SSL Labs Server test is a great tool for ensuring that your Citrix ADC Gateways are secured. By entering a URL into SSL Server Test (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs) and waiting gives you a indication if your VIP is exposed to known vulnerabilities and presents this as a graded score (F to A+). Getting an A+ is the target however running the test manually only gives you the result for the time of the test. If you have multiple administrators who have access to your ADC’s or potentially the security goalposts move this may result in your ADC’s becoming vulnerable again which you would only discover by running the SSL test again. Luckily for us SSL labs have created an API that we can use to perform tests and obtain some detail around the current score. Armed with my rudimentary PowRead More…

You may have found then when you launch a Citrix session inside a Citrix session that the local drives do not map through, this does not change no matter what client drive redirection policy you set. As an example if we have a user who has a laptop and they launch a Windows 10 desktop through Citrix into their corporate network, then within that session open a browser and goto a partners Gateway and launch a session there using the Citrix Workspace app installed within the Windows 10 VDI. If the partner environment has client drive redirection set to “allowed” this should map the Windows 10 VDI’s drives through. This of course would map correctly if a session was launched to the partners environment directly from a laptop however drives will not map if a session is detected as rRead More…