I can't count the times that Sysinternals tools have
provided me with the much needed insight into Windows and why it insisted on
making me pull my hair out. Process Monitor has been the most helpful tool in
that respect (probably the sole reason I have any hair left today).Recently it
was updated to version 2.0.
The Remote Desktop connection Web Connection used to be a (popular) option to provide access to Terminal Servers in Windows 2003.With Windows Server 2008 and it’s new TS features this can be utilized in more professional fashion by making TS Web Access Remote Desktop Web Connection work over TS Gateway.
A couple of weeks ago Microsoft (dare I say finally) released Softgrid 4.5, which is officially called App-V. This feature has a number of new features but one of the most important features is the support of streaming of applications over HTTP.
Some time ago I mentioned that are particularly popular tool for Windows Server Core, CoreConfigurator, had been discontinued. In that same article I suggested that someone else would continue the development of this tool, because it seems to be so popular. Well, as it turns out, someone has!
Recently Microsoft spiced up the Microsoft-Vmware hypervisor show with the announcement that they will be offering a “bare-metal” version of Hyper-V for free called: Hyper-V Server 2008. Coincidentally this was announced just before VMworld 2008. The download was going to be available later. Later is now.
VMware Workstation 6.5 for Windows has been released. Historically very popular amongst engineers (hopefully some of the readers) will probably now start to appeal to less technical users as well because of some of the cool new features.
Login Consultants has just released an
updated version of their freebenchmarking tool, Login Virtual
Session Indexer or more affectionally called Login VSI. It has some
interesting new features.
With BriForum not being held in Europe
anymore, PubForum is (once again?) the main SBC and VDI event in
Europe. The next edition is coming up next November and the agenda
is looking cool!
In my work for Quest I have to demonstrate
the Virtual Access Suite and the integration with the different
Hypervisors a lot. One of those supported Hypervisors is ESX. Now I
know that many of us have struggled to set up a test ESX / VC
enviroment. Recenly I ran into an article explaining how you can
set up an ESX environments with storage for free (well with free
software).
The TS Gateway is one of the most popular
and implemented of the new features of Terminal Services in Windows
Server 2008. One way to implement TS Gateway is to "publish" it
with an Microsoft ISA Server. Not sure how to do that? Don't
worry!
