<?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 - Product Reviews</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>Product Reviews</category><title>Kemp Technologies updates their hardware  Load Balancers for RDP sessions (with or without Session Directory)!</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Kemp-Technologies-updates-their-hardware-Load-Balancers-for-RDP-sessions-with-or-without-Session-Directory</link><description><![CDATA[Kemp Technologies announced today that the newest software update for their entire line of load balancing appliances will make them all &quot;RDP-aware,&quot; meaning that they can intelligently load balance between Terminal Servers and/or integrate with Session Directory.Kemp has been in the...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:42:28 GMT</pubDate><guid>5656</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Understanding the new logon throttling load evaluator options in Citrix Presentation Server 4.5</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Understanding-the-new-logon-throttling-load-evaluator-options-in-Citrix-Presentation-Server-45</link><description><![CDATA[Load balancing in a Citrix Presentation Server environment has not fundamentally changed since the days of MetaFrame XP. Today&#39;s PS 4.5 environments still have zone data collectors, load evaluators, and load indexes.As a very, very quick refresher, remember that the load evaluator is a thread in...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 06:52:21 GMT</pubDate><guid>5246</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>HP ProLiant Network Adapter Teaming Explained</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/HP-ProLiant-Network-Adapter-Teaming-Explained</link><description><![CDATA[HP ProLiant Network Adapter Teaming is a software-based technology used to increase a server?s network availability and performance. HP ProLiant Network Adapter Teaming provides network adapter, network port, network cable, switch, and communication path fault recovery in addition to transmit and...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>584</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>How to Load Balance two Citrix Web Interface Servers</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/How-to-Load-Balance-two-Citrix-Web-Interface-Servers</link><description><![CDATA[Citrix?s Web Interface (WI) is a popular way for users to connect to their ICA applications running on Citrix Presentation Servers. Unfortunately, if a Web Interface server fails then users lose access to their applications. Since WI also provides the back-end functionality for Citrix?s Program...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:06:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>533</guid></item><item><category>War Stories</category><title>How the Default Load Evaluator can Ruin your Day</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/How-the-Default-Load-Evaluator-can-Ruin-your-Day</link><description><![CDATA[This is the true story of a Citrix administrator's worst day on the job. It's about how the loss of five Citrix servers in his environment brought the remaining twelve down, why the default load evaluator is to blame, and how you can prevent it from happening in your environment.<br/>...So I get a...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>284</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Understanding the Terminal Server Session Directory</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Understanding-the-Terminal-Server-Session-Directory</link><description><![CDATA[I briefly mentioned Session Directory in yesterday's article. I've received a lot of email since then about it, and I think there are several misconceptions about what the Session Directory does and doesn't do. The Session Directory is nothing more than a database that keeps track of which users are...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>279</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>How to Configure Windows Network Load Balancing for pure Terminal Server environments</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/How-to-Configure-Windows-Network-Load-Balancing-for-pure-Terminal-Server-environments</link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people have recently asked how to configure load-balancing in pure Terminal Server environments. This is a topic that Ron and I covered in our Terminal Server book, so I've pulled out that section for this article.<br/>Microsoft Windows Network Load Balancing (?NLB?) is the ?free?...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>278</guid></item><item><category>Product Reviews</category><title>Updated: Server-Based Computing Software Roundup</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Updated-Server-Based-Computing-Software-Roundup</link><description><![CDATA[Gabe Knuth and I wrote our first server-based computing software<br/>round-up almost a year ago. Due to the popularity of this paper, we<br/>decided to update it in August 2004 to include the most recent versions<br/>of each vendor?s products.<br/>For years, Citrix has been the only choice for...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>98</guid></item><item><category>Presentations</category><title>Terminal Services 2003: What it Does and Doesn't Do</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Terminal-Services-2003-What-it-Does-and-Doesnt-Do</link><description><![CDATA[This presentation by Ron Oglesby takes a hard look at what Terminal Services on Windows 2003 really does and where it falls short. Ron originally gave this presentation at CUG Tech 2004 in Norway.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>172</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Using Off-Line Load Evaluators to Deal with Broken MetaFrame Servers</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Using-Off-Line-Load-Evaluators-to-Deal-with-Broken-MetaFrame-Servers</link><description><![CDATA[This technique, developed by Ken Smith and written up by Scott Chiara, allows administrators of large Citrix MetaFrame farms to easily move servers from an online to an offline state with the ability to centrally see which servers are in which state. This will ultimately allow you to increase...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>149</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>WTS Gateway Pro: A Simple Terminal Server Load Balancing Gateway</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/WTS-Gateway-Pro-A-Simple-Terminal-Server-Load-Balancing-Gateway</link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the best thing about WTS Gateway Pro is its price. It's only $299 for a two-server starter kit, and then $99 for each additional server. These licenses support unlimited users and unlimited processors.<br/>To use WTSGateway Pro, you install a simple software agent on each of your Terminal...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>45</guid></item><item><category>Presentations</category><title>Citrix MetaFrame Datacenter Failover</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Citrix-MetaFrame-Datacenter-Failover</link><description><![CDATA[This is the Powerpoint presentation from a session I gave at CUG Tech in October 2003.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>85</guid></item><item><category>Presentations</category><title>Is Terminal Server Enough, or do you need third party software?</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Is-Terminal-Server-Enough-or-do-you-need-third-party-software</link><description><![CDATA[This is the Powerpoint presentation from a session I gave at CUG Tech in October 2003.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>87</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Will anyone use pure Terminal Server 2003 on load-balanced blades?</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Will-anyone-use-pure-Terminal-Server-2003-on-load-balanced-blades</link><description><![CDATA[I was talking with my buddy Gabe last <br/>night and he made some interesting comments about load-balanced Terminal Server <br/>2003 environments. We were talking about the article I wrote last week <br/>discussing hardware load-balancing solutions for pure Terminal Server <br/>environments. Gabe...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>12</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Load-Balancing Pure Terminal Server Environments</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Load-Balancing-Pure-Terminal-Server-Environments</link><description><![CDATA[Now that <br/>Microsoft's RDP protocol included in Windows Server 2003 has <br/>basically the same functionality as<br/>Citrix's ICA protocol, a lot of people are <br/>beginning to think about how to load-balance multiple Terminal Servers when <br/>Citrix MetaFrame is not used. Of course you can use...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>9</guid></item></channel></rss>