Remote Desktop Services Archives • Helge Klein

Is my App Running on Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp?

How do you programmatically determine if an application is running in a session accessed over a remoting protocol (i.e. ICA aka HDX or RDP)? It may be Citrix’ strategy to completely hide the fact that a session is remoted – which makes sense in many ways – but in some cases developers simply need to […]

How-to: XenApp/RDS Sizing and Capacity Planning with uberAgent for Splunk

Do you know the maximum number of users each of your terminal servers can host with acceptable performance? You may have found out the hard way how many are too many – but how many are just right? Farm sizing and server capacity planning are typical tasks for consultants who often have a hard time […]

XenApp and RDS Sizing Part 4 – Calculating the New Farm’s Capacity

This article is part of a mini-series. You can find the other articles here. In the previous articles in this series we saw how to calculate a farm’s capacity and then how to determine its load. With that information and knowledge of our methodology we can go about calculating the capacity of the new farm, […]

XenApp and RDS Sizing Part 3 – Determining Farm Load

This article is part of a mini-series. You can find the other articles here. In the previous part of this series we saw how to determine the capacity of a server farm. This time we will look at how that capacity is utilized, in other words at farm load. As before we will do that […]

XenApp and RDS Sizing Part 2 – Determining Farm Capacity

This article is part of a mini-series. You can find the other articles here. As we have seen in part 1 of this series, when sizing a new farm the first thing we need to know is the capacity of the existing farm. Armed with data on capacity and additionally load, we can easily calculate […]

XenApp and RDS Sizing Part 1 – Methodology

This article is part of a mini-series. You can find the other articles here. One of the first things you need to do after starting a XenApp farm upgrade project is to answer the obvious question from management: how much will it cost? In order to be able to answer, you need to have a […]

Active Setup Explained

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Is my App Running on Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp?

How-to: XenApp/RDS Sizing and Capacity Planning with uberAgent for Splunk

XenApp and RDS Sizing Part 4 – Calculating the New Farm’s Capacity

XenApp and RDS Sizing Part 3 – Determining Farm Load

XenApp and RDS Sizing Part 2 – Determining Farm Capacity

XenApp and RDS Sizing Part 1 – Methodology

Active Setup Explained

New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Office 2010, RDS/XenApp, Windows, Web