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We have just shipped Terminal Services Log 3.7

Frane Borozan — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:36:04 +0000

We’ve shipped Terminal Services Log 3.7. It’s one of the “major releases”. The most important new feature is live active session count for each server. This is only add on feature pack to the existing build while waiting for the TSL 4.0 that will introduce a lot of new things.

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Product version: 3.7.1.40303
Build number: 40303
Database version: 3.7.0.42701
Release date: Thursday March 1, 2012

Features

Active session count allows you to see live number of active sessions per server and combined for all servers

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Installation PDF Booklet

Frane Borozan — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:55:45 +0000

Since many of our customers suggested that they would find an Installation PDF Booklet helpful, we have created one.

Here is a list of topics featured in the booklet that you might find useful:

Installation Guide
Quick Installation Guide
Installation Steps
Install stand alone server – Embedded Database
Config SQL Security for Installation
Enable Enterprise Version Trial
Install with DBA databases
Prepare Active Directory domain
Preparing SQL Server
Installation

New Brochure Out

Frane Borozan — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:33:07 +0000

We are happy to announce that we have a new brochure out where you can find out more about new features and benefits of TSL.

To check out the brochure follow this link: http://www.terminalserviceslog.com/datasheet/TSL.pdf

Terminal Services Log 3.5 is out with major new features

Frane Borozan — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:48:53 +0000

It has been almost a year since we first launched the completely redesigned, almost built from scratch, version 3.0. There have been numerous enhancements and new features since the launch, but today we are happy to present the biggest upgrade among 3.X versions – Terminal Services Log 3.5.

Split reports on published applications and server desktops

All users connecting to Remote Desktop Services can be divided into two main groups – ones that use applications directly on the server (published apps in XenApp or RemoteApps in Remote Desktop Services) and others who have their full server desktops.

When one analyzed users and application activity with the previous version of Terminal Services Log, one could see the overall stats filter by certain criteria, but was not able to split the ones that use published apps or server desktops.

Not only that the newest Terminal Services Log can split and filter the results, but it can also automatically detect all published applications and server desktops. That makes the new feature easy to use allowing you to filter only the sessions that use published apps.

Split report per Server desktop and Published apps only

Private and Global report views

Our customers wanted to create a predefined set of filters that would define servers as a logical farm, users as a logical organization et cetera. Such views could be save but every time you had to choose particular servers or users yourself.

Any combination of users and servers can now be saved and deployed as Private or Global view. Global view is available for all reports while private view is available only for the selected reports.

New Session count report and Private/Global views allow you to create personalized views

User management like Remote Desktop Manager and Citrix AppCenter

Your are familiar with the Remote Desktop Manager or Citrix AppCenter. They enable you to manage users and applications, and we decided to implement some of their functionalities and enhance them in Terminal Services Log, making TSL more than a reporting software only.

Session management implemented in Terminal Service Log 3.5. lets you assist end users, help them use remote desktop and terminate applications on a single and group level. It provides much more flexibility than RD Manager or Citrix AppCenter by enabling you to filter only a few users, applications or servers and perform session log off on the server/group level or, for example, kill all Internet Explorers in your farm.

Session management allows you to manage al users and application across almonitored servers

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Product version: 3.5.9.41105
Build number: 41101
Database version: 3.5.4.41101
Release date: Monday, November 7, 2011

Other new features

Session count report provides the same data as the Dashboard, counting all users across all servers displaying load per sessions in your farm.
Performance report that allows you to monitor hard disk utilization.
Merged report that combines user activities and applications in one place.
Ability to configure a real-time alert when servers go offline.
Option to select one e-mail to be sent daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly with a single schedule.
Choose which day of the week will be your starting day for receiving weekly reports.
Configurable empty e-mail, sent if there was no activity on the servers.
Check all server statuses at once with the server tab.
Warning about exceeding the database limit on Microsoft SQL Express.

