Articles In Infrastructure

By Brian Wagner, Posted in Infrastructure

There are many monitoring solutions on the market, some with specific focus for Citrix environments that tout an "end-to-end" view. But, I've yet to see a single dashboard that shows a user's connection through the NetScaler, Citrix XD/XA, and backend connections to SQL, storage, and other critical components. Splunk can capture data from all of these sources, and index it to your heart's content. But, out of the box you get individual dashboards without the zoomed out view we all crave. That is where Go... read more.

• February 03, 2014

By Brian Wagner, Posted in Infrastructure

The NetScaler SDX platform is a combination of high performance hardware with a hypervisor tuned to take advantage of it. The solution offers direct mapping of specific components to virtual NetScalers, such as CPU, Memory, SSL cores, and NICs via SR-IOV. But Citrix teased us a while back that the SDX platform may also support workloads other than NetScalers. Citrix has now delivered, working with some third party vendors to offer new workloads on the SDX platform. These are the available products: We... read more.

• September 03, 2013

By Timothy Karl, Posted in Infrastructure

Citrix EdgeSight is an availability and performance management solution that monitors applications, devices, sessions, licensing, and network traffic in real time. It provides IT administrators with a way to analyze, resolve, and proactively prevent problems in Windows endpoint, XenDesktop, and XenApp environments. The architecture for a Citrix EdgeSight server consists of a front-end Web Server and a back-end Database server. The EdgeSight database contains the configuration data for EdgeSight as well a... read more.

• March 29, 2013

By Ed Bratter, Posted in Infrastructure

Now that Windows 8 is officially on the store shelves no doubt users will be scouring the Windows Store looking for Windows 8 applications to play with. One app users may find is the Lync application. Once installed, excited users will enter their credentials and expect to connect to Lync just as they do with their standard desktop client or Lync mobile client. Unfortunately, many users will be disappointed when they receive a “Cannot connect to server” error message. This will create a mad frenzy among use... read more.

• November 28, 2012

By Ed Bratter, Posted in Infrastructure

If you are involved in an InterOrg Exchange migration, you are going to have to migrate your Public Folder infrastructure from the source Exchange organization to the destination organization. Exchange does not offer a native tool to do this. This means you will either have to invest in a third-party utility like the Quest Exchange migration tool or use a free tool from Microsoft called the InterOrg Replication tool (IORepl). As you might expect, the third-party tools are far superior to IORepl, but are als... read more.

• October 19, 2012

By Ken Phelan, Posted in Infrastructure

Lately, we’ve seen a lot of activity at Gotham clients regarding increasing the functionality their SSL VPN. Gotham has installed a lot of this technology and I was thinking about the early days of SSL VPN. When SSL VPNs first came out, Gotham was one of the first movers in evangelizing what we thought was a great way to simplify access for individual users. During the education process we would eventually find ourselves in the office of whoever was running the traditional IPSEC VPN that was currently in... read more.

• October 17, 2012

By Entrcb, Posted in Infrastructure

I recently had the opportunity to deploy Provisioning Services 6.1 to upgrade an existing client from 5.6. As there was no possibility of downtime, we decided to go with a parallel update; taking a copy of the existing vDisk and reverse-imaging it as per the Citrix documentation, and then installing the Target Device software and using XenConvert to create a new vDisk. Everything went perfectly until it actually came time to boot the target device from the vDisk. The dreaded BSOD! The 7B BSOD; which mean... read more.

• October 04, 2012

By Ed Bratter, Posted in Infrastructure

Many Exchange 2010 administrators are familiar with working with database availability groups (DAG) and the multiple copies of mailbox stores they provide. One area of confusion around DAGs, however, is properly configuring DAG networks. This article reviews how to configure a multi-site DAG that consists of multiple networks. The example I will be using consists of Exchange Servers hosted in two physical locations. Each server has three network cards and resides on three different VLANs. For simplicity,... read more.

• September 26, 2012

By Joe Jessen, Posted in Infrastructure

Announced yesterday, Microsoft's Surface tablet is positioned to compete directly against Apple’s iPad in both the consumer and corporate environment. Leveraging the new Metro UI, Microsoft’s new tablet provides a familiar usability to existing mobile device users and adds one piece that Apple has not been able provide: seamless integration with corporate device management infrastructure. Mobile device management (MDM) solutions control and deploy applications and apply security policies similar to those... read more.

• June 19, 2012

By Ed Bratter, Posted in Infrastructure

If you are using the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) to migrate the SID History of objects between forests, you may receive the following error if you have not configured everything according to the ADMT documentation: Could not verify auditing and TcpipClientSupport on Domains. Will not be able to migrate the SIDs. Access is denied. Microsoft has published a KB article to remedy the issue: ADMT: "Could Not Verify Auditing and TcpipClientSupport on Domains" Error Message When You Try to Migrate... read more.

• June 05, 2012