An in-depth review of DeNamiK's free LoadGen stress test utility

At BriForum 2006 DeNamiK, a new company based in The Netherlands, announced that they were working on a new product aimed at Load/Stress testing Citrix Servers. The product, called DeNamiK LoadGen, is in a beta testing phase now and Tim Mangan has had the opportunity to take a fairly deep look at it--resulting in this full-fledged White Paper.

Article by Tim Mangan on May 24, 2006.

Using Ardence Disk Streaming with Citrix Servers

This paper covers a technology called disk streaming (sometimes referred to as "software streaming," "network boot" or "diskless boot") from a company called Ardence, and how you can use it in your Citrix environments to give you much better flexibility and simpler server provisioning and management.

Article by Brian Madden on March 23, 2006.

Tim Mangan on 64-bit Terminal Server - Do you want/need 64-bit apps, or are 32-bit really okay?

Everyone knows that 64-bit Windows can provide great scalability for Terminal Server and Citrix environments. But what about the fact that there are generally no 64-bit applications yet? Can a 64-bit Terminal Server running 32-bit apps perform better than a 32-bit Terminal Server? Tim Mangan shows us what matters in this paper.

Article by Brian Madden and Tim Mangan on February 20, 2006.

The Ultimate Guide to Windows 2003 Terminal Server Licensing

Licensing is probably the most dreaded component of any environment’s implementation. To help you with this, Ron Oglesby and I put together this 22-page guide that fully explains everything you need to know about licensing in Terminal Server environments running on Windows Server 2003.

Article by Brian Madden and Ron Oglesby on April 02, 2004.

The Ultimate Guide to Terminal Server Printing - Design and Configuration

This paper is excerpted from the book Terminal Services for Microsoft Windows Server 2003: Advanced Technical Design Guide , written by Brian Madden and Ron Oglesby. It covers all aspects of Terminal Server printing, including background information, design, configuration, driver management, and third party tools. While it's written for Terminal Services running on Windows Server 2003, it's applicable to previous versions of Terminal Services as well.

Article by Brian Madden and Ron Oglesby on February 03, 2004.

Citrix MetaFrame and Microsoft Terminal Server Performance Optimization and Tuning

This is it! This 34-page paper takes you step-by-step through the entire Terminal Server / Citrix MetaFrame performance troubleshooting process. This paper is NOT a mere list of registry hacks. Rather, it shows you the approach to take when troubleshooting Terminal Server performance issues, including slow logons, how to add more users to your server, overall slowness and sluggishness, and random server pauses and hangs.

Article by Brian Madden on August 22, 2003.

The Future of Citrix in a .NET World

Citrix MetaFrame is widely used today to provide users with access to critical business applications via server-based computing and Terminal Server technologies. However, now that Microsoft’s .NET application strategy is beginning to mature, many people have openly wondered about the future of Citrix and their MetaFrame product line.

Article by Brian Madden on January 15, 2003.

Citrix MetaFrame XP Network Design

This paper covers all aspects of MetaFrame network design, including farms, zones, the IMA data store, and server location. It's excerpted from my Book "Citrix MetaFrame XP: Advanced Technical Design Guide."

Article by Brian Madden on November 01, 2002.

Citrix MetaFrame XP Security Design

This 60-page paper covers everything you need to know about securing your MetaFrame XP environments. It walks step-by-step through all aspects of Security, including the servers, applications, users, connections, networks, and client devices. This paper is excerpted from the book "Citrix MetaFrame XP: Advanced Technical Design Guide, Second Edition."

Article by Brian Madden on November 01, 2002.

Today's IT Departments - Evolution, Challenges, and the Ubiquitous Computing Solution

This paper is vintage now! It's a paper that I first wrote in early 2000 when I was a principal consultant at a (now defunct) company called FrontWay. To this day, though, it provides a decent overview of the advantages of ubiquitous and server-centric computing models.

Article by Brian Madden on February 16, 2001.