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Several New SBC Tools Released

Tuesday, 01 August 2006 by Michel Roth

Brian Madden has has posted about some nifty tools that were provided to him by the visitors of his site.

Web Interface Security Virtual Keyboard Login
Yuri Haak over at CitrixThings.com has just released a "virtual keyboard login" to enhance the security of Web Interface 4.2. A virtual keyboard login is an application that displays an image of a keyboard on your screen. You then "press" the keys by clicking on them with your mouse instead of typing the actual keys. To enhance security, the data entry layout changes every time the page is refreshed.

PDF Creator
PDF creator is a novel printing fix / workaround for printing to unsupported printers. It's an open source project. All you have to do is install it on the terminal server and the client. All of the configuration is done on the client�s computer, including the ability to save directly to a file without prompting the user and then to automatically print that saved file to a printer. Thus the user can now print directly to their unsupported printer without any additional steps. (This is better than some of the older PDF Writer-style solutions that required the user to "print" twice--once on the server and once on the client. An added bonus is that the user can use it to print and email PDF documents.

Publish Applications via Windows Explorer 'Send To' Menu
Andrew Wood has just created this cool script that lets you publish applications on your Presentation Server via the "Send To" right-click menu in Windows Explorer. The first time you use it, you configure which existing published application you'll use as a template (mainly for user permissions). Then you can fly through Windows Explorer and publish all sorts of things. I'm not sure how must use this will get publishing production applications for users. However, it's great for building out a quick test environment, or for publishing a bunch of applications for administrators.

List number of users for each published application
Jeff Durbin has written a pretty cool VBS script that calculates how many unique users have access to each published application in a farm, as well as how many unique users have access to the farm as a whole. It then dumps all of this data to an Excel spreadsheet.