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Citrix's Marketing Message: Evolving from 'Access' to 'Application Delivery?'

In the Thought Leadership editorial I wrote last week, I criticized Citrix's 'Access' marketing message without offering any alternate suggestions. In this editorial, I make the case for why I think Citrix should switch the marketing message from 'Access' to 'Application Delivery.'...

Published Jul 31 2006 by Brian Madden , 11,637 views, 32 comments

Enhance Web Interface Security with a Virtual Keyboard Login

Yuri Haak has just released a "virtual keyboard login" to enhance the security of Web Interface 4.2. A virtual keyboard login is an application that displays an image of a keyboard on your screen. You then "press" the keys by clicking on them with your mouse instead of typing the actual keys....

Published Jul 30 2006 by Brian Madden , 13,864 views, 24 comments

Printing to Unsupported Client Printers with a free PDF Creator

Chris Cairns sent me an email a while back with a novel printing fix / workaround for printing to unsupported printers. It's an open source project called PDFCreator. All of the configuration is done on the client's computer, including the ability to save directly to a file without prompting the user and then to automatically print that saved file to a printer....

Published Jul 30 2006 by Brian Madden , 14,471 views, 7 comments

MFCOM Script: Publish Applications via Windows Explorer 'Send To' Menu

Andrew Wood has just created this cool script that lets you publish applications on your Presentation Server via the "Send To" right-click menu in Windows Explorer....

Published Jul 30 2006 by Brian Madden , 14,207 views, 4 comments

MFCOM Script: List number of users for each published application

Jeff Durbin has written a pretty cool VBS script that calculates how many unique users have access to each published application in a farm, as well as how many unique users have access to the farm as a whole. It then dumps all of this data to an Excel spreadsheet....

Published Jul 30 2006 by Brian Madden , 16,579 views, 14 comments

BriForum Europe Session Submissions due Monday

BriForum Europe 2006 is quickly approaching. I want to remind anyone who wants to speak that you needs to get your submissions into us by Monday (July 31). We'll notify all of the speakers which sessions were accepted on August 15. The conference itself takes place from October 4-6, 2006, at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt, Germany....

Published Jul 25 2006 by Brian Madden , 9,625 views, 0 comments

Can Citrix become a Thought Leader again?

Something has changed at Citrix over the past few years. They've gone from a company with a laser focus on the cutting edge of peoples' thinking to a huge company with a muddy message, a severe case of corporate schizophrenia, and a dash paranoia. What does this mean for us, and is there any chance of Citrix changing?...

Published Jul 19 2006 by Brian Madden , 11,764 views, 56 comments

Citrix launches the Citrix Technology Professional program, their version of the Microsoft MVP

Last week Citrix officially launched the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) program. In doing so, Citrix is formalizing their relationship with several technical people whose names are well known in the community. Many of the eleven CTP members went to Ft. Lauderdale to talk to the product groups last week....

Published Jul 17 2006 by Brian Madden , 14,376 views, 21 comments

Free Web Application creates reports from Citrix Resource Manager Summary Database

Jason Conger has just released version 1.2 of his free web application for viewing usage data from a Citrix Resource Manager Summary Database. This is not some script that generates static HTML web pages, rather, it's a full-fledged, full-featured ASP.NET 2.0 interactive web application....

Published Jul 17 2006 by Brian Madden , 13,206 views, 0 comments

Citrix prototypes Firefox browser extension for Presentation Server

Citrix has just released a prototype of a Firefox browser extension that shows Presentation Server published apps via a Firefox toolbar or sidebar. Even though it's a prototype, you can download this extension today to use in your environment....

Published Jul 11 2006 by Brian Madden , 17,240 views, 16 comments

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