Windows Server 2008 TS vs Citrix

Windows 2008 has improved terminal server functionality, but by how much compared to Citrix is the question.  Hope this link answers that question
http://www.brianmadden.com/blog/BrianMadden/Windows-2008-Terminal-Services-versus-Citrix-Presentation-Server–XenApp-Citrix-has-nothing-to-worry-about

See the file size usage of each folder

Spacemonger is a tool that lets you see (GRAPHICALLY !! very important) what directories and files are using up alot of space.  There’s the free 1.4 version or the cheap 2.x version.  The 2.x version has some bells and whisles that are really good, so for a couple of computers you can shell out the [...]

Control your RDP Connections

For you server admins, I know there’s a couple of tools out there for controling multiple RDP connections.  My favorate though is Royal TS.  I’ve used it for 2 months now and I’ve had no issues so far.  Though I used to use the windows desktops app, there are alot of limitations that Royal TS addresses.  Plus Royal [...]

Oh Windows why do you only support 4GBs !!WHY!!

Vista now supports 4GB of memory with SP1, or so you think.  Check out these nice graphic friendly articles on why that is not true.
 
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.html
http://www.digitmemo.com/articles/30/windows-and-4gb-ram-the-frustration-confusion-and-solutionpart-3/
http://4sysops.com/archives/why-windows-vista-only-sees-3gb-memory-in-a-pc-with-4gb-ram-and-how-vista-sp1-fools-its-users/

SAN snapshots and VMware Resignaturing

This weekend I had to test a vm from a SAN snapshot.  Easy uh.  Turns out there’s a couple of extra configuration steps involved with Vmware that I needed to do.
To use both the original and snapshot in the same ESX server:

In the SAN, make sure that the ESX server has read+write rights to the [...]

Microsoft Project 2007 Conference 2007 EMEA

Documentation from the Project 2007 conference
http://www.ineventmedia.com/msprojectfinalupload/

Project Sever 2007 Blogs

Sparkles EPM Blog on Project and Portfolio Server  – http://marcsoester.blogspot.com/
 

Project Server 2007 and Outlook Task Intergration

Microsoft has a good article about the intergration of Project Server and Outlook for all you Outlook Task lovers. Enjoy.
http://blogs.msdn.com/melissamacbeth/archive/2006/10/09/Project-Server-Tasks-in-Outlook_3A00_-Part-1-.aspx

Backup Exec FAQ Site

Good site on various backupexec issues and misc uses.

Beryl at it’s best

This is a screenshot of my laptop with feisty installed runing beryl. The software that is on the screen is XP running on vmware, an RDP connection to a server, and swiftsoft. I love ubuntu.