Cisco Buys WebEx

It's no secret that Cisco is (aiming to be) one of Citrix' biggest competitors. Cisco has amplified this suspicion even further by buying WebEx. WebEx is a company that deals in online services. Note the word "online". WebEx' biggest competitor is/was Citrix Online. As a matter of fact, WebEx even sued Citrix some time ago for stealing it's domains. Outside of that, it doesn't take a intergalatical brain surgeon to see that Cisco is moving into Citrix' (Online) market space (even more).
Citrix Online offers:
• GoToAssist
• GoToMyPC
• GoToMeeting
• GoToWebinar

WebEx Offers almost the same services:
• Support Center
• PCNow
• MeetMeNow
• Event Center

If you take a look at it from another perspective, then you could say that Citrix' clearly has moved into the market space of Cisco by their acquisition of Net6, NetScaler, Teros and Orbital Data. for their Netscaler, WANScaler and Access Gateway Platforms. Either way, it will be interesting to see this lands...

Freeware Terminal Server Load Balancing suite released

Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy has released a free Terminal Server Load Balancing suite for Microsoft Terminal Services. Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy has released a Terminal Server Client extension that allows load balancing of Terminal Servers in a single Domain. The process balances sessions across a farm of terminal servers within a domain, applying a user load criteria to distribute the sessions evenly. This program also reconnects a client to a disconnected session based on computer name only. Release 1.0 includes the following features:

• Basic Load balancing among Terminal Services in a single domain
• Administrative server selection to create a Server farm
• User load balancing Criteria to distribute sessions evenly
• Reconnect a Disconnected session in the TS Server farm (reconnects based on Computer name only).

Download it from: http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com.au/CAD_Utils.htm

Microsoft has released 2003 SP2

Microsoft has released Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
The SP2 update can be applied to all Windows Server 2003 products and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - download from here

You could find the full list of updates here

how to create a Vista Virtual Machine

to Create a VM in VMware or MS Virtual server do the following;

• Run (on the virtual machine)
  
• CD to c:\Windows\System32\sysprep
  
• Run: sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe (make sure you select shut down from the popup)
  
• Vista shuts down
  
• Maybe you use Undo Disks for your VMs, than Merge the Undo Disk
  
• Copy the VHD and VMC to another system (or VMDK, VMX)
  
• Add to Virtual Server
  
• Change any properties (NIC card, CD-ROM, etc)
  
• Start the VM
  
• Watch as the VM goes through mini-setup
  
• Enter in your license key
  

Now you have a unique VM, new SID and all the rest...

regards,

Tom

Microsoft Office 2007 Known Issues on presentation server

maybe you are struggling with the installation and configuration of Office 2007 on a presentation server?
Citrix has dedicated a CTX article for this. some of the issues are;

• File Type Association: File extensions for Office Excel 2007, Office Word 2007, and Office PowerPoint 2007 do not show up on Access Management Console Content Redirection tabs.
• Office Word 2007 Quick Parts insertions and fields are replaced by images when highlighted inside an ICA session.
• In Office Word 2007, the Paste command invokes the server-side clipboard.
• Office Word 2007 has a performance issue with memory utilization, when using Installed Templates in an ICA session on a multi-monitor client.
• 100 percent CPU utilization is caused by csrss.exe and wfshell.exe when trying to launch Office Word 2007 with content redirection enabled. As a workaround, restart all affected servers.
• 2007 Microsoft Office features, such as Quick Parts and ClearType, are not working in a Presentation Server environment. Citrix is working to address these issues.

Upon attempted installation of the 2007 Microsoft Office system in a Terminal Server environment, you may receive an error message similar to the following:

This copy of Microsoft Office “application” cannot be used on a Terminal Server. Please contact your local Microsoft retailer for more information.

Licensing enforcement for the 2007 Office system has changed. A Volume License edition will be required for the 2007 system applications to launch in a Terminal Service environment. Please contact your appropriate resources to obtain proper licensing and software.

keep looking at this article because they updated regularly as they find issues and workarounds/fixes.

CTX111720

Citrites' Search Launched (http://citrites.org/)

The Citrite's launched their own search engine, it is a tabbed AJAX search interface for all Citrix things.
Check it out: Citrites' Search

VMotion aan het werk

Heeft u ook altijd eens willen zien hoe VMotion in het echt zou werken, maar u heeft zelf nog geen VMware omgeving staan?
Dell heeft sinds kort een 3 minuten video fragment online gezet waarin ze VMotion laten zien tussen verschillende blade servers.

hierbij het fragment:
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/techcentervm.wmv