Posts from the Curious Kabri, by Phil Wiffen http://kabri.uk/ Overview An unordered list of external-facing content created in previous roles Blog post: The Secret Citrix Sysadmins A post intended to share with the community that there was a team and community inside Citrix helping to validate pre-release products and services, and providing a voice for users and Citrix administrators.... Tue, 14 Dec 2021 12:02:08 +0000 http://kabri.uk/2021-12-14-content-portfolio/ http://kabri.uk/2021-12-14-content-portfolio/ Internal feedback on your product or feature is special, and can help you make better products that your customers’ users love, rather than tolerate. Here’s why: Effort vs Reward Much external (customer/user) feedback on your product gets to you because it’s so painful, that the cost of reporting it to... Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:56:08 +0100 http://kabri.uk/2020-10-13-product-management-why-internal-product-feedback-matters/ http://kabri.uk/2020-10-13-product-management-why-internal-product-feedback-matters/ Wanted to share a quick PowerShell code snippet. I used this to get a Bearer Token from the Citrix Cloud API trust service using PowerShell. It’s not beautiful, but it gets the job done. Ingredients You’ll need: The clientID and clientSecret from your Citrix Cloud customer API client (how to... Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:56:08 +0100 http://kabri.uk/2020-07-15-how-to-get-a-bearer-token-from-citrix-cloud-for-api-access-using-powershell/ http://kabri.uk/2020-07-15-how-to-get-a-bearer-token-from-citrix-cloud-for-api-access-using-powershell/ If you see the following error when trying to run cmdlets from the Citrix Remote PowerShell SDK “Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority ‘localhost’.” Check and make sure you are running PowerShell in its 64-bit flavour, and not 32-bit (x86). WTF? I had this... Mon, 11 May 2020 20:56:08 +0100 http://kabri.uk/2020/05/11/citrix-remote-powershell-sdk-error-could-not-establish-trust-relationship-for-the-ssl-tls-secure-channel-with-authority-localhost/ http://kabri.uk/2020/05/11/citrix-remote-powershell-sdk-error-could-not-establish-trust-relationship-for-the-ssl-tls-secure-channel-with-authority-localhost/ Want to improve your workplace communication skills, especially when working with other teams? Give context. Why give context? Context helps your colleagues: Understand where you’re coming from / viewing things from. Understand who you are, and what you’re trying to achieve (your overall project, not this specific request) Helps remove... Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:01:12 +0000 http://kabri.uk/2020/02/04/context-is-queen/ http://kabri.uk/2020/02/04/context-is-queen/ Credit to Gabe Carrejo and the Patrick Quinlan for their work on this. It’s possible to use the Citrix Support Security Bulletin RSS feed with Citrix microapps to notify you (or a group) when there’s a new Security Bulletin from Citrix Rough Steps: Copy this RSS URL: https://support.citrix.com/feed/products/all/securitybulletins.rss If you... Fri, 31 Jan 2020 17:16:26 +0000 http://kabri.uk/2020/01/31/a-quick-citrix-microapp-hack-to-get-notifications-when-theres-a-citrix-security-bulletin/ http://kabri.uk/2020/01/31/a-quick-citrix-microapp-hack-to-get-notifications-when-theres-a-citrix-security-bulletin/ I’ve acquired some hilarious pairs of oxymoronic genetic traits. My most favourite is probably that I’m built for sports, but sweat like crazy. Like, ridiculous amounts. To the point that my “sweat wicking” t-shirts wet out and end up slowing me down. Thanks, genes? Anyway, this sweaty-ness is a pain... Sat, 25 Jan 2020 18:40:06 +0000 http://kabri.uk/2020/01/25/life-stuff-things-ive-learned-about-dealing-with-sweat/ http://kabri.uk/2020/01/25/life-stuff-things-ive-learned-about-dealing-with-sweat/ Scope This post will cover how to setup a simple microapp that anyone with access to the Citrix microapps service can build, using public URLs, with no authentication requirements. We’ll be using the RSS integration to talk to a WordPress RSS feed and build a microapp from that. Here’s roughly... Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:09:30 +0000 http://kabri.uk/2019/12/18/building-a-simple-citrix-microapp-that-shows-blog-posts-from-a-wordpress-rss-feed/ http://kabri.uk/2019/12/18/building-a-simple-citrix-microapp-that-shows-blog-posts-from-a-wordpress-rss-feed/ Useful if your SSIDs are identical for 5GHz and 2.4GHz. Having your SSIDs setup like this seems to confuse Synology DSM, and for me it would always connect to the 2.4GHz network. I had this particular issue where my TP-Link T4U ac wifi adapter for my Synology kept dropping down... Sat, 26 Jan 2019 23:09:54 +0000 http://kabri.uk/2019/01/26/how-to-force-a-wi-fi-usb-adapter-on-a-synology-diskstation-to-use-5ghz-ac-from-2-4ghz/ http://kabri.uk/2019/01/26/how-to-force-a-wi-fi-usb-adapter-on-a-synology-diskstation-to-use-5ghz-ac-from-2-4ghz/ Scope This post will provide some quick notes on installing the Citrix Cloud Connector on Server Core 2016. Conceptual overview We’re going to take our domain-joined Server Core installation and install the Citrix Cloud Connector on to it. You can’t simply run the installer from the Server Core UI, because... Sat, 22 Sep 2018 16:20:05 +0100 http://kabri.uk/2018/09/22/install-citrix-cloud-connector-on-server-core-2016/ http://kabri.uk/2018/09/22/install-citrix-cloud-connector-on-server-core-2016/ Overview Long overdue, and inspired by @xenappblog and @CIT_Bronson, I’m finally documenting this. In the Citrix RTST environment, we are frequently updating our base images with the latest common apps. To help with this, I cobbled together some scripts that will grab the latest version of apps like Chrome Enterprise,... Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:59:50 +0100 http://kabri.uk/2018/09/15/base-image-automation-download-the-latest-installers-for-common-apps-with-powershell/ http://kabri.uk/2018/09/15/base-image-automation-download-the-latest-installers-for-common-apps-with-powershell/ Something came up today that made me think about the importance of framing, and how it can be used to influence/persuade to meet your desired outcomes. It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. It’s very easy to forget this – I do it all the time –... Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:04:21 +0000 http://kabri.uk/2018/03/16/its-not-what-you-say-its-how-you-say-it/ http://kabri.uk/2018/03/16/its-not-what-you-say-its-how-you-say-it/ Scenario I needed to setup a site-to-site VPN between my home and my parent’s home, so that we can back up our stuff offsite – mostly documents and precious digital photos. Requirements I wanted it to be a proper routed VPN network, not a bridged one. By that I mean... Sun, 19 Nov 2017 13:19:40 +0000 http://kabri.uk/2017/11/19/creating-a-site-to-site-routed-vpn-using-dd-wrt-and-openvpn/ http://kabri.uk/2017/11/19/creating-a-site-to-site-routed-vpn-using-dd-wrt-and-openvpn/ I’ll get right to the point: Teams work better when they feel safe. And this one-page PDF from the Re:work team at Google gives clear and actionable things you can do and think about that will help to make your team feel safe. It doesn’t matter if you’re a manager... Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:49:07 +0100 http://kabri.uk/2017/08/09/ways-to-make-your-team-better-by-making-them-feel-safe/ http://kabri.uk/2017/08/09/ways-to-make-your-team-better-by-making-them-feel-safe/ Hoorah – a year in, and I’ve finally gotten around to writing something about what we do in the RTST team at Citrix. If you’re curious about what we do, you can read it over on the official Citrix Blogs site: The Secret Citrix SysAdmins Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:51:42 +0100 http://kabri.uk/2017/07/12/the-secret-citrix-sysadmins-my-first-citrix-blog-post/ http://kabri.uk/2017/07/12/the-secret-citrix-sysadmins-my-first-citrix-blog-post/ Firstly, where did those 9 months go? Wow. Back in July 2016, I joined Citrix. Long overdue, I wanted to collect some loose thoughts, so here goes: Being more Senior is still weird, but good It is still an odd sensation going from being one of the most junior staff... Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:05:07 +0100 http://kabri.uk/2017/03/29/some-loose-thoughts-after-9-months-at-citrix/ http://kabri.uk/2017/03/29/some-loose-thoughts-after-9-months-at-citrix/ The short version If you get the error “Device cannot start” on your Bosch Accelerometer in Device Manager on a Chuwi Hi 8 after installing Windows 10 Anniversary Edition, try this: Get the 32-bit Hi 8 Pro and Vi 8 Pro drivers. Look for the text “Chuwi Hi8 Pro Dualboot... Sun, 16 Oct 2016 10:20:39 +0100 http://kabri.uk/2016/10/16/getting-the-bosch-accelerometer-to-work-on-chuwi-hi-8-windows-10-anniversary-edition/ http://kabri.uk/2016/10/16/getting-the-bosch-accelerometer-to-work-on-chuwi-hi-8-windows-10-anniversary-edition/ On Monday this week, I joined the Interoperability team at Citrix, based in Cambridge. I wanted to take this opportunity to reflect on my first week here, and talk generally about what I’ve witnessed. When I join a company, I try to understand what they do, how they view themselves,... Fri, 08 Jul 2016 22:13:04 +0100 http://kabri.uk/2016/07/08/impressions-from-my-first-week-at-citrix/ http://kabri.uk/2016/07/08/impressions-from-my-first-week-at-citrix/ Be warned: this is a Whinge-piece. I wanted to provide an update on the poor customer service I’ve been receiving from Microsoft UK Support with my original Microsoft Band. Microsoft seemingly ignored my “escalated complaint” through resolver.co.uk that I raised in December 2015, so I raised a new service ticket... Wed, 18 May 2016 14:39:41 +0100 http://kabri.uk/2016/05/18/an-update-on-the-poor-customer-service-from-microsoft-band-support/ http://kabri.uk/2016/05/18/an-update-on-the-poor-customer-service-from-microsoft-band-support/ I’m pleased to be able to say that I’ll be joining Citrix in July 2016. I’ll be moving away from “pure” IT support and into an internal sysadmin/software tester role within the Citrix Interoperability Team. Their job is to regularly stand up the latest builds of the entire Citrix portfolio... Fri, 06 May 2016 14:00:57 +0100 http://kabri.uk/2016/05/06/im-joining-citrix/ http://kabri.uk/2016/05/06/im-joining-citrix/