Net2Printer Enters the Terminal Server Printing Arena

Net2Printer announced today that they've extended their Internet printing products to full support Terminal Services.

Article by Brian Madden on September 18, 2003.

Windows Server 2003 SP1 will Add End-to-End SSL Terminal Server Encryption

Service Pack one for Windows Server 2003, due in early 2004, will finally add full end-to-end SSL encryption for pure RDP Terminal Server sessions.

Article by Brian Madden on September 15, 2003.

A Complete List of all Current Post SP3/FR3 MetaFrame XP Hotfixes

Doug Brown has just released a PDF document that details every hotfix released by Citrix since Service Pack 3 and Feature Release 3 for MetaFrame XP.

Article by Brian Madden on September 02, 2003.

Will anyone use pure Terminal Server 2003 on load-balanced blades?

In pure Terminal Server environments, people will be better off building quad-processor servers that can each support 300-500 users instead of blades or 1U servers that can only support 50-200 users.

Article by Brian Madden on August 12, 2003.

Load-Balancing Pure Terminal Server Environments

Now that Microsoft's RDP protocol included in Windows Server 2003 has basically the same functionality as Citrix's ICA protocol, a lot of people are beginning to think about how to load-balance multiple Terminal Servers when Citrix MetaFrame is not used.

Article by Brian Madden on August 06, 2003.

Why TScale is Better than Adding More Memory

With TScale costing about $1,000 per server, why not just buy a few more gigs of RAM for half that cost and forget TScale." In the real world, TScale can allow you to put more users on a server than any amount of memory would.

Article by Brian Madden on July 20, 2003.

SafeWord for Citrix

Secure Computing just announced a new two-factor hardware token-based authentication product specifically designed for Citrix MetaFrame environments.

Article by Brian Madden on June 08, 2003.