March 2004 - Posts

IRL: Busy Week
26 March 04 10:43 AM | tristank | 2 Comments   

I did actually start writing a couple more infrastructure posts, but often in the course of researching them, I'd find documentation already existed. My thinking is that it might be useful just to draw attention to them, so next time, I'll stick to the Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

ISA 2000: CARP and NLB
19 March 04 04:17 PM | tristank | (Comments Off)   

Short version: If you want to use both, for best results: Web Proxy clients should use the array routing script/WPAD and need direct connectivity to each array member through a non-load-balanced address. SecureNAT clients use the NLB VIP as the default Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Networking

ISA 2000: Port Forwarding and Port Address Translation (PAT)
19 March 04 11:20 AM | tristank | 4 Comments   

Short version: ISA 2000 isn't out-of-the-box able to change published ports when doing Server Publishing. (I think Application Filters can be written to do this, but I'm not totally sure). ISA 2004 can do this. Long version: RRAS has had the ability to Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Terminal Server, Networking

How TSWeb / TSAC / Remote Desktop Web Connection Client Works
18 March 04 08:59 PM | tristank | 40 Comments   

[Update 16 Aug 2004] I've posted some sample TSWeb HTM file that handles different ports too, and steps for how to get it working* with ISA 2004 (or other Port Address Translation-capable firewalls) in this post: Publishing RDP (Terminal Servers, XP Remote Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Terminal Server, Networking

WshShell.Run and Long File Names
18 March 04 01:06 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

I hit this the other day - when using the Wsh Shell object's Run method in VBScript, passing a long filename (LFN) tends to truncate, so: set oShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") oShell.Run "C:\Documents and Settings\Tester\Desktop\TestFile.Doc" will Read More...

Filed under: Developery, IT Pro / Sysadmin