<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?><rss version='2.0'><channel xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'><title>BrianMadden.com - Technical Articles</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com//content/section/</link><description>WCMS Articles By Section</description><copyright>All rights reserved</copyright><language>en-US</language><managingEditor>brian@brianmadden.com</managingEditor><image><title>Your Independent Application Delivery Resource</title><url>http://www.brianmadden.com/logos/brianmaddenmedshadow.gif</url><link>http://www.brianmadden.com</link></image><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>How to publish a pre-configured Citrix Access Management Console so that discovery runs automatically</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/How-to-publish-a-pre-configured-Citrix-Access-Management-Console-so-that-discovery-runs-automatically</link><description><![CDATA[It&#39;s widely known that one great benefit made available in Presentation Server 4.5 (and previous versions) is the ability to delegate, in a granular fashion, limited functionality within the Access Management Console (AMC) to help desk administrators and other engineers who may be supporting a...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:06:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>5702</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>What products does Citrix make now? (Spring 2008 edition)</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/What-products-does-Citrix-make-now-Spring-2008-edition</link><description><![CDATA[Since we last posted an article last June listing the entire Citrix product line, Citrix has re-invented itself as a &quot;virtualization&quot; 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&#39;s probably worth keeping...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:04:46 GMT</pubDate><guid>5701</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Citrix Virtual Design Studio enters beta. Requires OpenGL and x64. Wait... what?</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Citrix-Virtual-Design-Studio-enters-beta-Requires-OpenGL-and-x64-Wait-what</link><description><![CDATA[ Michael Chang, a marketing manager at Citrix responsible for this beta program, just emailed me a PowerPoint presentation about this product. I&#39;ve attached it above.Citrix Virtual Design Studio. Is this the product that was announced at Summit a few months ago that lets you design your Citrix...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:25:31 GMT</pubDate><guid>5697</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Citrix XenDesktop Beta is available for public download</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Citrix-XenDesktop-Beta-is-available-for-public-download</link><description><![CDATA[Citrix just released the beta of XenDesktop. It&#39;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). Citrix released a...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:25:12 GMT</pubDate><guid>5695</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Group Policy best practices for Citrix and Terminal Server environments</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Group-Policy-Best-Practices</link><description><![CDATA[Recently, I created a video for Citrix&#39;s Tech Videos website covering best practices for group policies, user profiles, and folder redirection. In the video, I talk a bit about how to use each feature to your advantage on a high level - things that would work for pretty much any environment.In...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:26:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>5694</guid></item><item><category>Editorials</category><title>&quot;XenApp&quot; is brilliant!</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/XenApp-is-brilliant</link><description><![CDATA[Wow! I miss three days of work with the flu, and when I come back, Presentation Server doesn&#39;t exist anymore! By now most people know that what we discussed a few weeks ago is now official: Citrix Presentation Server has been renamed as Citrix XenApp.I love the name XenApp. I didn&#39;t at...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:56:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>5657</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Microsoft and Citrix clarify XenSource / Hyper-V interaction. Both companies win.</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Microsoft-and-Citrix-clarify-XenSource--Hyper-V-interaction-Both-companies-win</link><description><![CDATA[Let&#39;s continue stepping through Tuesday&#39;s many virtualization announcements from Microsoft. Today we&#39;ll look at an announcement about how Microsoft and Citrix are going to work together even tighter in the virtualization space. As we re-capped yesterday, Microsoft and Citrix announced...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:54:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>5631</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Citrix XenDesktop will run on Microsoft Hyper-V!</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Citrix-XenDesktop-will-run-on-Microsoft-Hyper-V</link><description><![CDATA[Maybe this should come as no surprise given Citrix and Microsoft&#39;s joint XenSource / Veridian announcements over the past year or so, but part of Microsoft&#39;s big desktop virtualization announcement yesterday was that Citrix XenDesktop will run on Microsoft&#39;s Hyper-V in addition to...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:50:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>5629</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Microsoft buys Calista Technologies. What will this mean?</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Microsoft-buys-Calista-Technologies-What-will-this-mean</link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the biggest of today&#39;s multitude of announcements from Microsoft is that Microsoft is buying Calista Technologies. Calista is a privately-held, venture-backed software vendor who was in the process of developing extensions to Windows and RDP that virtualized the entire GPU (Graphics...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:06:37 GMT</pubDate><guid>5628</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Provision Networks / Quest Software scores big time: Jeff Pitsch and Patrick Rouse join as employees!</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Provision-Networks--Quest-Software-scores-big-time-Jeff-Pitsch-and-Patrick-Rouse-join-as-employees</link><description><![CDATA[2008 is opening with some big news. Independent Citrix and Terminal Server experts Jeff Pitsch and Patrick Rouse have both joined Citrix competitor Provision Networks / Quest Software as employees.Provision Networks&#39; main product is Virtual Access Suite which competes with several of...