Archive for October 2014

GPU for the masses with XenApp / XenDesktop!

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It used to be that when Citrix administrators heard the term "GPU" with XenApp / XenDesktop, many would think only professional high-end graphics.

After Citrix this type of graphics delivery pioneer back in 06 with Boeing, which resulted in the release of HDX 3D Pro technology for the industry in 09 Delivering AutoDesk, CATIA and other intensive 3D applications no longer necessary, local hardware and physical location constraints. These workloads might designers delivered almost anywhere in the world on virtually any type of device.

Well, at the end of 2015, GPUs are ready to prove themselves in prime time daily workloads with XenApp / XenDesktop.

A Web browser is one of the most widely published applications to (especially on a proper compatibility, compliance, etc. with corporate Web applications). Today's Internet / intranet content often contains many high-resolution photos that need to be made

Regular Office applications can now enormously also benefit from GPU acceleration, .:

  • Web browser
  • Microsoft Office applications
  • Unified Communication applications - Skype for business, Lync, etc.

understanding deeper - some data

respected Citrix experts Magnar Johnsen and Thomas Poppelgaard, recently announced the results of tests on a range of browsers such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox, the GPU a on a system concludes adding a hosting server based VDA can save a lot of CPU cycles on the host and to improve usability.

This is a relatively inexpensive way to ensure the scalability of the server and at the same time also a great experience. It is an interesting read, as Magnar explains how:

    develop
  • browser at different speeds to take advantage of GPUs
  • As various specific user workflows such as scrolling to browsers and other applications be optimized

, it is only common sense.

You do not have to delve into the test data, although it can be seen all makes sense. Regular desktop users are simply always graphical user in recent years in the mainstream agencies:

  • 20 years ago, to learn something you would have to pick up a paper Training Manual; 10 years ago it was probably a Word document, HTML page or PDF file. Now if you want to know how something that you do, are likely to online training or watch a how-to guide to take on YouTube!
  • information just always more graphical and user expect this to be used to produce high quality images in movies, games and web pages - you rarely see an HTML page in these days that text-based only
  • company meetings and announcements of video or conferencing software aired regularly
    • [1945008!] Skype for business, Lync and Jabber are always standard. All that is rich audio data once a telephone network now on the LAN / WAN, along with video data, as well!

A growing trend

Recently, we have seen a sharp increase in the number of people, our XenApp GPU-sharing solutions for AMD and NVIDIA and XenDesktop NVIDIA GRID vgpu recording capabilities for their regular office workers and not only their top 10-20% of high-end designers.

Are you one of them?

by 2016. Looking ahead, it is very clear that virtualized graphics technology even become more mainstream. GPU vendors with their large existing base of 3D customers have also turned their attention to this huge market - Victoria Rege of NVIDIA GRID solutions posted about just recently. She says that when the global workforce to be mobile further the ability to graphics-rich workloads will allow to better reduce available as barriers and the benefits are realized quickly.

I'd love to hear your thoughts below Comments:

  • are the end user to affect more graphical content consuming
  • How are graphics and 3D hardware requirements
  • How will your company benefit from GPU? -enabled workloads?

Catching up the changing workplace: It is easier than you think

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Catching up the changing workplace: It is easier than you think -

On Friday, December 4, organized a Citrix Twitter chat with Cali Yost, founder and CEO of Flex + Strategy group / work + life Fit, Inc. She had much to say about the changing world of work, as well as some new research by ORC international, their businesses and Citrix, and the things that companies can-and should-do to catch up. - NL

The workplace and the way we work has changed

And yet, we organizations, individuals, managers and teams shop not caught on these changes. Nor have we the way we think about set, as we do our work. How can we realize the full potential of this new, more flexible labor reality?

realize First, we must start from the premise that the flexibility is already embedded in the workplace.

conducted and sponsored by the Flex + Strategy Group / Work + Life New research a national random sample of full-time workers in the United States of ORC international Fit Inc. and Citrix confirms this fact:

Telerik Platform Citrix Ready Worx is verified!

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Telerik Platform Citrix Ready Worx is verified! -

Telerik platform based on open standards and is designed to integrate with numerous tools, frameworks and services.

benefit from Telerik platform next AngularJS, Kendo UI, PhoneGap, GitHub and more to build robust cross-platform mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Telerik offers a plethora of features, as listed below, and successfully verified with XenMobile 9.0.4 Worx

Key Features :.

  • make ideas visible: allows you to create interactive prototypes mobile app a drag-and-drop library of forms and then send these prototypes contextual in-line feedback or to obtain export to HTML to serve as a project. Foundation
  • in IDE coding: You can add your favorite code editor in a complete mobile development environment and code in your web browser, our desktop client, Visual Studio turn, use Sublime text or our command line interface (CLI) to integrate with your existing build process
  • connect app data .: to on-demand create cloud services for your mobile app to power, including: data services, push notifications, email services, SMS and more. Or connect your existing databases, including MySQL, MS-SQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL
  • The search for errors before users do .: used by automated tests to proactively find problems due to constantly test your app on mobile devices, including iOS, Android and Windows Phone
  • Posted in app stores, public or private .: to your mobile app distribute the public app stores, including Apple App Store, Google Play or the Windows Phone Store. Or choose private app distribution to users through their own App Store
  • centering access to your app .: you keep your application safe, can Roles and Permissions create, then, to ensure that users run the latest version of your mobile app updates for their devices on each mobile platform pressing
  • measuring user activity .: you can learn how users work with your mobile applications through detailed analysis and keep track of which features are used most frequently, capture runtime crashes to identify performance bottlenecks and view reports in real-time.

Download today the app! Click here

About Citrix Ready Worx Verified Program .:

Citrix Ready Worx Verified program, part of the Citrix Ready program makes it easy in their mobile applications with Citrix XenMobile and Citrix check system integrators, independent software vendors and technology partners MDX app container technology with the new Citrix Worx App SDK. With the Worx Verified Program Citrix enables its partners to give its customers consistent mobile app security applications deliver faster and reduce customer time-to-value. In addition, partners can use their Worx Apps verified list on the Citrix Ready marketplace, which it promotes to the Citrix client.

XenServer at Citrix Synergy 2015

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Citrix Synergy 2015 almost upon us and I hope that as many of us here at Citrix, you make arrangements for the journey completed, which attend meetings and are busy meeting with important product and industry professionals mediation

This is a great time of year to Orlando plan. it's exciting to see so many customers, partners, analysts and colleagues and listen to what they see and hear in the industry and thought to gather where we go forward with our technology.

