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BriForum is the name of an independent application delivery conference hosted by The Brian Madden Company. We have had six BriForum conference so far with a total of 342 technical breakout sessions! (Our seveth BriForum will be announced soon, for Summer 2009.)

This page contains a listing of every BriForum breakout session from all BriForum conferences. It's kind of a temporary page until we get our new BriForum.com site launched in the August 2008.

BriForum 2008 Chicago

BriForum 2008 Chicago took place from June 16-18, 2008, in chicago. There were 60 breakout sessions. These sessions are only available to attendees, although non attendees may order a DVD.

BriForum 2007 Amsterdam

BriForum 2007 Amsterdam took place in October 2007 in Amsterdam. All of the sessions are available to the public for free, but you can order a DVD if you want to view the content while offline.

Download Session Title
Opening Keynote
    Servers on Demand: Automating Server Builds and Configurations (including Ardence)
    Streaming Smackdown!, application streaming and virtualization solutions explained
  Windows Server 2008: Certificate services and public key infrastructure in a nutshell
  An Introduction to Citrix AAC / CAG
  Xen, Viridian, and ESX Compared: What this means to you in the Citrix and non-Citrix worlds
    PowerShelling Terminal Services and Citrix
    Solution4 Automation Best Practice and Framework In-depth, Part 1
  The First Public Technical Preview of Citrix Project Caxton
  Citrix EasyCall – Communication Enabling Applications (Sponsor Session)
    Digging into Presentation Server 4.5 Configuration Logging
  Solution4 Automation Best Practice and Framework In-depth, Part 2
    CPS 4.5 Feature Pack 1 – packed full of goodies
  What do you hate about Citrix Presentation Server, and what are you doing about it?
    SoftGrid Customer Case Studies - Birds of a Feather
    Don't Terminate that App! Four Things to do Before Killing that Rogue Process
Evening reception, dinner, drinks, and comedy show
  Presentation Server Architectural Concepts and Futures
    Automating and streamlining SoftGrid
Citrix and Desktop Virtualization, Round 2
  Windows Server 2008: Certificate Usage and SSL-scenarios in Terminal Services Environments
    Decreasing Windows Login Time v1.5
    The Reality of OS Streaming: Citrix Ardence 4.1
    Understanding ICA Bandwidth in your environment
    Inside the SFT Package
    Sorting out the Citrix and XenSource thing
    Xen versus ESX: A performance head-to-head comparison
    A First Look at The Madden Report
    The Best Freeware Tools for Frugal TS or SoftGrid Admin
    Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services: What You Need to Know
    visionapp: The challenge of a rapidly changing AppDev market place (Sponsored Session)
    Inside the OS: Windows Cache Manager
  SBC is dead!, DDI is kicking alive!
    Windows Server 2008: Internal Architecture and the Server Core
    Take full advantage of virtual channels with our scriptable virtual channel
Beer reception in exhibitor area
BriForum Geek Out II - A Game Show
Windows Server 2008: Terminal Services Gateway secured by OneTime-Password architechture
  AppSense: So what exactly is
  Citrix Presentation Server WORST Practices
    Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization Strategy
    How Web Interface 4.6 works
  Windows Server 2008: Terminal Services Gateway secured with smartcard architecture out-of-the-box!
    Benchmarking Terminal Server, Citrix Presentation Server and Remote Applications
  SBC Round-up 2007
  Citrix AIE vs Microsoft SoftGrid: The differences in HOW they virtualization and isolate applications
  How does NetScaler fit into an Application Delivery world?
  User Profile Management vs. Environment Management
    A case study where we recommended VDI instead TS for serveral thousand users (Birds of a Feather)
Closing Keynote and Prize Drawing

 

BriForum 2007 Chicago

BriForum 2007 Chicago took place in April 2007, and the videos and session content are available to everyone for free. You can order a DVD if you want to be able to access the content while offline. Here's the complete list of sessions and any videos that we've posted publicly.

