MFCOM Script: List number of users for each published application

Jeff Durbin has written a pretty cool VBS script that calculates how many unique users have access to each published application in a farm, as well as how many unique users have access to the farm as a whole. It then dumps all of this data to an Excel spreadsheet.

Article by Brian Madden on July 30, 2006.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI): What's real today, what's not, and what's needed

The concept of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) has become trendy in the past few months. In this article, Ron Oglesby looks at what can realistically be done today, and what we need from vendors to make this a real solution moving forward. He also explorers the parallels between VDI and server-based computing.

Article by Ron Oglesby on July 20, 2006.

Citrix releases ADFS support for Presentation Server

Citrix recently released some updated code for Presentation Server 4.0 that lets Web Interface authenticate users via Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). This article describes ADFS and how Citrix has implemented support for it.

Article by Brian Madden on July 11, 2006.

How Web Interface 4.0 uses the Centralized Configuration Service

By now, most people are using Presentation Server 4 with Web Interface 4. When you create a new WI site, you're given the option of using a local configuration file or the central configuration service. In this article, Katie Koepke looks at what these options mean and how they work.

Article by Katie Koepke on June 08, 2006.

Limitations of Citrix's Application Isolation Environments

Citrix has just released a knowledgebase article that, for the first time, clearly defines the limitations and compatibility issues of Presentation Server 4 Application Isolation Environments.

Article by Brian Madden on April 28, 2006.

The excrutiating detail of the Citrix logon process: A huge wall chart

Kevin Goodman and Brian Madden created a huge colorful poster that is a very detailed flowchart of all the steps that take place when a user logs on to a Citrix server. You can download that poster here.

Article by Brian Madden and Kevin Goodman on April 27, 2006.

HP ProLiant Network Adapter Teaming Explained

In this article, Yuri Haak discusses the various network adapter teaming options and what makes sense in Terminal Server and Citrix environments. Though it's written for HP servers, the same concepts apply to any server brand.

Article by Yuri Haak on April 20, 2006.

Configuring and Securing Citrix Shadowing

Everyone knows that Citrix Presentation Server offers shadowing capabilities. However, most people don't spend the time to properly learn about how shadowing works, how it can be configured, logged, and secured, and the full story with setting precedence. In this article, Katie Koepke digs into the stuff that we should've learned years ago.

Article by Katie Koepke on April 19, 2006.

How to create a custom thin client Knoppix boot CD with the Citrix ICA client

In this article, John Ferrell shows you how to create a Linux CD that you can use to boot any computer into a thin client environment with a web browser and ICA client, essentially converting a PC (for free) into a thin client.

Article by John Ferrell on April 04, 2006.

Configuring Smart Card authentication for Citrix Presentation Server

Many companies are beginning to mandate smart card-based logins for all their IT systems. In this article, Greg Reese details the process he figured out to make this work with ActivCard Gold in a Citrix Presentation Server environment.

Article by Greg Reese on March 21, 2006.