Within the XenServer team, we continue with our beliefs and vision that the hypervisor enable Empowerment platform companies, their infrastructure goals. We continuously look forward to the platform for a variety of applications to enhance, including application and desktop virtualization. Improvements such as these can often target performance, scalability and / or new and enhanced features to reduce the provision of infrastructure and management costs for our customers.

We much participants from the XenServer HQ of Cambridge in the UK have this. Year, which will be present there meetings and some of our latest technology demo

Together with my colleague Enzo Raso (XenServer Product Management), are we Session presents # SYN219: What's new in XenServer 6.5: performance, scalability and TCO reduction at 11:30 am (EST) on Thursday, 14 May in Room W414D

from all over the XenServer v6.5 release learning in the previous year , together with the latest SP1 updates. Enzo will be there, even to get a taste of things to offer

There are some additional meetings, which I highly recommend .:

  • # SYN220: Exploring GPU virtualization technologies and where to use them
    presenters: David Cottingham and James Bulpin at 15:30 on Thursday, 14 May in Room W414D
  • # SYN221 - What's Citrix new Cloud Platform
    presenters: Blake Connell and Palani Rajan at 15:30 on the Thursday, May 14 in Room W224C
  • # SYN218: Agile delivery and lifecycle management of Citrix workloads across multiple clouds with Workspace cloud
    presenters: Jie Feng and Kailas Jawadekar at 16.30 on Thursday, May 14 in Room Valencia BC

in addition to these large meetings, we have some new and future technologies on the XenServer demo pod (# 19) in the exhibition hall shows, which include:

  • Docker container support
    A new feature for XenServer v6.5 SP1, come and see how we Docker container management in the XenServer management UI integrated for runtime operations and monitoring ,
  • Technical Preview of Intel GVT g graphics virtualization
    will see the latest work carried out with Intel on GVT g graphics virtualization support.
  • nVIDIA GRID vgpu graphics virtualization
    Citrix has offered for over 15 months nVIDIA GRID vgpu support and now in the latest version 6.5 SP1 version, it is more scalable and more powerful than ever.

as expected, it will be a number of Citrix XenServer employees from architecture, product management and product marketing teams, so one-on-one meetings please do not hesitate to agree, if you discuss XenServer to continue as could be a part of your virtualization layer of the data center.

Please checkout http://www.citrixsynergy.com for further information about meetings and demos and booking meetings. We look forward to welcoming you in Orlando

remain connected to all things Citrix Synergy - follow @Citrix on Twitter and join the conversation with #CitrixSynergy

Milliseconds to microseconds ... How NetApp All flash FAS storage accelerates Citrix XenDesktop operations

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fifth or sixth grade in about to begin teacher points deducted when units not included (inches, pounds, meters, etc.) with numerical answers to word problems in math tests. During a recent evaluation of Citrix XenDesktop on the NetApp FAS8060 All-flash storage platform, I confess that I was guilty of forgetting to add units The majority of XenDesktop test benches.

I had previously used memory configured shelves of hard disk drives (HDDs) or hybrid storage solutions with hard drives and a small number of solid state drives (SSDs). Frankly, I'd get used to read latencies of a few milliseconds and write. When I saw latencies 450-1700 way, I thought was something wrong, and I had made a mistake, the test environment at the facility. It took a moment to realize that these latencies values ​​in microseconds and not milliseconds. This "aha" moment lifts the low latencies of NetApp All flash FAS solution and how they can help desktop virtualization provisioning and boot times for XenDesktop to accelerate.

The objective of this test exercise was to evaluate the NetApp All flash FAS storage platform with an I / O-intensive pure virtual desktops (VDI) workload. In particular, I wanted to characterize I / O performance for XenDesktop deployment and boot storm scenarios, the results of using Machine Creation Services (MCS) and Citrix Provisioning Services to compare (PVS) for providing a 2,000-seat VDI Farm. I wanted to examine the effects of storage efficiency features such as deduplication. I have the test configuration, methodology and test results in a short white paper (here) documented that this blog summarizes.

The audit

In addition to the FAS8060 storage platform from NetApp, the testbed included (Figure 1) two network switches and 16 rack servers (14 for VDI desktops and 2 for infrastructure services). Software components include Citrix XenDesktop 7.6, Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS), Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 (SCVMM) and Microsoft® Windows® Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V®. The NetApp system presents multiple iSCSI datastore on the Microsoft Hyper-V hosts for desktop storage needs.

I led two separate test phases, one with MCS and PVS, provisioning 00 persistent VDI desktops in both cases. collected At each stage I I / O metrics during desktop provisioning process and in the same boat storm scenario where all 2,000 seats were started simultaneously.

provisioning and boot storm results

Further, as shown in the table below, FAS8060 system accelerates NetApp strongly MCS provisioning and boot times. MCS Provisioning took less than 41 minutes to boot providing all 2,000 desktops and 16 minutes the desktops in a boot storm scenario. PVS took 88 minutes for the provision and 25 minutes to boot. Since PVS also write cache drives need to be copied during the deployment process, it makes sense that the provision takes longer. How PVS in expected significantly lower IOPS, during the initial deployment process and 11K as compared to 68K during the Boot Storm Test 227 compared to 41K for MCS average.

The results show that MCS is an appropriate deployment option for this size workload, since the storage system can provide sufficient IOPS. Because the NetApp FAS8060 All flash functions such as low latency, it is able to provide the necessary storage system performance for both MCS and PVS provisioning and boot operations.

efficiency analysis

Each desktop virtualization project, the cost is always a concern, and storage can often the most expensive component in the overall solution be. The NetApp FAS8060 platform and clustered Data ONTAP 8.3 operating system make more efficiencies possible for the aid to reduce the amount of memory, which can save costs.

As shown in the figure below, the NetApp storage solution allows a considerable reduction in capacity requirements for both MCS and PVS by the use of thin provisioning and always on dedupe technology. Additional memory savings would be always achieved with the additional NetApp space efficiency technologies like inline zero-elimination, sis clones and inline compression. Storage capacity for the base operating system of 40GB reduces both MCS and PVS to 24GB. would Without thin provisioning and deduplication applied MCS need about 2.8TB differencing disk for every 2,000 desktop support. With thin provisioning and deduplication only about 1.2 TB is needed, a reduction of 60%. Since PVS provisioning would require storage for write cache drives 10TB without the use of these efficiency features are needed. With thin provisioning and deduplication PVS requires only 1.2 TB-a 88% savings.

Conclusion

These tests exercise shows how the NetApp All flash FAS8060 system can provide low latency and satisfy IOPS for requires either MCS or PVS deployment of 2,000 persistent VDI desktops. Whether MCS or PVS is used NetApp always-on storage efficiency technologies reduce storage needs. (A new feature in Data ONTAP 8.3, Advanced disk partitioning also increases the capacity for data, as it eliminates the need for a dedicated root aggregate.)

