Good – Terraform your NetScaler deployment

So after working with a customer that started going down the NetScaler as code with Terraform route, I decided to jump in with creating a template to deploy a basic NetScaler configuration from code. This will allow for standards to be set in your deployments, and also will have the added benefit to making your …

Bad – Chrome Captcha for large sites

So this has become a big annoyance for me. When I am working at large sites, or through a large utilized VPN Google has decided that that many requests from a single ip MUST be malicious, so every single new tab opened requires people to use their horrible Captcha with multiple challenges to move on. …

Bad – Outlook 365 can change system time zone for non-authorized users

I have a deployment where they were setup with using the server time zone for all Citrix Sessions. 1 PVS server suddenly came up on the wrong coast. Digging through the event logs we found that Outlook changed the entire servers time zone from a user session. This is explicitly disabled via policies so that …

Good – Update Chromebooks outside of AUE

My Acer 14 Chromebook that I got for free from Acer and Chrome years ago entered into AUE. (Auto Update Expiration) This made me the sad, as it is a nice little laptop for carrying around for web surfing. I started going down the rabbit hole of third party firmware. I had used Brunch Framework …

Bad – You can’t unbind Syslog policies from virtual servers via the Gui

Customer tried binding a syslog policy directly to a virtual server, but they selected the wrong server on their NetScaler. When they went to remove the policy from the virtual server we could see a policy was bound, but couldn’t see what policy, and couldn’t unbind it. To remove it we had to drop to …