Category: Windows Server

Remote desktop gateway step by step guide

has been publsihed by MS http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=41&SrcFamilyId=6D146124-E850-4CEC-9EFA-33A5225E155D&SrcDisplayLang=en&u=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2f5%2f9%2fB%2f59B314A9-C064-4E88-9CBC-5819BECE4C20%2fDeploying+Remote+Desktop+Gateway+Step-by-Step+Guide.docx The most common issues with RD Gateway (that we hear of at least) seem to be around certificates, recovation checking and web SSO from XP workstations - this doc is definately seems to cover most things from having a look over it - and has a companion doc for…

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MS – some DB consistency ?

A employee of mine pointed out this quote from an SQL webpage "HADR" is a high-availability and disaster recovery solution introduced in SQL Server Code-Named “Denali” to enable you to maximize availability for one or more of your user databases. Deploying "HADR" involves configuring one or more availability groups. Each availability group establishes the context…

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Internal upgrades

Recently, i purchased a new hyper-V cheapy "server" - core i7 930, 24gb ram and 2 x sata 3 600gb raptors.... (which im running off the sata 2 controllers because of how shitty the mavell controller on the mb is... as per my previous post). Anyhoo, with this new hardware, i now have far more…

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RDWeb/RDGateway – the nightmare

So i recently went into a small client to setup a single server RDWeb/RDGateway/RD Session host server... "simple enough" i thought... how wrong i was. When having a dedicated RDWeb/RD Gateway and a farm behind it - it all fits together nicely... on a single box, i seemed to need to use SAN certs.... which…

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Windows 2008 R2 DHCP

Its not to often something as simple as DHCP gets an upgrade, or even if it does, rare that it warrants a mention. I upgraded the majoity of servers in our network to R2 over the weekend... as now that exchange 2010 is out (and implemented), i can have all 2008 R2 DC's. One of…

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Hyper-V VDI – 2008 domain functional level for pooled desktops

So i started doing some investigation into Microsoft's VDI solution - and found it to be quite quick and easy to get setup in my lab environment, but then encountered an article located at (Goolge cache copy) http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:A--BjXfttDIJ:technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd883265(WS.10).aspx+http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd883265(WS.10).aspx&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au Which specifically states that VDI Desktop pools requires the domain to be at 2008 domain functional level…

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Windows server compatibility

Windows Server 2008 R2 has been RTM for a couple of weeks now - and more information is starting to flow about this new OS. Like many people, i have started upgrading our internal servers, and found it to be a easy process - however there are quite a few major server apps that either…

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