With daylight-saving time ends at week's end (Nov 4 at 2am), we wanted to provide an overview of the issues that can occur with PVS delivered desktops and XenApp servers. … [Read more...] about Provisioning Services (PVS) and Daylight-Saving Time
3rd party SSL Certificates to Expire
All publicly trusted SSL Certificates issued to internal names and reserved IP addresses will expire by November 1, 2015. In November 2011 the CA/Browser Forum (CA/B) adopted Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates, which took effect on July 1, 2012. … [Read more...] about 3rd party SSL Certificates to Expire
April 2015 Chrome Update and Citrix StoreFront
With Google's latest Chrome update (April 2015) they have disabled the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI). This change will have the following effects when accessing a Citrix StoreFront site: … [Read more...] about April 2015 Chrome Update and Citrix StoreFront
XenDesktop 7.5 Performance Metrics Tool Issue
The XenDesktop 7.5 VDA Core Services desktop and all server patches released prior to September 2014 have issues that require an immediate fix. The VDA Core Services patches have a flaw in how they configure the Citrix performance counters. These flaws will prevent tools like Desktop Director HDX monitors (and the HDX Monitor Standalone tool) from working properly when attempting to view the performance metrics of a session. Citrix has released a new patch to correct this. This new patch must … [Read more...] about XenDesktop 7.5 Performance Metrics Tool Issue
Managing the iOS8 Headache
As you may know, Apple will release the newest version of iOS (iOS8) this week. This event usually translates to a headache day for IT admins as users clog up the business internet links with apple software update traffic. The good news is -- there are a couple of ways to manage this. … [Read more...] about Managing the iOS8 Headache
Google Accounts and Passwords Released
A text file of nearly 5 million unique Google (xxx@gmail.com) accounts was released September 9 on a Russian forum. Reports are still limited, but it appears the accounts (most of Russian origin) were not hacked from Google and instead are a collection of login and password pairs that were phished, virus-captured, and gathered from non-Google sites and sources. Some reports indicate this list is old, and many of the passwords are non-functioning already. With news of any type of leak of this … [Read more...] about Google Accounts and Passwords Released
CitrixOnline Go-To-xxxx and HeartBleed
As a follow up to my earlier post, Citrix has now released an official statement regarding their online services portfolio. The following products have been tested and confirmed safe from the Heartbleed bug. … [Read more...] about CitrixOnline Go-To-xxxx and HeartBleed
Citrix and HeartBleed
There was a major vulnerability being dubbed “HeartBleed” disclosed to the world last Monday. This vulnerability affects the popular cryptographic software library OpenSSL used in many Linux/Unix OSs. This vulnerability, If exploited, could allow an attacker to interact with these secure servers causing them to disclose the contents of their memory, in chunks. These memory chunks could possibly contain private SSL keys, user data, passwords, or other sensitive information. There is no … [Read more...] about Citrix and HeartBleed
