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How to Load Balance two Citrix Web Interface Servers

Citrix's Web Interface is a popular way for users to connect to their ICA applications running on Citrix Presentation Servers. Unfortunately, if a Web Interface server fails then users lose access to their applications. The good news is that you have several options when it comes to load-balancing these two servers, and some of your options are free and easy to set up!...

Published Nov 29 2005 by Brian Madden , 75,278 views, 56 comments

Citrix's CVP Program is Officially Dead

Citrix claimed to be working on their own MVP-like program called the CVP. Unfortunately, Citrix is no longer pursuing this program and will not implement it....

Published Nov 29 2005 by Brian Madden , 11,467 views, 17 comments

A listing of Citrix and Server-Based Computing Blogs and Websites

There are a lot of great sites dedicated to our industry. Here's a list of the sites that I visit on a regular basis and the blogs I read....

Published Nov 29 2005 by Brian Madden , 11,590 views, 12 comments

Microsoft uses Citrix Presentation Server to provide web-based test drives of Office 2003

Microsoft is using Citrix Presentation Server to give the public access to a published-desktop full of the Office 2003 suite on Microsoft.com....

Published Nov 29 2005 by Brian Madden , 11,142 views, 9 comments

A Presentation Server Appliance?

I just saw that a company called NetSilica is offering an appliance that is sort of like "Presentation Server in a Box." It adds application publishing, seamless windows, and SSL-VPN access into your environment. What's interesting to me about this is that the applications still run on your back-end terminal servers....

Published Nov 28 2005 by Brian Madden , 11,615 views, 5 comments

Will Cisco and Microsoft's rivalry affect Citrix?

In the next few years, Microsoft and Cisco's markets will overlap by $20B as they both try to focus on delivering applications to users. This is course is Citrix's market now that they can deliver web and Win32 applications. So in a Microsoft vs. Cisco world, where does Citrix fit in? ...

Published Nov 23 2005 by Brian Madden , 12,296 views, 4 comments

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) v3 will focus on end-to-end Applications

Many vendors in the Citrix space are focusing on application performance monitoring instead of looking only at servers. We just learned that Microsoft will also be entering this space with MOM v3....

Published Nov 22 2005 by Brian Madden , 11,320 views, 0 comments

I'm blogging again

Over the years, my site has grown from a simple blog to a source with hundreds of in-depth, original articles. I've decided that I will start blogging again to share my thoughts about everything going on in this industry that isn't quite worthy of a "real" article but that is interesting nonetheless....

Published Nov 22 2005 by Brian Madden , 10,785 views, 2 comments

Citrix Releases Details about their Hosted Client Solutions (Remote Virtual Desktops Machines via ICA)

I recently wrote about an emerging trend where you provide desktops to end users via Windows XP Virtual Machines running on remote VMware or Microsoft Virtual PC servers. Citrix has just released two white papers detailing how this can be built, configured, and deployed. The two papers are basically identical, with one being for VMware Workstation-based solutions and one for solutions based on Microsoft Virtual PC....

Published Nov 22 2005 by Brian Madden , 12,219 views, 18 comments

The Technology behind Brian Madden Live!

Ever since launching our podcast a few months ago, we've received dozens of emails from listeners asking about the technology we use to put it all together. In this article, I'll talk about the hardware and software we use and how we edit and mix the shows....

Published Nov 15 2005 by Brian Madden , 12,593 views, 3 comments

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