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Citrix released MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 just over two months ago. The Citrix marketing literature mentions many new features. After using the product for a while, I decided to write this article that details how the new features really work....

Thomas Koetzing, from www.CITRIX4GE.de, has taken a deep look at Citrix's new Web Interface 4.0 that will be part of MPS 4.0 next year. WI 4.0 has been rewritten from the ground-up, and this article provides a detailed look at what you can expect....

This article, excerpted from my books, details the step-by-step process you can use in order to estimate how many users you can get on your server hardware....

Last week I wrote that one of the main challenges in the leading VDI products on the market today is that their remote display protocols—ICA and RDP—don't work with all applications. I also put forward the idea that until VDI can work for 100% of applications, it won't grow much beyond the niche solution it is today. Putting those two thoughts together, one could argue that better protocols = broader VDI adoption.

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A Danish Citrix consultant named Ilja Godau has created a tool that can automatically document all the settings of Citrix servers in a PS4 farm. Just double-click the EXE on a PS4 server and it will create HTML pages that show all the servers' settings....

What are your biggest questions about Citrix Access Essentials (CAE), the small business server version of Presentation Server? I'll be talking to CAE product manager Paul Burke next week, and I'll get answers to your questions.

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Citrix announced the details of XenDesktop 4 earlier this week , and so far no one is talking at all about new features. Why? Because Citrix also announced that licensing would change from the current “concurrent user” (CCU) basis to a “per...

Ever since Microsoft came out with Terminal Services, the demand for a real Load Balancing solution has been present. Up until now one would have to turn to third-party software to get a decent Load Balancing product. Citrix Presentation Server is the most well-known example of this. At But at BriForum 2007 In Chicago, Microsoft shocked the SBC world by announcing that Windows Server 2008 will be able to do real Load Balancing. So what about this “Session Broker Load Balancing“ in Windows Server 2008? What does it do? What can’t it do? Is it any good? Can I get rid of Citrix? Well, in this article we’re going to take a closer look at “Session Broker Load Balancing“ in Windows Server 2008 and see if we can answer these questions....

In the Thought Leadership editorial I wrote last week, I criticized Citrix's 'Access' marketing message without offering any alternate suggestions. In this editorial, I make the case for why I think Citrix should switch the marketing message from 'Access' to 'Application Delivery.'...

I've written quite a bit about client hypervisors over the past few years. But now that we're getting closer to Citrix's production release of XenClient , and now that VMware is backing away from the client hypervisor, I'll take this opportunity to again...

The long-awaited (not really) release of the Citrix XenDesktop Tech Preview that was originally slated for October 29th has been delayed until the early part of November. Whoops....

While there's not too much that most readers of BrianMadden.com agree on, I'd be willing to bet that we can all agree on (1) desktop virtualization will be big, and (2) no single vendor today offers anywhere near the complete nirvana solution...

It happens a lot the first time people meet Brian. " That's Brian? I pictured someone older," they say. They find it hard to believe (since they don't know him that well) that he's someone in his twenties. Well, that's all gonna...

We've been writing about RemoteFX for over a year now, although most of the focus has been using it to connect to Windows 7 VMs running on Hyper-V for VDI scenarios. But did you know that you can also use RemoteFX to connect to Remote Desktop Session...

I just got out of my first breakout session here at VMworld Europe 2009. It was a session about the cost savings of VDI. The presenter was good and the content was basically good. In the session, the presenter walked step-by-step through a comparison...