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Safe Task Manager For Terminal Server Users

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:07:55 +0000

Some things never change. Or just really slowly. A long time ago I made a "hacked" version of the Windows Task Manager so it could be used in a Terminal Server environment. Recently the brilliant guys over at Control Alt Delete consultancy released a tool called TSTaskManager. Guess what that does... the same idea, only better executed this time!

CoreConfigurator, ehm Smart-X CoreConfigurator

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:23:32 +0000

Remember CoreConfigurator? This was one of the first tools to provide a GUI for the GUIless version of Windows Server Core. If you tried to use it recently you'll have found that it was not available anymore. Why? Well, that has a decent amount of "bold and the beautiful" material to it.

Vmware Announces Own "MVP Status": (VMware Virtualization Professional)

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:05:47 +0000

After Microsoft with the MVP status and Citrix with their Citrix Technology Professional, Vmware is going to create a "VP status" of their own called the VMware Virtualization Professional or VVP for short.

Explaing Certificates On The TS Gateway

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:20:07 +0000

The TS Gateway in Terminal Server 2008 is one of the more popular additions to Terminal Server. Recently the Terminal Server team published an insightful article about the TSGateway and how it used certificates to secure the traffic.

Creating Management Shortcuts For The Consoles of your Hyper-V Guests

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:27:14 +0000

Those of you who have been working with Hyper-V a lot might have wanted to very quickly connect to the console a VM hosted on a Hyper-V box. You can use the Hyper-V manager but isn't the fastest solution. What if you could use shortcuts like you use .rdp shortcuts today? Well you can.

A New Way To Dealing With A Lot of VMs On Your Laptop

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:09:19 +0000

Techies got a mixed blessing a couple of years ago. With the tools like Vmware Workstation it was suddenly possible to carry entire server farms with you on your laptop! However, since then the challenge of the available resources on your laptop has stuck it's ugly head up. If you are using Vmware Workstation 6.5 there is hope...

Multiframe 5 Review: PXEboot a Device into a Thin Client

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:01:15 +0000

Many organizations that are looking to do VDI or Terminal Services are planning to use Thin Clients in their environments. However, it is not uncommon that it is not (financially) desirable to replace all desktops with new Thin Client. That does not mean you can not reek the benefits of Thin Clients. You can PXE boot your old desktops to "turn them into Thin Clients". Multiframe is a program that allows you to do just this.

Windows 7 RDP Improvements: What's In Your Face?

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:03:09 +0000

At lot has been said about the improvements in the RDP implementation of Windows 7 (RDP 7), especially since the PDC. Let's take a look at what's what based on the material we can discuss (published material).

Login Consultants Spins Of Software Development Company: Immidio

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:40:11 +0000

The company I used to work for in the past, Login Consultants, has always been famous for the many brilliant tools that they have offered over the past 5 years or so. These tools were free and (as a result?) unsupported. Today, Login Consultants has taken their software one step further and has spun off a separate software development company called: Immidio.

Printer Detective

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In Server Based Computing environment printers, or more accurately printer drivers are a constant pain. Having a universal printing product can take away that pain but sometimes you still need to get down and dirty with printers drivers anyway.