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  Opening Keynote
  Doing it Without Citrix
    Deploying Terminal Server Gateway for Windows Server Codenamed Longhorn
      Running Citrix Presentation Servers shielded by the Windows Firewall, Part 1
  Introducing the Solution4 Automation and Best Practice Framework
  A New Hope: Terminal Server Licensing in Longhorn
  Panel Discussion: VDI - Is it real now, soon, or never?
      Running Citrix Presentation Servers shielded by the Windows Firewall, Part 2
    How Citrix Web Interface 4.5 works
    Computing Architectures
    Two-Tier Versus Three-Tier SBC Architectures
  Sponsor Session: Provision Networks
    Sponsor Session: visionapp
  Sponsor Session: triCerat
  Sponsor Session: eG Innovations
    Microsoft SoftGrid Advanced Sequencing
    A beginner's guide to Citrix Presentation Server 4 Architecture
    What Resource Manager knows but Won't Tell You
    64-bit Citrix and Terminal Server
    Mission Impossible Printing - Printer and Driver Management
    Building an Application Environment
  The Excrutiating Detail of the Longhorn Server Logon / Logoff Process
    Inside the OS: Windows Cache Manager
    Working with client-side devices and the future of clients
    Which SBC add-on product is the right solution?
    Web-based Longhorn TS Access: The Final Frontier
    Windows Profile Management in today's world
    Streaming Smackdown! Thinstall vs. Altiris SVS vs. Citrix Tarpon vs. Softricity
    Implementing ISA Server 2006 in Collaboration with Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 and Citrix Secure Gateway (CSG)
    Terminal Server Internals
    Understanding and using Software Restriction Policies
    Learn MFCOM
      PNA Architecture in a world of Presentation Server, Application Streaming and VDI, Part 1
    Surviving Printing III: Present and Future
    Automated Installs, Part 1
    Automated Installs, Part 2
      PNA Architecture in a world of Presentation Server, Application Streaming and VDI, Part 2
    How to Create a Virtual File System: Creating an Enterprise “Catalog Based” Virtual File System
    ...and then Pack your Toolbox with SOA
  Sponsor Session: Enteo
    Sponsor Session: Ericom
  Sponsor Session: DataCore Software
      An introduction to Citrix Ardence
    Creating a Dynamic Terminal Server Environment
    SoftGrid Internals
    Servers on Demand: Automating Server Builds & Configurations
    Birds of a Feather: A conversation about Softgrid
    Servers on Demand: Part 2: Best Practices for Application Packaging/Scripting, and Tools from the Trade
    Terminal Services Device Redirection for Windows Server Codenamed Longhorn
  Citrix Presentation Server 4.5: What the new features mean to you
  Application Delivery via USB Media
Evening Beer Reception - Sponsored by DevonIT
BriForum GeekOut! A live game show
    Citrix Application Streaming: panacea or lumpy first effort?
    10 ways to provide applications to users
    Decreasing Windows Login Time: I have 5-7 Second Login Time, You Can Too!
    Performance Tuning & Scaling Your Server Based Computing Deployment Workshop
    How to Deploy a Server Based Computing Environment for 300,000 total (50,000 Concurrent) Users
    A first look at Citrix EdgeSight
      Designing Citrix Access Suite for High Availability: SQL Concepts, Replication and Mirroring with SQL 2005, Part 1
  Solution4 Automation and Best Practice Framework In-depth, Part 1
  Solution4 Automation and Best Practice Framework In-depth, Part 2
      Designing Citrix Access Suite for High Availability: SQL Concepts, Replication and Mirroring with SQL 2005, Part 2
    Web-based Remote Access in a Restricted World
    Overview and Update on Terminal Server for Windows Server Codenamed Longhorn
    Sponsor Session: AppStream/Altiris
  Sponsor Session: Neoware
    An overview of a brand-new Windows Longhorn Terminal Server feature
  Session Printers: To Script or not to Script
  VDI Solutions: A Year Later
    Single Sign-On in the Real World
  Closing Keynote

 

BriForum 2006 Germany

In October 2006 we brought BriForum to Europe. We don't have videos of all the sessions, and we had some audio issues in some of the sessions, but here are all the videos that we have.

