Undocumented Program Neighborhood Command Line Switches Nearly every professional working with Citrix Presentation Server knows about Program Neighborhood (PN), and some may even use it frequently. It was first introduced in MetaFrame 1.8 and is used […] Read more
Taming Black Holes: Parallel Session Creation Have you ever tried to log on to a terminal server and, after entering your credentials, been forced to stare at a grey screen for a lengthy period of time […] Read more
ClearType Bandwidth Revisited – Testing 32 Bit Color Depth In an earlier post I wrote about how bandwidth requirements of the RDP protocol are affected by enabling font smoothing (ClearType over RDP version 6) on Windows Server 2008. Jan, […] Read more
Programmatically Determining Terminal Server Mode on Windows Server 2008 A question on the terminal services newsgroup brought this topic to my attention: how can be determined programmatically if a Windows Server 2008 system is a terminal server and whether […] Read more
Bandwidth Requirements for ClearType over RDP In an earlier post I wrote about a great technology that finally makes it into terminal services with Windows Server 2008: ClearType or Font Smoothing, as it is sometimes called. […] Read more
Windows Server 2008 (R2) Component Posters [Updated 2009-12-11 for Server 2008 R2] Microsoft has published two visually very appealing posters which depict in great detail important components of its upcoming OS Server 2008. The poster on […] Read more
Windows Server 2008: Architectural Changes Relevant to Terminal Services #2 This post covers a technology developed by Microsoft Research in the late 90s that finally made it into terminal services: ClearType. ClearType As is sometimes the case with technology, it […] Read more
Windows Server 2008: Architectural Changes Relevant to Terminal Services #1 I will start this blog with a small series of posts that describe changes to the architecture of Windows Server 2008 that are relevant to Terminal Services. Read more
