Delivering customer success through technology: IT Infrastructure | Citrix | End User Computing | Platform Engineering | DevOps | Full Stack Developer | Technical Architect | Improvisor | Aspiring Comedian | Midlife Adventurer
Jeremy Saunders There is a general misunderstanding with regards a few of the End-Point Analysis (EPA) scans provided with the Citrix Access Gateway Advanced Edition, and I find that the implementation of these scans is often not thought out correctly. There are three (3) specific scans that need to be explained.
The Citrix Access Gateway Advanced Edition (CAG integrated into an AAC Farm) presents us with a design limitation that customers must understand so that the expectation of the level of redundancy built into the solution can be met.
Having multiple CAGs in place for failover only provides you with an automated and seamless failover mechanism for Secure Access Client (SSL-VPN) connections. This is as per design of the CAGs.
There are several limitations and issues that customers must be made aware of if using the failover CAG for access to File Resources, Web Resources, Web-Based Email, and Presentation Server Applications via Web Interface. i.e. Clientless connections.
Although most antivirus products work 100% without needing any modification and tuning, there are architectural and business decisions to be made about how it should be configured, with a focus on performance; the most important part of a Terminal/Citrix Server deployment.
A customer asked me to assist with implementing a “Message of the Day” (MOTD) banner into their logon scripts. I had written one years ago that was part of a kix32 script, but found that it no longer worked with the wkix32 script processor. I guess that I could have debugged it and fixed it up, but it was old and tired, and needed a face lift. I was always keen to write one using a HTA (HTML Application), so took this opportunity to do so. In my opinion a HTML Application provides a far more professional look for the users.
