Most IT professionals think that Terminal Servers are complex and difficult to administrate. This feeling is further enforced by stories where users complain about low performance, strange behavior and so on. This article will describe the basic concepts to keep in mind for Terminal Server Environments. Adopting these concepts in your environment will result in an easily manageable terminal server farm.
Bandwidth Management is one of the biggest challenges we face as server based computing engineers. This article is the second in a short series about Bandwidth Management, in which we will focus on leveraging the advanced features of Presentation Server 4.0 Policy to control bandwidth consumption.
In this review I will take a look at 2X LoadBalancer. My review of 2X LoadBalancer was performed with three Windows 2000 Server systems. One server acted as the “gateway” and the two remaining servers acted as the Terminal Servers.
While we as administrators often spend a considerable amount of time planning our production environment, Disaster Recovery issues with complex Citrix environments remain the weak point of many installations. This three-part article will focus on effective disaster recovery strategies for organizations of any size.
With Presentation Server 4.0 Citrix released a version with a major overhaul on functionality. The most drastic one - in my eyes - was the new printing engine. In this article I will talk about it, now that it has been around for quite a while.
Security is important for just about any computer network, but it tends to be especially important in a Terminal Service environment. Think about it for a moment; users are running applications directly on your server. If a vulnerability exists in an application or in the server’s configuration exists, then the vulnerability could potentially be exploited in an effort to gain access to the underlying operating system. That being the case, it’s worth spending some extra time making sure that you have done a good job securing the Terminal Services. In this article, I will share some security techniques with you.
One of the biggest challenges in Terminal Server environments are printer related topics, where the drivers’ challenge is the main part of it. A lot of third party manufacturers have developed products to beat these challenges. Are these third party products useful in the printer challenge?
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