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

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/

How to Convert a .BAT file or .VBS file into .EXE to Enable Pinning to XP Start Menu

If you ever want to package up batch or vbs files into executables check this site out.
http://renegadetech.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-convert-bat-file-or-vbs-file.html
 

Using XCOPY

If you need to copy new files from a source to a destination use this command:
xcopy /E /H /X source destination
/E – Copies directories and subdirectories, including empty ones.
/H - Copies hidden and system files also
/X – Copies file audit settings (implies /O)

Editing Folder rights on the Server Pt-2: Granting Permissions

Ok if you have the problem I said about below this is the script I used XCacls with a script to modify the ACLs on the folders. It’s less time consuming to do it this way. Some things to assume are:

Inheritence is set on the folders you are modifying the permissions for. [...]

A wireless issue to resolve

An issue that we have at work is that we have 2 wireless networks, students and faculty.  They are on 2 differrent subnets.  The APs run WPA with radius authentication that authenticate to the IAS server running on one of our DCs.  The authentication is an AD authentication.  The issue is that IAS brings the [...]

Firefox deployment

Frontmotion created some great adm files for deploying firefox throughtout the enterprise. It’s really cool to see how granular firefox can be controlled through group policy.  If you are planning on deploying firefox then you should get familiar with the adm files first.