Friday News round up: August 24, 2007

Now that we've all had a week or so to let Citrix's half-billion dollar offer for XenSource sink in, what are people thinking and talking about?

Article by Brian Madden on August 24, 2007.

Free DEFSET GUI manages default printer settings in Citrix and Terminal Server environments

DEFSET is a standalone Windows GUI tool designed to manage default printer selections on a per user basis. This tool is suited to users accessing a Terminal Server/ Citrix session and is designed to retain a user's default printer choice. DEFSET allows the user to change their default printer during program execution, and writes this information to an ini file located in the users individual windows directory. This information is then used to remember the selected the default printer for later sessions.

Article by Warren Simondson on August 24, 2007.

BriForum 2005 Videos are now posted

A few months ago we posted (for free) all of the videos from BriForum 2006 Washington DC and BriForum 2006 Germany. We just now (thanks to Jack the Intern) got all the remaining videos posted from BriForum 2005 Washington DC.

Article by Brian Madden on August 21, 2007.

A brief history of Xen and XenSource

With the recent aquisition of XenSource by Citrix, it seems like a good idea to take a look at the history of Xen and XenSource. This will be brief, taking a look at where XenSource came from, its relationship with the Xen hypervisor, and the direction they've gone over the past few years.

Article by Gabe Knuth on August 17, 2007.

An open letter from XenSource CEO to the community

Yesterday XenSource's CEO Peter Levine puublished this letter to XenSource customers, partners and the community.

Article by Brian Madden on August 16, 2007.

The industry pulse after the Citrix / XenSource acquisition

Yesterday Citrix bought XenSource for $500 million. There have been hundreds of articles, blogs, and comments written about this. I’ve read every single one of them that I can find. In this article I’m going to try to summarize the more interesting theories and comments about what this acquisition means.

Article by Brian Madden on August 16, 2007.

Citrix buys XenSource for $500M

Citrix announced today that they were buying virtualization vendor XenSource for $500M. I wrote a detailed analysis of what this means when I first reported this news last Thursday. In this article, I'll share a few more thoughts that have emerged since then.

Article by Brian Madden on August 15, 2007.

Webica.ini and the ICA 10.1 client

Jeff Pitsch did a little digging and found out where the webica.ini file went in the 10.1 version of the ICA client. Thanks to Vista, things are different now.

Article by Brian Madden on August 15, 2007.

Cool! The iQurious / visionapp Experience is now free

At BriForum in Chicago this past April, Rick Dehlinger told me about a project he was working on called the "iQurious Experience." Based on visionapp's Platform Management Suite, the "Experience" is a product that automatically builds a complete working Presentation Server 4.5 environment in about 20 minutes.

Article by Brian Madden on August 14, 2007.

BriForum 2007 Chicago DVD set is now available

The complete session content of BriForum Chicago 2007 is now available via a 3-disc DVD set. Gabe spent the last few months assembling and preparing the content, and everything we have is on these discs. (They're something like 22GB!)

Article by Brian Madden on August 13, 2007.