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Articles & Tutorials for 2005 year

Inside Citrix Presentation Server's Application Isolation Environments

Date - Dec 28, 2005

Author - Paul Stansel

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Performance

With the release of Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix has finally given administrators a method for isolating applications on the same server. Understanding the nuts and bolts of Isolation will make your Presentation Server 4.0 farm an even more effective tool for application deployment.

Bandwidth Management: Part 1 ? The Old Fashioned Way

Date - Dec 21, 2005

Author - Andy Jones

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Performance

Bandwidth Management is one of the biggest challenges we face as server based computing engineers. Presentation Layer protocols like ICA and RDP are very sensitive to latency and link stability. This article is the first in a short series about Bandwidth Management.

Managing User Specific Application Configuration Data in a Terminal Service Environment

Date - Dec 14, 2005

Author - Brien M. Posey

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

Today almost every Windows application writes data to the Windows registry during the installation process. Although the way that the application uses the registry isn’t usually a pressing issue on a standard PC, registry key placement becomes crucially important when the application is run in a Terminal Service environment. In this article, I will explain why this is the case and how the Terminal Services manages application related registry entries for multiple users.

Dealing with Poor Bandwidth and Latency

Date - Dec 07, 2005

Author - Stefan Vermeulen

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Performance

Poor bandwidth and latency can have a huge impact on the use of Server Based Computing and can lead to an unworkable environment for the end users. This article will help you understand and fight these issues where possible.

Terminal Server and the Profile Challenge

Date - Nov 30, 2005

Author - Wilco van Bragt

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.

Terminal Services Features in Longhorn

Date - Nov 23, 2005

Author - Paul Stansel

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

Microsoft has finally released some concrete information about the Terminal Services features in their next server OS platform release, still titled “Longhorn”. We'll take a look at what they plan to provide and how it can impact your installation.

Juggling Terminal Service Resources

Date - Nov 17, 2005

Author - Brien M. Posey

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

Thin client computing has been around for many decades. Although the basic underlying principles are the same for terminal sessions today as they were thirty years ago, the demands made against the servers that host terminal sessions have increased exponentially. Bloated applications and resource hungry operating systems place huge demands on terminal servers. In this article, I will discuss how you can plan your terminal server hardware so that your terminal service environment will run efficiently.

Scripting for Server Based Computing: Part 2 ? Terminal Services Server and Connection Settings

Date - Nov 09, 2005

Author - Andy Jones

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

VBScript and WMI are very powerful toolsets that allow server based computing administrators to perform some very complex, and sometimes mundane, tasks with consistency and speed. This article series serves as a look into leveraging this toolset to simplify the configuration of server and user settings. Part 2 of this article series will look at terminal services server and connection settings (Winstation settings for the really old school crowd). We will explore the settings and properties that may be managed via VBScript and WMI.

Welcome to MSTerminalServices.org!

Date - Nov 09, 2005

Author - The Editor

Section - Site News

We are pleased to announce the launch of our latest site – MSTerminalServices.org - a site completely dedicated to Terminal Services and Server Based Computing related topics such as Application Hosting, Security lockdown, Profile management, Virtualization and much more...

Surviving Printing on Citrix

Date - Nov 02, 2005

Author - Stefan Vermeulen

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Printing

Printing with Citrix has always been a major problem, causing headaches all around. This article will help you stabilize your printing environment.

What RDP GPO Settings can do to your Citrix Servers

Date - Oct 26, 2005

Author - Wilco van Bragt

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?

Using the Terminal Services through Internet Information Server

Date - Oct 21, 2005

Author - Brien M. Posey

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Management Tools

Although the Terminal Services can be used as a management tool, sometimes firewall port issues or the unavailability of a Terminal Service client can make using the Terminal Services impractical. However, there is a Web based Terminal Service client included with Windows Server 2003. This client allows you to remotely access a Windows 2003 Server through a Web browser.

Citrix Access Suite 4.0 ? It?s Not Your Daddy?s MetaFrame

Date - Oct 19, 2005

Author - Paul Stansel

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

Citrix has released their newest product line, Access Suite 4.0. Find out what`s different and why you want it in your environment.

Scripting for Server Based Computing: Part 1 ? Terminal Services Attributes for Active Directory User Objects

Date - Oct 17, 2005

Author - Andy Jones

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

VBScript and WMI are very powerful toolsets that allow server based computing administrators to perform some very complex, and sometimes mundane, tasks with consistency and speed. This article series serves as a look into leveraging this toolset to simplify the configuration of server and user settings. Part 1 will look at terminal services specific settings for Active Directory User Objects.