Syndicated Industry Blogs from around the Web - December 2008 - Michel Roth Michel Roth

Safe Task Manager For Terminal Server Users

Some things never change. Or just really slowly. A long time ago I made a "hacked" version of the Windows Task Manager so it could be used in a Terminal Server environment. Recently the brilliant guys over at Control Alt Delete consultancy released...

Published Dec 29 2008 by Michel Roth , 704 views, 0 comments

CoreConfigurator, ehm Smart-X CoreConfigurator

Remember CoreConfigurator? This was one of the first tools to provide a GUI for the GUIless version of Windows Server Core. If you tried to use it recently you'll have found that it was not available anymore. Why? Well, that has a decent amount of...

Published Dec 23 2008 by Michel Roth , 867 views, 1 comment

Vmware Announces Own "MVP Status": (VMware Virtualization Professional)

After Microsoft with the MVP status and Citrix with their Citrix Technology Professional, Vmware is going to create a "VP status" of their own called the VMware Virtualization Professional or VVP for short. I think this is a good move by VMware...

Published Dec 15 2008 by Michel Roth , 628 views, 0 comments

Explaing Certificates On The TS Gateway

The TS Gateway in Terminal Server 2008 is one of the more popular additions to Terminal Server. Recently the Terminal Server team published an insightful article about the TSGateway and how it used certificates to secure the traffic. Certificates are...

Published Dec 15 2008 by Michel Roth , 618 views, 0 comments

Creating Management Shortcuts For The Consoles of your Hyper-V Guests

Those of you who have been working with Hyper-V a lot might have wanted to very quickly connect to the console a VM hosted on a Hyper-V box. You can use the Hyper-V manager but isn't the fastest solution. What if you could use shortcuts like you use...

Published Dec 11 2008 by Michel Roth , 699 views, 0 comments

A New Way To Dealing With A Lot of VMs On Your Laptop

Techies got a mixed blessing a couple of years ago. With the tools like Vmware Workstation it was suddenly possible to carry entire server farms with you on your laptop! However, since then the challenge of the available resources on your laptop has stuck...

Published Dec 11 2008 by Michel Roth , 613 views, 0 comments

Multiframe 5 Review: PXEboot a Device into a Thin Client

Many organizations that are looking to do VDI or Terminal Services are planning to use Thin Clients in their environments. However, it is not uncommon that it is not (financially) desirable to replace all desktops with new Thin Client. That does not mean...

Published Dec 01 2008 by Michel Roth , 660 views, 0 comments

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