<?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 - Industry Buzz</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>Industry Buzz</category><title>Free DEFSET GUI manages default printer settings in Citrix and Terminal Server environments</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Free-DEFSET-GUI-manages-default-printer-settings-in-Citrix-and-Terminal-Server-environments</link><description><![CDATA[The DEFSET printer utility for Terminal Server/ Citrix environment has been updated with a small feature that has been requested by many users in the thin community. Please Download the latest version from http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com.au/CAD_Utils.htmRecently added feature in DEFSETFor additional...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:38:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>5538</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Free script parses event logs and compiles client printer autocreation errors</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Free-script-parses-event-logs-and-compiles-client-printer-autocreation-errors</link><description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that one of the challenges of Citrix Presentation Server is that autocreated client printers sometimes don't autocreate. When this happens (or doesn't happen?), the most likely cause is a printer driver mismatch between the client and the server. Whenever the Presentation Server tries...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:12:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>646</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Citrix Printing: Brush up on the basic best practices</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Citrix-Printing-Brush-up-on-the-basic-best-practices</link><description><![CDATA[Being around Citrix for a while, one of the things that you&rsquo;ll notice and continues to hold true is that printing is still one of the biggest challenges. With each release, Citrix touts that printing is better. However, reality sets in and you soon find out that you&rsquo;re in the same boat...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>622</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Printing to Unsupported Client Printers with a free PDF Creator</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Printing-to-Unsupported-Client-Printers-with-a-free-PDF-Creator</link><description><![CDATA[Chris Cairns sent me an email a while back with a novel printing fix / workaround for printing to unsupported printers. It's an open source project called An added bonus is that the user can use it to print and email PDF documents.<br/> This isn't the most elegant solution, but your users can be...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:02:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>614</guid></item><item><category>Videos</category><title>BriForum 2005 Video: Charlotte Kuenzell on how Windows printing really works</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/BriForum-2005-Video-Charlotte-Kuenzell-on-how-Windows-printing-really-works</link><description><![CDATA[Printing is one of the biggest headaches for most administrators, but many people do not know how Windows printing actually works. In this session, Charlotte Künzell will go deep into the Windows print system and show what you can do to improve it. The details you learn in this session will provide...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:40:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>572</guid></item><item><category>Product Reviews</category><title>60-second review; triCerat Simplify Suite v4</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/60-second-review-triCerat-Simplify-Suite-v4</link><description><![CDATA[triCerat is a software company that used to sell several separate server-based computing products. They have recently combined all of their products into one suite called the Simplify Suite. In doing so, they join the competition of RES Powerfuse, Provision Framework Standard, and Appsense...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>557</guid></item><item><category>Videos</category><title>BriForum 2005 Video: Stefan Vermeulen on Surviving Printing</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/BriForum-2005-Video-Stefan-Vermeulen-on-Surviving-Printing</link><description><![CDATA[This session will explore what people are actually doing in the world of Citrix and Terminal Server printing. We'll discuss printer autocreation processes, tuning, and best practices. We'll look at the third-party tools and help you figure out how they really work and whether you need them or can...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>539</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>How Microsoft's Windows 2003 SP1 Fallback Printer Driver Works (which now supports color!)</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/How-Microsofts-Windows-2003-SP1-Fallback-Printer-Driver-Works-which-now-supports-color</link><description><![CDATA[Last month I explained the ?universal? (or more appropriately ?fallback?) printer driver support that was introduced with Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003. In that review I talked about the new fallback driver policy and its capabilities.<br/>Today I would like to explain a bit more about the...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:06:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>438</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Updated: Free new utility runs script when client IP or name changes or on session disconnect or reconnect</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Updated-Free-new-utility-runs-script-when-client-IP-or-name-changes-or-on-session-disconnect-or-reconnect</link><description><![CDATA[Note: This article now refers to version 1.3 of ReconnAct!, an update of <br/>the original version.<br/>Dennis Damen, one of the two DADE Power Tools guys (see their other tools) and an <br/>employee of Login Consultants has <br/>created free utility called ReconnAct! that runs on a Terminal Server...