Welcome to Wilco van Bragt's Section

Since 2000, Wilco van Bragt`s primary focus has been server based computing using primarily Microsoft and Citrix technologies. After working for a couple of consulting firms as a senior technical consultant and technical project leader Wilco started his own freelance company VanBragt.Net Consultancy in April 2008.

Wilco van Bragt is the founder and author of the VanBragt.Net Server Based Computing Centre. On this website Wilco publishes SBC related product reviews, SBC related articles, reviews of freeware products, and blogs about several SBC topics and events. Various reviews and articles written by Wilco are also published on other well-known SBC websites.

Wilco is a certified MCSE (NT, 2000, and 2003), CCA, CCEA (Citrix Metaframe XP, Citrix Presentation Server 4), and CCIA (both Metaframe XP and CPS 4). Wilco is also a Provision Networks VIP, RES Valuable Professional and a Microsoft MVP on Terminal Server.

Wilco van Bragt's Latest Contributions

Citrix Application Profiling: Date - Mar 11, 2010; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Citrix Articles; The basic steps involved in creating a virtualized applicaiton using Citrix Application Streaming.
How to Configure App-V using Group Policy Objects: Date - Feb 18, 2010; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Application Virtualization Articles; Taking you through the configuration process of App-V using Group Policy Objects.
App-V Sequencing: Date - Jan 12, 2010; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Application Virtualization Articles; The basic steps in creating a virtualized application using the App-V application virtualization product.
Installing Microsoft Application Virtualization (Part 2): Date - Oct 20, 2009; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Application Virtualization Articles; Continuing on the installation of the App-V (TS) Client and the App-V sequencer.
Installing Microsoft Application Virtualization (Part 1): Date - Jun 25, 2009; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Application Virtualization Articles; The first part of an article series describing the necessary steps to install an App-V server.
OS Virtualization in Practice (Part 2): Date - Apr 21, 2009; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Virtualization Articles; How to add a client to the Provisioning Server database & creating an image of the system on vDisk.
OS Virtualization in Practice (Part 1): Date - Feb 18, 2009; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Virtualization Articles; A practical look at operating system virtualization using Citrix Provisioning Server version 5.
An Introduction to OS Virtualization (Part 2): Date - Dec 17, 2008; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Virtualization Articles; Introducing the Operating System Virtualization space; advantages and disadvantages.
An Introduction to OS Virtualization (Part 1): Date - Nov 05, 2008; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Virtualization Articles; An introduction to the Operating System Virtualization field.
Can Terminal Services be considered Virtualization?: Date - Sep 24, 2008; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Virtualization Articles; We will explore whether Terminal Services can rightly fall under the “Virtualization” umbrella.
SBC Migration Best Practices: Date - Nov 07, 2007; Section - Terminal Services / General; How do we migrate users smoothly to a new SBC Infrastructure? In this article several scenarios will be described.
How to: Create a Redundant Citrix License Server: Date - Oct 10, 2007; Section - Terminal Services / Licensing; Why you need a redundant Citrix License Server and how this can be accomplished.
Alternatives to Citrix Presentation Server (Part 3): Date - Jul 25, 2007; Section - Terminal Services / General; Taking a look at Genuit Thinworx and Provision Networks VAS, and recommendations on where to find more information.
Alternatives to Citrix Presentation Server (Part 2): Date - Jul 10, 2007; Section - Terminal Services / General; In this part we will discuss the alternatives 2X ApplicationServer, Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect and Jetro COCKPIT.
Alternatives to Citrix Presentation Server (Part 1): Date - Jun 27, 2007; Section - Terminal Services / General; Taking a look at the SBC market and which products are competing with Citrix.
To Virtualize or Not To Virtualize with SBC: Date - Jun 14, 2007; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Virtualization Articles; The types of virtualization which exist for an SBC infrastructure.
Differences Between Several Universal Printer Solutions: Date - May 10, 2007; Section - Terminal Services / Printing; Differences and key features in several Universal Printer Drivers.
Migrating User Settings with the Flex Profile Kit: Date - Mar 21, 2007; Section - Terminal Services / Management Tools; How you can use Flex Profile Kit to migrate user settings.
Delegation of Control within the Citrix Management Console: Date - Feb 28, 2007; Section - Terminal Services / Management Tools; How to control the actions that can be carried out by using the delegation model within the Citrix Management Console.