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:15:03 GMT</pubDate><guid>5624</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Accario introduces the AccessStick DayXtender</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Accario-introduces-the-AccessStick-DayXtender</link><description><![CDATA[At iForum 2007 in Las Vegas there were quite a few vendors, some talking about the same old stuff (thin clients, monitoring, etc.), and others with some pretty fresh solutions. One such company with a fresh take on remote access is Accario. Many of you know about Accario&#39;s EPAFactory and their...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:58:07 GMT</pubDate><guid>5602</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>New Features in Presentation Server &quot;Delaware&quot;</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/New-Features-in-Presentation-Server-Delaware</link><description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared on&nbsp;Michel&nbsp;Roth&#39;s&nbsp;website - www.thincomputing.net.&nbsp; Please be aware that this article is not an exhaustive or complete list of all new features. Also keep in mind that some of these features might somehow be pulled from Presentation Server...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:06:09 GMT</pubDate><guid>5601</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>A few cool IMA Data Store and farm refinements in Citrix Presentation Server over the years</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/IMA-Data-Store-and-farm-refinements-in-Citrix-Presentation-Server-45</link><description><![CDATA[Citrix has made a lot of changes to Presentation Server over the years. Over the past few months, I learned about several changes that I think are interesting and important to know, although they don&#39;t really each warrant their own article. So I&#39;ve collected a few random tidbits that...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:53:19 GMT</pubDate><guid>5580</guid></item><item><category>Editorials</category><title>Quest Software buys Provision Networks! Finally a real challenger to Citrix in the app delivery space?</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Quest-Software-buys-Provision-Networks-Finally-a-real-challenger-to-Citrix-in-the-app-delivery-space</link><description><![CDATA[Quest Software has acquired Provision Networks. (press release) Provision&#39;s main product, &quot;Virtual Application Suite,&quot; is an application and desktop delivery product that&#39;s very cool but suffers from the fact that Provision is a small company that no one&#39;s really heard of. But...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:46:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>5579</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>XenDesktop Tech Preview delayed until early November</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/XenDesktop-delayed-until-early-November</link><description><![CDATA[From an article by Michel Roth at ThinComputing.net, it looks like the XenDesktop Tech Preview that was slated to be released on 29 October has now been postponed. According to a post in the Citrix forums, &quot;The Tech Preview Kit will be available in early November.&quot;That&#39;s not terribly...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:44:55 GMT</pubDate><guid>5568</guid></item><item><category>Editorials</category><title>Is is time for VMware to enter the terminal server / application virtualization market?</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Is-is-time-for-VMware-to-enter-the-terminal-server--application-virtualization-market</link><description><![CDATA[One of my impressions from attending Citrix iForum The App Delivery Expo, presented by Citrix last week was that Citrix launched an all-out competitive war against VMware. Citrix offers server-based computing solutions for multiple-user terminal server environments (Citrix Presentation Server) and...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:40:23 GMT</pubDate><guid>5567</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Citrix to VMware: &quot;Don't let the door hit you on the way out!&quot;</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Citrix-to-VMware-Dont-let-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out</link><description><![CDATA[As Tim Mangan blogged earlier this week, Citrix iForum The App Delivery Expo, presented by Citrix, definitely had a huge virtualization focus. (&quot;Citrix VMworld&quot; was the joke circulating through the closing party.)Obviously this is fueled by Citrix&#39;s acquisition of XenSource, which now...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:10:10 GMT</pubDate><guid>5566</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Keynote notes from iForum 07 - The Application Delivery Expo</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Keynote-notes-from-iForum-07---The-Application-Delivery-Expo</link><description><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning, the first thought on my mind was that the World Series starts tomorrow, and my hometown Cleveland Indians aren&#39;t going to be there. It wasn&#39;t the best way to wake up, but even though I wanted to crawl back into bed, I had to drag myself out to go to the first...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:52:01 GMT</pubDate><guid>5565</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Citrix evolves &quot;Desktop Server&quot; to &quot;XenDesktop&quot;</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Citrix-renames-Desktop-Server-to-XenDesktop</link><description><![CDATA[At Citrix iForum The App Delivery Expo, presented by Citrix, Mark Templeton used the keynote launch a new product called &quot;CItrix XenDesktop.&quot; XenDesktop will be a combination of three products: Citrix Desktop Server, XenServer (formally XenEnterprise), and Citrix Provisioning Server...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:57:46 GMT</pubDate><guid>5564</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Good-bye Ardence. Hello Citrix Provisioning Server.</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Good-bye-Ardence-Hello-Citrix-Provisioning-Server</link><description><![CDATA[Last week Citrix officially changed the name of their Ardence Server product to Citrix Provisioning Server. It appears that the product itself hasn&#39;t changed at all.What&rsquo;s more interesting is the fact that Ardence will now be sold through Citrix&rsquo;s worldwide channel. Previously Citrix...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:43:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>5562</guid></item></channel></rss>