Terminal Services Remote App
I’ve been looking into ways to take advantage of the new features in Terminal Services for our company. One thing in particular, Remote Applications, caught my eye and reminded me of the tools I used to use when I was running Citrix. Although it wasn’t that interesting to my fellow coworkers, who at the time were relatively new to Terminal Services. That was largely because their main issue was that they couldn’t see their actual desktop, and the web interface that allowed them access to those applications was unfamiliar, and therefore, uncomfortable. But the times have changed yet again, and these days my coworkers use a combination of thin clients and laptops to allow them to work from anywhere.
DiskDigger
I used to be a fan of IE. It was simple to use and used to be the most powerful of the browsers that were available. But that was then and now that the Netscape vs Internet Explorer wars are over. IE has seemingly taken a back seat to the rest of the browser market. So much so, that I couldn’t even bare to write this blog post in IE8. Why you may ask? Well simply if this were a race between the turtle and the hare IE8 would be the slug that’s only made it an inch past the starting line days after the race was over. Hell, politics happen faster then this browser surfs the net.
I wasn’t a fan of Microsoft’s decision to put out umpteen versions of Vista and I’m still not a fan of this marketing tactic in regards to Windows 7. Microsoft released details today that they will be releasing 6 versions of Windows 7 plus a an N version for the EU that will ship without Media Player installed.
There’s a way to implement multiple self-signed certs on windows server, over many sites, using a shared IP; however, there’s a bit of a trick in doing this. The IIS6.0 toolkit contains something called SelfSSL, which is capable of creating self-signed certificates but there’s a catch. Its got a bug when it comes to using it for more than one site…
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