| Welcome to the MSTerminalServices.org newsletter by Stefan Vermeulen, MVP and Citrix CTP. Each month we will bring you interesting and helpful information on MS Terminal Services and server based computing. We want to know what all *you* are interested in hearing about. Please send your suggestions for future newsletter content to: SVermeulen@MSTerminalServices.org Doug Brown Gives Nod To SecureIDA Publishing & Security. Integrated SSL VPN Coming Soon! See what Doug said here: http://dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=5033
SecureIDA delivers remote users and branch offices secure access to applications, servers, and data. The platform is packaged to eliminate any financial barriers to your using it and getting exposure to the administrator and end-user interface. IT staff configures and end users easily access resources through a common managed portal. Easy to add resources, secure on-demand access
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1. What's up? Hello there, This week HP announced the acquisition of Neoware and a few weeks ago announced a partnership with Thinprint to incorporate the clients for its t5530 and t5135 series. Together with Thin Client vendors offering more and more VDI support in their terminals, things are heading in the right direction. It's going to be an interesting upcoming year for the application delivery market. Microsoft has released another June beta of their Windows Server 2008 which now includes IIS 7 so it seems to be getting pretty close to RTM as all the stuff is in it now. With Vista not being the success Microsoft has hoped for, I am curious to see how Server 2008 will take off. So much for now! Catch you later! Doug Brown Gives Nod To SecureIDA Publishing & Security. Integrated SSL VPN Coming Soon!See what Doug said here: http://dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=5033
SecureIDA delivers remote users and branch offices secure access to applications, servers, and data. The platform is packaged to eliminate any financial barriers to your using it and getting exposure to the administrator and end-user interface. IT staff configures and end users easily access resources through a common managed portal. Easy to add resources, secure on-demand access
Download everything needed free! 2. KB Articles of the Month Here are some interesting and useful Terminal Services related articles posted by Microsoft in the last month: - User profiles are not removed after you log off a terminal server that is running Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894791 - User cannot create a Terminal Server roaming profile path if a user with the same name has logged on from another domain
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821929 - Error message when you try to use the Remote Assistance feature on a computer that is running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003: "You do not have access to logon to this session"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938121 Hotfixes of the month - The outgoing network activity from a terminal server becomes very slow when you use the Tsadmin.exe program in Windows Server 2003 to enumerate the list of terminal servers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842630 - Stop error message when a client computer logs off from a Terminal Services session on a server that is running Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or with SP2: "Stop 0x000000AB (SESSION_HAS_VALID_POOL_ON_EXIT)"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925919 - FIX: The Terminal Services service stops responding in Windows Server 2003 and you receive an "The RPC service is unavailable" error message when you try to connect to the terminal server by using the Remote Desktop Connection program
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883670 3. Ask our MVPs a question
This is simple and straight forward: shoot us your TS/Citrix question and we will get some of the top Terminal Services MVPs together and get you an answer, from everyone's point of view! The best question of the month will be published here with all the answers from these guys. Just email us at SVermeulen@MSTerminalServices.org.
QUESTION: Stefan, I am hearing a lot of buzz around VDIs lately. Is VDI something that can help my Terminal Server environment in any way? Regards, Buzz Bert ANSWER: Dear Bert,
You are correct. VDI is the latest buzzword in the application delivery market. Do not let yourself get all hyped up just yet. It's all early bird stuff, but rest assured that it will take off in the future. For now VDI is basically your best solution for creating environments which you can offer to guest consultants, temp workers or for locations where you cannot install a normal PC. Have a bunch of VDIs running to facilitate, and see how it works out.
Just don't run out to buy a SAN and a bunch of VMware licenses to set up your entire network with VDIs before thorough testing and learning the benefits and drawbacks of this technology.
(For those of you unfamiliar with VDI it stands for Virtual Desktop Interface and it's a remote desktop session pointing to an XP or Vista instance. It can be a regular XP client machine, or a VMware instance running XP Pro on the network. The client can be a normal desktop or a thin client device.) 4. Learning Zone We have a great group of articles in the Learning Zone that will help you get a handle on your most difficult configuration issues. Here are just a few of the newer and more interesting articles: - Alternatives to Citrix Presentation Server. Part 1 and Part 2
Date - June 27 and July 10, 2007; Author - Wilco van Bragt; Section - Articles :: General
In these articles Wilco does a small comparison of all Citrix Presentation server alternatives that are out there. A nifty overview to get a quick impression of each product. - How to: Publish Windows Explorer Shell Extensions and Control Panel Applets
Date - July 13, 2007; Author - Patrick Rouse; Section - Articles :: General
In this article Patrick discusses how to publish Windows Explorer shell extensions with Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 TS RemoteApps, Citrix Presentation Server and Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite. Doug Brown Gives Nod To SecureIDA Publishing & Security. Integrated SSL VPN Coming Soon!See what Doug said here: http://dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=5033
SecureIDA delivers remote users and branch offices secure access to applications, servers, and data. The platform is packaged to eliminate any financial barriers to your using it and getting exposure to the administrator and end-user interface. IT staff configures and end users easily access resources through a common managed portal. Easy to add resources, secure on-demand access
Download everything needed free! 5. Rumors on the SBC Space What's new this month? February 27, 2008 is the date to keep in mind. That is the date set for the release of Windows Server 2008. (Together with Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 for those interested). This was announced at the worldwide partner conference earlier this month. Interested in an overview of the differences between Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows Server 2008? Make sure to check out this (pretty big) document from Microsoft on the matter here. The team from CTRL+ALT+DEL in Australia has done it again. This time it's a replacement tool for the delprof utility in the resource kit. They have come up with their own version called Remprof. REMPROF has the ability to delete user profiles on the local machine based on age, username, or SID association. Check it out here. And last but not least, is Project Mobius Beta 2 from Jason Conger. This tool has been made to migrate Citrix farms, instead of creating temporary environments, just move it all the way. If you need to migrate Citrix environments, make sure to check it out here. See you next month! Doug Brown Gives Nod To SecureIDA Publishing & Security. Integrated SSL VPN Coming Soon!See what Doug said here: http://dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=5033
SecureIDA delivers remote users and branch offices secure access to applications, servers, and data. The platform is packaged to eliminate any financial barriers to your using it and getting exposure to the administrator and end-user interface. IT staff configures and end users easily access resources through a common managed portal. Easy to add resources, secure on-demand access
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Network Security & Information Security resource for IT administrators. | WindowsNetworking.com
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