[THIN] MSTerminalServices.org - June 2007 Newsletter

MSTerminalServices.org Newsletter of June 2007
Sponsored by: SecureIDA
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In this issue:
What's up?
KB Articles of the Month
Ask our MVPs!
Learning Zone
On the Spot
Rumours on  the SBC Space


Welcome to the MSTerminalServices.org newsletter! Each month we will bring you 
interesting and helpful information on MS Terminal Services and server based 
computing. We want to know what all *you* are interested in hearing about. 
Please send your suggestions for future newsletter content to: 
SVermeulen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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1. What's up?
Stefan Vermeulen, Terminal Server MVP and Citrix CTP

Hello there,

MSTerminalServices.org has added a killer functionality to the website. Now you 
can easily browse through the history of all major newsgroup postings on 
terminal services, formerly only reachable by a newsgroup reader. In here you 
will find and can contribute to numerous problems and information sharing on 
terminal services.

You will see that it is actively monitored by contributors who can give you 
instant advice on what to do. Microsoft themselves monitor these newsgroups, 
and if the regular contributors cannot answer the question there is a good 
chance that one of the MS techies will. Make sure to check out the forums  over 
here(http://forums.msterminalservices.org/).

Today Briforum Europe 2007 has been opened up for contributions. If you feel 
like coming to Amsterdam to do a presentation, make sure to visit the Briforum 
website(http://www.briforum.com/europe/2007/). I hope to see you there.

So much for now!

Catch you later!

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dabcc.com Endorses & Uses SecureIDA Publishing & Security - Apple iPhone Promo 
Announced
<A 
href="http://www.techgenix.com/newsletter/t.aspx?S=1&ID=2707&NL=31&N=3114&SI=93176&URL=http://www.eztrackz.com/tracking.aspx?id=69076";><IMG
 height=21 hspace=5 src="http://images.isoftmarketing.com/sida_88x21.gif"; 
width=88 align=left vspace=3 border=0></A>Apple iPhones given to lucky users in 
July, Aug and Sept; iPhones also given for providing company with product 
feedback.<BR><BR>SecureIDA provides a comprehensive platform that is remarkably 
simple and secure to administer, publish applications, create virtual desktops 
and much more (e.g. close all inbound ports).  Publish applications to 2 users 
free in about 15 minutes - so give it a try and perhaps you'll win.<BR><BR>See 
what Doug Brown of dabcc.com says: <A 
href="http://www.techgenix.com/newsletter/t.aspx?S=1&ID=2707&NL=31&N=3114&SI=93176&URL=http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=4081";>http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=4081</A>
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2. KB Articles of the Month

Here are some interesting and useful Terminal Services related articles posted 
by Microsoft in the last month:

The logon operation fails when you use Terminal Services to log on to a DCOM 
server from a Windows-based server
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922215

Generic programs are not viewable from a Terminal Server client on a clustered 
server
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278849


Hotfixes of the month

Error message when you log off a Terminal Services session on Windows Server 
2003 Terminal Server with Service Pack 1 or with Service Pack 2: "Stop 
0x000000AB"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928942

Stop error message when a client computer logs off from a Terminal Services 
session on a server that is running Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or with SP2: 
"Stop 0x000000AB (SESSION_HAS_VALID_POOL_ON_EXIT)"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931282

The Csrss.exe process in a terminal-server session continuously consumes more 
than 50 percent of CPU resources on a Windows Server 2003-based terminal server
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934330

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3. Ask our MVPs a question

This is simple and straight forward: shoot us your TS/Citrix question and we 
will get some of the top Terminal Services MVPs together and get you an answer, 
from everyone?s point of view! The best question of the month will be published 
here with all the answers from these guys. Just email us at 
SVermeulen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

QUESTION: I have a running 2003 TS server with a WAN and a LAN link. The LAN 
users run fine, but the WAN users are, out of the blue, suffering from 
disconnects and when they try to reconnect they get a "Request Timed Out" 
error. What could be the case here? Regards, Harsh

ANSWER: Dear Harsh,

The traffic for a TS session can flow through many types of hardware between 
client and server. Since you are having it across all your WAN users, the most 
obvious place to start looking is the hardware on your side - what you have in 
between the Internet or WAN and your actual TS server. Who maintains it, and 
have they run updates or changed the settings? Has an additional service been 
added to the network, requiring for example a change of the default MTU size on 
the router? Also check out every piece of hardware that has an idle time 
setting, and make sure it's set to a maximum. Open a call with your Internet 
provider to check if any changes have been made to the network. You can 
certainly rule out an issue with your server as the LAN users run fine.

