The IT Melting Pot!

I must say finally! It’s not a 100% yet for everyone out there but it’s a step in the right direction. The NetScaler, Access Gateway, Web Interface, StoreFront and Receiver has not really been in synch when it comes to UI and end-user experience…. But now Citrix has improved it!

Access Gateway is a secure remote access product and hence tends to be the entry point for corporate users, wanting to access their enterprise applications and desktops. Given this, it makes sense for corporates, to try and customize the logon experience on Access Gateway, to match their corporate look and feel.

Access Gateway has always allowed for this customization, though, it’s been somewhat of a tedious process. With the new 10.0.71.6014.e release, we are making an attempt to simplify this experience.

UI Customization on Access Gateway is a multi-step process:

1. Access the built in theme web pages and customize them, to match the corporate requirements
2. Apply the modified theme (collection of web pages) at the right location
3. Modify certain scripts to make this change persistent
4. Every time the firmware has to be upgraded, take a backup of the customized pages and scripts and re-apply the same after the upgrade.

A quick Google search will give you a number of helpful and very accurate blogs/articles, on how to tweak the web pages to customize and create your corporate look and feel. Some of my favorites are:

• http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/04/19/green-bubble-theme-for-citrix-netscaler/
• http://jariangibson.com/2012/04/16/apply-citrix-receiver-theme-to-netscaleraccess-gateway-10/

With this new release, we have automated all the other steps (i.e. 2-4) for you. Instead of having to worry about how to apply this theme, or having to take backups every time you upgrade, the new release will automatically handle this for you.

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//Richard