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Every Windows Admin Should Know: Template User vs Mr Nobody
09 March 07 02:28 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Raymond beats me to the punch (mine was going to be rant-i-er, but five times * as funny), on how the HKEY_USERS\.Default , despite having the word "Default" in the key name, isn't "The Default User" from which all others are initially spawned. It's possibly Read More...
NLB Ain't Application-Aware
01 March 07 04:04 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   
It's been ages since I touched on anything wibbles-related , but I realized I'd neglected a very common query: If one of my applications is under load, will Network Load Balancing route/move/transfer all the additional load to the other server? No . As Read More...
PAE and VMM... For Parky
27 May 06 12:50 AM | tristank | 2 Comments   
Well Parky, you asked , so I'm going to try to answer! The way I think about PAE is that it kinda works a bit like a stonking great in-memory pagefile might. It doesn't change the game for 32-bit applications, but it does give the OS more headroom to Read More...
Terminal Server / Remote Desktop DoS Issue
19 July 05 11:26 AM | tristank | 1 Comments   
Via TonySo : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/904797.mspx Our initial investigation has revealed that a denial of service vulnerability exists that could allow an attacker to send a specially crafted Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) request Read More...
Windows Server 2003 SP1 Automatic Updates Blocker
22 June 05 10:56 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Blocking tools and information for SP1 Read More...
And the Windows Server 2003 x64 version is out there too!
30 March 05 11:27 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Versions of Microsoft Windows for AMD64 and EM64T are now available: Windows Server 2003: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/trial/default.mspx MSDN Subscriber Downloads have both versions available now, under Windows Server 2003 and Read More...
Windows Server 2003 SP1 Out Now
30 March 05 09:55 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=22CFC239-337C-4D81-8354-72593B1C1F43 If you've been waiting for this - it's finally baked! Read More...
New Feature: RDP over SSL with Windows Server 2003 SP1
24 February 05 02:49 PM | tristank | 14 Comments   
Release Candidate 2 for Windows Server 2003 SP1 is available to test from microsoft.com, which means RTM can't be that far away! A new feature in SP1 (at least, present in the RC2 build of SP1) that's been causing some confusion is RDP over SSL - a new Read More...
Ninja Feature: Remote Web Workplace in SBS2003
14 October 04 10:28 PM | tristank | 13 Comments   
Remote Web Workplace is (in my humble opinion) The Ninja Feature of SBS2003. In fact, it gets the inaugural EBTDF Ninja Feature award for being so cool. Thanks to Susan Bradley for putting me on to it . Let me say right now - if you're using Small Business Read More...
Publishing RDP (Terminal Servers, XP Remote Desktop) with TSWeb (and ISA 2004)
16 August 04 04:54 PM | tristank | 9 Comments   
My last post on TSWeb (aka TSAC or Remote Desktop Web Connection) continues to be one of my most-hit blogs, so I spent a little time working with the TSWeb default connection page to try to simplify some of the bits that people were asking about. The Read More...
Communities Blog Portal Now Open! With Keyword RSS Feeds!
10 July 04 12:16 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/blogs/PortalHome.mspx Coolest feature: the ability to fashion a keyword/category query into an RSS feed across all Microsoft blogs. If you're only interested in certain things (and personalities be damned!), you can Read More...
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...
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...

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