I'm afraid you have a long way to troubleshoot but I am 100% sure that you need 
the help of the network guys to find the issue.

Good luck with this one!

4. Learning Zone

Using Group Policies and Scripting to Ensure a Consistent User Experience
http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/Using-Group-Policies-scripting-consistent-experience-users.html
Date - June 12, 2007; Author - René Vester; Section - Articles :: General
In this article René explains the use of policies and scripting to gain a user 
environment which is the same for all users, but locked down exactly as you 
want it. There are loads of easy to follow examples on how to set this up.

To Virtualize or Not To Virtualize with SBC
http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/Virtualize-Server-Based-Computing.html
Date - June 14, 2007; Author - Wilco van Bragt; Section - Articles :: 
Virtualization
In this article Wilco, gives us a brief overview of the available 
virtualization technology.
With virtualization being hyped today, it is a refreshing look at the concept.

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dabcc.com Endorses & Uses SecureIDA Publishing & Security - Apple iPhone Promo 
Announced
<A 
href="http://www.techgenix.com/newsletter/t.aspx?S=1&ID=2707&NL=31&N=3114&SI=93176&URL=http://www.eztrackz.com/tracking.aspx?id=69076";><IMG
 height=21 hspace=5 src="http://images.isoftmarketing.com/sida_88x21.gif"; 
width=88 align=left vspace=3 border=0></A>Apple iPhones given to lucky users in 
July, Aug and Sept; iPhones also given for providing company with product 
feedback.<BR><BR>SecureIDA provides a comprehensive platform that is remarkably 
simple and secure to administer, publish applications, create virtual desktops 
and much more (e.g. close all inbound ports).  Publish applications to 2 users 
free in about 15 minutes - so give it a try and perhaps you'll win.<BR><BR>See 
what Doug Brown of dabcc.com says: <A 
href="http://www.techgenix.com/newsletter/t.aspx?S=1&ID=2707&NL=31&N=3114&SI=93176&URL=http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=4081";>http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=4081</A>
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5. The Toolbox Special

Ever wondered where that specific tool came from? Have you wondered if there 
are more out there, but Google is giving a bit much on a search? Despair no 
more, this month we have a special on all the well known, the lesser known and 
even the plain unknown resources for Terminal Server and Citrix tools out 
there. And guess what; they are all free!

http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com.au/CAD_TSUtils.htm
List of some awesome MUST HAVE tools for the TS administrator. The list of 
tools they have created is too big, but if you're in to monitoring your clients 
a bit better, make sure to check out this website

http://www.thinhelp.com/thin
Jim Kenzig has been around the block for a few years, and is now running 
thinhelp including an interesting download section for some killer tools

http://www.frameworkx.com
Gus Pinto runs this website. Click on free tools and check out the Citrix 
tools. This guy has created some tools that would make Citrix development turn 
blue in the face

http://www.wtstek.com/item2/tools.htm#Tools
Bernard Tritsch is running this one, and he only has one tool available, but 
it's a killer one if you're into setting the registry correct in a single action

http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119&Itemid=193
Thomas Koetzing's website. He is famous for his 30MB resource kit which 
includes just about everything a TS admin could ever wish for. A must have 
download in your collection

http://www.dabcc.com/downloads.aspx?c=18
Douglas Brown runs this show. He has been around from day 1 and has built up 
such a large collection of tools I don't even know where to begin. Al I can do 
is advise you to check out the list he has built up over the years

http://www.envokeit.com/Tools.aspx
Envoke IT is a consulting firm that has built some tools over the years for 
their customers and own people to use. They have been so friendly to share them 
with us also

http://www.loginconsultants.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=20&Itemid=125
Login Consultants is small Dutch firm, but with a well known reputation these 
days - creating tools for their customers, but not afraid to share them with 
the community. Some of these tools are being used by enterprise firms around 
the world.

http://www.sessioncomputing.com/downloads.htm
Patrick Rouse has been collecting tools for as long as I can remember. Make 
sure to check out this list also and to stock up for your next visit at a 
customer or to get ready for the next functionality request that comes from 
your manager. It may not be in the software itself, but good chance that you 
will find it on Patrick's website.

