on applications, desktop and Terminal Server deployment, virtualisation and more
Posts tagged as:
As you’re most likely aware, Microsoft has recently made available Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2. If you would like to know the details of every single fix and feature in the service pack, download this spreadsheet: Hotfix and Security Update List: Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2.
What’s always interesting to me [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Got both Visio Viewer 2007 and Visio 2007 on the same machine but want to set Visio Viewer as the default for some users? Here’s what you’ll need to do.
With Visio 2007 and Visio Viewer on the same machine, Visio will the default application for .VSD files, so we need change the default application per [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
If there’s ever a great example of the benefits of application virtualisation it can often be found in the little things.
One of the guys in our team has been sequencing Volo View, which isn’t a particularly well behaved piece of software to begin with. It has a menu option that launches Windows Explorer to view [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
When install Office 2007 on your Terminal Servers there are a few things you’ll need to be aware of. The first of which is that you will need an Enterprise or Volume License key, i.e. those keys that use Volume Activation 1.0 and do not require activation. There is also some configuration and installation options [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Here’s how to create an unattended installation of VMware Tools which I’ve aimed specifically at Terminal Servers, however you can apply the same concepts for any Windows server installed under any of the VMware virtualisation products.
Creating a Transform File
When installing a Terminal Server on VMware Server or ESX, you need to ensure you do [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
On our internal Terminal Servers the CEO has been having an issue whereby files or folders are not sent to the Recycle Bin, rather they are immediately deleted. If you logon with administrative rights on the machine, you can send files to the Recycle Bin. To date, he’d been told that this would be fixed [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
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 [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License 
Get smart with the Thesis WordPress Theme from DIYthemes.