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One of the great benfits of Presentation Server / XenApp is the ability to delegate administrative functions to help desk admins and support engineers. Unfortunately if you simply publish the Access Management Console for them, the "discovery" process will prompt the user every time the console is launched, which is annoying and confusing. In this artcile, Katie Koepke took the time to figure out how you can pre-configure the AMC so that discovery runs without user intervention.

Since we last posted an article last June listing the entire Citrix product line, Citrix has re-invented itself as a "virtualization" company and re-branded their product line to suit. Our intent was to keep that article up-to-date, but with so many changes, it's probably worth keeping the old article as a historical snapshot and creating another one for the "New Citrix."

Citrix Virtual Design Studio. Is this the product that was announced at Summit a few months ago that lets you design your Citrix environments virtually? Nope. That's Citrix Workflow Studio. Citrix Virtual Design Studio is the final name for what was codenamed "Project Pictor," a set of extensions for Presentation Server that let it run OpenGL-based CAD applications via ICA. So "Virtual Design Studio" is for Computer Aided Design, virtually.

Citrix just released the beta of XenDesktop. It's available to download by anyone. Remember that XenDesktp is a new product based on a combinations of what used to be Citrix Desktop Server, Citrix Provisioning Server (Ardence), and Citrix XenServer (for hosting desktop VMs).

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

I love the name XenApp. I didn't at first. My gut reaction was that this was a hasty marketing name change by Citrix. But once I got over the shock of change (the shock that would come with any name change), I whole-heartily agree with Citrix that the new name makes much more sense than the old name.

Part of Tuesday's big virtualization announcement from Microsoft detailed how Microsoft and Citrix would work together in the Hyper-V and XenSource space. It turns out that Citrix will play a critical role in what Microsoft claims is their "comprehensive" management platform.

Citrix and Microsoft jointly announced yesterday that Citrix XenDesktop will run on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor. This comes despite the fact that Citrix created XenDesktop specifically so that it was a single product that didn't need anything external, like a hypervisor from Microsoft.

Microsoft announced that they're buying Calista Technologies, a startup software vendor whose technology can virtualize the graphics system in Windows, thereby delivering a full multimedia Windows desktop via a regular RDP protocol. What will this mean for Microsoft's VDI strategy, and how will this affect Citrix?

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.

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