Managing Printer Drivers: Date - Feb 07, 2007; Section - Terminal Services / Printing; How to manage your printer drivers.
Securing Access to your Applications: Date - Dec 13, 2006; Section - Terminal Services / Security; How access to your applications can be secured within a Terminal Server infrastructure.
Tunnel Applications to Remote Desktops Seamlessly: 2X ApplicationServer Review: Date - Oct 24, 2006; Section - Terminal Services / Product Reviews; 2X has just launched 2X ApplicationServer version 4, a full SBC product offering Published Application, Seamless Integration, Load Balancing, SSL support and clients for several platforms. Let's take a look at this product and see what it offers.
Selecting an SBC Product for your Environment: Date - Oct 04, 2006; Section - Terminal Services / General; This article discusses which components should be considered when building an SBC infrastructure for your environment.
How To: Unattended Installation of the Citrix Web Interface: Date - Sep 20, 2006; Section - Terminal Services / Scripting; This article demonstrates how to perform an unattended installation of the Citrix Web Interface.
Using Citrix Resource Manager: Date - Aug 17, 2006; Section - Terminal Services / Management Tools; In this article I will describe the benefits of Resource Manager, the configuration of Resource Manager, and how to best use Resource Manager during system administration.
Client To Server Content Redirection Explained: Date - Aug 01, 2006; Section - Terminal Services / General; This article will describe Client to Server content redirection in detail.
Freeware Tools for the Terminal Server Infrastructure (Part 2): Date - Jun 23, 2006; Section - Terminal Services / Management Tools; In Part 2 of this article series I continue the discussion on the best freeware tools, focusing on Security, Troubleshooting, Policies, Profiles, and more.
Freeware Tools for the Terminal Server Infrastructure (Part 1): Date - Jun 08, 2006; Section - Terminal Services / Management Tools; Beside the standard tools provided in the product there are also many wonderful tools available for the Terminal Server field. In this article I will describe the most used favorite tools and software, which are available for free.
How to: Unattended Citrix Presentation Server Installation (Part 2): Date - May 11, 2006; Section - Terminal Services / General; In this article I will show the different parameters for creating and joining the farm and will also describe how to create a farm with a local database.
How to: Unattended Citrix Presentation Server Installation (Part 1): Date - Apr 19, 2006; Section - Terminal Services / General; In this article I will discuss and describe how to perform an unattended installation of Citrix Presentation Server.
How to deploy applications to your Terminal Server: Date - Mar 30, 2006; Section - Terminal Services / Scripting; In the article Terminal Server Environment Basic Concepts I already described the basic concepts/rules necessary to have a stable and controllable Terminal Server Infrastructure. Two of the described concepts in that article are chronology of the installation order and the 100% “equality” of all the servers in the Farm. To accomplish this you should use silent setups and a deploy mechanism to install applications on your servers. In this article we are going to detail how to install and deploy those applications with the above mentioned concepts in mind.
Terminal Server Environment Basic Concepts: Date - Feb 28, 2006; Section - Terminal Services / General; 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.
Can Third Party Software Solve your Terminal Server Printing Problems?: Date - Feb 02, 2006; Section - Terminal Services / Printing; 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?
My CPU is at 100%, What Can I Do About It?: Date - Jan 11, 2006; Section - Terminal Services / Performance; One of the main challenges in the Terminal Server environment is the high usage of resources like the CPU. In this article we are going to take a look at what causes this high usage and what you can do to control the resource usage.
Terminal Server and the Profile Challenge: Date - Nov 30, 2005; Section - Terminal Services / Management Tools; Profile problems? "No, we never have problems with our profiles." This is almost the standard answer I get when asking, “Do you have problems with your profiles?” when administrators tell me about some strange problems. This article will discuss the potential profile challenges which need to be tackled in a Terminal Server environment.
What RDP GPO Settings can do to your Citrix Servers: Date - Oct 26, 2005; Section - Terminal Services / Security; Within Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft has added several new Group Policy Objects (GPO) settings to their product. The Terminal Server object is one which got a lot of new settings. Wonderful settings if you are using Terminal Server, but what happens if you are using these settings on a Terminal Server where Citrix Presentation Server is installed?