SCIM, or the System for Cross-Domain Identity Management, is a normalized set of HTTP-based protocols and schemas utilized to provision, manage, and deprovision users between disparate service providers. Put another way, SCIM is designed to enable many third-party services to share profile details, enabling a more feature-rich SSO experience. The concepts of Modern Authentication enable …
The technical and logistical pros and cons of moving your Citrix CVAD environments to the Long Term Service Release branch. What is an LTSR? One of the reasons we at Alchemy love to partner with Citrix is that they offer their Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) platform in a Long Term Service Release …
Modern Authentication is typically not a single solution, but a set of modern, universally accepted standards and protocols that identify industry best practices. These standards include protocols such as Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Web Services Federation (WS-Federation or WS-Fed), OAuth 2.0, or Open ID Connect (OIDC). These protocols and standards have replaced legacy authentication …
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In the vast majority of UWM deployments, the default security settings are rarely changed beyond adding a single, global administrative group. This is usually because there is only a small core team managing the product, so sandboxing peoples’ capabilities is not usually required. However maybe there is a contractor assisting with a larger effort. Or …
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If you do need to find your Office 365 tenant name, it’s pretty easy. Choose one of the following procedures. Office 365 Admin Center, if you have global admin rights Log in to your Office 365 Admin Center as an administrator. Under Setup click on Domains (or just click here). Find a domain which ends …
If you’re familiar with Ivanti’s Environment Manager Policy product, you’re probably familiar with its best uses – acting as the user or system inside the local session, on the local endpoint. It excels at conditionally modifying and configuring the user’s present session, within the confines of the machine. What it has never been fantastic at …
How to use Okta, Citrix Gateway, and Workspace app for a uniform SAML based single sign-on user experience By: Jason Samuel Several months ago I posted on Twitter how you can use on-premises or cloud IaaS hosted Citrix Gateway/NetScaler Gateway, Workspace app/Receiver, and Okta as your identity provider (IdP) with SAML 2.0 authentication for full …
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Why Integrate Citrix NetScaler Gateway with Okta?
If you have ever been in the position of needing to know how and what an application is doing, without yourself having any knowledge of said application, then ProcMon is the discovery tool for you.
Chocolatey is a PowerShell-driven package manager for Windows. In essence, it is a local agent and remote library (repository) that can be used to deploy and manage software installations (packages) on windows machines.
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.
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.
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:
I was setting up a new Microsoft Azure AD subscription for someone and came across this issue. Whenever I tried to sign into Azure AD Connect with a Global Administrator account it kept saying the below error message even though I verified the user ID and password were correct: The user name or password is …
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In some companies there may be applications that require the user’s client name (PC name) to be rewritten to something specific for the application to work through XenApp.
I have for the longest time wanted to give my WiFi network an overhaul. After months of research I decided to move forward with Ubiquiti Networks (UBNT) UniFi line of WiFi products to help build my new network.
I came across an interesting issue with Receiver 4.6 for Windows the other day where I could not add a NetScaler Gateway URL to the Receiver.
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