This vbs script consist into two verifications to restrict access of users from internet in Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server/Metaframe) servers or Terminal Services, to be included in the session initialization. The idea of this script allow access from users from Internet just if they are in a specific Active Directory group.
In the first verification, the [...]

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ICA or RDP are not the best protocols to copy files between DataCentres and remote workstations. But, some times is very difficult to implement a different solution to provide access to users local files from Citrix XenApp or Terminal Services, and even if the idea was rejected in the design of your environment, one day [...]

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To measure the Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server/Metaframe) or Terminal Services link consumption for an application the best is: publish to users and watch. Yes! Users are totally unpredictable and is very difficult to know every thing that they can do in some scenarios.
But, you always need know how much bandwidth an applications needs to be [...]

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Citrix/Terminal Services community web sites:
Offical Citrix Blog – Official Citrix Community Blog, where Citrix employees post articles.
Official Terminal Services Blog – Official Microsoft Terminal Services blog.
Citrix Blogger – Blog of a Citrix employee about company history, market rumors, ideas for products, etc.
Brian Madden – One of most famous SBC consultants in the world.
Thomas Koetzing [...]

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This is a very, very and very simple inventory tool. But can be very useful on sbc environments. This script checks the list of applications on Add/Remove Programs of each server, and writes a result in a table inside a html file.  Then, you can compare if all servers has same software installed or same [...]

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FoxIt Reader: This free PDF reader is faster than Adobe Reader and a great solution for a common issue ignored or unknown by many Citrix/Terminal Servers administrators.
Issue: Adobe doesn’t recommend use Acrobat Reader and Writer on the same machine, and when you have this scenario, all users open PDF’s on Acrobat Writer, because Acrobat Writer [...]

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