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Citrix On VMware!

Paul Shannon — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:34:10 +0000

One of my favourtite Blogs is ICT-Freak there is a wealth of information to be found here, some of it in Dutch, some of it English, but all of it awesome.

One of the author’s contacts sent him a mass of recommendations for running Citrix in a VMware environment. Covering some of the following:

Technical Recommendations
Deployment
Disaster recovery
Stability
Application Deployment

Some are more comprehensive than others, but it makes essential reading for anyone deploying Citrix in a VMware environment. Check out the article here.

Customising RDP Dialogs

Paul Shannon — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:33:59 +0000

Firstly, let me start by saying that not everyone is going to want to ‘tweak’ with the bowels of RDP, but if you are so inclined then check out this article.

I stumbled upon it when wondering how I could get people to stop simply disconnecting sessions and logging off properly.

The article helps you to change the disconnect dialog from looking like this:

To looking more like this:

As I said at the top of this post, not everyone should be poking around with this kind of thing in production, but it is very very handy for persistent offenders.

This tool obviously has many uses beyond RDP dialog customisation, so use your imagination.

Benchmarking Terminal Services

Paul Shannon — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:16:48 +0000

If you want to benchmark Terminal Services then Login Consultants have the tool for you.

It supports Windows Terminal Services 2003, 2008 & Cirtix XenApp, it even has experimental support for Application Streaming.

Download it here.