When it comes to licensing your Windows 2003 Terminal server environment most people can never remember what is needed and the Microsoft documentation seems to go on a bit:) Here I try to make it simple for you…

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Over the past few weeks I had been tasked with load testing various types of Citrix servers.  After struggling on with the “industry standard” Mercury Loadrunner I thought there must be something better and had a scout about. Here’s what I found…

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Here’s a list of tips to help ensure your Terminal Servers are functioning as efficiently as possible. These are rules I always abide by. Have a look, they may help you too…

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I have finally got round to putting a Newsletter link on the website. If you wish to be kept updated of new goings on on this website then why not subscribe? Don’t worry, you won’t be inundated with emails and I won’t be giving your addresses to anyone else!

When I was looking at the site stats the other day I noticed that alot of the hits I was getting were from Germany, Spain and other countries. As these are obviously not native English speaking contries I thought it would be handy if I could get the pages translated. As all I can do is ask for a beer in a few languages doing it myself was out of the question. Luckily I came across this plugin which seems to do the trick using Babelfish and google translate. If anyone is looking at this site in translated form I’d love to know how well the tranlsations come across. Just click on any of the flags in the left hand column and hey presto, the whole site is translated into a language of your choice!

In the past I have discussed the Citrix Resource manager and Windows Performance monitor as ways of troubleshooting your environment. There is another tool that’s free from Microsoft that might aid you in future monitoring and troubleshooting, it has certainly helped me. It’s called the Server Performance Advisor.

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The third and final stage of publishing a streaming application on Citrix presentation server 4.5 is the installation of the streaming app client. The installation of this is described below.

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In the last post I advised that there are three steps to publishing a streamed application using Citrix Presentation Server 4.5. If you are looking for how to publish a streamed app then first of all you need to create a streaming profile. Once you have done this you need to publish the application which is described here. Once again I assume you have the Enterprise version of Citrix 4.5 installed and the relevant management consoles.

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Application streaming is a new option available in Citrix 4.5. If you wish to know more about what it is then click here. If you wish to know how to go about getting an application “streamed” then you are in the right place.

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Presentation Server 4.5 is due out sometime in the first half of this year (Possibly the end of March). The official technology preview can be downloaded from mycitrix.com. Here I compare the look and feel of this version compared to previous ones and list some of the expected features it will include.  I also bung in a few screenshots just for fun!

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