Citrix and NetApp engineers together to help in many reference architectures and test scenarios customers with the design appealing, highly available and cost-effective desktop virtualization solutions. Many of these solutions are documented-inclusive offer whitepaper on this test exercise on best practices and policies, build a successful solution architecture to help. As always, it is recommended that you implement to collect metrics with typical workloads is a proof-of-concept to help suitably an insert size.

For All flash FAS8060 system and the results of the read more about the NetApp see XenDesktop tests, the complete test report White Paper and NetApp recently published reference architecture TR-4243

- , Rob Briggs, principal solutions architect with Citrix Worldwide Alliances

Citrix and Kony business Mobilization Accelerate with Kony Enterprise Mobility Platform and XenMobile

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Today we are pleased to bring you a guest post by Dave Shirk, president, Products & marketing for Kony, Kony Inc. Citrix together to become customer phone-time business and reap the benefits of mobility done right. The company has seen customers achieve incredible results through business mobility, and they are determined to work with Citrix their business mobilization to provide solution to ensure the success of our customers. Enjoy! - Chris

You've probably heard the word "phone in the world, is the food."

There is also creating enormous opportunities for businesses today. Leading organizations around the world are mobility to drive adoption of transformation within their organization and a competitive advantage in the market. In addition, we have many successful companies use mobility seen as a catalyst for business process innovation. Today business mobile applications are no longer a "nice to have". It has now become a strategic necessity to compete effectively for business in this new mobile era. It is not surprising that mobility one of the top five priorities for investments to help companies become better engage with their customers and their employees enable them to increase their productivity.

As we all know, Citrix is ​​a leader in enterprise mobility space, with a robust solution Workspace Suite and cloud collaboration tools, enterprise mobility management, virtualization, cloud and local network infrastructure -Solutions. Kony is also a recognized leader in mobility solutions with innovative comprehensive and award-winning Kony enterprise mobility platform used to the stable supply in the sector of development tools for mobile middleware to mobilize customers around the world.

to work in this sense, when we discussed opportunities together with the Citrix team, it became clear that customers are looking for their mobile strategy to unite from infrastructure applications. With its XenMobile solution Citrix has made possible a productive and collaborative mobile workforce for several years. Now companies want to mobilize its field force, retail branches, supply, physician and patient communication, and much more. You name it, the transformation in all sectors is happening today. This is together, where, Citrix and Kony innovate and help customers become an Enterprise Mobile-time really!

We are pleased with Citrix unite development of mobile applications with a world-class experience in a wide speed range of industries, including banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, management, and more. We want to empower companies, their mobile strategy to fast track, with a comprehensive, proven mobile centric approach.

Together we can create a mobile strategy with enterprise-class Kony Apps kick start built on the Kony enterprise mobility platform and secured by XenMobile that can help companies get to market faster. Kony apps deliver more dashing experience completely customizable, easily integrated, highly secure, scalable and business-ready with reports and analyzes. With Kony Apps customers receive individualized solutions Quick Start app templates designed to efficiently mobilize the company to meet business needs, do not exceed the expectations of users and drive business results. Kony built mobile applications are designed for any mobile device and operating system, offer the best of both worlds: integrated best practices, functions and connections that make it easy to get up and running quickly. Designed to allow users to customize the app specifically for their business.

All Kony apps are built on our open and fully extensible Kony enterprise mobility platform, to meet the development needs of the entire mobile app development and operation (DevOps) lifecycle. Uniquely built both IT and business units to support, this full DevOps solution unique app UI design tools (Kony Visualizer) and the leading multi-channel app developer tools (Kony Studio), which is authorized by Kony Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) offer (Kony Mobile Fabric), as well as testing and analysis. It extends completely to the end user by adding Kony apps that enable customers to bring to market more quickly.

Kony mobility solution expertise and its strong track record of successfully leading companies help build the most robust mobile applications in various industries such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, travel and hospitality, federal and state government, and many more. Kony has solved the demanding mobile needs of innovative customers like Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield, Citi, HSBC, Regions, SunTrust, Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz, Source Refrigeration, Cathay Pacific, Applebee's, OTIS, Coca-Cola, Mars , Heineken, Marathon Oil, Anadarko, KPMG, PWC, US Foods, and hundreds more have left on Kony experience and know-how to transition successfully to a mobile time enterprise.

in the financial sector, Kony helped a leading bank, the move almost 1,500 offices throughout North America, is working in the digital age and find new ways wanted to serve, that the bank needs of their clients. While growth in retail banking concentrated to provide the financial institution a consistent brand experience. They wanted to have their customers the same experience and get the same quality of service whether they did in the store their bank, decided through the call center or to do business digitally via Mobile Banking or Online. To execute this vision, the bank turned to Kony and successfully Kony's industry-leading mobility platform used to deliver a comprehensive mobile first solution to offer its customers consistent user experience across all touch points. (Read the complete case study.)

Kony deep understanding of the healthcare industry made it the ideal choice for one of the leading pharmaceutical companies. This customer realized that it was time to rethink how they brought their companies to market. They saw that the doctors had the latest and greatest technology - they were with iPhones and iPads. recognized the pharmaceutical companies that they need to strengthen their sales executives who called on this doctors as to be up-to-date with technology. In the past, when the company introduced a new sales initiative and update the Windows-based solutions that support wanted to start it, it took many IT nine months to one year to develop the applications. The company began to develop with a few native apps for iPads. But as demand and complexity grew, the IT team needed a more comprehensive solution. The company has Kony as a mobile application development platform. By using Kony mobility platform, they were able to be much more nimble and able quickly additional mobile enterprise applications published to support its sales activities, which led to increased sales and customer service. (Read the complete case study.)

This commitment to the success of our customers is what differentiates the leaders in the industry. Citrix has received much recognition for its technology leadership. Kony was also recognized by the industry for its mobile technology innovation and customer success. For two consecutive years (2013 and 2014), industry analysts Gartner placed Kony in "Leaders" Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms. Kony also received the highest score in in Gartner Critical Capabilities for Mobile Application Development Platforms report. Moreover Kony was recognized as "One of the best platform solutions for the Enterprise" under the Mobile Application Development Platform providers in theOvum decision matrix. Choosing a Mobile App Development Platform solution, 2015-16

We are pleased to work with Citrix clients phone-time companies are helping and harvesting done correctly the rewards of mobility. We have seen customers achieve incredible results through business mobility, and we are determined to work with Citrix to our Business mobilizing to provide solutions to ensure our customers' success.

