Last week I was doing a write-up on how to replace MAC-Based Forwarding (MBF) with Policy Based Routing (PBR). This week I want to give you some background on why this should be your general Best Practice on the example of Hyper-V. Continue reading “NetScaler services flapping with Hyper-V”
Disable MAC-Based Forwarding – Enable Policy Based Routing!
Enabling MAC-Based Forwarding (MBF) has become the go-to solution solution for multi-arm NetScaler deployments and routing issue bodging in a majority of the NetScaler deployments I’ve seen. But is it the right solution for the problems? Usually not. Continue reading “Disable MAC-Based Forwarding – Enable Policy Based Routing!”
Cascaded Hierarchical GSLB Configurations
Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) offers a lot of cool load balancing mechanisms out of the box. Active/Active, Active/Passive, Geo-IP based, etc. But what if you want to combine multiple of those in a cascaded/hierarchical load balancing decision? Continue reading “Cascaded Hierarchical GSLB Configurations”
NetScaler Gateway Password Expiry Warning with nFactor
NetScaler can change expired AD passwords, we all know that. But did you ever wonder if you can implement a warning prior to that expiration date? Well, wonder no longer! Continue reading “NetScaler Gateway Password Expiry Warning with nFactor”
NetScaler 12 SSL Performance: A Benchmark Test
The marketing claims an insane increase for the NetScaler 12 SSL performance – even on the software based VPX and CPX platforms. Reason enough to dig a little deeper and put this performance claim to a test and I have to admit I’m quite impressed! Continue reading “NetScaler 12 SSL Performance: A Benchmark Test”
NetScaler Gateway: SAML with multiple IDPs using nFactor
Both SAML as well as nFactor are two NetScaler features that are highly underrated in my opinion. In this example I’ll share with you how I did combine them in a customer deployment to create a quite unique login experience. Continue reading “NetScaler Gateway: SAML with multiple IDPs using nFactor”
Advanced NetScaler Gateway GSLB Monitoring
I’ve seen a lot of high available NetScaler Gateway deployments configured with Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) by now. However, I’ve rarely seen any of them being implemented properly in terms of monitoring on the GSLB level which resulted in the high availability being compromised in most cases. Continue reading “Advanced NetScaler Gateway GSLB Monitoring”
Advanced NetScaler Gateway 11 Customizations
Now with NetScaler Gateway 11 customizations became super easy using the built in portal themes! However, the portal themes have their limits and sometimes you need more flexibility and the ability to go deeper and customize the login page further. Continue reading “Advanced NetScaler Gateway 11 Customizations”
StoreFront + FAS: You cannot login using smart card
When you implement StoreFront and NetScaler Gateway with Citrix new Federate Authentication Service (FAS) for SAML authentication you almost inevitable will face the “You cannot login using smart card. Please close your browser to protect your account” error after you logout from StoreFront.
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