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Free Download: My 800-page Citrix MetaFrame XP Book

You can now download an entire copy of my book "Citrix MetaFrame XP: Advanced Technical Design Guide." While this book isn't for the most recent version of Citrix, there's a lot of good stuff in it that is still valuable today....

Brian Madden on September 14, 2005 : 28 comments , 20,227 views

What new features should Microsoft add to Terminal Services?

The annual Microsoft MVP conference will take place next week in Redmond. As part of the three-day event, the Terminal Server product group have asked us, the MPVs, to give a presentation to them about what features the community wants them to add to Terminal Services, and which Longhorn TS features they are most excited about. Here's your chance to help shape the future of TS!...

Brian Madden on March 07, 2007 : 28 comments , 16,774 views

VMware Exec: "VDI beats terminal server hands down"

Richard Garthsagen, VMware's senior product manager of Enterprise Desktop Solutions, said "virtual desktop infrastructures built around VDM successfully deal with common issues with Windows terminal server virtualized environments, such as problems with load balance and challenges to resource control."...

Brian Madden on September 18, 2007 : 28 comments , 18,133 views

Potential BriForum 2009 Chicago dates: Does July 22-24 work?

We're trying to nail down the dates for BriForum 2009. As we've written in the past, finding a venue / date combination is much more complex than we'd like it to be. Most feedback we received was that Chicago and The Navy Pier were great locations this year, so we're going to plan on sticking with the same venue for next year....

The Road to BriForum on September 03, 2008 : 28 comments , 4,389 views

Live from Microsoft Management Summit 2008

Tim Mangan is at Microsoft Management Summit 2008 (MMS), Microsoft's annual show dedicated to Management Products, this week in Las Vegas. Held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas this year, MMS is the annual conference for System Center, including...

Tim Mangan on May 01, 2008 : 28 comments , 8,458 views

Holy Moly! VMworld is so huge I want to cry. (And not in a good way.)

I don't mean "huge" as in "a big deal." I mean VMworld is literally a super gigantic conference. More than 200 vendors. More than 14,000 attendees. This is a problem for me, since I'm flying to Vegas on Sunday to attempt to "cover" the conference. What vendors should I focus on?...

Brian Madden on September 12, 2008 : 28 comments , 6,588 views

Citrix scalability problems at Kaiser Permanente? What's really going on?

An article in Computerworld this week claims that Kaiser Permanente, Citrix's largest Presentation Server implementation, is having major problems with Citrix. This has made some people nervous about using Citrix, but I'm not concerned about it....

Brian Madden on November 15, 2006 : 28 comments , 16,266 views

60-second review: Provision Management Framework - Standard Edition

Provision Networks has released a software product called the Provision Management Framework that can enhance management and functionality of Citrix and Terminal Server environments. In this review, Wilco will take a look at the standard version of the framework....

Guest Bloggers on October 18, 2005 : 28 comments , 15,194 views

What products does Citrix make now? (Spring 2008 edition)

Since we last posted an article last June listing the entire Citrix product line, Citrix has re-invented itself as a "virtualization" company and re-branded their product line to suit. Our intent was to keep that article up-to-date, but with so many changes, it's probably worth keeping the old article as a historical snapshot and creating another one for the "New Citrix." ...

Brian Madden on March 17, 2008 : 28 comments , 9,963 views

Microsoft announces virtual desktop licensing changes for Windows 8. Guess what? They're still screwing us!

From the I-swear-I'm-not-making-this-up department, yesterday Microsoft announced a new license for Windows 8 which will be known as the "Companion Device License" (CDL). This is a license for users who want to access their Windows desktops (either locally...

Brian Madden on April 19, 2012 : 28 comments , 29,275 views

What exactly is an "enterprise app store?" (No seriously... what is it?)

There's a lot of talk about "enterprise app stores." I'm not sure what the exact definition of an enterprise app store is, but the analogy most used is something like "imagine Apple's iPhone App Store, except for corporate IT...

Brian Madden on August 05, 2010 : 28 comments , 12,986 views

Citrix plans a version of Presentation Server for Small Biz

Citrix showed off a small business version of Presentation Server at iForum in Edinburgh, Scotland this week. The product, called Citrix AllInOne, will be a single-server install of Presentation Server, Web Interface, and Secure Gateway. It will have wizards to allow it to be configured by beginners....

Brian Madden on June 10, 2005 : 28 comments , 12,750 views

Citrix Licenses Performance Technology from RTO and Aurema!

Citrix announced that they are licensing memory optimization technology from RTO Software and CPU management technology from Aurema. Both of these products allow customers to get more users on their servers, and they'll both be built into future versions of MetaFrame....

Brian Madden on October 04, 2004 : 28 comments , 9,829 views

Shawn Bass is my hero

One of the new features at Citrix's Synergy conference this year is something called Geek Speak Live. This is basically a chance for members of the community to get up on stage and spend 20 minutes talking about whatever they want. Last night Shawn Bass talked about VDI. Today, everyone (I mean EVERYONE) is buzzing about Shawn's talk. ...

Brian Madden on May 21, 2008 : 28 comments , 9,815 views

A few cool IMA Data Store and farm refinements in Citrix Presentation Server over the years

Citrix has made a lot of little changes to IMA and the data store over the years. This article explains some of the things that you might have missed....

Brian Madden on November 13, 2007 : 28 comments , 29,680 views