David Shirk
President, Products and Marketing

Dave Shirk is president Kony, products and marketing. With more than 25 years of experience in the high-tech product management, product development, marketing, sales and general management, Dave oversees all aspects of Kony wide enterprise mobility product portfolio, strategy and marketing efforts.

VENOM Vulnerability

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VENOM Vulnerability -

This week, an advisory security identified as the "VENOM" or virtualized environment Neglected operations manipulation, CVE-2015-3456 has been publicly announced. During Citrix Synergy, I get questions like XenServer is affected, and what customers should do about it.

Citrix recently released a Security Advisory (http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX201078) on VENOM as it relates to XenServer, and while that should be your main source of updates, I thought that I here would deliver our answer some context.

Citrix is ​​working on a hotfix for XenServer, we are planning to publish next week. Currently Citrix is ​​not known to have publicly available exploit code for VENOM on XenServer

People often ask why it takes time to solve a hotfix. The most significant part of the answer is that each hotfix we learn to share a large number of tests. In addition to the usual functional regression tests we are (automated) tests several days Stress: If there are any problems in the patch, is the stress tests, when we find them normally. So as a background, sometimes taking a quick look at nature as VENOM could impact a XenServer deployment.

The VENOM vulnerability relates to a possible buffer overrun inside the device emulation layer (qemu) used in various virtualization platforms including Xen and KVM-based ones.

In particular, use the code to emulate a floppy drive device for HVM guests (which for most customers, this means Windows virtual machines, although on XenServer 6.5, newer versions of Linux guest in HVM mode run). While XenServer does not really make a floppy device visible to each VM, the code is still present.

Because of the additional security features in XenServer, is our assessment of the situation that the Venom vulnerability could currently not be exploited for a guest unauthorized access to data to obtain.

We will continue up to date on the security bulletin and to keep course, if you have any questions get in touch with Citrix Support.

Citrix Ready Technical Webinar with NVIDIA

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Your DesignerKöpfe impact of 3D applications with XenDesktop and NVIDIA GPUs is a combination of

Have Key users with 3D applications? Already familiar with XenDesktop? Would you like your designer heads to blow of 3D applications with desktop virtualization to combine? Your key user to run your company IP. Desktop Virtualization with NVIDIA graphics is your key drive user productivity.

Learn now to implement the quickest way the new vgpu support for your XenDesktop installation with XenServer or vSphere hypervisor support. Learn more about tools available to move from POC to control to use. We know that designers can create when they sit at their workstations. Now you can work your Designer and create, if they want from wherever they are

Date: Wednesday, June 3rd 2015

time :. 09.30 - 10:30 PDT

Register now

Cisco ACE NetScaler Migration Tool available Citrix Insight Services!

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Citrix NetScaler is the recommended replacement product for the Cisco ACE according to Cisco itself (see https://www.citrix.com / products / NetScaler application-delivery-controller / overview / cisco -ace.html for further details).

The ACE migration tool now in Citrix Insight Services platform, transforming your existing ACE configuration files NetScaler configuration files takes only seconds.

starting to collect Cisco ACE configuration files. Please note that this tool converts an ACE virtual context configuration file to a dedicated NetScaler instance. This does not support all virtual ACE contexts be converted to a NetScaler configuration at once, use the other forms of virtualization: Traffic Domains and Admin partitions. For example, the Cisco ACE 4710 to migrate with 4 virtual contexts to a NetScaler SDX, you need to use the tool for each virtual context on the ACE, then copy the converted configuration in at each of the 4 VPX instances on the NetScaler SDX. A manual approach is necessary in order to merge configs ported NetScaler in one, the traffic domains and / or admin partitions.

Build Your ACE configuration files go on-hand to be in Citrix Insight Services supports your My Citrix credentials at cis.citrix.com.

to the data click Upload button, and then to see for the first ACE configuration file (must be individually uploaded).

After the file upload is completed within seconds, you will see the overview tab with conversion statistics and the ability to the converted NetScaler ns.conf-file display ,

, you can compare the original ACE configuration file to the converted NetScaler the comparison tab. All elements outside the range are shown in red.


The Read Me Tab through the tool along with some known limitations contains information about the most important functions has to be aware of.


For a demo on the whole process with the tool, please watch my video on http://www.citrix.com/tv / # videos / 13,564th

I encourage all current customers Cisco ACE try this ACE to NetScaler migration tool. Save yourself hours worth of time, during the transition to the recommended NetScaler platform.

As always, we encourage users of Citrix Insight Services let us feedback on what works and suggestions on how we can improve. Just click on the "Feedback" link in the footer of each page on cis.citrix.com.

Until next time, keep these uploads come ...

Regards,
Allen Furmanski
Product Manager
Citrix Product Insights and Analytics

With Apple Notifications Service Push for Citrix WorxMail safe

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With Apple Notifications Service Push for Citrix WorxMail safe -

Are you a Citrix XenMobile user? Have WorxMail notifications in your area push?

If so, you might be a little concerned about your Exchange server to cloud-hosted Citrix exposed push notification services. And why should not you? Finally, the Exchange Server is one of the most sensitive units in an organization

There is no need to worry. You will not be deprived elegant push notification services for Citrix WorxMail. Here is a practical solution.

What is pain? Once the device for push notifications with Exchange Server with Citrix Push Notification Services (CPNS) is drawn, you must have Exchange Server CPNS informing for new events in the user's mailbox. Many organizations are concerned about security when the Exchange server receives traffic from public Internet in their internal network.

Add

IT administrators new firewall rules, Exchange servers need to allow to communicate with CPNS. Of course, no one would be convenient to do so, and if there are multiple CAS servers, it is to add a big pain firewall rules for each CAS server.

So what do you do?

As already mentioned, there is no reason for concern. There is still a possibility to use Citrix sexy push notification services, making any firewall changes, regardless of where and how many CAS servers are there.

exists as a XenMobile customer, Citrix NetScaler has already in your environment with load balancing (LB) and SSL functions.

This solution is referred to as "reverse-LB" approach. Usually when LB is used VIP is always accessible from the Internet and internal resources to be added as a service. In this particular solution has VIP from internal resources of Exchange Server and CPNS public FQDN should be ie available to be added as a service.

, is required also as an SSL bridge feature along with LB, so no additional server certificate is used to NetScaler for the LB vServer. See Citrix eDocs for more details on SSL-bridge.

As shown in the chart above, the NetScaler LB CPNS is bound as a service. The Exchange server in the internal network sends requests to LB VIP which in turn forwarded to CPNS and so on. In this way, all the traffic goes through LB, which can be monitored in NetScaler and additional rules can be added as needed for more safety.

