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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:00 PM

Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server Best Practices from Microsoft IT

Microsoft IT recently published a paper detailing their early-adopter experience with TS in Windows Server 2008 . They share some server sizing best practice recommendations, viz: Best Practices By deploying Terminal Services 2008 in both small and large
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Monday, March 03, 2008 8:31 AM

Microsoft Online Services TechCenter Launches

There is a new TechCenter today, check out the Microsoft Online Services TechCenter . Is this the future of IT? The intro information includes: "Microsoft Online Beta services provide your company or organization with key communication and collaboration
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Friday, February 29, 2008 8:44 AM

Windows Server 2008 New Features/Required Editions Grid

Microsoft.com has posted a nifty grid at https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/compare-features.aspx that shows you which versions of Windows Server 2008 are required for the new features: New and Updated Features in Windows Server 2008 KEY:
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:20 PM

Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Gateway Setup Troubleshooter

If you have an issue after your initial setup of Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services, you can make use of the troubleshooting section on TechNet . Here are some additional things to check, and steps to consider: Check that the TS server role is installed
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:08 PM

How to Harden Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services

Chapter 11 of the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide: Hardening Terminal Services is now live on TechNet. The details of the attack surface for the Terminal Services role(s) are included in the Windows Server 2008 Attack Surface Reference workbook included
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Monday, February 25, 2008 2:00 PM

Free Windows Server 2008 Deployment Planning Tool

If you liked the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment , you will love the free Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator . Free, agent-less deskotp and server assessment, including hardware and device inventory, compatibility analysis, and readiness
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Friday, February 22, 2008 10:30 PM

Windows Server 2008 TS Gateway Troubleshooting

Check out the new troubleshooting information on TechNet, we think you'll like it. F'rinstance, the tshooter for TS Gateway : Name Description TS Gateway Server Availability if(typeof(IsPrinterFriendly) != "undefined") { var l = "/WindowsServer2008/en/library/32f19950-9362-4eba-b1ff-39e273dd06451033.mspx";
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:08 AM

Who Moved my IAS?

If you used RADIUS servers to provide centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting of your clients connecting to network resources, you know that in Windows Server 2003 this was called Internet Authentication Service (IAS). Look for IAS in
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:39 PM

DaRT to the Heart - In anticipation of Valentine's day

Apologies to you Bruce Cockburn fans, I have a condition that lowers my resistance to puns and obscure 90's culture references...this blog headline is a two-fer. The Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset is probably the best known secret weapon in
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:20 AM

Virtualization Gets 1st Class TechNet Citizenship

Virtualization is all growed up, TechCenter of its own and everthang. Check out the new Virtualization TechCenter at: http://technet.microsoft.com/virtualization .
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Monday, February 04, 2008 8:32 AM

Terminal Services 2008 IPD Video on the Edge

There's an interesting new video on TechNet edge . This one shows background on the folks creating the Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides, with focus on the Server 2008 terminal services infrastructure planning & design guide (IPD) .
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 2:29 PM

TS: /console is dead, long live /admin

The Terminal Services Team blog has a great explanatory post on the changes to remote administration using mstsc.exe with the release of RDC/RDP 6.1. Bottom line: going forward, you won't be able to use the /console switch on mstsc.exe, you'll use /admin
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:38 AM

Terminal Services Free Webcasts

I have just joined the WS08 Terminal Services team, and there are a ton of webcasts I just missed. I'll be checking these out to ramp up, you might find them useful too: TechNet Webcast: The Significance of the Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Release
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