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

Kemp Technologies announced today that the newest software update for their entire line of load balancing appliances will make them all "RDP-aware," meaning that they can intelligently load balance between Terminal Servers and/or integrate with Session Directory.

Now that we've spent a whole week looking at each aspects of Microsoft's big desktop virtualization announcement from Monday, let's take a step back and look at what this means in the grander scheme of things.

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.

Many people would love to virtualize at least part of their Citrix or Terminal Server farms, but so far the performance just hasn’t been up to par (or close enough to make it worthwhile). In this article, René gives you several tips on optimizing your Citrix or Terminal servers for use on virtualized hardware.

Today Microsoft released a beta version of the RDP v6 client for Mac OSX. However, it seems to be missing many of the cool Windows 2008 RDP 6 features, like the ability to connect to a seamless windows application or the ability to use the TS SSL Gateway.

Ever since Microsoft came out with Terminal Services, the demand for a real Load Balancing solution has been present. Up until now one would have to turn to third-party software to get a decent Load Balancing product. Citrix Presentation Server is the most well-known example of this. At But at BriForum 2007 In Chicago, Microsoft shocked the SBC world by announcing that Windows Server 2008 will be able to do real Load Balancing. So what about this “Session Broker Load Balancing“ in Windows Server 2008? What does it do? What can’t it do? Is it any good? Can I get rid of Citrix? Well, in this article we’re going to take a closer look at “Session Broker Load Balancing“ in Windows Server 2008 and see if we can answer these questions.

Tim Mangan is at the Microsoft Management Summit 2007 this week in San Diego. This conference is held each year focusing on Management products from Microsoft (and others).

The annual Microsoft MVP conference will take place next week in Redmond. As part of the three-day event, the Terminal Server product group have asked us, the MPVs, to give a presentation to them about what features the community wants them to add to Terminal Services, and which Longhorn TS features they are most excited about. Here's your chance to help shape the future of TS!

By now everyone knows that a Terminal Server CAL token is stored on a client device after that client connects to a terminal server. But how does this work in situations where the client device doesn't have any local storage capabilities? How do Microsoft and Citrix work around this? And what about the Linux and open source clients?

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