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SBC Migration Best Practices

Date - Nov 07, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

How do we migrate users smoothly to a new SBC Infrastructure? In this article several scenarios will be described.

How to: Create a Redundant Citrix License Server

Date - Oct 10, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Licensing

Why you need a redundant Citrix License Server and how this can be accomplished.

Alternatives to Citrix Presentation Server (Part 3)

Date - Jul 25, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

Taking a look at Genuit Thinworx and Provision Networks VAS, and recommendations on where to find more information.

Alternatives to Citrix Presentation Server (Part 2)

Date - Jul 10, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

In this part we will discuss the alternatives 2X ApplicationServer, Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect and Jetro COCKPIT.

Alternatives to Citrix Presentation Server (Part 1)

Date - Jun 27, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

Taking a look at the SBC market and which products are competing with Citrix.

To Virtualize or Not To Virtualize with SBC

Date - Jun 14, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Virtualization

The types of virtualization which exist for an SBC infrastructure.

Differences Between Several Universal Printer Solutions

Date - May 10, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Printing

Differences and key features in several Universal Printer Drivers.

Migrating User Settings with the Flex Profile Kit

Date - Mar 21, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Management Tools

How you can use Flex Profile Kit to migrate user settings.

Delegation of Control within the Citrix Management Console

Date - Feb 28, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Management Tools

How to control the actions that can be carried out by using the delegation model within the Citrix Management Console.

Managing Printer Drivers

Date - Feb 07, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Printing

How to manage your printer drivers.

Securing Access to your Applications

Date - Dec 13, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Security

How access to your applications can be secured within a Terminal Server infrastructure.

Tunnel Applications to Remote Desktops Seamlessly: 2X ApplicationServer Review

Date - Oct 24, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Product Reviews

2X has just launched 2X ApplicationServer version 4, a full SBC product offering Published Application, Seamless Integration, Load Balancing, SSL support and clients for several platforms. Let's take a look at this product and see what it offers.

Selecting an SBC Product for your Environment

Date - Oct 04, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

This article discusses which components should be considered when building an SBC infrastructure for your environment.

How To: Unattended Installation of the Citrix Web Interface

Date - Sep 20, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

This article demonstrates how to perform an unattended installation of the Citrix Web Interface.

Using Citrix Resource Manager

Date - Aug 17, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Management Tools

In this article I will describe the benefits of Resource Manager, the configuration of Resource Manager, and how to best use Resource Manager during system administration.

Client To Server Content Redirection Explained

Date - Aug 01, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

This article will describe Client to Server content redirection in detail.

Freeware Tools for the Terminal Server Infrastructure (Part 2)

Date - Jun 23, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Management Tools

In Part 2 of this article series I continue the discussion on the best freeware tools, focusing on Security, Troubleshooting, Policies, Profiles, and more.

Freeware Tools for the Terminal Server Infrastructure (Part 1)

Date - Jun 08, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Management Tools

Beside the standard tools provided in the product there are also many wonderful tools available for the Terminal Server field. In this article I will describe the most used favorite tools and software, which are available for free.

How to: Unattended Citrix Presentation Server Installation (Part 2)

Date - May 11, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

In this article I will show the different parameters for creating and joining the farm and will also describe how to create a farm with a local database.

How to: Unattended Citrix Presentation Server Installation (Part 1)

Date - Apr 19, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

In this article I will discuss and describe how to perform an unattended installation of Citrix Presentation Server.

How to deploy applications to your Terminal Server

Date - Mar 30, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

In the article Terminal Server Environment Basic Concepts I already described the basic concepts/rules necessary to have a stable and controllable Terminal Server Infrastructure. Two of the described concepts in that article are chronology of the installation order and the 100% “equality” of all the servers in the Farm. To accomplish this you should use silent setups and a deploy mechanism to install applications on your servers. In this article we are going to detail how to install and deploy those applications with the above mentioned concepts in mind.

Terminal Server Environment Basic Concepts

Date - Feb 28, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

Most IT professionals think that Terminal Servers are complex and difficult to administrate. This feeling is further enforced by stories where users complain about low performance, strange behavior and so on. This article will describe the basic concepts to keep in mind for Terminal Server Environments. Adopting these concepts in your environment will result in an easily manageable terminal server farm.

Can Third Party Software Solve your Terminal Server Printing Problems?

Date - Feb 02, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Printing

One of the biggest challenges in Terminal Server environments are printer related topics, where the drivers’ challenge is the main part of it. A lot of third party manufacturers have developed products to beat these challenges. Are these third party products useful in the printer challenge?

My CPU is at 100%, What Can I Do About It?

Date - Jan 11, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Performance

One of the main challenges in the Terminal Server environment is the high usage of resources like the CPU. In this article we are going to take a look at what causes this high usage and what you can do to control the resource usage.

Terminal Server and the Profile Challenge

Date - Nov 30, 2005

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Management Tools

Profile problems? "No, we never have problems with our profiles." This is almost the standard answer I get when asking, “Do you have problems with your profiles?” when administrators tell me about some strange problems. This article will discuss the potential profile challenges which need to be tackled in a Terminal Server environment.

What RDP GPO Settings can do to your Citrix Servers

Date - Oct 26, 2005

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Security

Within Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft has added several new Group Policy Objects (GPO) settings to their product. The Terminal Server object is one which got a lot of new settings. Wonderful settings if you are using Terminal Server, but what happens if you are using these settings on a Terminal Server where Citrix Presentation Server is installed?