We run a Windows Terminal Server 2003 environment at our organization and for the most part it works very well, especially with other Microsoft products. There are some programs however that cause us significant problems because they require elevated user privileges to run. Today we…
APC Environmental Monitoring Unit (AP9319) Review
We have been looking for a way to monitor the environmental conditions in our server room, which is located in a separate building from my office. The unit that I was looking at probably going with was the APC Environmental Monitoring Unit (AP9319). The AP9319…
Turn On the Anti-Spam Feature in Microsoft Exchange SP2
At the moment about 80% – 90% of the e-mail our organization receives is probably SPAM. This is a huge pain for all of us here who don’t have anti-spam loaded on our systems. Because we are running a Terminal Server environment we are not…
Set-up Support for VPN Clients in Microsoft ISA Server 2004
We are currently in the middle of migrating our network from a Windows 2000 domain to a new Windows 2003 domain. In the process we have upgraded from Microsoft ISA Server 2000 to Microsoft ISA Server 2004. Microsoft ISA Server 2004 is quite different in…
Migrate/Upgrade to a New Hard Drive
Last night the hard drive in my wifes computer started to make that “click, click, click” sound that can only mean one thing – imminent head failure on the drive. Since the hard drive was only an 8GB hard drive it also offered a chance…
Photo Editing on Terminal Server
Photo and image editing in a terminal server environment has always been a challenge. Most photo editing software out there will not run on a terminal server because it requires multiple instances of the software to be open, and usually requires a higher colour level…