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The Terminal Services Management Pack for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 monitors the health and performance of Terminal Services components. It includes a rich set of views, tasks, and reports, and provides monitoring for Terminal Services, the Licensing Server, and the Session Directory. This Management Pack detects and alerts problems with performance, health, and availability. It can automatically respond to critical events and performance indicators. In some cases it identifies issues...
It doesn’t seem more than 2 minutes ago I was sitting watching the announcement of Terminal Services Easy Print and excellent demo from Nelly Porter of Microsoft. Well now you can hear it from the team themselves at the Terminal Services Blog.. WELL DONE GUYS.. Introducing Terminal Services Easy Print: Part 1 Historically, printing redirection has been difficult for Terminal Services(TS) customers. To successfully redirect a given user's client printer to the terminal server, the proper drivers needed...
Another Microsoft announcement at BriForum 2007: Longhorn Terminal Services will introduce session-based load balancing. TS Session Broker, a new feature in Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 3, provides a simpler alternative than Microsoft Network Load Balancing for Terminal Services. While not limited to a specific number of servers, the feature provides significant value to farms of two to five servers. With TS Session Broker, new sessions are distributed to the least-loaded server within the farm—optimizing...
Way cool demo because at last Microsoft have taken it to heart that we would like printing fixed. Nelly Porter of Microsoft gave an excellent presentation at Briforum 2007 in Chicago by showing of 2 new features of Longhorn Terminal Services Plug and Play Device support. Connect a Camera to the client side and watch it connect to you Terminal server. and then Terminal Services Easy Print: TS Easy Print, a new feature in Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 3 using XPS ( XML Paper Specification), enables...
Great update from Michel Roth of ThinComputing.net.. What is the Thincomputing.net Performance Pack? Well, it's a bundle of the most well-known performance papers and articles in one download (zip). Since quite a few interesting papers have been released in the last year or so, he's added the following papers to the collection: • Tim Mangan - Do you want 64 or 32 bit apps with that server? • Thomas Koetzing - Optimizing Logon and Logoff whitepaper • Doub Brown - MIAB Tweaks for Presentation Server...
Citrix have released and KB article (CTX113035) about Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Known Issues with Citrix Presentation Server extract of the article is below.. Seems that the main issues accur around Application Isolation when under heavy utilization. Citrix Systems, Inc supports Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2. This article outlines some known issues and their workarounds that users of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 must be aware of in conjunction with the following...
Microsoft Corp. announced the launch of Windows Live™ Messenger on Xbox 360™, connecting friends across Xbox 360 consoles, Microsoft® Windows®-based PCs and Windows Mobile®-powered devices. "Bringing the largest IM community in the world, Windows Live Messenger, to Xbox 360 makes sense, as Xbox Live has really become the largest social network on television," said Jerry Johnson, product unit manager of Xbox Live at Microsoft. "For our growing community of six million on Xbox Live, using Xbox 360...
Wilco van Bragt has posted an article about some of the free tools out there that you can use to make your life easier in regards to working with Microsoft Softgrid environments. All these tools are made by two of my talented colleagues: Rodney Medina and Dennis Damen. The tools that Wilco walks trough are: SoftGrid System Tray Utility The SoftGrid System Tray utility makes is very easy to perform the most used commands during testing of the SoftGrid sequences. SoftGrid ADM Template SoftGrid ADM...
Which editions of Vista are 64bit.. The 64-bit editions of Windows Vista—available for all editions of Windows Vista except Vista Starter The 64-bit editions of Windows Vista are not for everyone, and require a system with a 64-bit processor and 64-bit system drivers. Confirm you system, applications, and devices are compatible with a 64-bit edition of Windows Vista before installing. Memory specifications All editions of Windows Vista 64-bit provide increased memory support beyond the standard 4...
Microsoft Enables New Ways to Deploy Windows VistaQ&A: New options to license desktop virtualization and diskless PCs give Windows Vista Enterprise customers more choices, says the director of Microsoft's Windows Business Group. For many IT professionals within large organizations, maintaining control over their desktop environments is becoming an increasingly tall order. The cost of deploying and administering PCs – sometimes tens of thousands of PCs – across an enterprise can be significant,...
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