4GE Resource Kit - 4GEReskit - Thomas Kötzing's favorite tools to use while working with Terminal Server & Citrix MetaFrame

Acro Software Cute PDF Printer - CutePDF Printer is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Printer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create perfect PDF documents - with just a push of a button! Easy-to-Install, Easy-to-Use, Professional Quality, Supports Win 98/Me/2000/XP. Absolutely Free!  No watermarks!  No Annoying Popup Advertisement.

ADM Template Editor - makes editing of ADM templates a breeze

AdModify.Net - is a tool primarily utilized by Exchange and Active Directory administrators to facilitate bulk user attribute modifications.

AnalogX TSDropCopy  is a simple to use application that when run on both client and server allows files to be transferred between both machines quickly and easily

BrainSys BrsSuite -  an amazing freeware tool to completely lockdown and customize the end-user environment - Designed by Security Expert "Fabrice Cornet".

Citrix Connection Test Tool provides various connection methods for scalability test and other tests which require a number of sessions to be established

Citrix ICA Client Downloads from Citrix.com

CitrixTools.com -  Tools to change home directories, profiles and delete ini files.

Clusteresis RDP Load Balancer -  RDPLB is a Load Balancing Application for Windows 2003, 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition

DABCC Methodology-in-a-Box is the must read project management document for deploying Citrix Access Suite written by Microsoft Terminal Server MVP - Douglas A. Brown

DPAKBD  is a TSR that attempts to put errant DOS applications that poll the keyboard incessantly to sleep, thus enabling the CPU to service the rest of its process queue. The TSR must be executed in the same NTVDM as the application but before the application is executed.

Filemon monitors and displays file system activity on a system in real-time. Its advanced capabilities make it a powerful tool for exploring the way Windows works, seeing how applications use the files and DLLs, or tracking down problems in system or application file configurations. Filemon is one of the most common utilities used to determine why a program runs correctly as an administrator, but does not function when run by an un-privileged user.

Frameworkx - Creative and Smart Solutions

Limit Login Attempts With LimitLogin

LogonConsultants.nl Flex Profile Kit

Policy Template Editor - Tools4ever’s Policy Template Editor eliminates the difficulty of creating and editing templates. With the use of graphical aids the Policy Template Editor will generate the complex policy template files for you automatically and without error.

PortQry Command Line Port Scanner Version 2.0 - PortQryV2.exe is a command-line utility that you can use to help troubleshoot TCP/IP connectivity issues. Portqry.exe runs on Windows 2000-based computers.The utility reports the port status of TCP and UDP ports on a computer you choose. For details, see Knowledge Base Article Knowledge Base Article 310099.

Printingsupport.com's printsubs.exe is a utility to map RDP Printers, instead of manually having to edit the Windows Registry and create a user defined inf file.

properJavaRDP - is an open source Java RDP client for Windows Terminal Services. It is based on rdesktop, a SourceForge project. properJavaRDP runs on Java 1.1 up (optimized for 1.4), and works great on Linux, Windows and Mac.

PXES Universal Thin Client - is a micro Linux distribution allowing you to build thin clients or diskless workstations.

RDesktop Ports - rdesktop is a free client for the RDP protocol. It works as a "thin client" which you use to connect to Windows NT4TS/2000/2003/XP. It runs on many operating systems: several flavours of Unix/Linux, Acorn, Amiga, Mac OS X, OS/2 etc. It has even been ported to Win32 and Java.

Regmon is a Registry monitoring utility that will show you which applications are accessing your Registry, which keys they are accessing, and the Registry data that they are reading and writing - all in real-time. This advanced utility takes you one step beyond what static Registry tools can do, to let you see and understand exactly how programs use the Registry. With static tools you might be able to see what Registry values and keys changed. With Regmon you'll see how the values and keys changed.. Regmon works on Windows NT/2000/XP, .NET Server 2003 (RC2 and higher), Windows 95/98/Me and Windows 64-bit/Itanium. Regmon is one of the most common utilities used to determine why a program runs correctly as an administrator, but does not function when run by an un-privileged user.

RegShot - is a small,free and open-sourced registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new software product. The changes report can be produced in text or HTML format and contains a list of all modifications that have taken place between snapshot1 and snapshot2. In addition, you can also specify folders (with sub folders) to be scanned for changes as well.

RegToAdm - Convert a REG file (exported from Regedit), to a simple custom ADM template, that can be used in Poledit for distribution of registry settings on the network.

Remote Application Center 2.0 This is a simple program that permits controlling access to applications installed on
Terminal Server. Applications are published on the server and when an user logins to
Terminal Server it presents to user a Panel that contains only published
applications that user can run.

