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Citrix Com Port Mapping (Part III) The Misunderstanding

This is where I have to come clean and admit that I did not fully understand the model of how Presentation Server works related to Com Ports.  It turns out that doing a NET USE against a client COM port

Posted in PortICA

Citrix Com Port Mapping (Part II) Just the Old Way

In the last post I just talked about the differences between old and new Com Port Mapping.  This time I’m just going to focus on the old stuff. First of all, the old Com Port Mapping only supports COM1 and

Posted in PortICA

Citrix COM Port Mapping (Part I) Old and New Ways

Some features in Citrix Presentation Server are mostly unknown to large groups of people.  COM Port Mapping is perhaps more the back water of the more traditional features.  The concept is that it is possible to use COM ports on

Posted in PortICA

The Citrix Clipboard (Part II)

Last time I talked about the clipboard in connection with how it works with Citrix.  This time I am going to dive more into how certain aspects work and actually reveal a problem with how the clipboard virtual channel driver

Posted in PortICA

The Citrix Clipboard (Part I)

The Clipboard feature within CPS has existed in the earliest WinFrame going back to 1995.  I remember Marc Bloomfield working on this from even before this time.  It was one of the first virtual channel features that was new to

Posted in PortICA

Citrix Desktop Server (Trinity) Interview with Brian, Brian, and Sumit

Brian Madden interview of Brian Nason and Sumit Dhawan about Trinity Brian Madden was on an interviewing roll when he came to Citrix headquarters late last year. I’ve already covered two of these interviews in previous blogs (Mark Templeton and

Posted in Citrix Desktop Server, Interview, PortICA

Just Like Being There

I have something I want to sell you. It’s not a product or service. It’s not something you have to pay for. All I want to do is to write to you in confidence of a goal that should be

Posted in PortICA, Vision
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