Download Session Title
Opening Keynote
This is how we do it: Citrix recipes straight out of the Login Consultants secret kitchen … Part 1!
  How does Presentation Server work?
  Citrix, Citrix on VMware, XP Pro on VMware: A performance comparison, and when to use each
  Citrix Web Interface 4.5 customization
  Hands on: Virtual Applications Exposed
  This is how we do it: Citrix recipes straight out of the Login Consultants secret kitchen … Part 2!
    Terminal Server Licensing
    An Introduction to Programming with MFCOM
    Managing Applications in a Terminal Services Environment
    Terminal Server Internals
    What's Really in the Bubble (Softricity)
  Day Two Keynote: Citrix Projects Ohio and Tarpon
    Effective Change Management and the Modern Application Deployment System: Part 1
    64-bit Terminal Server and 64-bit Presentation Server
    Program Neighborhood Agent Client Architecture: Presentation Server and Application Streaming: Part 1
  Managing Strategic Access Solutions
    Effective Change Management and the Modern Application Deployment System: Part 2
    Managed Microsoft Office Installations for Windows Terminal Server
    Citrix Access Gateway product range – isn’t it just CSG on a box?
    Program Neighborhood Agent Client Architecture: Presentation Server and Application Streaming: Part 2
  Ericom Lunch Session
  AppSense Lunch Session
AEP Lunch Session
  HOB Lunch Session
  visionapp Lunch Session
    Terminal Server API Programming
  The excruciating detail of the Citrix logon process
  What Resource Manager Knows But Won't Tell You
    A Closer Look at Application Virtualization and Streaming Technology
  Application Virtualization Strategy: When, How and What to virtualize?
  The excruciating detail of the Citrix logoff process
    Extending Web-based Longhorn TS Access – The Final Frontier
      Inside the Microsoft OS - Bad apps, threading executive and memory subsystems - Part 1
Birds of a Feather 1
Birds of a Feather 2
Professional load and stress testing made easy with DeNamiK's LoadGen
    Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, a study in how to implement VDI in a Citrix environment from the ground up
      Inside the Microsoft OS - Bad apps, threading executive and memory subsystems - Part 2
    Bad Application Exposed
    Show and Tell: Server Based Computing Performance Troubleshooting
    Designing Citrix Access Suite for high availability: SQL concepts and replication with MSSQL2005
Birds of a Feather 3
  Mission Impossible I + II - Printing
  Using SQL Reporting Services for RMSummary Database Reporting
    Windows "Codename Longhorn" - What´s new in Roaming Profile Management and Active Directory Group Policy Management
    Positioning SBC and Migration Project Best Practices
Closing Keynote

 

BriForum 2006 Washington

BriForum 2006 Washington marked the debut of our side-by-side Quicktime-based video format.