Remote Desktop Client version 6.0 for Windows XP

Remote Desktop Client version 6.0 for Windows XP X64 Edition

Remote Desktop Client version 6.0 for Windows Server 2003

Remote Desktop Client version 6.0 for Windows Server 2003 X64 Edition

Remote Desktop Client version 5.1.2600.2180 for Windows - This software package will install the client portion of Remote Desktop on a computer running any of the following operating systems: Windows 95, Windows 98 and 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, Windows NT® 4.0, Windows 2000 or Windows XP. This software, when run, allows other Windows platforms to remotely connect to a computer running Windows XP Professional or Windows Server 2003. The version of this software is 5.1.2600.2180, and is the same version that is installed as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Remote Desktop Client for Mac OSX - Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac allows you to connect to a Windows-based computer and work with programs and files on that computer from your Macintosh computer. To connect to a Windows-based computer, you need network access and permissions to connect to the computer, and the computer must be running Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Services.

Remote Desktop Web Connection version 5.2.3790 - The Remote Desktop Web Connection ActiveX control allows you to access your computer through Remote Desktop, via the Internet, from another computer using Internet Explorer. You must be using Internet Information Services (IIS) to host a Web site to use this feature.  Remote Desktop Web Connection provides most of the same functionality as the Remote Desktop Connection software. Note: Users of Windows Server 2003 do not need to download this package. They can manually add this package from Add/Remove in the Control Panel. This package is offered as a convenience to Microsoft customers.

Remote Executer for Terminal Server - This is a simple program that permits run a ShellExecute function on the local machine from a remote session on Terminal Server

Resource Hacker a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems.

Resource Kit Utilities  You can download the Windows 2000 Resource Kit software tools listed on this page for free and install them on your computer. These utilities can help you streamline administrative tasks such as managing Active Directory™, administering security features, working with Group Policy and Terminal Services, automating application deployment, and other important jobs.

Resource Kit Tools  The Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools are a set of tools to help administrators streamline management tasks such as troubleshooting operating system issues, managing Active Directory®, configuring networking and security features, and automating application deployment.

Royal TS - an alternative for the standard Terminal Services Snap-In that adds additional features, including connection specific display settings, stored login credentials and more.

Terminal Server Printer Driver Redirection Wizard  This tool can reduce terminal server printer redirection failures, and steps an administrator through the process of finding the drivers that failed to redirect on a terminal server, and automates the creation of a custom printer driver mapping file.

Terminal Services Client for Pocket PC 2002

Terminal Services Scaling Scripts & Utilities - This page provides a download of scalability scripts for the "smclient" scaling script utility for Windows® 2000 Terminal Services. It also includes an Excel spreadsheet to determine the correct registry value for achieving optimal scaling when a server is kernel address space limited.

Threadmaster Monitors Threads and handle high CPU utilization on a per application basis. This function is primarily indented for Terminal servers hosting multiple users. ThreadMaster can also be used when running multiple virtual machines on the same server, to limit each virtual machines CPU usage.

Thinstall The Thinstall Virtualized Citrix Presentation Server Client enables instant, portable Citrix access from any PC without installation or Administrator Rights

Thinstation is a Linux distribution that enables you to convert standard PCs into full-featured diskless thin clients supporting all major connectivity protocols like Citrix ICA, MS Windows terminal services (RDP), X, Telnet, SSH... It can be booted from the network using Etherboot/PXE or from standard media like floppy/CD/hd/flash-disk etc. The configuration can be centralized to simplify terminal management.

Tools for Remote Computing by Alex K. Angelopoulos

True Control Template - A compilation of Group Policy Administrative Templates pertaining to Terminal Server and Citrix.

Trust-No-Exe is a executable file filter. It attaches to the operating system and filters all executable files, be it .exe .com .dll .drv .sys .dpl etc from all drives and all network shares against a list of files or paths, you, the administrator provide as trusted applications. If a prohibited executable (one not in the allow list or one explicitly defined in the deny list) is loaded, a popup box informs the user with an intelligent message that can be customised to your site.

TSCmd from Systemtools.com - A command-line utility to set terminal server user settings.  All eighteen (18) terminal server settings can be set.  Includes documentation in readme.txt file.

User Profile Hive Cleanup Service On Windows 2000 the service deals with application event log event 1000 from source Userenv where the message indicates that the profile is not unloading and the error is "Access is denied". On Windows XP and Windows 2003 the equivalent events are 1517 and 1524 from source Userenv.To accomplish this the service monitors for logged off users that still have hives loaded. When that happens the service determines which applications have handles opened to the hives and releases them. It logs the application name and what registry keys where left open. After this the system finishes unloading the profile.

Visionapp Remote Desktop - a tool which allows the management of RDP connections to servers. vRD is ideal for administrators who need to maintain simultaneous connections to multiple servers (organizing connection-specific settings and login credentials in folders/subfolders).

WBIsoft.com XPtsFree - a "FREE" single sign on (A.K.A. passthru authentication) Remote Desktop Client.

Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit

Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server Capacity and Scaling - This white paper contains testing methodologies, results, analysis, and sizing guidelines for Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server.

XN Resource Editor  - free, powerful, fully featured resource editor and PE module explorer for Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.