The quest to retrieve all devices within a delivery group using the XenMobile public REST API

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An external software supplier wanted to make a new app available for a selected group of smartphones. We were asked if it would be possible to retrieve the smartphone from the XenMobile database. New smartphones added to the delivery group would be detected automatically. Since XenMobile has a REST API, this didn’t seem like a problem at first. We made the REST API available to our software supplier, after which they created a link between their backend and our On-Prem XenMobile environment based on the Citrix XenMobile REST API documentation

Public API for REST Services

At first everything seemed to work perfectly and our software supplier thought they saw all our devices. After some time we noticed that there was a difference between the devices visible in the XenMobile console (Web GUI) and the devices that our software supplier saw through the REST API. Based on the query that was used in the REST API, we then did some testing ourselves using Postman, in the hope of uncovering the difference in devices.

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Send Android domain users to ActiveSync Gateway

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Recently we added the Citrix Gateway connector for Exchange ActiveSync (formerly XenMobile NetScaler Connector) to a customer environment, with the intention of giving only known smartphones access to ActiveSync. The definition of known in this case, is a smartphone enrolled within Citrix Endpoint Management (formerly XenMobile). After some testing, we switched on “Blocking Mode” on the Gateway connector for Exchange ActiveSync and indeed all the ActiveSync traffic was nicely regulated. Only connections from device which existed in the Endpoint Management database were allowed access to ActiveSync. The check if a email client is allowed access is done based on the ActiveSync ID, which should be unique for every device.

Just to clarify, a short explanation how the Gateway connector for Exchange ActiveSync works. The Citrix Gateway connector for Exchange ActiveSync is connected to the Endpoint Management server(s) and periodically graps all ActiveSync ID’s. All the grapped ActiveSync ID’s are stored locally on the Gateway connector for Exchange server, in a .xml file. Depending you installation folder and provider name it’s stored on the Gateway connector for Exchange Server in : “%InstallFolder%\XenMobile NetScaler Connector\config\%ProviderName%.xml”

Depending your Endpoint Management ActiveSync Gateway configuration devices can be allowed or denied access based on several rules.

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Citrix Gateway connector for Exchange ActiveSync with RegEx support

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Citrix Gateway connector for Exchange ActiveSync

Recently I was asked to increase the security for a public reachable ActiveSync url. Although the customer was using Citrix Endpoint Management (XenMobile) and Citrix Secure Mail was available in their Enterprise AppStore, employees were also allowed to use their native “un-secure” mail client, which made use of a public reachable ActiveSync URL.

A big advantage they had, was that almost all mobile devices were already enrolled within Citrix Endpoint Management, so we knew which ActiveSync ID’s where legit and allowed to access ActiveSync.

Cause we were already making use of Citrix Endpoint Management, we decided to use the Citrix Gateway connector for Exchange ActiveSync (formerly XenMobile NetScaler Connector), to add an extra layer of security to the public reachable ActiveSync url.

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