An excellent, must-read Citrix support article on user profile best practises for Presentation Server: An effective design of user profiles can make a significant difference in the performance and manageability of a MetaFrame Presentation Server environment. Many of the issues commonly seen in large or complex MetaFrame Presentation Server environments—including slow logon, loss [...]
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During some recent customer customer meetings I’ve had a few customers asking for details of how to enable Certificate based authentication for Windows Mobile.
The Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Certificate-Based authentication tool provides several utilities to assist an Exchange administrator in configuring and validating client certificate authentication for Exchange Server ActiveSync.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=82510E18-7965-4883-A8C3-F73F1F4733AC&displaylang=en
[Via Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR [...]
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I have a new article in the April edition of Windows IT Pro: 5 Steps to a Secured Active Directory. In it, I cover the fundamental things system administrators must do to ensure a basic level of security with Active Directory. Often people concentrate on more advanced security issues such as defending [...]
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This will be very helpful. I’ll give it a try and let everyone know how well it works.
jb
Gabrie van Zanten posted on VMTN Forums a Bash script for disconnecting resources-consuming virtual CDROM and floppy devices:
I found that project admins who install VM’s often forget to disconnect CD-rom or floppy drives after they have been used. [...]
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I’ve heard goog things about vista for the enterprise, I know we won’t move to vista when it first comes out. But I still want to start learning about the new OS.
These step-by-step guides will assist IT Professionals in deploying or migrating to Windows Vista. These guides will also provide step-by-step information on how [...]
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I receive a lot of questions around Group Policy. One of the more common questions is about how to locate a policy in the large (and growing!) list of policies available. The good news is there is a nice reference spreadsheet that MS makes available for download here. Load this Excel spreadsheet and you can [...]
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We’ve spent 2-3 trying to get activesync and http-rpc working though ISA. Maybe this tool will help us, I’ll give it a go on Monday.
While checking my RSS feeds noticed that Susan Bradley has bloged about Microsoft releasing the Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Web Administration Tool….(read more)
[Via ExchangeIS]
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Tags: admin, blog, checking, help, Microsoft, [...]
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I’ve been searching for a way to allow a non-admin on Windows XP to change the network settings (IP address,subnet,gateway,dns,etc)
Well I was search for a solution I found this blog posting about a nice little script that will make a user an admin, start a new process with admin rights, then remove the user from [...]
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Microsoft released a bunch of new tools on November 2nd.? Along with PFDAVAdmin, which I mentioned the other day, they have released the following tools:?
1.? New version of Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA).? The new version is version 2.5 and includes some enhancements and additions to both the UI and [...]
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I can’t wait until we get all of our users on the Exchange 2003 server and give this a try!
This has come up a number of times, and I actually thought I’d blogged about it in the past — but I guess not.
If you have users that only use POP and/or IMAP, and never log [...]
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