. Run Windows update and all good. When the update is finished you shutdown the machine and switch from Private to Standard Mode.
What you didn’t remember was to reboot the server for Windows Update to complete it’s updates. What happens now, is that every time your servers reboot, Windows Update will kick in and finish it’s things.
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When putting most of your workloads on a Hypervisor you should not take for granted that you automatically get the maximum performance out of the box. You as the administrator need to perform additional tests to verify that the network performance are at it’s best.
Last week I upgraded my Citrix XenServer Home Lab and gained 10x faster network performance. In this blog post I’ll show you how you can run some simple tests to accomplish the same.
So I started testing Network Throughput Using Iperf. The Virtual Machines where 2 vanilla Windows 2008 R2 hosted on Citrix XenServer 5.6 SP2 with all hotfixes applied.
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My favorite IT management console is just released in version 2.0 with a great bunch of new features and enhancements. This is a sponsored review, but I love this product and have been using it at all my customer since the first release.
In this blog post I’ll cover what’s new in this release. I’m also going to host a webinar with the CTO of ControlUp Tuesday, February 26, 2013 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM IST with live demo and Q&A. Make sure to reserve your spot HERE.
Central Configuration:
In earlier versions of ControlUp you needed to create the configuration on each and every management computer. Now the configuration can be stored in the cloud secured by your own encryption key. This way all the users of ControlUp can share the organizations computer tree, delegate administrative task and permissions (similar to AppCenter) and receive alerts on performance bottlenecks. The alerts is at the moment just sent to the event viewer, but I was told that an SMS / SMTP solution will be available in the next release.
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