Bug fixes

XLSX formatting was in a number format.
Adding users from the domain was slow, now there is a progress bar with import status.
Sometimes user activity would be zero.
You couldn’t import users that had special characters in the name.
You couldn’t search in OUs that had special characters in the name.
Anonymous sessions wouldn’t work correctly in the Professional Edition.
Export to Excel pivot in custom reports with time spent had issues.
CPU utilization sometimes was over 100% because of the bug in Windows performance counters.
Huge SQL database would sometimes timeout on upgrade.
When you disabled a job, the job would actually .
Session type filter was not working on the Dashboard.

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We have just shipped Terminal Services Log 3.4.2

Frane Borozan — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:54:51 +0000

We have shipped Terminal Services Log 3.4.2. It’s one of the “minor releases”. The most important fix is better and faster Active Directory Integration.

Product version: 3.4.2.40923
Build number: 40923
Database version: 3.4.1.40909
Release date: September 23rd 2011

Bug fixes

Active Directory import would take a long time and it would not finish for some domains
Servers would go offline sometimes if AD import was enabled

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We’ve just shipped Terminal Services Log 3.4

Frane Borozan — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:25:00 +0000

We’ve shipped Terminal Services Log 3.4.0. It’s one of the “major releases”. The most important new feature is better filtering and ability to combine multiple filters with multiple selections in custom reports.

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Product version: 3.4.0.40715
Build number: 40715
Database version: 3.3.7.40615
Release date: September 1st 2011

Features

New custom reports conditions for better filtering of the reports. New filters include weekdays and organization units
Ability to use multiple conditions under same filter

Bug fixes

AD import for some domains was not working
Servers would go offline if AD import was enabled

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Virtual Desktop Monitor launched, enabling monitoring of VDI environment

Frane Borozan — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:14:59 +0000

The first application designed for monitoring the virtualized desktop environment, Virtual Desktop Monitor 1.0, has just been launched. It supports all major desktop virtualization technologies and provides detailed monitoring and reporting on all users and software activity.

Acceleratio Ltd, the manufacturer of Virtual Desktop Monitor, is the company specialized in software products for monitoring remote desktop activities. Their products include Terminal Services Log and Remote Desktop Gateway Monitor. Virtual Desktop Monitor completes the product line by covering the fast growing VDI market.

Virtual Desktop Monitor consists of three main reporting categories: user activity, application usage and license compliance. User activity reports help in recognizing how efficient employees are and give deep analysis of the behaviour for each team or team member. Application usage reports show how much each application is used and emphasize application usage patterns. License compliance reports indicate if you are over-licensed or under-licensed for a certain software product being used in the virtual desktop environment and therefore enable organizations to optimize licensing costs.

All reports can be scheduled to be received by email. Custom reports are also supported and can be created using a simple wizard.

Virtual Desktop Monitor runs on Windows Server 2008 R2 and supports all major desktop virtualization technologies including Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft Desktop Virtualization, Quest vWorkspace and VMware View. Customers using any of these technologies have the same, complete set of features available.

The product is licensed per number of monitored virtualized desktops. The price starts at $999 for a 25- desktop license.

Additional information and trial version download are available at www.virtualdesktopmonitor.com.

“I am very happy that Virtual Desktop Monitor has finally been launched since we had many inquiries from our existing customers asking for that type of product. The product will be an important enhancement of our existing suite of server monitoring products. Even before the official announcement, many people found the website and asked if they can try the beta because there are no similar offers on the market. That makes us believe we are on the right track!”, said Frane Borozan, head of SBC/VDI product group in Acceleratio Ltd.

We’ve just shipped Terminal Services Log 3.3

Frane Borozan — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:13:05 +0000

We’ve shipped Terminal Services Log 3.3.6. It’s one of the “major releases”. The most important new feature is Performance Counters management User Interface.