An important note for this solution to work is , the CPNS listeners FQDN service must be solved instead of real IP LB VIP. This can by adding a DNS entry or make host file entry in Exchange Server are performed. Ensure only in Exchange Server FQDN LB VIP is corrected, where as on NetScaler need it to solve real IP

The following are NetScaler LB vServer commands create .:

  • enable ns feature SSL IB
  • Server SVR cpns_listener_fqdn add
  • Add service src SVR SSL_BRIDGE 443
  • Add lb vserver ssl_bridge_vip SSL_BRIDGE vserver_ip_address 443
  • bind lb vserver ssl_bridge_vip src

Enjoy push notifications !!

Serve Up Citrix Synergy 2015 for your customers with Synergy Togo

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Serve Up Citrix Synergy 2015 for your customers with Synergy Togo -

SynergyToGo: Invite your customers and prospects to share insights into trends and technologies driving mobility. Whether you had the opportunity to join us at Citrix Synergy 2015 in Orlando or followed along at home on SynergyTV, you now have the ultimate Synergy experience to share in one neat package with your customers and prospects!

We have assembled as the best from the 2015 conference in Togo Synergy that you recreate the excitement of Synergy .

Fuel customer excitement

Synergy Togo is to show a great tool, as in cooperation with Citrix, you can:

  • provide an experience that seamless, on-demand and intuitive
  • Set to protect the security of what Portable adapt questions on applications, data and usage scenarios
  • and provide any app, any device or cloud - tailored to the needs of your customer

Synergy Togo has everything you need to expand Synergy Highlights customer via webinar or your own live events.

a seminar or webinar hosting you can totals worthy announcements to share delivered. Synergy while personally maintain your customer relationships

Synergy Togo includes:

  • Synergy Togo Event kit with "how" guide, customizable invitation and sample agendas
  • Condensed, scripted presentations of highlights at the keynote and general session
  • More Synergy resources

Load share delivered your customers and prospects insight develop trends and technologies in mobility .

Unpack Synergy Togo Kit today!

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Proactively manage Citrix Delivery Clinical and business applications in health care

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Proactively manage Citrix Delivery Clinical and business applications in health care -

"I want to work, I have no time to call support and to keep it simple solve a problem, if I have a life on the line have "a direct quote from a clinician was I had a chance to sit in front of a few months, as to ask him how technology plays a role in his daily life.

for myself and colleagues who happened to some of the latest technologies on a daily basis to see and interact, we forget that sometimes for some people, technology is just an afterthought. For them it is just a means to an end. For clinical staff that "job" is to provide the best care for, are able to make sure who it is sitting on towards them.

not follow health when compared to many other industries, the prototypical 8:00 to 5:00 p.m. working. Clinicians require seamless access to clinical applications and data 24/7, because the intensive care can not easily and will not wait.

In an industry where seconds can literally mean life or death, there must be solutions in place, doctors and other healthcare workers must give immediate access quality Care. Clinicians, as already mentioned, do not have to worry about the luxury of time, why an application is slow or the start not, they only need it to work. Period.

Citrix has a long track record in the above-mentioned challenges and allows caregivers seamless applications and data access to provide the best quality care for their patients are available, and we know it is important that IT to provide -Personal available (which are usually usually forced resource) to ensure the tools that they need 100% availability of their environments. Tools that IT with proactive-as opposed to a reactive approach offer, and provide IT administrators the power they need, my clinical friend up to make sure no "to require assistance."

One of our Citrix Ready partners in the healthcare, Goliath Technologies, has come up and developed by creating a series of fully integrated technologies that are specifically built and designed for the challenges of IT in health care with a unique solution to Administrators give the possibility to anticipate, fix and resolve performance problems. Your product goes beyond the limits of passive surveillance, provides a proactive approach, provides actionable data and even take action to solve problems.

For our healthcare customers Goliaths is Software focuses on end-to -end visibility in environments that use Citrix to deliver EMR / EHR applications. This includes registration and initiation process to meeting performance and all IT elements that can affect the performance.

End User Experience is crucial in an "always on" 24/7 environment and Goliath solution provides unique functionality know administrators to help, in advance, if it be a problem if they try their applications are accessing. Your Logon simulator for Citrix actually log on to the application, the same steps would take a real end user to ensure himself by NetScaler to that the registration is successful. If an error occurs or slow it will send an alarm.

So, planned in a customer as the Goliath Logon Simulator from remote locations login from two hours before staff came to the hospital applications to ensure an administrator, were available and if it is not alarmed him with enough time to the to resolve problem. This is really proactively. Talk about preventative medicine!

They have also taken the approach of adding deep metrics on Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop and the supporting infrastructure, the direct impact for end users regarding login duration and session performance. This functionality is also ready, because they have done the necessary API integration and development, dashboards and screens with real-time logon hours broken down by stage and ICA channel to fill drill-down from the box.


to give a detailed example of how detailed and actionable information is a doctor was with image resolution have trouble if a clinical application of access from home , The administrator could ICA latency channel real-time Dashboard on meeting performance drill down into the use and noticed that the doctor also audio streaming was what the available bandwidth was occupying. He was asked to turn off the audio streaming and problem was solved.

to complete the end-to-end image, they are the only performance monitoring company, the purpose-built application modules for the various does EMR / EHR applications. Right now, they have application modules for MEDITECH, Siemens, Allscripts, T-Systems and McKesson with Epic and Cerner in development. This purpose-built modules enable them to bind together in a view to the end user, Citrix infrastructure and application performance. Alerts are generated when there is a breach of a threshold metric that could signal registration period or session performance with the EMR / EHR application sessions to an upcoming performance problem, which can then be traced to the cause with registration Initiation be.

on Wednesday, June 17 th at 12:30 am EST, you're the CIO of St. Luke's University Health Network Chad Brisendine, discuss directly from one of our common transform to hear customers, tactical and technical changes he implemented St. Lukes virtualized in a 95%, "Always on" system and how to do the same

Register now for the free webinar "CIO Insight. Proactive Create & Manage" Always on "IT in healthcare."

Mobility Experts: Step-by-step instructions for activating WorxMail with RMS

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With the release of new version of WorxApps comes additional features. One of the long-awaited was that support for IRM (Information Rights Management) on iOS WorxMail. Earlier version of WorxMail had with the release of 10.0.7 and higher WorxMail support for IRM on Android devices, and iOS platforms is now supported.

to the following Citrix eDocs link go to find out more about IRM support in WorxMail and also the list of attributes that are currently supported.

http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/worx-mobile-apps/xmob-worx-mail.html

There are several blogs that talks about how RMS to set up and configure, I will in this blog, although it does not go, but if you have any specific question on RMS installation have in the comments please ask.

[1945001StellenSiesicher] that has been configured as follows in the Active Directory and Exchange Server

1) Rights Management Server role on the Active Directory.

