Access Gateway 8.1 Now Available

Citrix has released an update to Access Gateway Enterprise Edition. It has some great new features like clientless access to web sites, file type association and better usability. The clientless access technology is the same URL rewriting engine used...

News item from Jay Tomlin on June 06, 2008.

VMWare acquisition validates Citrix focus

Today's announcement that VMWare has acquired Thinstall speaks volumes. And despite what you might think, this is great news for Citrix. First, some background. Thinstall virtualizes elements of the Windows operating system like files and...

News item from Jay Tomlin on January 15, 2008.

Access Gateway Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide

Slowly but surely, Secure Gateway and SmartAccess features have made it onto the NetScaler platform. Today Citrix posted a new maintenance build of the Access Gateway, Enterprise Edition firmware (build 8.0.50.3) which brings a few new capabilities...

News item from Jay Tomlin on December 13, 2007.

Citrix Presentation Server Client Adds Support for Client Certificates

In an article last year I shared a workaround that overcomes a limitation of the Presentation Server client: if an Access Gateway were configured to require SSL client certificates (such as those found on user smart cards), then ICA client...

News item from Jay Tomlin on October 03, 2007.

Come see me at Interop New York!

If you're going to Interop New York this year, be sure to stop by the Citrix booth (Booth 229) and say hi. I will be there showing off the Access Gateway along with the rest of our solutions.

News item from Jay Tomlin on September 27, 2007.

Beware the Repair

A word of warning for all you Web Interface gurus out there: If you make any changes to the Web Interface 4.0 scripts or image files beyond what is exposed in the Access Suite Console, then be sure to keep a backup of your changes. There are some...

News item from Jay Tomlin on September 27, 2007.

How to: Extend SmartAccess Policies to ICA Sessions

You probably have heard by now that Access Gateway includes an Endpoint Analysis feature (EPA), and that you can enable or disable access to resources based on the results of EPA scans. But one side of this story that I don't feel is told often or...

News item from Jay Tomlin on September 27, 2007.

Networld Interop pics

This week I have been in New York at the Networld Interop show. I have to say, it was kind of slow. You have to think twice about a Networking event where Cisco and F5 are not even there. But I still had a great time in New York. The hotel where...

News item from Jay Tomlin on September 27, 2007.

Web Interface Mod: Take Smart Card Authentication to the DMZ

For several versions now Web Interface has included a feature that allows users to authenticate using a smart card instead of entering their username and password. It works like this: During the SSL handshake, IIS metabase settings trigger a...

News item from Jay Tomlin on September 27, 2007.

Please click here if you are not automatically redirected...

I get asked a lot about the message that users sometimes see when they first point their browser to a web interface site: "Please click here if you are not automatically redirected." The message sometimes flashes by in an instant but in other...

News item from Jay Tomlin on September 27, 2007.