When multiple users are sharing system hardware such as on a Terminal/Citrix server there is always a potential issue of one user hogging all the CPU resources. If you are looking at task manager and seeing higher than expected CPU usage then you may be experiencing this problem. In this article I describe the CPU optimization option available in Citrix Presentation Server 4 and other options that are available to you.

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The Terminal Services Session Directory service is a database that keeps track of sessions on terminal servers in a cluster and provides the information used at connection time to connect users to existing sessions. In this article I discuss this and also how to create a Terminal Server Cluster.

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Load evaluators are a great way of ensuring your systems don’t get overloaded. They basically stop any further connections using pre defined limits set by you. Here i discuss how to use, configure and monitor them.

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Within Windows 2003 server you have the option of Network Load Balancing (NLB). This can be used for load balancing your servers and to a certain extent failover. In this instance we are going to use it for three servers running Citrix Web Interface. The idea being if one of the servers goes down then the end users will get redirected to one of the other two.

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