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Ctrl-Alt-Del Tools

Within the Terminal Server and Citrix communities, there are actually people that write tools for these multi-user environments. There are certain tools which make life much easier for the average integrator and administrator. In general, people are just looking for

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Zero Install Citrix Client

The title might seem a bit strange.  How can you not install a Citrix client?  The answer is that the client has already been installed.  This isn’t the whole story but the idea is basically that. A couple of years

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Posted in Citrix Client, Citrix News

Introducing XenApp

Citrix has officially announced the name change for what was called “Citrix Presentation Server”. The original NDA announcement came during Citrix Summit and it was quickly written about on the web. I’ve been avoiding the topic like the plague since

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Citrix Offshoot From 1993

It is fairly well known that certain Citrix employees in the past have gone on to join or form other companies.  The most obvious recent example is Myxer which has a large number of early ex-Citrix people.  Things continue to

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XenCenter Walkthrough

DABCC was kind enough to publish a video that has a XenCenter Walkthrough . The video is around forty minutes long and covers the basics of doing Xen management with XenCenter. It would be useful for people that are curious

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Citrix XenDesktop at Demo08

A few months ago I reported about Myxer being at Demo07. This time around it is for Citrix and the new XenDesktop product. Since I have been working on a part of the XenDesktop project, I was glad to see

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Citrix TestDrive

By accident I recently rediscovered a Citrix web site that is dedicated to showing how applications can perform over the Internet. This is a long standing project that was first started in 1996 with our first Internet client for WinFrame.

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Cursor Blinking

There is a feature in operating systems that most of us take for granted.  This is the simple text cursor.   There is a bit of confusion within Windows whether it is called a caret or a cursor (based on the

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Posted in Advice, PortICA

Cursor Shadowing (Turn It Off)

There has been one thing I have been reminded of this last week about mouse cursors.  They can be incredibly sluggish when dealing with remote sessions.  During PortICA development we saw this nature and initially were a bit confused about

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The Freezing of Citrite.Org (For Now)

The surprising news of the day is that citrite.org has been locked down.  All existing posts have been taken offline and any future submissions have been disabled.  In its place is a statement from Sam Johnston (owner of Citrite.Org).  In

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