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Product version: 3.3.6.40607
Build number: 40607
Database version: 3.3.2.40506
Release date: June 7th 2011

Features

New performance counters management that allows you to easily manage performance counters across entire farm, allows you to recreate performance counters, start, stop and check status
Organization unit filter is now hierarchical and reflects Active Directory tree structure

Enhancements

You can now select up to 365 day range for most reports
Session log ignores disconnected states showing more precise data
The system checks server name against Active Directory when adding the server manually
Users can cancel loading of huge reports
Export to Excel now has the same column order as on the screen

Bug fixes

Changing user permissions was not propagated to the underlying database
Users could not edit username of a user
Pivot table issues when resizing reports grid
SQL date/time conversion to Spanish SQL server was not working correctly
Some reports would show multiple values on daily memory performance reports when the user selected multiple days
Only Administrators could launch Configuration Wizard and change SMTP settings
If “Check now” command was executed some servers could be disabled
There was an additional entry when the user changed states from Active to Disconnected
PDF export was not formatted correctly
Excel export was missing footer on User Activity reports
Pivot table horizontal scroll was not working
One could enable Anonymous sessions and Role based security at the same time
The system could not delete performance counters when console was running on Windows 2003
Sorting fixed for multiple reports

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Terminal Server Capacity Planning and Monitoring Terminal Server Performance

Frane Borozan — Thu, 12 May 2011 12:56:20 +0000

The key parameter to consider when planning your Terminal Server Capacity (Remote Desktop Session Host server capacity) is how many users it will be able to host. Terminal Server Capacity Planning is necessary to ensure optimal server performance and to reduce help desk calls.

One server hosting lightweight applications (low CPU/Memory consumption) might support a huge number of users, but a server with similar hardware configuration hosting heavyweight might only support a few users on the server. Before you design your environment you need to know what kind of applications will be running and the easiest approach is to monitor how many CPU/memory resources are being used.

Terminal Services Log allows you to easily monitor resource consumption on a remote server, not just overall server performance, but application and user performance as well. We offer following report groups:

Farm Performance (overall performance across all Terminal Server / Remote Desktop Session Hosts or Citrix XenApp servers)
Server Performance (individual server performance)
Application Performance (single application performance or aggregated for multiple applications)
User Performance (individual user performance, overall CPU/memory consumed, across entire farm or single server)

The following table shows which reports in each of those groups are available.

Report group Helps you size	Memory	CPU
Farm Performance	Physical Memory Usage Report Committed Bytes in User Performance	Processor Time Performance Report User Time Performance
Server Performance	Physical Memory Usage Report Committed Bytes in User Performance	Processor Time Performance Report User Time Performance
Application Performance	Overall Working Set Performance by Application	Overall Process Performance by Application
User Performance	Overall Working Set Performance by User	Overall Process Performance by User

Reports allow you to easily group data into: monthly, weekly, daily or hourly views.

Sample report: Processor Time Performance

Conclusion

Terminal Server Monitoring and capacity planning is a continuous process that needs to be performed on a regular basis, examine reports and adjust your infrastructure to changing needs of your users connecting to the Remote Desktop Session Host server or Citrix XenApp server. Start Monitoring performance of Remote Desktop Session Host/Citrix XenApp server now. Download a free trial of Terminal Services Log and identify users and applications consuming resources in your farms.

We’ve just shipped Terminal Services Log 3.2.3

Frane Borozan — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:32:38 +0000

We’ve shipped Terminal Services Log 3.2.3. It’s one of the “minor releases”, with small improvements and bug fixes. Click here to download new release.

Product version: 3.2.3.40430
Build number: 40430
Database version: 3.2.0.40228
Release date: April 20th 2011.

Bug fixes

Network traffic for Remote Desktop Gateway was not calculated correctly if a user disconnected the session
In certain situations the information about disabled users was not propagated from AD to Terminal Services Log
On Chinese simplified Windows operating system you could not use Custom Reports wizard
When importing data from Active Directory, organizational units were marked as security groups
A user could be assigned to an unknown OU
The collector service could get stuck while gathering data

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