Citrix Synergy 2018 Recap: Alchemy’s perspective on how Citrix Workspace provides value to our customers Citrix Synergy 2018 was held in Anaheim, CA last week May 8 through May 10. The annual conference is a way for Citrix to showcase their latest innovations to customers and partners a like as well as receive training on how to deploy these solutions. …
SD WAN: A Pragmatic Perspective
Author: Barney Norton Software Defined Wide Area Networks (SDWAN) have been around for a while now so most people understand the basics of what the technology is expected to deliver to the market. Unfortunately, between the initial release of SDWAN and now, there have been a lot of marketing initiatives that have blurred the reality of what can …
Decreased Logon Times with Ivanti Environment Manager 10.1 FR4
By Pascal Pierre-Louis March 20, 2018 —- With the rapid adoption of Office 365, successful user acceptance is crucial to ensuring that Office 365 migrations go smoothly. Because of this, a top priority on every IT administrator’s list when considering a deployment, is to ensure their users have the best application performance, and user experience. This becomes a much bigger …
Partner Webinars- March 6-15, 2018
NetSpi- Register Here Message: Threat and Vulnerability Management When: Thursday, March 8, 2018 ControlUp- Register Here When: March 13th, 12pm Eastern | 5pm GMT What: Industry metrics on logon performance and healthcare IT best practices Topics: How many seconds it takes the average healthcare workers to log in Performance differences between VDI and virtual application logon Variations of logon performance within an organization How …
Jason Samuel, 3 Time CTP awardee
“Wait, you’re going to be working with Jason Samuel?” This was the response I got when I told my best friend that I was taking a new job as a consultant with Alchemy Technology Group. Not “congratulations,” not “I’m happy for you,” just pure excitement over the idea that I would be working with Jason Samuel and the Alchemy team, …
Alchemy Wins Citrix Award
ALCHEMY TECHNOLOGY GROUP WINS CITRIX COMMERCIAL PARTNER AWARD Houston, TX [1 February 2018] –Houston, TX-based startup, Alchemy Technology Group, was recognized as the “Commercial Area Partner of 2017” in the US at the annual Citrix Summit held in Anaheim, CA on January 8-9, 2018. This award is presented to the business partner that demonstrates an ongoing commitment to support …
What’s New with Citrix NetScaler 12.0 and NetScaler MAS 12.0 Walkthrough
The CUGC Networking Special Interest Group and Healthcare Special Interest Group did a joint webinar covering NetScaler Use Cases in Healthcare + NetScaler and NMAS 12.0 features. Dan Schlimme covered the Healthcare portion of the webinar and Dave Brett (CTP) and myself covered the 12.0 release with Carsten Bruns (CTA) fielding the audience questions in […]
Using AD FS 4.0, Server 2016, Azure MFA, Citrix FAS, Single FQDN, & Single Sign On with Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway
Wow, that’s a pretty long title! There’s a lot of moving parts involved with this setup but ultimately you will have a more secure environment with a better user experience in my opinion. The Table of Contents is below, I would urge you to read why you should consider this setup for your environment and […]
How to delete a hidden VPX instance on a Citrix NetScaler SDX using XenServer command line
Sometimes when creating a VPX instance on your NetScaler SDX you might be in a hurry and accidentally click Done twice which can cause the NetScaler to try provisioning an instance but not complete it since the initial provisioning has been interrupted: It’s easy to overlook the “Creating NetScaler Instance…” dialog in the bottom right […]
How to deploy Microsoft Azure MFA User Portal on separate servers in the DMZ
A few years ago I wrote about How to deploy Microsoft Azure MFA & AD Connect with Citrix NetScaler Gateway and mentioned how you should deploy the MFA User Portal and allow your users self service and easy enrollment into the system. I also discussed allowing Azure MFA Authenticator mobile app. The User Portal is […]