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NOTE: This post was written in April 2008. In November 2008, The Brian Madden Company was acquired by TechTarget. TechTarget is just a larger version of The Brian Madden Company. So now we're 600 employees instead of six employees, but we're still 100...

Windows Phone 8 got its moment in the spotlight at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference today. The question is, why did Microsoft even bother? The core audience members at the Worldwide Partner Conference are resellers, integrators, service...

Talk to enough IT people and you'll hear the familiar refrain: "Everything new is old again." They usually mean that, while technology and terminology may change, many of today's issues -- security, management, empowering employees -- are the same issues...

There seems to be a lot of confusion in the industry about what's commonly called the Windows "4GB memory limit." When talking about performance tuning and server sizing, people are quick to mention the fact that an application on a 32-bit Windows system can only access 4GB of memory. But what exactly does this mean? [Note: This article has been updated since it was first published.]...

Licensing is probably the most dreaded component of any environment’s implementation. To help you with this, Ron Oglesby and I put together this 22-page guide that fully explains everything you need to know about licensing in Terminal Server environments running on Windows Server 2003....

This paper is excerpted from the book Terminal Services for Microsoft Windows Server 2003: Advanced Technical Design Guide , written by Brian Madden and Ron Oglesby. It covers all aspects of Terminal Server printing, including background information, design, configuration, driver management, and third party tools. While it's written for Terminal Services running on Windows Server 2003, it's applicable to previous versions of Terminal Services as well....

Citrix Presentation Server uses Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express instead of MS Access these days for small environments. SQL Express is cool, but automating backups for it isn't necessarily intuitive. In this article, Katie Koepke shows you how to do it....

Last week at Citrix Synergy 2010 Berlin, Citrix surprised everyone by announcing XenDesktop 5 , the latest iteration of their main desktop virtualization product suite which will ship by the end of the year. XenDesktop 5 actually has quite a few changes...

A lot of people have recently asked me how to configure load-balancing in pure Terminal Server environments. This is a topic that Ron and I covered in our Terminal Server book, so I've pulled out that section for this article....

This question is as old as Terminal Server itself. This editorial looks at the real factors that you should base your decision on. Surprise! It's not ICA vs. RDP or the number of users you have....

Everyone who's been around Citrix for awhile knows that printing has always been a challenge. We've all been reading about tips and tricks over the years, but it's easy to forget the basics. In this article, Kevin Buchaniec walks through the best practices of configuring printing in a Citrix Presentation Server environment. This article is refreshing if you're a seasoned admin, and vital if you're a beginner!...

One of the announcements that come from PDC was that Windows Server 2008 R2 would be 64-bit only . At first I just thought, "It's about time!" and it really didn't sink in. But a few days ago it hit me like a ton of bricks. "Holy...

A lot of people wish that their logons were faster. In this article, I'll take you step-by-step through how you can troubleshoot your slow logons. We'll do this all with some novel techniques and free tools....

In this new series called "War Stories," administrators from the field share their tales of lessons they learned the hard way with the hope that you'll have an easier time than them. In this first story, Shawn Bass talks about the importance of a Microsoft spooler hotfix....