In 9.0, the Application Firewall can be used to protect applications that use XML payloads. These applications include SOAP-based Web services, AJAX applications and REST-based applications that use XML. XML specific security features include:...

I've followed Wyse for the longest time and yet, when I had an opportunity to speak with Jeff McNaught, CMO of Wyse Technology I was surprised at how far they're business has evolved from that base....

On August 25th, 2008, Citrix Systems announced the immediate availability of XenApp 5, its flagship application delivery solution (formerly called Citrix Presentation Server). This release has several new features including improved interfaces, combined support for Windows Server 2003 and 2008, and additional performance measurement and op­timization capabilities. ...

Hi, Tad Brockway here. I am a Product Unit Manager on the Windows Server team. My team is focused on rich media remoting technologies for the new Remote Desktop Services (RDS) in Windows Server which we announced last week at ITForum EMEA in Barcelona. I just returned from WinHEC 2008 in Los Angeles where we showed a demo of some of the new rich media capabilities of RDS as well as a technology preview of what the Calista team has been working on since the company was acquired by Microsoft ea...

NetScaler's Application Firewall offers great protection for Web Applications via a positive security model that lets the user decide what is allowed to reach their web server. Web site vulnerability and compliance requirements can be met by deploying this integrated firewall....

Later on in Parts 22 through 24 I'll talk more about the actual installation and configuration of licenses for your Terminal Servers. However, at this point it is important to know that extra licensing will be required for you to use Terminal Services in your environment. These extra Terminal Server Client Access Licenses - or TSCALs for short - are required by each user or device that connects to your Terminal Server....

In the following DABCC Virtualization Video Podcast, we are very happy to have Oliver Sills, Senior Product Manager at AppSense, user environment management vendor. In this video Doug and Oliver will walk you through the AppSense Environment Manager 8.0 solution for Citrix, Terminal Services, physical, and Desktop Virtualization environments. Oliver and Doug will also show you how one could use AppSense Environment Manager to manage the following: ...

Learn more about how Introspect can help during all stages of a Citrix migration. This webinar covers the documentation, planning, optimization, migration, and management stages of a migration, see how you can save numerous hours of work and reduce the stress of migrations....

A number of technologies are opening up the possibility to completely change how we deliver desktops and applications to users. There is little argument the current way we manage PCs is inefficient and expensive, and that change is long overdue, but what will the changes be? and how will they affect us?. In this first of a series of articles for DABCC, Martin Ingram looks at the challenge, the options and the new world we are moving to....

What can I say? I finally did it and I joined the Twitter craze! The goal for my existence on Twitter is to share with you the different technologies that I find cool, not just relating to Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, and other virtualization solutions, but I will discuss all the technologies that I find cool, the ideas I find awesome, and I will post notes about new product launches and updates. I might just also rant a bit about the many things I find silly or just downright piss me off. ...

Roaming user profiles tend to grow over time, which is sometimes referred to as profile bloat. In and by itself, profile growth is not a problem. Users of desktop PCs who log on the the same machine every day will not even notice that they have huge profiles ready to follow them around the network. Their locally cached copy of the roaming profile is always current. No need to fetch anything from a file server during logon....

A New release of Citrix XenApp Cloning Tool is available for Download....

One of the long awaited new features in NetScaler 9.0 is XML security. In 2007, Citrix acquired QuickTree, a small privately-held software technology provider on the forefront of addressing the key security and performance challenges of XML, web services and Web 2.0. With Netscaler 9.0 the XML security capabilities acquired from QuickTree are fully integrated into the Netscaler web application delivery appliance....

The amazing Warren Simondson just released a new free Citrix / Terminal Services utility called XLaunch. XLaunch is a command-line utility that uses a single executable to launch programs based on 32 bit or 64 bit OS Platforms. ...

The amazing Warren Simondson just released a new free Citrix / Terminal Services utility called TSKaapow. TSKaapow is a command-line utility to run multiple applications from one command....

Windows Server 2008 R2 could be considered "Windows Server 7". A lot is happening to Terminal Services. One big change is cosmetic: Terminal Server will be renamed to Remote Desktop Services. Several other changes are most definitely technical ones. Let's take a look at the biggest changes. ...

The Citrix NetScaler 9.0 release provides many enhancements to the policy infrastructure, including: ...

Another new feature of Windows Server 2008 is Terminal Services Gateway (or TS Gateway), which is designed to provide authorized users with secure, encrypted access over the Internet to terminal servers on your internal corpnet. In other words, a salesperson arriving at a hotel in Hong Kong could open his Windows Vista laptop to bring it out of sleep mode, connect to the Internet using a hot spot in the lobby, and launch a RemoteApp program on his machine that actually runs far away on a Termin...

The Remote Desktop Protocol is an efficient and feature-rich protocol which we have invested in greatly over the years. As such, we've worked to make RDP available not just in traditional Terminal Server scenarios, but also as a platform for additional products from Microsoft and third party ISV's. We are seeing the benefits of this work in very cool products like the Live Mesh Remote Desktop, which we developed with one of our partner teams. This service was just released to public Beta du...

Business-critical applications continue their push into the mobile world and, increasingly, that world includes the iPhone - giving the popular device more respect as a business tool, instead of just a toy, and giving IT administrators one less reason to insist on the Blackberry as a preferred handset....