Whoops! Extentrix cuts-and-pastes their product documention from EPA Factory.

Ententrix's new end-point analytic scan package for Citrix Access Gateway has references in the product documentation to Brian DaBinett and EPAFactory, one of their competitors. I wonder where they cut-and-paste their documentation from?

Article by Brian Madden on January 13, 2008.

Do you know who Warren Simondson is? If not, check out his free TS and Citrix utilities. Then thank him.

Warren Simondson, an Australian at Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy, has spent the past year quietly developing a dozen or so freeware utilities for Citrix and Terminal Server admins. If you're not familiar with his tools, you should be.

Article by Brian Madden on January 06, 2008.

Provision Networks / Quest Software scores big time: Jeff Pitsch and Patrick Rouse join as employees!

Provision Networks offers a product suite that competes with several of Citrix's products. For years Provision has operated in relative obscurity, but in November 2007 they were purchased by Quest Software. Now all that's left is to get the word out, and they're doing that in a big way. On January 1, Jeff Pitsch and Patrick Rouse, two very high-profile independent Citrix and Terminal Server experts joined Provision / Quest as employees.

Article by Brian Madden on January 03, 2008.

VB Script to Backup / Restore CPS policies

In response to several requests in our forums, Mark Elliott has written a couple of VB scripts that backup and restore policies stored in a Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 or 4.5 farm.

Article by Mark Elliott on December 06, 2007.

Accario introduces the AccessStick DayXtender

At iForum 2007 in Las Vegas last month, I was able to get my hands on a cool little device called the AccessStick DayXtender from Accario, makers of EPAFactory. Here, I'll let you know what it's all about.

Article by Gabe Knuth on November 29, 2007.

New Features in Presentation Server "Delaware"

In this article, Michel Roth of ThinComputing.net outlines some of the new features in the next version of Citrix Presentation Server, codenamed "Delaware."

Article by Michel Roth on November 28, 2007.

Choosing VDI, Streaming, TS, or SBC: Focus on the application use cases

The topic of trying to figure out where to use VDI, Streaming, TS, or SBC and for which apps came up in the training class I taught last week in Paris. The attendees and I brainstormed about this for awhile, and we ultimately created a series of questions and a simple flowchart that we think can frame the conversation.

Article by Brian Madden on November 20, 2007.

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.

Article by Brian Madden on November 15, 2007.

Quest Software buys Provision Networks! Finally a real challenger to Citrix in the app delivery space?

Quest Software has acquired Provision Networks. Provision's "Virtual Access Suite" is one of the lesser-known, yet very cool, products that competed with Citrix in the application delivery and desktop virtualization space. What will this mean to Citrix?

Article by Brian Madden on November 13, 2007.

Microsoft announces Application Virtualization 4.5

Today at ITForum, Microsoft announced the development and beta release of SoftGrid's replacement - Application Virtualization version 4.5. In this article, Ruben Spruijt details the changes and new features.

Article by Ruben Spruijt on November 12, 2007.