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That headline sounds like the setup of a joke.. "Ok, ok, stop me if you've heard this. Three Citrix marketing folks go into a bar and get completely wasted..." Seriously, the article I wrote Friday about the subtlety of Citrix's client...

This is it! This 34-page paper takes you step-by-step through the entire Terminal Server / Citrix MetaFrame performance troubleshooting process. This paper is NOT a mere list of registry hacks. Rather, it shows you the approach to take when troubleshooting Terminal Server performance issues, including slow logons, how to add more users to your server, overall slowness and sluggishness, and random server pauses and hangs. ...

A lot of people use Citrix's seamless windows technology every day without really understanding how it works. In this article, Thomas Koetzing will explore the processes that drive seamless windows and discuss some troubleshooting techniques you can use when seamless applications don't behave like you think they should....

A lot of people have long believed that Microsoft has been screwing us. But after last week's radio show and two fantastic articles from Gabe and Jack, it became clear that Microsoft is doing four very specific and intentional things that are holding...

In this article, Gabe Knuth talks about some best practices regarding Group Policies for Presentation Server and other Terminal Server environments....

Microsoft added fallback printer driver support to Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003. The final version also offers color printer support. This article looks at how this support works and how the system figures out which driver to use....

Most VDI solutions today make use of the RDP protocol. But RDP was designed for remoting business apps, which is very different than providing an entire local desktop experience remotely. Can RDP do this? Will it need to be extended like ICA? What about the other protocols and vendors out there, like ALP, SPICE, Net2Display, Calista Technologies, Teradici, and DeskTone?...

Jeroen van de Kamp's Flex Profile Kit is hands-down the most useful free utility for Terminal Server and Citrix environments. The all-new version 4 builds upon the previous version and adds many new features....

I've just launched a podcast / Internet Radio Show called Brian Madden Live. It's a technical show about Citrix and server-based computing technologies where I'll interview experts in the industry to find out how different products work....

In this article, Terminal Server printing guru Stefan Vermeulen (webmaster for printingsupport.com and fellow BriForum speaker) explores the new UPD printing capabilities that Microsoft is building into Service Pack 1 for Terminal Server on Windows 2003....

This is the second part of my comprehensive guide to troubleshooting network performance issues in Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame environments. Today's article starts with how you can build a test lab for this task and then proceeds step-by-step through the actions you can take to address each networking issue....

The R2 update to Windows Server 2003 will include an RPC over HTTPS proxy that will allow clients to securely connect to RDP sessions over the public Internet. This is similar to Citrix's Secure Gateway product....

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....

I realized as I was writing today's VDIworks article that we never published the performance videos that we recorded last year when we visited Qumranet's (now Red Hat's) offices in the Bay Area. The information we got is very interesting,...

This product review details the new features of Terminal Services that are built-in to Windows Server 2003....