If you put all the tools together, the list is huge and probably way bigger 
then you would ever need. Hopefully on one of these sites you will find that 
little gem that you have been looking for, but were never able to find.

Don't want to download all that stuff? Just save this list for the next 
occasion.

6. Rumors on the SBC Space

What's new this month? A bunch of guys from joejoe.org released an alpha 
version of how they think Vista should look and work and called it "Longhorn 
reloaded". They used an early pre-release of Vista, from 2004 which included 
all the code including for example winfs support. After releasing the build on 
FTP and p2p Microsoft summoned them to stop making this available and they did.

Let's see what comes next from the community at large ;-)

Want to be able to log the usage of your terminal server(s) to a database 
format? Also want it to be free of charge? At you service! Here's an article 
from Luke Niland describing how to set this up. Read the full article 
here(http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/BrainDump/Logging-Windows-2003-Terminal-Server-Connections/).

If you are into securing your terminal server, Roddy Rodstein a Senior 
Enterprise Systems Engineer working for Citrix has released a book on Citrix 
and Terminal Server security. A 260 page book about everything you need to know 
about securing your TS environment.
Details about the book can be found 
here(http://store.dabcc.com/Securing_Microsoft_Terminal_Services_p/terminal-services-security-boo.htm).

Michel Roth has written a good article on the upcoming Windows Server 2008 
"Session Broker Load Balancing". Make sure to check it out  
here(http://www.thincomputing.net/content.php?article.25).

See you next month!

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dabcc.com Endorses & Uses SecureIDA Publishing & Security - Apple iPhone Promo 
Announced
<A 
href="http://www.techgenix.com/newsletter/t.aspx?S=1&ID=2707&NL=31&N=3114&SI=93176&URL=http://www.eztrackz.com/tracking.aspx?id=69076";><IMG
 height=21 hspace=5 src="http://images.isoftmarketing.com/sida_88x21.gif"; 
width=88 align=left vspace=3 border=0></A>Apple iPhones given to lucky users in 
July, Aug and Sept; iPhones also given for providing company with product 
feedback.<BR><BR>SecureIDA provides a comprehensive platform that is remarkably 
simple and secure to administer, publish applications, create virtual desktops 
and much more (e.g. close all inbound ports).  Publish applications to 2 users 
free in about 15 minutes - so give it a try and perhaps you'll win.<BR><BR>See 
what Doug Brown of dabcc.com says: <A 
href="http://www.techgenix.com/newsletter/t.aspx?S=1&ID=2707&NL=31&N=3114&SI=93176&URL=http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=4081";>http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=4081</A>
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dabcc.com Endorses & Uses SecureIDA Publishing & Security - Apple iPhone Promo 
Announced
<A 
href="http://www.techgenix.com/newsletter/t.aspx?S=1&ID=2707&NL=31&N=3114&SI=93176&URL=http://www.eztrackz.com/tracking.aspx?id=69076";><IMG
 height=21 hspace=5 src="http://images.isoftmarketing.com/sida_88x21.gif"; 
width=88 align=left vspace=3 border=0></A>Apple iPhones given to lucky users in 
July, Aug and Sept; iPhones also given for providing company with product 
feedback.<BR><BR>SecureIDA provides a comprehensive platform that is remarkably 
simple and secure to administer, publish applications, create virtual desktops 
and much more (e.g. close all inbound ports).  Publish applications to 2 users 
free in about 15 minutes - so give it a try and perhaps you'll win.<BR><BR>See 
what Doug Brown of dabcc.com says: <A 
href="http://www.techgenix.com/newsletter/t.aspx?S=1&ID=2707&NL=31&N=3114&SI=93176&URL=http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=4081";>http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=4081</A>
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