2) AD RMS administrator group on Active Directory.

3) Federated Delivery mailbox account user added to this Administrators group on the Exchange server.

4) Super Users group function enables the AD RMS management tool in Active Directory.

it is necessary to test the IRM configuration after the above four points are met. Points 3 and 4 has been covered in this blog.

How IRM configuration

Use to validate Get and Test cmdlets to validate RMS, use to under cmdlets in Exchange Management Shell IRM config address:

Get-IRMConfiguration


I f the InternalLicensingEnabled is false cmdlet in Exchange management Shell are executed

Set-IRMConfiguration -InternalLicensingEnabled $ true

and start the Get-IRMConfiguration

the test IRMConfiguration cmdlets information Rights management (IRM) configuration and functionality.

[testing Test IRMConfiguration transmitter smith@bklab.local

overall result should show as pASS

Okay, after the IRM configuration is successfully validated, let us needed to go through other configurations:

  1. MDX-policy configuration for WorxMail in XMS server
  2. create RMS templates ..
  3. End User Experience during IRM with WorxMail on iOS enabled.

1) WorxMail MDX policy for IRM.

Assuming that you have done XMS initial and WorxMail 10.0.x added in XMS server as an App, IRM configuration is pretty straight forward in iOS app.

Sign up for XMS Admin Portal. Go to Configure -> apps> iOS> WorxMail-> Edit scroll down until you see Information Rights Management option. Slide the IRM to ON as shown in the figure below.

Click Next after the changes.Click Next again on the Approvals (Optional) . want

on the next screen delivery groups in AD you choose to access the WorxMail make applications available and Save it. I have the option All users , because I wanted it to be implemented for all users XMS configured with.

This is all you need to do to. XMS server

Before using the template, make sure that you have already performed with the following two steps:

1. Federated Delivery Mailbox user account added to this Administrators group on the Exchange server.

, the Federated Delivery Mailbox Add The Exchange Management Shell account of the superuser group

to Exchange Server. -> Open Exchnage Management Shell -> Enter

Add distribution -member FederatedEmail.4c1f4d8b-8179-4148-93bf-00a95fa1e042 -Identity RMS_SUPER_USER .

2. Super-User Group function activates the AD RMS management tool in Active Directory with

Enabling superuser go to guidelines securities in cluster -> Super users -> Enable super user under Actions in the right pane. The pop-up window, enter the email address of the superuser group in AD. I've created

RMS_SUPER_USER distribution group in AD with an email address. The e-mail address is used herein to allow the user group.

2) Preparation of RMS templates.

create below Follow a template on Rights Management Server (RMS). Screenshot have installed below assume you RMS on a Windows 08 R2 system

Read Active Directory Rights Management Service. -> expand cluster -> Select Rights Policy Template -> on the right plate select template create marketing rights

Click have I created on in

in the screenshot below a template named "Do Not forward"

, enter the name and description and hit Next

browser to a group or a user, you want rights to grant, with the protected content.

on the next screen you can

to work the content select drain, I left it as never expires .

Click Next on the Extended Policy.

put on the revocation Done.

3) End User Experience

Suppose that end users have been enrolled. Added the WorxMail app from the WorxStore on the device and is already ITHE app with your Exchange settings to configure.

IRM enabled user appears IRM symbol, shown during an e-mail, as shown below in shot.Click screen on the icon displays the list of constraints profile in AD RMS server configured.

below is another screenshot showing the details of restrictions. In this screenshot you can see the recipient of this e-mail are seeing this message can read, but can not forward, print or copy content.

In the next screenshot you can see at the bottom that the Forward option for the recipient will be dimmed.

Here is a screenshot of Android WorxMail where users limited forward and pressure take the e-mail messages

Disclaimer: strictly for demonstration purposes the environment that I have used is, make sure that you keep track of third licenses and copyrights when using a third product.

Out with the old: Driving Relevant services as a hosting service provider

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I have in Europe in the world to visit some of the largest telephone companies. I have a common thread found drawn between this great service, and it is the paradox they are facing in terms of their livelihoods.

In most cases, they will have tremendous brand awareness. Their range is phenomenal (millions of subscribers service) and they have more network capacity than each company could imagine.

So what is the dichotomy?

Believe it or not, it is Service . You see most of these big service companies grew around the simple premise that the network was service. As long as its subscribers could "access" network, they had relevance.

no longer

.

networking without applications and data can be seen as a raw material Services

The network is synonymous these days with goods. Commodity Services have only one value: Price. And because the price of these services falls, so does the ability to reach margin. This is widely used in large service provider advertising. Get bandwidth 'X' 'Y' price.

Throughout the world, this seems to be the value to be proposition. But while savvy business customers-especially the small / medium business (SMB) segment looking applications and data services, networks (and bandwidth for less) are an afterthought.

SMBs services want that are relevant to their business. You want to step up service and deliver. For it is not only relevance access or bandwidth, but real business applications.

I took this photo while I was in London. In the foreground of the Tower of London, which dates back several centuries. It was the center of the United Kingdom in its hay-day. Now, it houses the Crown Jewels and is primarily a tourist attraction. What once was relevant, is now nothing more than a bit of antiquity; only a memory.

It reminded me that the world is changing and with it the importance of relevancy.

In the background you can see a structure climbing into the sky, as if its meaning cry for. It is the splitter, a 1,016 foot landmark in the center of London, built for the companies of the 21 st century, it is the tallest building in the EU.

business flow tenancy to have there because of its fascination, its meaning. What a great reminder of change.

As service providers offer more relevant?

We have in history not look too far back to see what kind of company, the relevance lacking happen.

Wang, DEC and Sun Microsystems are examples of large technology companies, the mementos of ancient times. In the service provider market, we have seen some of this consolidation. So whatever happened to Pacific Bell or Bell South? Do they also mementos of antiquity?

So what is to do a phone company?

What is to connect with the hundreds of smaller Citrix Service Provider, the applications and data exchange solutions for hundreds of thousands of subscribers? Probably a good idea.

Take, for example, Digicel, AT & T or TeliaSonera. You have taken the first step in the pushback toward relevance for the SMB. Over bandwidth or network, they have chosen to provide services that are actually relevant to their business customers. Who will be next? We have to wait and see.

One thing is certain ... Citrix these services is made possible, and our Citrix Service Provider support to remain relevant. Want to know more? Why learn no more and gain value by being the Citrix Service Provider Program member today?

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FAQ - What 7.6

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New Feature Pack 1 and 2 for XenApp is

If you were one of the thousands who come have, thank you for your visit! While not many of the questions that tried to answer during the live event, because of the high turn-out and a large number of questions that we have received, we were during the live Q to answer everything & A Part in a position.

