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Deploy and Install vCenter 7.0

So you are interested in installing and deploying vCenter 7.0. Well, the first thing you need to do is to grab the binaries (all 7.7GB of them) from the VMWare downloads site. The file will be downloaded as a single ISO file which we need to extract (assuming

How to test for Citrix Netscaler ADC CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability

How to test for Citrix Netscaler ADC CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability

Lots has already been written about CVE-2019-19781 and just how bad of an expoit it is. Citrix has already supplied mitigation steps, but not a fully patched release of the firmware. Just yesterday (January 11th) Citrix updated their documentation with targeted release dates for the new firmware. Spoiler - the

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)