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• Microsoft Names Terminal Server MVPs for 2004

  Late yesterday, Microsoft announced the names of the MVPs for Windows Server Terminal Services. This year, there are an unprecedented twelve winners!  Continue Reading

• New Book: Terminal Services for Windows 2003

  As many of you know, Ron Oglesby and I have been working for about a year on a new book. I'm proud to say that it's now complete and available via Amazon.  Continue Reading

• Use BrianMadden.com to Access Any Terminal Server via the Web

  Microsoft released the Remote Desktop Connection Web Client over a year ago. However, as a consultant, it seems that I'm always needing to connect to a Terminal Server.  Continue Reading

• WTS Gateway Pro: A Simple Terminal Server Load Balancing Gateway

  Terminal-Services.NET just announced that their newest product, WTS Gateway Pro, is now available.  Continue Reading

• Is Terminal Server Enough, or do you need third party software?

  Is Terminal Server Enough.  Continue Reading

• Industry Buzz... An Hour of News, Rumors, Gossip, and New Products

  This was my opening keynote from CUG Tech 2003 in Geilo, Norway. It's one of the most fun presentations I've ever given.  Continue Reading

• Terminal Server / Citrix Performance Tuning & Troubleshooting

  Terminal Server Performance Tuning.  Continue Reading

• Citrix to Release ICA Version 8 Clients Next Year

  Citrix's next version of MetaFrame Presentation Server, expected in the first half of next year, adds several new features to the already impressive list of functionality. To make use of these new capabilities, a major new client platform is needed.  Continue Reading

• ZDNet UK Posts an In-Depth Look at the Relationship between Microsoft, Citrix, and Tarantella

  Matt Loney has written a fairly in-depth article about how Tarantella is creeping up on Citrix, and the fine balance of the Citrix-Microsoft relationship.  Continue Reading

• Steve Ballmer: "We have engineers who want to do better than Citrix"

  He finished that sentence, "but we're happy to see Citrix succeed." Of course they're happy to see Citrix succeed.  Continue Reading

• WorkSpot Delivers Linux Desktops to Browsers; Hopes to Challenge Citrix, Microsoft

  A company called WorkSpot is currently providing a fully functional Linux desktop to web browsers in an Application Service Provide manner.  Continue Reading

• Terminal Server isn't that Important to Microsoft

  This is what Citrix has been saying all along, and it look's like they're right.  Continue Reading

• Windows Server 2003 SP1 will Add End-to-End SSL Terminal Server Encryption

  LockerGnome is reporting that Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003 will add critical security functionality to Terminal Services.  Continue Reading

• Citrix Employee's Bear Paw Comments Removed from Web Forum

  My last Bear Paw post was based on information that Citrix employee Joel Stocker posted to a Windows Server 2003 discussion forum hosted on a website by Log*in Consultants in The Netherlands.  Continue Reading

• Updated: Microsoft Changes its Story on Bear Paw

  It now appears that Rudder was not supposed to say anything about Bear Paw, and Microsoft has since made it very clear that at this time, Bear Paw's features are not confirmed.  Continue Reading