This article provides answers to the questions that we received during and after the webinar.

Before we dig into the FAQs, I want to let you know about some very helpful resources. If you are looking to learn more about the technical details of the new features and functions, please take a look at the resources on the What's new in XenApp and innovations in XenDesktop sites. The Synergy sessions are a must, especially Dan Feller Tech Update for XenApp and XenDesktop May 2015 edition, Dan and Carisa stringer redisplay The future of XenApp and XenDesktop upgrades and Derek Thorslund What's HDX.

There is are a load more things, but I digress. Here are the answers that you have been waiting for.

Happy reading and Happy Sunny Sweden.
Paul

Q. Are there plans for an optimization package for Skype for Business?
A. Support for Skype-for-Business Client 15.0.4719.1000 and above (in Lync UI mode) in FP2

Q be. I want to know if Citrix Receiver and VDAS are FIPS compliant.
A. Yes, that's the VDA FIPS compliant. As used for the receiver, it really depends on the version. More info at /blogs/2014/10/16/xenapp-and-xendesktop-7-6-security-fips-140-2-and-ssl-to-vda/

Q. If the Director / EdgeSight console you were a new combined version or a custom dashboard displays?
A. The screenshots in the webinar are displayed all standard views of the Director Console. queried the data for the "Network Performance Charts" from the HDX Insight Center that. in the Director Console

Q displays all ICA-related information collected. Will the new receivers operate with 2-factor authentication?
A. Yes, all recipients can be combined with two-factor authentication technology. There are many articles on the web describing how to configure the two-factor authentication.

Q. Where can we Framehawk Tech Preview?
A find. Framehawk will be integrated into the recipient clients. The Windows Receiver with Framehawk will be released in late June with FP2, so I would suggest to wait until then.

Q. The X1 mouse - it will be prepared for some hardware device Citrix
A ?. Yes, specifically for iOS. / blogs / 05.05.2015 / the-mouse-that-roared-for-Business /

Q. What is the new EOM (End of Maintenance) for XenApp 6.5?
A. The EOM was extended to 31 December 2017, if you have active SWM or SA. The details are here https://www.citrix.com/support/product-lifecycle/product-matrix.html

Q. Is SmartAuditor in Enterprise license?
A. No, SmartAuditor in FP1 is a Platinum-function.

Q. Is Director and EdgeSight w / enterprise licensing available?
A. Director and EdgeSight is available in all editions. XenApp / XenDesktop Enterprise stores data for up to 7 days, while the Platinum editions remove the 7-day period.

Q. Your film had a receiver release date in June 2015? Is that a solid release date?
A. The new receivers will be launched with FP2 at the end of June 2015

Q. Will the Thin Wire extensions in FP2 be available and will it be for desktop and server OS?
A. Thin Wire Plus tech preview as part of the Windows 10 VDA Tech Preview is published in July.

Q available. What we lose through this r2 to 08 install, or we can install it on 08 R2.
A. You lose nothing in terms of features or functionality.

Q. When will 7.6 UPS available?
A. UPS 7.6 is available since October 2014, it will be a Tech Preview for the updated Universal Printer Server, which (with the Windows 10 VDA Tech Preview)

Q will be published in July. Is there a release date for the XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack?
A. XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack will be released on June 30 th together with the corresponding feature Pack for XenApp 7.6 / XenDesktop 7.6. Facilities include Storefront 3.0 and the new recipient, RealTime Optimization Pack 1.8, upgrade Director 7.6.300, Provisioning Services 7.6, AppDNA 7.6, XenServer 6.5 SP1, Universal Print Server 7.6, and the license server 11.12.1

Q. the "Universal receiver" If client side avoid receiver installed?
A. Universal Receiver is a generic term for the different receiver clients. The HTML5-receiver provides "Clientless Access" in the sense that you need to install any client side software.

Q. Will this new XenApp version is available for Solaris 10 server?
A. No. The current XenApp / XenDesktop platforms are server platforms for Windows. MetaFrame for UNIX and Citrix Presentation Server for Unix have been set. The alternative would be to use the Linux Virtual Desktop, which is published with FP2 and deploying Suse or RedHat server or desktop operating systems from there.

Q. Hi, I want to know what license level are required to use Linux Virtual Desktop?
A. The Linux Virtual Desktop is available in the Enterprise and Platinum editions.

Q. What kind of Citrix Receiver upgrade capabilities are baked in storefront 3 or Citrix Receiver Tech Preview, if at all?
A. As with any Tech Preview, I would recommend removing the Tech Preview versions before installing the final released versions.

Q. Is a Windows version of the desktop Player Tech Preview already available?
A. Yes, that is currently available on Citrix.com Desktop Player Technology Preview . Note You will be prompted to login to the Tech Preview.

Q. How does the HDX RealTime Optimization Pack when users will come through an Access Gateway (NetScaler Gateway) in the environment?
A. For more information about remote access to the Optimization Pack, see CTX201116 . The ICA virtual channels are secured by the NetScaler Gateway. Audio and video are out-of-band of ICA and secured via the Microsoft Skype / Lync Edge server or IPSec VPN delivered, the native support [un-encapsulated] UDP traffic.

Q. Does AppDisk require XenServer hypervisor?
A. While the Tech Preview or beta may be limited there to a single hypervisor, is not a technical limitation of AppDisk to a specific hypervisor. Citrix has also supported all the important functions on the three main platforms hypervisor in the past. "

Q. Are there other articles to read on AppDisk?
A. Not at the moment.

Q. Due to the requirement of the function of our application that we need users to start all the application from a server (the server they ever connected first), even if we have four servers in farm, there is a possibility, it implement. "
A. This will be done by default, because the system is designed on session sharing, means the requirements for additional applications, will come from the same server (as long as the app is available) the same and as part delivery group publishes.

Q. Do you have statistics on the percentage of implementations on XenServer compared to other hypervisors?
A. The Customer Experience Improvement Program, is Citrix can collect anonymous information about hypervisor usage when the customer into the program opt-in. These data show that most implementations XenServer use. These data are an example of the installed base and could not reflect all segments, sectors and regions alike.

Q. Did the Framehawk features require upgrading to XenApp 7.6 or the functions in 6.5?
A available. Framehawk need XenApp 7.6 or higher

Q. When will "to limit application and significance function (limit instances of applications)" to be included in XenApp 7.x?
A. These are currently on the roadmap for future versions.

Q. Will it be hardware encoding in a future release on NVIDIA GRID K2 H.264?
A. Currently is used to a limited extent H.264 hardware encoding for transcoding in conjunction with HDX Windows Media Redirection (see http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xenapp-xendesktop-76/xad-policies-settings-multimedia.html, "Use GPU for optimizing Windows Media Multimedia Redirection via WAN"). Wider use of H.264 hardware encryption has not been announced.

