OKTA SAML integration as an identity provider to Citrix Cloud step by step guide

Citrix now has native Okta OIDC web application integration on Citrix cloud. https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-cloud/citrix-cloud-management/identity-access-management/okta-identity.html and also has the possibility to use SAML integration with Citrix cloud. Okta SAML integration is a common deployment because customers don’t need to grant Citrix cloud a full read-only API key to the entire organization or to create custom attributes in …

Testing in Production? Are you out of your Vulcan mind?

Test functionality on a production appliance without touching the production entities or having to request additional firewall rules.

Citrix ADC – Create your own AAA session management framework using AppExpert

Citrix ADC has had a feature called AAA (authentication, authorization, and accounting) for many years now. It's purpose is the secure load balanced websites. Providing load balancing for webservers ( think IIS for on-prem sharepoint, outlook web access, or internally built web apps, think apache web servers, nginx, etc for larger cloud hosted or other …

Citrix ADC is restricted by not having scripting functionality? WRONG!

I had a customer tell me recently that their existing ADC could not be replaced with Citrix ADC, as there were complex custom rules for which the Citrix ADC couldn't match. In my mind I heard the words "Challenge Accepted". 🙂 The use case was to serve back a bespoke error page when a load …

Citrix Gateway Service and EDT

In this post I wanted to discuss the use of Citrix Enlighted Data Transport with Citrix Gateway Service. This is a feature that has been available with Citrix ADC for quite some time but it is a new feature for Gateway Service. I wanted to take you through step by step on how to configure …

Service Continuity for Virtual Apps and Desktop Service

As the year that was 2020 comes to a close, Citrix has announced a Public tech preview of, in my opinion, a game changing new feature. Service Continuity is a new feature set in Citrix Cloud that will ensure connectivity and continuity of Virtual Apps & Desktop Service sessions. I have spent a lot of …

CAS/P value enhanced

Since writing my last blog on here, there has been lots of changes for the better with Citrix Analytics for performance and I wanted to highlight them. For me this further strengthens the value Analytics can bring to the table when looking after your CVAD environment and shows how fast with Citrix Cloud we can …

Citrix Analytics – Performance

The idea of this blog came off the back of recent requests around Citrix Analytics and how it was helping prior to the pandemic and, even more so, now as large percentages of us are working remotely –  trying to manage that from an IT point of view isn't easy.  Unpredictable devices, networks and more …

How to enable a seamless SSO experience using Citrix Workspace, Okta and FAS.

In my many years at Citrix, one sentence has always stuck with me throughout these years and I do truly believe in it! If the user experience is not as good as you had previously or better, then adoption will fail, user experience is king!” I am sure we are all familiar with similar sayings, …

Scale up, not out!

This is a statement I have heard so many times over the years. It has always applied to hardware sizing for me, until now. Citrix has just released a new feature called vertical load balancing, and I like it. Its available in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service. When working with public clouds its important …