MSTerminalServices.org - Monthly Article Update Hi THIN List, New articles added to MSTerminalServices.org last month: Title: Terminal Server Environment Basic Concepts Author: Wilco van Bragt Summary: Most IT professionals think that Terminal Servers are complex and difficult to administrate. This feeling is further enforced by stories where users complain about low performance, strange behavior and so on. This article will describe the basic concepts to keep in mind for Terminal Server Environments. Adopting these concepts in your environment will result in an easily manageable terminal server farm. Link: http://www.MSTerminalServices.org/articles/Terminal-Server-Environment-Basic-Concepts.html Title: Bandwidth Management: Part 2 – Leveraging Citrix Policy to Optimize Bandwidth Usage Author: Andy Jones Summary: Bandwidth Management is one of the biggest challenges we face as server based computing engineers. This article is the second in a short series about Bandwidth Management, in which we will focus on leveraging the advanced features of Presentation Server 4.0 Policy to control bandwidth consumption. Link: http://www.MSTerminalServices.org/articles/Bandwidth-Management-Part2.html Title: Load Balance Terminal Services & Citrix Servers: 2X LoadBalancer Software Review Author: Michel Roth Summary: In this review I will take a look at 2X LoadBalancer. My review of 2X LoadBalancer was performed with three Windows 2000 Server systems. One server acted as the “gateway” and the two remaining servers acted as the Terminal Servers. Link: http://www.MSTerminalServices.org/articles/Software-Review-2X-LoadBalancer-Citrix-Terminal-Services.html Title: Designing and Implementing Effective Disaster Recovery Strategies with Citrix Technology Part 1: The Plan Author: Paul Stansel Summary: While we as administrators often spend a considerable amount of time planning our production environment, Disaster Recovery issues with complex Citrix environments remain the weak point of many installations. This three-part article will focus on effective disaster recovery strategies for organizations of any size. Link: http://www.MSTerminalServices.org/articles/Designing-Implementing-Disaster-Recovery-Strategies-Citrix-Part1.html Title: Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 Printing Changes Author: Stefan Vermeulen Summary: With Presentation Server 4.0 Citrix released a version with a major overhaul on functionality. The most drastic one - in my eyes - was the new printing engine. In this article I will talk about it, now that it has been around for quite a while. Link: http://www.MSTerminalServices.org/articles/Citrix-Presentation-Server4-Printing-Changes.html Title: Securing the Windows Terminal Services Author: Brien M. Posey Summary: Security is important for just about any computer network, but it tends to be especially important in a Terminal Service environment. Think about it for a moment; users are running applications directly on your server. If a vulnerability exists in an application or in the server’s configuration exists, then the vulnerability could potentially be exploited in an effort to gain access to the underlying operating system. That being the case, it’s worth spending some extra time making sure that you have done a good job securing the Terminal Services. In this article, I will share some security techniques with you. Link: http://www.MSTerminalServices.org/articles/Securing-Windows-Terminal-Services.html Title: Can Third Party Software Solve your Terminal Server Printing Problems? Author: Wilco van Bragt Summary: One of the biggest challenges in Terminal Server environments are printer related topics, where the drivers’ challenge is the main part of it. A lot of third party manufacturers have developed products to beat these challenges. Are these third party products useful in the printer challenge? Link: http://www.MSTerminalServices.org/articles/Can-Third-Party-Software-Solve-Terminal-Server-Printing-Problems.html Visit the Subscription Management (http://newsletter.isoftmarketing.com/) section to unsubscribe. MSTerminalServices.org is in no way affiliated with Microsoft Corp. For sponsorship information, contact us at advertising@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Copyright © MSTerminalServices.org 2006. All rights reserved. ************************************************ For Archives, RSS, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: //www.freelists.org/list/thin ************************************************