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• XenApp 5 Feature Profile: Preferential Load Balancing

  What is Preferential Load Balancing? Preferential Load Balancing (PLB) is a new feature included in XenApp 5 (Platinum only) that uses administrator-configured levels of importance to assign more or less CPU cycles to users and/or applications.  Continue Reading

• Extending the free Session Broker that's built-in to Windows Server 2008

  Can you believe that Windows Server 2008 has been on the market for over six months now? Last May I wrote about the new Terminal Server features of Windows 2008, including what Microsoft calls the TS Session Broker.  Continue Reading

• Login Consultants release another beta of their freeware TS and VDI benchmarking tool

  Last July, Login Consultants released an early beta version of an upcoming freeware tool called Login VSI. This tool is a Windows desktop benchmarking tool that runs a series of workload simulations and produces a relative performance score.  Continue Reading

• Desktop Virtualization adoption

  We all know that server virtualization is here to stay and that storage virtualization is starting to really pick up steam, but it seems to me that desktop virtualization is still lagging.  Continue Reading

• Windows virtual desktop performance benchmarking: The free Login VSI tool is now in beta

  Login Consultants, known for the free Solution4 Automation Framework, the free Flex Profile Kit, and several other free tools, has released the first version of something they're calling Login Virtual Session Index, or simply "Login VSI." Login VSI ...  Continue Reading

• Citrix XenServer vs. VMware ESX: head-to-head video

  Now that all the April Fool's Day silliness is over, we want to make up for it. No more fake companies and no more Rick Rolling (that jumped the shark this year anyway), what we have now has some real value!  Continue Reading

• Citrix Virtual Design Studio enters beta. Requires OpenGL and x64. Wait... what?

  Michael Chang, a marketing manager at Citrix responsible for this beta program, just emailed me a PowerPoint presentation about this product.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft RDP vs Citrix ICA vs Citrix ICA+SpeedScreen progressive display

  This Youtube video compares Microsoft RDP, Citrix ICA and Citrix ICA + SpeedScreen Progressive display with each other.  Continue Reading

• Is anyone out there using (or heard of) hp's "Remote Graphics Software" (RGS)?

  Promising a "just like local" experience, hp's Remote Graphics Software is a VDI-type software solution that does remoting at a different level than RDP. The technical description reads like RDP, except they claim it makes full use of the sender's ...  Continue Reading

• Understanding the new logon throttling load evaluator options in Citrix Presentation Server 4.5

  Load balancing in a Citrix Presentation Server environment has not fundamentally changed since the days of MetaFrame XP. Today's PS 4.  Continue Reading

• ATM 1.0 : Free Tool to look at the System File Cache

  I released a free tool this week in conjunction with the Inside the Microsoft OS session at briForum 2007 this week. My site was unfortumately down during the session so I wanted to post an update on where you can get this tool, and a little bit ...  Continue Reading

• DeNamik releases the free LoadGen 1.1

  Daniel Nikolic has just released version 1.1 of their LoadGen tool.  Continue Reading

• Updated: Lanmanserver and Lanmanworkstation Tuning

  Fileserving in Windows environments is usually of critical importance. After all, if you can't reach your files or have to wait five minutes every time you browse a share, the heat starts to build up in the IT department.  Continue Reading

• The Excruciating Detail of the Citrix Logoff Process

  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 ...  Continue Reading

• An in-depth review of DeNamiK's free LoadGen stress test utility

  This White Paper provides a review of the DeNamiK LoadGen from DeNamiK. LoadGen is a free/inexpensive, feature-rich load/stress testing platform for the Citrix marketplace. It supports the centralized management of load testing a Citrix Server or ...  Continue Reading