By Shawn Bass on Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:12:49 AM

Per the Terminal Service's team blog, Microsoft has enabled support for revokation of TS Device licensing in Longhorn Terminal Services.  This should come as great news for the 3 people who are actually running 2003 Terminal Services in Per Device mode

Read the complete blog entry here

Shawn

By Shawn Bass on Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:33:07 PM

I've blogged previously about the release of the Idokorro Mobile Blackberry client, and at the time I mentioned that there were some instances where you would receive a Terminal Services error that you weren't part of the Remote Desktop users group.  I'm happy to say that Idokorro has released a beta client that fixes this issue.  I don't want to share the download URL that they sent me privately, but you can contact them for a beta URL link to test this.

I'm loving this new way of using Citrix.

Shawn

By Shawn Bass on Thursday, April 05, 2007 7:03:58 AM

The Terminal Services team at Microsoft have posted the first in a series of blog entries on what's happening with TS Licensing in the Longhorn timeframe.  Many people know that TS user licensing is not tracked in 2003 Server, and every is fully expecting that to change in Longhorn.  However, the startling piece of this article (for me anyway) was this line:

"Note that in Longhorn, per-user licenses are only tracked and not enforced."

I'm not sure if this is in reference only to the beta product, or if it's the plan for the actual product launch.  I'd be very surprised if per user licensing wasn't enforced, though I'd have to say I'd be very happy if that was the case.  Licensing enforcement sucks!

View the blog entry here.

Shawn

By Shawn Bass on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 7:21:45 AM

Citrix has been working on a project called Timpanogos which is the feature set to bring some of the Advanced Access control features from the regular Citrix Access Gateway with AAC into the Netscaler product line (the Enterprise Edition).  Jay announced availability of the 8.0 firmware that enables this feature set on the Netscaler hardware.  NOTE:  You will need Netscaler hardware to run this firmware.

Read Jay's blog entry for detailed information.

Shawn

By Shawn Bass on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:35:14 AM

This is beyond cool!  Idokorro (makers of two other very cool products Mobile Admin and Mobile Desktop) have just launched the first public Citrix Client for the Blackberry platform.  One could argue that a Citrix client on a Blackberry is not the ideal platform for getting work done, but I've been using it as I used the Mobile Desktop product - for on the go deperate troubleshooting (i.e. I don't have a laptop near me, but need to get in a reboot a system, etc).  Anyway,  checkout their website for a download link (they even have an OTA download available from mobile.idokorro.com

On one of my Presentation Server 4.0 boxes, I'm receiving the typical TS error message that you're not a member of the Remote Desktop Users group.  This is weird since this system works perfectly fine locally as well as via WI/CSG.  I've exchange em ... Read More »

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By Shawn Bass on Monday, March 26, 2007 7:49:10 AM

Exchange 2007 Outlook Web Access includes a functionality called WebReady document viewing that functions much the same as the HTML Preview functionality in Citrix's Advanced Access Control.  Currently 2003 versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, as well as PDF document types are supported, but this this able to be customized/extended for additional document types as well.  I realize that AAC provides greater control over the documents than this feature within Exchange, however it's still a great feature to include out of the box in Exchange 2007.

Read more at the MS Exchange Team's blog entry about WebReady document viewing

Shawn

By Shawn Bass on Monday, March 19, 2007 9:23:32 PM

Citrix has acquired a load testing technology from thinGenius Ltd. of Edinburgh, Scotland.  Hopefully this is one of those products that will be made available to channel partners because I personally am always looking for a good efficient way of scale testing Citrix environments.

Read the press release from Citrix here

Shawn