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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Crash the ISA Server Firewall Service – Open All Inbound Ports

14-Mar-07

Here’s an easy way to crash the Microsoft Firewall service in ISA Server – create a server publishing rule that allows all high ports inbound to an internal NATed IP address.
Now this is something that it is not normally done and I don’t think that ISA Server was designed to work this way. I was [...]

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Windows Server 2003 SP2: What’s in it for Terminal Servers?

13-Mar-07

Now that Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 has been released, I thought that I would take a brief look at what’s new for Terminal Servers:
New Features
Microsoft have a page that details ten reasons to install Windows Server 2003 SP2, here’s some of the highlights that I think are great for Terminal Server [...]

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Uninstalling Adobe Reader

11-Mar-07

If for whatever reason you are looking to remove Adobe Reader from your computers, here’s how to remove these applications via a script or some other unattended means. I have tested this with Adobe Reader 6.0.1, 7.0.9 and 8.0 which are all readily available from the Adobe web site and all use Windows Installer. I [...]

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Presentation Server Client 10 still uses Windows Help

11-Mar-07

Gee, I expected a little more than this from Citrix - the new Presentation Server Client version 10 is still using the old 16-bit Windows Help format (.HLP). What’s the problem with this you say? Well, Windows Help is no longer included with Windows Vista and Microsoft have been discouraging its’ use for some time [...]

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