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The community-driven paperback book initiated by my friends Bas van Kaam and Christiaan Brinkhoff is available for sale on Amazon. If you haven’t picked up your copy yet, grab it now! Link to buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1797692100 Reasons to buy this book: $11.18 on the Amazon US site, with similar pricing on Amazon Germany, France, […]

It’s finally here! Full Windows SSO (single sign-on) with Windows virtual apps and virtual desktops through Citrix Workspace when using modern web authentication like Azure AD and modern access management like password-less phone sign-in with Microsoft Authenticator over the HDX remoting protocol! I know that’s a mouthful so an easier way to say it, ultra-secure […]

The Citrix Cloud-based Gateway Service is something I’ve been utilizing at large enterprises for HDX proxy traffic with great success. I wrote about it here in detail earlier this year: A closer look at Citrix Workspace and Gateway Service in Citrix Cloud for companies moving off of on-premises StoreFront and NetScaler Gatewayhttps://www.jasonsamuel.com/2019/02/11/a-closer-look-at-citrix-workspace-and-gateway-service-in-citrix-cloud-for-companies-moving-off-of-on-premises-storefront-and-netscaler-gateway/ The Gateway Service […]

Thanks to everyone that attended the session Paul Stansel and I did at Citrix Synergy in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center last week. In this session, we covered real-world experiences of several Fortune 500 customers from the field during the past year of deploying Citrix Cloud in Microsoft Azure. What should your considerations […]

“Security is an essential ingredient to a secure digital workspace. Prevention systems alone are insufficient to counter focused human adversaries who know how to get around most security and monitoring tools. Join our panel of security experts to get your Citrix-related security questions answered, no matter how big or small.” I was asked to be […]

Are you just starting out with VDI or a seasoned VDI engineer that’s been running an environment for years? I’ve found over the year that Windows-based VDI and DaaS (Desktop-as-a-Service) can be very complex and has many dependency layers you need to target in order to run a successful environment that your users will love. […]

I wrote about setting up password-less phone sign-in authentication with Microsoft Authenticator and Azure AD recently which is a great option in Public Preview right now that everyone should be testing. Many of the companies I work with use Azure AD Connect to federate Azure AD with AD FS for Office 365 and other SaaS […]

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 single sign-on. In the past the Receiver client did not have the capability to pop up a web view and embrace […]

Citrix released Public Tech Preview for the new Active Directory + One Time Password based Multi-Factor Authentication solution in Citrix Workspace on Friday, March 22, 2019. For those of you who read my “A closer look at Citrix Workspace and Gateway Service in Citrix Cloud for companies moving off of on-premises StoreFront and NetScaler Gateway”, […]

Password-less phone-sign with Microsoft Authenticator is very different from traditional Azure MFA I’ve written many guides on over the years.  Traditional Azure MFA (in all it’s many deployment models) required a user to know their password and once they entered it, they would get a push notification, time-based one-time password (TOTP), phone call, SMS, etc. […]