Vista – The Road to Production at UVM
As everyone now knows, Vista has officially launched. We don’t expect to see Vista shipping on new Dell systems until sometime in January, but that is really just around the corner. Vista has dozens of significant new features and hundreds of smaller changes that will affect [...]
Brian Madden runs an awesome Blog on Terminal Services, both from MS and Citrix. I found this exceptional article which ennumerates free tools for TS management:http://www.brianmadden.com/content/content.asp?ID=466
With these most useful links:http://www.brainsys.be/default.asp?pg=15A kernel-level lockdown tool for Terminal Servershttp://threadmaster.tripod.com/A tool for throttling application threads on a TS.http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=2606126Microsoft Print Driver redirection tool. Too COOL!
The Blog also contained these articles [...]
In preparing to cut-over our dying Citrix Terminal Server to modern Server 2003 R2 Terminal Servers, I have discovered an interesting application that was developed in-house called “Casey”.
The app has many external dependencies which I am trying to get functioning on the new TS boxes.
First challenge – MIT Kerberos for Windows.
Tricks here were:
Install a current [...]
So this should be fun… wehave a SQL Server, now to add databases…
MOM 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=917615
Dell IT Assistant
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/remote_sql_server_ita7.pdf
Well, it has been a fun week of migrating our Symantec AntiVirus servers from old, dying Dell 5th-gen PowerEdge servers onto bleeding-edge ESX virtual machines. Here are some of the highlights:
Firewall changes:
In moving the servers, we had to assign new IP addresses in our protected 102.0 subnet. Thus, I had to research the [...]