<?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>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>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>Industry Buzz</category><title>Microsoft gets serious about virtualized desktops (in a Microsofty way)</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Microsoft-gets-serious-about-virtualized-desktops-in-a-Microsofty-way</link><description><![CDATA[It&#39;s Friday. We&#39;ve spent the entire week looking at Microsoft&#39;s fairly large late-night Monday announcement that touched on several different virtualization areas, including:Microsoft is buying Calista Technologis to improve the performance of RDPCitrix XenDesktop will run on...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:10:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>5632</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Choosing VDI, Streaming, TS, or SBC: Focus on the application use cases</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Choosing-VDI-Streaming-TS-or-SBC-Focus-on-the-application-use-cases</link><description><![CDATA[Most people reading this understand the concept of &quot;application delivery.&quot; They get that it&#39;s more than server-based computing or application streaming. They know that IT is about providing applications to users, and that today there&#39;s a plethora of different technologies for...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:10:52 GMT</pubDate><guid>5600</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>A short guide to virtualizing Presentation and Terminal servers on VMware ESX 3</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/A-short-guide-to-virtualizing-Presentation-and-Terminal-servers-on-VMware-ESX-3</link><description><![CDATA[Basic tips to help virtualize Terminal Servers and Citrix Servers on ESX3Sever Based Computing has, for a long time now, been the most used method of centralization and consolidation of applications. Bringing applications to the user without the worries of physical location has been a key aspect in...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:53:39 GMT</pubDate><guid>5540</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Microsoft releases an RDP v6 Mac beta client</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Microsoft-releases-an-RDP-v6-Mac-beta-client</link><description><![CDATA[Today Microsoft released a beta version of the RDP v6 client for Mac OSX. (Available via Microsoft Connect.) It follows the Mac version trail and is being called the &ldquo;Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0,&rdquo; but it&#39;s built around Version 6 of the RDP protocol used by...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:16:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>5441</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>A closer look at Session Broker load balancing in Windows Server 2008</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/A-closer-look-at-Session-Broker-load-balancing-in-Windows-Server-2008</link><description><![CDATA[(This article has also been published on the author&#39;s website - http://www.thincomputing.net)Notice: This article was written based on the Beta 3 release of Windows Server 2008. Features and facts about the Session Broker Load Balancing therefore could be subject to change as Windows Server 2008...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:20:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>5310</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Tim Mangan reports on the Microsoft Management Summit 2007</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Tim-Mangan-reports-on-the-Microsoft-Management-Summit-2007</link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time I have been to this conference, which has traditionally centered around the SMS product. While I came not expecting much, and there weren't any ground shaking announcements (although as always there are plenty of announcements), I still leave the conference quite impressed....]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>689</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>What new features should Microsoft add to Terminal Services?</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/What-new-features-should-Microsoft-add-to-Terminal-Services</link><description><![CDATA[The annual Microsoft MVP conference is coming up next week at the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. This is the gathering where more than 2000 MVPs get together to talk to the Microsoft product groups about the new products, features, and feedback. Longtime readers will remember that Ron Oglesby...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>680</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>TS CAL token storage on client devices with no local storage</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/TS-CAL-token-storage-on-client-devices-with-no-local-storage</link><description><![CDATA[Ever since Microsoft decided to start enforcing Terminal Server Client Access License (TS CAL) usage in Windows 2000 Server, we administrators have been trying to figure out exactly how the whole system works. (Why did Microsoft choose to single out TS for license enforcement? Seven years later,...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:15:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>670</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Application Publishing: Comparing Longhorn Terminal Services to Citrix Presentation Server</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Application-Publishing-Comparing-Longhorn-Terminal-Services-to-Citrix-Presentation-Server</link><description><![CDATA[It?s now common knowledge that one of the biggest new features of Terminal Services in Windows Longhorn Server is the ability to ?publish applications?. But how does publishing applications in Longhorn compare to publishing applications in Citrix Presentation Server? This article answers this...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:10:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>638</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>More Longhorn Terminal Server details uncovered in yesterday's product group chat</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/More-Longhorn-Terminal-Server-details-uncovered-in-yesterdays-product-group-chat</link><description><![CDATA[As many of you know, the Microsoft Terminal Server Product Team hosted a live chat yesterday. There were a lot of great questions and it was a great opportunity to interact directly with the Terminal Server group. A PDF transcript of the chat is available above, and highlights are covered in this...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>617</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Reminder: Chat with the Microsoft Terminal Server Product Team is today!</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Reminder-Chat-with-the-Microsoft-Terminal-Server-Product-Team-is-today</link><description><![CDATA[Note that a transrcipt and highlights of this chat are now available here<br/>Remember that blog that the Microsoft Terminal Server team just started? Maxim Oustiougov just posted an entry that they have pulled the right folks together for a live chat about Terminal Services in Longhorn. This will...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>611</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Microsoft Terminal Server Product Group starts blogging!</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Microsoft-Terminal-Server-Product-Group-starts-blogging</link><description><![CDATA[One of the cool things Rick and I learned from visiting Microsoft on our Drive 2006 trip was that the Microsoft Terminal Server product group has just started blogging.<br/>http://blogs.msdn.com/ts<br/>This is fantastic! What a great way for the folks who write Terminal Server to communicate with...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>601</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Providing Windows Applications to Users: Nine Different Theories and Architectures</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Providing-Windows-Applications-to-Users-Nine-Different-Theories-and-Architectures</link><description><![CDATA[Longtime readers of my work know that I believe that IT exists for one single reason?to provide access to applications for end users. As little as ten years ago this was relatively easy. All we had to do was install the applications on the users? computers. But then came automated software...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>566</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Troubleshooting Slow Citrix and Terminal Server Logons</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Troubleshooting-Slow-Citrix-and-Terminal-Server-Logons</link><description><![CDATA[What exactly is a slow logon? It depends on your environment. Some companies have logon processes that complete in a few seconds, while others take a few minutes. Unfortunately, there are some environments in which the logon process takes several minutes; even 20-30 minutes is not unheard of. This...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>564</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Why you should care about Windows 2003 R2 Active Directory Federation Services</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Why-you-should-care-about-Windows-2003-R2-Active-Directory-Federation-Services</link><description><![CDATA[Windows Server 2003 R2, which was released December 2005, is an update that doesn?t add much in the way of new features directly of interest to Terminal Services and Citrix (see https://www.brianmadden.com/content/content.asp?id=537), but that doesn?t mean we can completely ignore it.<br/>One of the...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>550</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Microsoft White Paper: 64-bit Terminal Services Scaling and Performance</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Microsoft-White-Paper-64-bit-Terminal-Services-Scaling-and-Performance</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft just released a white paper that details their lab test results for scalability testing of Terminal Server running on 64-bit Windows Server 2003. The authors of the paper did lab testing using 32- and 64-bit Windows on three different servers:<br/><br/>2 CPU, 16GB RAM<br/>4 CPU, 32GB...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>548</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Free Download of our 500-page Terminal Services for Windows Server 2003 Book</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Free-Download-of-our-500-page-Terminal-Services-for-Windows-Server-2003-Book</link><description><![CDATA[Ron Oglesby and I wrote a book about Terminal Services for Windows Server 2003 last year. We're happy to announce that this book is now available as a free download in either PDF or CHM format. (CHM is the Windows Help File format, and I personally like it better than a PDF for large documents such...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>545</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></channel></rss>