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September 16, 2014September 16, 2014Citrix, Networking, TechnicalArchitecture

Evaluating Web Filter Appliances

Evaluating Web Filter Appliances Most of the enterprises would fall in need to enforcing restrictions and controlled access to internet for their users. Establishing such a compliance among distributed users community in an enterprise requires a comprehensive solution. Here am going to detail on various aspects to be considered for evaluating Web Filter Appliances for enterprises. Evaluation Criteria: Understand your internet access Policy and infrastructure requirements. What would be your internet access policy? Block all and allow only known or given specific list of web sites? Block unintended categories of web sites and create exclusions for your specific pages? Do […]

September 5, 2014September 5, 2014Citrix, Networking

Compreshensive list of Citrix Ports and Utility to test their status

Its very often requirement, while configuring or troubleshooting Citrix technologies w.r.t network access and issues, to know the ports that are being used by respective Citrix technology. Here is a Compreshensive list of Citrix Ports and Utility to test their status. Compreshensive list of Citrix Ports 1. ICA#1494< ?xml:namespace prefix = "o" /> 2. RDP#3389 3. CGP#2598 4. IMA#2512 5. AMC#2513 6. XML#8080 7. License Manager Daemon#27000 8. Citrix Vendor Daemon#7279 9. License Management Console#8082 10. Citrix Receiver#80 11. Citrix Receiver#443 12. Offline Plug-in-SMB#445 13. Power & Capacity Management Agent#11161 14. SQL#1433 15. Hyper-V#8100 16. SSH#22 17. VNC#5900 18. NTP#123 […]

April 17, 2014August 12, 2014Networking, Scripting, Server

Configuring the proxy settings for WinHTTP-based applications programmatically using Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) file

A description of the Web Proxy Auto Detect (WPAD) feature The WPAD feature lets services locate an available proxy server by querying a DHCP option or by locating a particular DNS record. For more information about the advantages and disadvantages of using DNS instead of DHCP for WPAD, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 816320 How to configure firewall and Web proxy client Autodiscovery in Windows Server 2003 The WPAD protocol works as follows: Using the DHCP and/or DNS network protocols, the URL of a Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) file is discovered. […]