Archive for the ‘Citrix’ Category

Citrix preaches ‘second mover advantage’ over VMware

Friday, October 19th, 2007

The Register has an interesting article discussing Citrix’s acquistition of Xen. Citrix paid $500m for a company that will make $8m this year… Citrix appear to viewing virtualization from their “desktop” end-user perspective, clearly postitioning themselves as the best company to delivery thin-client from Citrix MetaFrame Boxes or from Virtual Desktop machines. Interestingly it appears that Citrix will persist in the user-connection license model rather than using the per-socket model that VMware uses. Anyway, the full story appears here on the Registers website:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/18/citrix_xensource_wasson_virtualization/

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Citrix Corrupt ICA File

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Well, I don’t really “do” Citrix anymore – as now I’m kinda of a pure VMware guy now. But as a nod to my previous existance a Citrix Certified Instructor I thought I would blog about this one. Anyway, in the process of building my VDC (on a old release of Citrix MetaFrame) I found the Citrix client version 10 didn’t like my old web-interface. As it try to download the ICA file to make the connection I got this error:

“Error number 2314
“The ICA Client received a corrupt ICA File. ICA File section WFClient contains duplication keys named (ProxyType)”

Fortunately, the Citrix KB system came up trumps. Apparently, the 10.x client checks for duplicate enteries in the ICA file. All I had to do was modify the templates.ica file and remove the duplicates – and the new client works (and seems very fast too!). Quite how those duplicate enteries got in my ICA file is another question!

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Presentation Server 4.5 Preview

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Rich Brumpton gives an intersting overview of the new version of MetaFrame Presentation server:

Link:

http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/Presentation-Server-Preview-Part1.html

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Overview

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Patrick Rouse of msterminalservices.org has written an interesting articles about VDI.

It has a good overview of the advantages and disadvantages…

Link:

http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/Virtual-Desktop-Infrastructure-Overview.html

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Thin Planet – Wyse to VMware: ‘Hey There’

Monday, September 18th, 2006

From thinplanet.com
by David Needle, internetnews.com
August 2006

Thin client specialist Wyse Technology is collaborating with virtualization leader VMware on a new virtualization solution.

Wyse reports its thin clients can now take advantage of VMware’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to enable IT to manage desktops as virtual machines on servers in the data center.

Link:

http://www.thinplanet.com/trends/wyse-vmware.asp

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Citrix Remote Desktop Broker – Desktop Virtualization

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Michael Knight from the London User group has put me onto a PDF from Doug Browns of dabcc.com

“Introducing Remote Desktop Broker (RDB). We have learned that Citrix Systems will release a new solution, dubbed Remote Desktop Broker, to address the virtual desktop market within the next few weeks. RDB combines Citrix Systems’ existing technologies (e.g., Presentation Server, Web Interface, Citrix Access Gateway, etc.) with partner solutions (e.g., Microsoft Virtual Server, VMware ESX). Residing on Presentation Server, RDB software manages and dynamically provisions virtual machines containing unique Windows desktop images to end usersâ€”marking Citrix Systems’ first foray into the emerging virtual desktop infrastructure market.”

Link:

http://www.dabcc.com/documents/CTXS_08_15_2006_RDB.pdf

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Overview of Longhorn Serverâ€™s Terminal Service Gateway

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

In this part one, Brien M. Posey explains how the Terminal Services Gateway makes it easier for remote users to access a terminal server session. In Part Two, he continues the discussion by showing you how to confirm that the necessary services are installed correctly. From there, he shows you how to create a certificate authority that issues the certificates used to encrypt gateway traffic

Link:

Part One

Part Two

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Customizing the Microsoft RDP Client (Part 1)

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

In this two part article series we will check some useful options available for customizing the Microsoft Remote Desktop client, showing you all the tools to get the job done, in a step-by-step guide

Link:

http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/Customizing-Microsoft-RDP-Client-Part1.html

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Using ResHacker to Secure your Citrix Servers

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

I’ve used ResHacker – to bolt down Internet Explorer on my Citrix boxes. You can read about my exploits in the Citrix catagory. But msterminalservices.org has an article just about it:

Link:

Click here

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Freeware Tools for the Terminal Server Infrastructure

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

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

Links:

Part One

Part Two

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