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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.

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.

Daniel Nikolic has just released version 1.1 of his LoadGen tool. This tool is completely free for simulating loads of up to 150 users per server. The idea behind LoadGen is that it is a dirt-simple tool that can run and manage user simulation scripts against Citrix, Provision Networks, or Terminal Server server-based computing environments.

Due to the feedback that received on this article from readers, my colleagues, and Microsoft, I felt it was time to update it to try to provide more of a best practices guide to implementing LanManServer Tuning. The major update is in the Tuning section where I explain how "overtuning" can introduce other performance problems. I've also modified the .adm templates that, when applied, help prevent the file server from running out of NonPaged Pool.

Several months ago, Kevin Goodman and I created a huge wall chart that detailed all of the steps in the Citrix Presentation Server logon process. Due to popular demand, we've just created a similar chart for the Citrix Presentation Server Logoff Process.

At BriForum 2006 DeNamiK, a new company based in The Netherlands, announced that they were working on a new product aimed at Load/Stress testing Citrix Servers. The product, called DeNamiK LoadGen, is in a beta testing phase now and Tim Mangan has had the opportunity to take a fairly deep look at it--resulting in this full-fledged White Paper.

Today Citrix announced that they've bought Reflectent. In this article I'll talk about how Application Performance Monitoring tools differ from traditional tools like Citrix Resource Manager, who Reflectent is and how their products work, and what this means to Citrix and you.

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.

In this session perceived performance--a technique to measure terminal server performance in terms relevant to your users--is explained. Results of recent tests involving both real and "virtual servers" are presented, with an eye toward understanding how to improve perceived performance in the virtual environment.

A lot of people wish that their logons were faster. In this article, I'll take you step-by-step through how you can troubleshoot your slow logons. We'll do this all with some novel techniques and free tools.

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