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 …

Hackers love your vulnerable websites!

There is a saying or cliché commonly shared among technical security teams: it’s not a case of IF you’ll get attacked, its WHEN. I decided to test this theory with what’s called a “honeypot”. This is a program, site or piece of code deployed with the deliberate intention of it being hit by the bad …

Add the Citrixie Microapp to your Citrix Workspace

Citrix released Workspace Intelligence on December 12 2019. If you would like to add an RSS feed of our blog, citrixie.com, (or indeed any blog) to your Citrix Workspace - we will show you how. First, a quick recap of Citrix Microapps. Workspace Intelligence Recap Architecture Overvew Citrix Workspace allows us to take a single …

Part 2 – Citrix Network Location Service (Tech Preview)

In Part 1, we looked at what NLS is, configuring it and some troubleshooting around this new service. As a second part to this blog I am going to look into this a little bit further and highlight what we have seen in the field. There is many advantages of using NLS in Citrix Cloud and …

Part 1 – Citrix Network Location Service (Tech Preview)

Citrix Cloud customers can now define networks and optimise internal network traffic.Traditionally, in a Citrix Cloud deployment, all VADS users had to access VDA's via the Gateway Service. This was regardless of whether the user that was accessing the VDA was External or Internal. While this behaviour is expected for external users, it is not …