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 …

Citrix Cloud – What it is and What it isn’t

Recently, it has become apparant to me that there is still a misconception as to what Citrix Cloud is, and what it isn't. Hopefully, in this post, I can clear up some of those misconceptions once and for all 🙂 Citrix Cloud: What it isn't OK, so let's start with what Citrix Cloud isn't as …

Installing Teams Optimization pack

Citrix has released an optimisation pack for Microsoft teams. I think its fair to say that this RTOP pack has been highly anticipated. This blog is part 1 of 2, here I wanted to focus on the required pre-requisites and installation instructions for Microsoft Teams on a Citrix environment. What is the Team Optimization pack: …

All hail Citrix Remote PC!

Why is Citrix Remote PC proving so popular with organisations during the COVID-19 outbreak. Since my time at Citrix, which is 3 years I have had many customer conversations, but I can’t remember a single conversation around a specific Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Advanced and Premium feature called Remote PC.  That was, until a …

Citrix Licensing Options

There have been so many licensing questions in the past few weeks, I thought maybe it was time to write a blog post on the options that I have come across when mixing license types and when working with older Citrix licenses. Things to remember User/Device licenses have an overdraft of 10% and SGP. https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/licensing/current-release/licensing-technical-overview.html …