This idea was documented in an email on May 30, 2003. It had been an idea that I had advocated from years before but it seemed like a good time to document it with the hopes that it would get better chances. The basic idea was to sell a single user version of [...]
Archive for the 'PortICA' Category
Single User ICA Server - Citrix Product Idea 431
August 17, 2008Brian Madden Writes about PortICA (XenDesktop ICA)
April 16, 2008Brian Madden was in Sydney recently and got the chance to gather more detail about PortICA from the actual developers. As expected, he has taken the time to summarize his findings in a recent post about PortICA. It is a fair and comprehensive assessment of Citrix’s new ICA technology for XP and Vista.
What is really [...]
Techniques for Generating Fake COM Ports
April 3, 2008I wrote this last July on an internal blog. Now it seems that it should be made available outside as well. It is only meant for testing COM port mappings with Citrix but the ideas could be applied elsewhere with regards to building fake device names.
Original Post:
Since I am doing testing with PortICA and COM [...]
Cursor Blinking
February 8, 2008There is a feature in operating systems that most of us take for granted. This is the simple text cursor. There is a bit of confusion within Windows whether it is called a caret or a cursor (based on the API) but for most people it would just be called a cursor. The definition of [...]
HyperTerminal Goes Hyper
February 4, 2008I recently had the pleasure of debugging HyperTerminal on PortICA. It is going to take some time to put together the story of how things turned out but I wanted to start by saying something obvious.
If you are going to use HyperTerminal on Windows XP (since Vista does not have it), be sure to never [...]
XenDesktop and PortICA
November 5, 2007The evolution of names is always interesting to watch. Citrix likes changing names to better suit the market it wants to address. Based on the recent acquisition of XenSource, there has been a shift in focus to better embrace the virtualization market. As part of this, the Citrix Desktop Server has been renamed to XenDesktop. [...]
PortICA Time Zone Support
October 12, 2007This post is really about trying to catch up with what has been going on with PortICA Time Zone Support. For those of you that haven’t read about Citrix Time Zone Support, please look at my previous post. The idea is to preserve the user’s local time zone while working on a potentially [...]
Not Cut and Dry, Cut and Paste
August 13, 2007Assumptions are easy to make. We do them all the time. Usually they help to speed up understand and create a kind of common language. Other times, they lead only to confusion.
The clipboard design is based on one primary assumption. The core idea is that data is exchanged between programs using a common clipboard. One [...]
MAPPORT - Simple alternative to NET USE for Citrix COM and LPT Ports
July 14, 2007I posted this internally first but have realized that it has value outside Citrix as well.
Surprise. Citrix could support more than COM9 for its COM port redirection.
Currently Citrix recommends using NET USE to map COM ports. The problem is that NET USE has a feature (bug?) that only allows up to COM9. [...]
Citrix Time Zone Support
June 15, 2007One of the most confusing things ever invented is time zones. Well, they aren’t inherently confusing by themselves but when you start talking about different time zones and daylight savings, then things get messy. Add in a factor of government zeal and you have daylight savings that can change dates depending on the laws and [...]