Q. Can you provide me please more information on the iOS VPN client available? How does it differ from differ Home Worx functionality for XenMobile?
A. iOS VPN client is a full SSL VPN plugin that provides a full tunnel SSL VPN for the device. This means that all applications on the device to access data through an SSL VPN tunnel. It also provides a per app tunnel for all enterprise applications. WorxHome offers per app (MicroVPN) tunnel for Worx apps only.

Q. Is Content Switching is the mechanism behind a URL?
A. Yes. It is.

Q. When will be able to Insight Phone OS network statistics appear?
A. This is on the roadmap. However, we can not commit only on a date.

Q. Will there be a virtual appliance version of NetScaler Unified Gateway?
A. Yes. It will be with Unified Gateway virtual appliance version of NetScaler. Generally, there is no difference in the software whether NetScaler is a hardware appliance or software appliance.

Q. Will there be an upgrade path VPX NetScaler be 10 to 11?
A. Yes. You need the latest version of NetScaler to obtain 11 software. For Unified Gateway, you will NetScaler Enterprise or Platinum license need.

Q. Did the NetScaler support cloud-based idP / SAML as ONELOGIN and Okta, for 2-Factor?
A. Yes. NetScaler supports any idP / SAML provider, as long as they support SAML 2.0 standards.

Q. Is the NetScaler go VMware NSX functionality / integration?
A support. We do not support VMware NSX at this point. However, it is on our roadmap.

Q. What is the difference between per App VPN and the latest micro-VPN in XenMobile?
A. MicroVPN in XenMobile is applicable for Worx applications. only for iOS platform Per App VPN is a NetScaler feature, which provides for each enterprise app per App VPN.

Q. What impact will use the decoupling and disintegration of the Gateway plugin for those who base proxy?
A. Gateway Plug-in is not available with basic proxy. You need Universal License Gateway Plugin to obtain.

Q. Is NetScaler Unified Gateway another edition of NetScaler or this is a licensed feature that can be turned on or off by license key or?
A. Unified Gateway is part of the NetScaler Enterprise and Platinum licenses, depending on the features you are looking for. You will also need to upgrade NetScaler 11.0 version features Gateway to get united.

Q. What version of NetScaler we do for the director information?
A. You must NetScaler 10.1 or higher.

Q. Will Framehawk NetScaler 10.5?
A are supported. No, it is supported starting 11.0

Q. Does that uniform access work with 3rd party VPN solutions? Cisco Anyconnect say?
A. Yes, but it may depend on the application.

Q. Will NetScaler 11 have HTTP ECV text based monitors advanced than 10.5?
A. No new monitors are in 11.0.

Q added. How NetScaler work with Desktop Player?
A. Desktop Player can in the online and offline work. In online mode, the connection can be proxied by NetScaler. The offline mode has no connections from the client machine, so NetScaler is not in the picture.

Q. Will there be a Java version of the code base to be 11 NetScaler?
A. The old version of Java will continue as it is.


Steps to Create, then import APNS certificate in XMS Server

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In this blog we will go through the steps for creating and importing the APNS (Apple Push Notification Service) certificate in XMS server.

requirements

• Credentials for the Apple Push Certificates Portal https://identity.apple.com/pushcert
• NetScaler and XMS Application Details

Create NetScaler certificate request.

to provide an overview [1945009derZweckdiesesDokuments] detailed information on creating and loading a, certificate request on NetScaler.

1. Login to NetScaler and select SSL under Traffic Management on the left side. Click Create RSA Key on the right side, as shown below.

2. Enter. The key file name, and the key size than 2048 bits, the PEM password with other details, as shown below, and then click Create Make sure you remember this password, as we are going to use it, while to create PFX file for the APNS certificate.

3. Under Traffic Management -> SSL and click Create Certificate Request on the right side, as shown below

4 .. Enter the application file name and key file name, click Browse.

5. Select the key file that we created in step 2 above.

6. Enter the details of the CSR is required, as shown below. Here common name is the name for you is the APNS grant certificates for.

7. Click Create to create the CSR file.

8. Under traffic management> SSL Click Certificates / keys / CSRs manage tooling, as shown below.

9. Select the CSR you created and click Download to save it to a local folder on your computer.

To the CSR to Citrix submit for signing

1. Log in to the XMS server and click the Support icon as shown below.

2. Click. On APNs Signing Utility

3. You will be redirected to https://xenmobiletools.citrix.com. Click APNS Certificate.

Click Upload the CSR.

4. Locate the CSR file we downloaded in step 9 of the creation of CSR section above.

5. Click Login.

6. finish off a message.

7 to see. A file (with .plist extension) will be downloaded automatically, as shown below.

signed the CSR to send to Apple the APNS certificate [1945008zuerhalten]

1. Click Apple Push Certificates Portal link below shown.

2. Log in. In the portal

3. Click Create Certificate.

4. Accept the Terms of Use.

5. Click Select File.

6. Select the .plist file we downloaded in step 7 of the Send the CSR to Citrix for section above sign.

7. Click Upload.

8. Download the APNS certificate that is in .PEM format.

9. Log on to NetScaler

Under traffic management. -> SSL and click Certificates / keys / CSRs on the right to manage

10 .. Click Upload

11. Select the APNS certificate PEM file we downloaded in step 8 and click Open.

12. Click Close.

To a PFX APNS create certificate by nsroot with OpenSSL

1. Sign the NetScaler Command Line as a user and type shell to get into the cup.

2. Enter the command as follows

Here is the format .:
openssl pkcs12 -export -out / nsconfig / ssl / -inkey / nsconfig / ssl / -in / nsconfig / ssl /

here is the private key and the PEM files are in / nsconfig / ssl directory. The output file with the .pfx extension will be located in the same directory.

3. We have created for APNS in creating certificate request on NetScaler section the password for the private key.

4. Enter the PFX Export password.

5. Repeat Export password. Make sure that you have forgotten this password, as we are using it in our next section, while importing the APNS certificate in XMS server.

6. Under Traffic Management -> SSL and click Manage Certificates / Keys / CSRs on the right side

7 .. Select the PFX file and click download

Importing APNS certificate in XMS server.

1. Login to XMS server and click Settings Configure.

2. Click Certificates

3. Click Import

4. Select the APNs for use as field select key store for import fields and key store type as PKCS # 12

5. Click Browse, we look to the APNS pfx file in step 7 of the Create PFX APNS certificate region downloaded.

6. Select the file

7. Enter the PFX password

8. Click import

9. Click OK

10. We can see the APNS certificate which, as shown below will be imported.

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