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Welcome to the Blog of Jason Conger. Here, we will focus on Server Based Computing environments including Microsoft Windows Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server, Application and Server virtualization, Application streaming and delivery technologies such as Microsoft Softricity, and many other server-centric topics. Also, I will point out tools and tips to help you with your Terminal Services environments.
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- Citrix XenApp Reference Design
- Date - May 13th, 2008
- A few years back, a rock star by the name of Rick Dehlinger created a reference design document that serves as a blueprint to document/implement Citrix farms. Starting in 2005, Roddy Rodstein maintained the document. Here is a brief explanation from the document itself: "The XenApp Platinum Reference Design is a best-practice based comprehensive standard. more...
- New MFCOM white paper by Dr. SDK
- Date - May 7th, 2008
- Vishal Ganeriwala recently reported that Citrix's Dr. SDK has written a new white paper titled "The Ultimate Guide to MFCOM" (MFCOM is the API for Citrix Presentation Server/XenApp). The white paper covers everything up to SDK version 4.5 including advanced MFCOM topics such as multi farm management, publishing different types of applications, policies, load evaluators and more. This guide goes very deep into the internals of MFCOM, but it is written in such a way that beginners can pick it up. more...
- Keep up to date on Citrix hotfixes
- Date - May 4th, 2008
- One of the challenges that Citrix administrators face is keeping up with hotfixes, hotfix rollup packs, and patches. One of the cool things Citrix did with the new support site is set up RSS feeds for each product's updates. Just subscribe to the feeds you need in your favorite RSS reader. I have already subscribed to several of these feed using IE 7 RSS support. more...
- Citrix Fast Launch Videos
- Date - Apr 30th, 2008
- A new utility titled "Citrix Fast Launch" will be released soon on the Citrix CDN site. This is kind of a unique tool because it was developed for internal use by the Citrix Application Delivery Team. The Citrix Application Delivery Team is responsible for rolling out XenApp and related products for internal use by Citrix (or Citrites). Anyway, this tool launches applications at workstation startup very quickly - quicker than your local applications in fact. more...
- Over 100 (free) Tools to for Troubleshooting Citrix/TS Environments
- Date - Apr 30th, 2008
- Citrix maintains a support article (Document ID: CTX107572) that contains a plethora of troubleshooting tools for your Citrix/Terminal Services environment. Most of the tools are targeted at Citrix installations, but there are several tools useful in a pure Terminal Services environment as well. At last count, there were 106 tools available. Some of these tools you will use on a daily basis - others you will use once in a blue moon. more...
- Everything you wanted to know (or didn't want to know) about Citrix Workspace Control
- Date - Apr 30th, 2008
- If you use Citrix Web Interface or Program Neighborhood Agent, you have no doubt seen those buttons that say "Reconnect", "Disconnect", and "Logoff". Those buttons are part of a feature called Workspace Control - which is part of a feature called Smooth Roaming. The gist of Workspace Control is that user's sessions "follow" them between devices. more...
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 - Enabling a Remote Workforce
- Date - Apr 29th, 2008
- Microsoft recently released a video showcasing their "Presentation Virtualization" suite of products. In the video, Microsoft demonstrates how Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services, TS Web Access, TS Gateway, and TS RemoteApp work together to enable a remote workforce. The video is presented from both the administrator's point of view as well as a home user's point of view connecting to the corporate network. more...
- Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server) and XenServer working together
- Date - Apr 22nd, 2008
- The benefits of virtualizing Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server) servers in the past was often offset by performance and complexity trade-offs. more...
- Learn how to manage your Citrix servers in the PowerShell and MFCOM Webinar
- Date - Apr 21st, 2008
- Citrix is hosting a webinar detailing the use of PowerShell and MFCOM to manage Citrix Presentation (XenApp) Servers. Brandon Shell and Vishal Ganeriwala will teach you all you ever wanted to know about this topic. PowerShell is one of my personal favorites. more...
- Videos of Individual Citrix Presentation Server Features - now online at the Citrix Demo Center
- Date - Apr 16th, 2008
- Are you looking to get a better grasp of some of the features available in Citrix Presentation Server (XenApp)? Or, maybe you would like to see how a particular feature works that you might not be using. more...
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