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ClearType and Terminal Services

Did you know that typeface with Terminal Services is usually downgraded from the usual local experience?  Microsoft has the ClearType technology which normally improves the look of text by rounding the edges with different colors giving the characters more rounded

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Posted in XenApp, XenDesktop

Aussie Application Delivery Conference

It is a little known fact that there will be an Australian version of the Application Delivery Conference.  Citrix employees in Australia/New Zealand have been asked to spread the word. The official dates are May 27 for Sydney and June

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Posted in Citrix Event

New and Fresh Change

Gus Pinto has announced that he is now going to work for Citrix.  He and Rich Crusco from Frameworkx.com will officially start work with Citrix next week.  Gus and Rich are Microsoft MVPs and Gus is also a Citrix CTP. 

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Posted in Citrix Blog

The Absolute Zen of Xen

When I first heard about the XenSource acquisition, I instantly thought it was spelled with a ‘Z’ instead of an ‘X’.  The names are pronounced exactly the same. I found an interesting XenSource presentation tonight.  It is from a couple

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User Experience by Brad Pedersen

Last year at the Citrix Solutions Conference in Europe, Brad Pedersen gave a presentation about “The User Experience“. If look at the slides, you will notice that the first several slides cover early Citrix product history. From experience, this kind

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Posted in Citrix History

Flashback: Brian Madden Pushes For Citrix Blogs

Back in July 2006, Brian Madden made a number of recommendations to Citrix about how to make things better.  One of the key recommendations was to allow employees to start blogging.  Before this, Citrix effectively banned employees from blogging.  Even

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Citrix Acronym Soup (Legacy Software)

Acronyms can sometimes be quite confusing. Even though I have been doing this for years and years, I always am surprised to find something new. Tonight I was looking for information on Citrix VideoFrame and found something else. Citrix has

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Posted in Citrix Support, Product Lifecycle

Two Port ICA

When a Citrix ICA client connects to a Citrix Presentation Server, it either uses TCP/IP port 2598 or port 1494. Port 2598 is used with session reliability and internally it uses SSL with the Citrix CGP protocol. The communication over

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Posted in Technical Internals

Citrix App Delivery Conference 08

The drums are beginning to beat for the next big Citrix event.  This is the first year where the iForum title has been deemphasized.  It also is the first time in Houston with a new time in May.  If you

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GotoAssist Express Public Beta

Do you secretly wish you could control other people’s computers? Wouldn’t you like to be able to solve their problems without having to tell them what right clicking means? Would you like to be able to do this across the

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Posted in Citrix Online, GotoAssist
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