Download Session Title
  Keynote: Welcome to BriForum!
    Surviving Printing
    Configuring and Securing Citrix Shadowing
  Massive Stress testing with DeNamiK’s LoadGen, the free CSTK Alternative by Daniel Nikolic
    Measurement of Actual End User Experience
    Intro to flex profiles
    Best practices for printing in today's world: CPS 4 and the third-party tools
    How Web Interface Secures User Credentials
  Understanding Session Reliability through Secure Gateway 3.0
    How to read a crash dump file
  Sponsor Lunch Session: Lakeside Software
  Sponsor Lunch Session: Ericom
  Sponsor Lunch Session: Provision Networks
    How to design Citrix farms for high availability and multiple element failures: Backup Datacenter
    When good software goes bad - Part 1
  This is how we do it: Citrix recipes straight out of the Login Consultants secret kitchen
    How to align with Microsoft and Citrix
    Terminal Server Internals - Part 1
    When Good Software goes Bad - Part 2
    Server-Based Computing Software roundup
    Terminal Server Load Balancing
    Terminal Server Internals - Part 2
  Presentation Server Tuning Tips and Tricks (or, the future of the movement previously known as “Citrix MetaFrame for Windows Servers- Installation and Tuning Tips”)
Keynote: Microsoft & Terminal Services: Past, Present, and Future
    The Architecture of Citrix Memory Optimization Management
    Introduction and tour of 64-bit Terminal Server and 64-bit Citrix Presentation Server
    An Application Toolkit for Terminal Services
    Sarbanes-Oxley COBIT and You
  A Community Open Letter to Citrix and Microsoft
    Bad Applications Exposed
Project Shasta: the MEo "Windows Enclave"
    Citrix Web Interface 4.x customization
  The Excruciating detail of Citrix logon process
  Sponsor Lunch Session: Neoware
  Sponsor Lunch Session: triCerat
  Sponsor Lunch Session: Performance IT
  Sponsor Lunch Session: AEP Networks
    Program Neighborhood Agent Architecture and Mobile User Impact
    Citrix Access Gateway and Advanced Access Control
  Reference Architecture
    Terminal Services Licensing
Methodology-in-a-Box version 4, Hands-On installation of new components
  A Microsoft Guided Discussion about TS Licensing
    Operationalizing your VMware environment
    Automated Root Cause Analysis
    Hands-On "Customizing WI4"
    Application Deployment and Management on Citrix and Terminal Servers
  Day Three Keynote: Citrix
    How to design Citrix farms for high availability and multiple element failures: Web Interface Redundancy
    Terminal Server in Multi-Language Environments
    Programming with the Terminal Server API
    Managed desktops: Citrix published apps vs. bladed PCs vs. Windows XP VMs accessed via ICA
    An introduction to Citrix scripting for non-developers
    Citrix, Citrix on VMware, XP Pro on VMware: A performance comparison, and when to use each
    Security - Part 1
  Sponsor Lunch Session: eG Innovations
  Sponsor Lunch Session: visionapp
    Hacking a Print Job
  Citrix Presentation Server Future Technologies
    Sarbanes-Oxley & COBIT control objectives Technical Implementation
    Avoiding the Patch Tuesday Blues
    Perspectives on the Future
  Security - Part 2
  Closing Keynote

 

BriForum 2005 Washington

April 2005 marked the debut of this little expirement we called "BriForum." BriForum 2005 was two days and 35 technical breakout sessions.

Download Session Title
Simplify Suite v4 from the Inside Out
Optimizing Citrix MetaFrame with Workload Management
Server-Based Computing: To the Desktop and Beyond
Why use Systrack
Technical Overview of the UniPrint Product Suite
Reducing Problem Resolution Times in Citrix MetaFrame and Web Application Environments
Birds of a Feather: Application Workshop Continued
Birds of a Feather: Using WMI Scripting to Manage Citrix Servers
Closing Comments and Prize Drawings
Flex Profiles in Practice Part 2
Introduction to Scripting in MetaFrame Environments Part 2
Surviving Printing Part 2
ThinPrint More than just Driver Free and UPD III
      Desktop Design for Small and Mid-size Farms
      Introduction to Scripting in MetaFrame Environments Part 1
      Proper Group Policy use and Design for Server-Based Computing
      Designing the world's largest Citrix MetaFrame environments
      How Seamless Windows Really Works
    MetaFrame Presentation Server 4: Real World Preview
      Flex Profiles in Practice Part 1
      Measuring Perceived Performance and Virtual Machines
      Antivirus Software in Terminal Server and Citrix environments
      Pure Terminal Server Deployments: Strategies and Pitfalls
      Linux in a Citrix environment
      High Availability Strategies
      Debugging and Tuning Applications on Terminal Services
    VMware in Citrix environments