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>298</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Updated: Microsoft adds Universal Printing to Terminal Server!</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Updated-Microsoft-adds-Universal-Printing-to-Terminal-Server</link><description><![CDATA[In this article, Terminal Server printing guru Stefan Vermeulen (webmaster for printingsupport.com and fellow BriForum speaker) explores the new UPD printing capabilities that Microsoft is building into Service Pack 1 for Terminal Server on Windows 2003.<br/>Now that Citrix has yanked the chain of...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>316</guid></item><item><category>War Stories</category><title>War Story: The Most Important Spooler Hotfix</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/War-Story-The-Most-Important-Spooler-Hotfix</link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to share a recent experience I had with respect to a migration project from NT4 (MF 1.8) to Win2k (MF XP). I'm presently engaged in a project for a large Fortune 500 insurance company that is in the process of wrapping up their migration. (I know.. NT4 is unsupported, blah, blah.. Anyway,...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>312</guid></item><item><category>Product Reviews</category><title>60 Second Review: UniPrint 5.0</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/60-Second-Review-UniPrint-50</link><description><![CDATA[Even though Windows Terminal Services has been around in one form or another for nearly ten years, printing is almost as big of a challenge today as it was in 1995. Several software manufacturers make additional software to solve printing problems. Citrix and Tarantella build universal printer...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:15:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>307</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Citrix Rebuilds Printing from Scratch for the next MetaFrame</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Citrix-Rebuilds-Printing-from-Scratch-for-the-next-MetaFrame</link><description><![CDATA[Author's Note: The information in this article is based on information I?ve received from the various sessions and by talking with Citrix folks at the Tech Lab at Citrix iForum Global 2004. This information is not based on my own experience or testing, so it?s possible that I don?t have some of the...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>260</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Scripting MetaFrame Data Store Printer Mapping</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Scripting-MetaFrame-Data-Store-Printer-Mapping</link><description><![CDATA[This article is the third in Ron Oglesby?s ?Scripting for MetaFrame? series.<br/>In this series of articles I focus on how you can use scripting in a Terminal Server or Citrix MetaFrame environment to automate common and recurring tasks. This article shows a script that uses MFCOM to bulk delete all...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>204</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Survey Results: What's the biggest problem you deal with? </title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Survey-Results-Whats-the-biggest-problem-you-deal-with-</link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people ask me technical questions about Citrix, but it seems that the same questions are getting asked over and over. That got me thinking, so I decided to formally ask the community of Citrix MetaFrame administrators what their biggest problems were. The answers themselves did not really...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>70</guid></item><item><category>White Papers</category><title>The Ultimate Guide to Terminal Server Printing - Design and Configuration</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/The-Ultimate-Guide-to-Terminal-Server-Printing---Design-and-Configuration</link><description><![CDATA[This paper is excerpted from the book Terminal Services for Windows Server 2003:Advanced Technical Design Guide, by Brian Madden and Ron Oglesby.<br/>										  At some point during your Terminal Server system design you'll remember that your users will probably want to print something sooner or...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>62</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>ThinPrint Announces Three New Printing Products</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/ThinPrint-Announces-Three-New-Printing-Products</link><description><![CDATA[The first is a new version of their flagship product"ThinPrint .print 6.0." In Citrix MetaFrame environments, ThinPrint is used for driver-free printing to any type of printer. Their software allows users to print to any printer at full quality with the ability to use all the features of the...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>34</guid></item><item><category>Technical Articles</category><title>Net2Printer Enters the Terminal Server Printing Arena</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Net2Printer-Enters-the-Terminal-Server-Printing-Arena</link><description><![CDATA[Net2Printer announced today that their printing products have been extended to fully support Terminal Server environments. Net2Printer's product has several similarities to other third-party printing solutions. It installs a virtual printer on the Terminal Server and then uses standard TCP/IP...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>23</guid></item><item><category>Industry Buzz</category><title>Doug Brown Releases Project Compatibility 3.0</title><link>http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Doug-Brown-Releases-Project-Compatibility-30</link><description><![CDATA[<a href="http:<a href="http:Never heard of it? Project Compatibility is a free tool that you can use to <br/>automatically detect failed printers in Citrix MetaFrame environments. Basically <br/>it will scan through the application event logs of all your MetaFrame servers <br/>and present you with...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>11</guid></item></channel></rss>