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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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TS Logon Issues? It’s Not What You Think

18-Jan-07

Every six to eight months or so, I have an issue logging onto a Terminal Server and then have to research the issue each time from scratch because I can’t remember how I fixed it. Here’s how it starts – after logging onto a Terminal Server I receive the following helpful error message:
To log on [...]

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Adventures with SAP GUI, SAPLPD and Terminal Server

25-Aug-06

Like all ridiculously expensive software we love to hate, the SAP GUI does not use standard Windows print queues to send print jobs, but implementes a printing method they call SAPLPD instead. This is launched by a process that looks to be external to the SAP GUI component and does not respect the working directory [...]

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The Windows Network Status Icon is Evil

25-Aug-06

I’ve always thought that turning the little icon that displays network traffic on is dumb. From remote RDP or ICA sessions, it creates and endless loop of traffic. Here’s a quote from the “Advanced Concepts Guide: Citrix Presentation Server for Windows Version 4.0″
Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 provide an option to show [...]

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