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Why Discourse as a blog Platform

Why Discourse as a blog Platform

**Edit April 16 2025. Obviously, since I wrote this blog, I have since moved off Discourse, and onto Ghost. I will write a separate blog post on the reasoning behind that in an upcoming blog post. More than once over the last three months I have been asked why I

Citrix - Desktop Studio Error ( Active Directory) - It was DNS

Recently, on a brand new installation of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7.15 CU5, formerly known as XenDesktop and XenApp, I was faced with a bit of a head scratcher when first launching Citrix Studio. I received the dreaded “The current user does not appear to be a member

Licensing IGEL Thin Clients For IGEL Cloud Gateway

Licensing IGEL Thin Clients For IGEL Cloud Gateway

With the introduction of IGEL OS11, comes a whole new way of licensing your IGEL thin clients. With each thin client license sold, you also need to purchase as a minimum one year of maintenance. So, in order to get a thin client stood up and running as expected, you

Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) and LAPS (Local Admin Password Solution)

Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) and LAPS (Local Admin Password Solution)

We have all been there. Created a Machine Catalog, and a Delivery group from a the golden image. Wether we deploy a hundred VDI desktops, or a thousand Remote Desktop Session Hosts, the problem remains the same. They all have the same local administrator password. What does this mean? Well,

Citrix ADC (Netscaler) Developer License

Citrix ADC (Netscaler) Developer License

One thing that is missing in my home lab is the ability to test with Citrix Application Delivery Controller (Citrix ADC). When reading through some Citrix Support articles, I came across this bad boy. # How to obtain Citrix ADC Developer Edition licenses Citrix ADC Developer Editions 9.3.e(3)

IGEL Upgrade to OS11

IGEL Upgrade to OS11

The official IGEL documentation does a decent job of explaining how to update the OS an any given thin client, however what it does not explain is how to upgrade the version of the OS, when coming from a different version of Universal Management Suite (UMS). In my case, we

Setup a Citrix Home Lab in Sixty Minutes

Part 1 - The Hardware So, you have always wanted to learn more about Citrix, and what better place to start than having your own home lab. So, let me walk you through the setup. There are several things that you will need in order to get started. 1. Host.