[THIN] MSTerminalServices.org - March 2008 Newsletter

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MSTerminalServices.org Newsletter of March 2008
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In this issue:
Community drain; gain or pain?
KB Articles / Webcasts of the Month
Ask our MVPs!
Learning Zone
Tip of the Month
Blog Posts
Events / Links of the Month

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. Community drain; gain or pain?
Stefan Vermeulen, Terminal Server MVP and Citrix CTP

The Terminal Services community has been there from day 1 and it is a pretty
tight one. The Terminal Services development team is one of the smallest ones
in the Microsoft group. And to be honest, so is its community. It started with
thethin mailing list (still alive today) and a few folks over at Citrix giving
out best practices on a pdf. Rick Delingher wrote that, and that pdf was the
trigger for me to get into this community. More and more first generation
community websites started popping up, like dabcc.com, thethin.com,
brianmadden.com, and a few I probably forgot to mention.

Server based computing started to become an accepted technology, and was no
longer that weird stuff to deploy applications. It became an acceptable way to
close the gap between web based applications and those tools that were not
ready yet but needed to be deployed anyway. After the year 2000 more community
websites popped up to inform people on the best practices, etc. You could meet
these community people during conferences they attended and the sessions they
gave. Besides vendor based conferences, other types appeared like briforum in
the US, and pubforum in Europe.

So what is with the little history lesson? Well, this year a lot of these names
were scooped up to join Terminal Server based companies. To give you the list
so far:

In the beginning of this year we had, joining Provision Neworks. (now Quest)

Jeff Pitsch http://www.jeffpitschconsulting.com

Patrick Rouse http://www.sessioncomputing.com

Later Provision added another 2 to the list:

Rick Mack

Michel Roth http://www.thincomputing.net

And this month, 2 people went over to Citrix

Gus Pinto http://www.frameworkx.com

Rich Crusco http://www.frameworkx.com

The most interesting part are those guys joining Provision Networks. These are
all people really into Citrix technology, and they are taking this step. Rick
Mack's explanation to the community has been published on Brian's site. You can
read it
here(http://www.brianmadden.com/blog/BrianMadden/Two-more-Citrix-CTPs-join-Provision--Quest-Rick-Mack-and-Michel-Roth).

As you click on the website links, you can see that Jeff's website is already
cleaned out. The others will no doubt start changing focus to their new eco
system. Hence the title of this article. Will the community benefit from these
changes in any way, like having the websites up with the same info as usual,
and will we see these guys as evangelists at the SBC conferences? Or can we
write off their sites as biased and see them flying the colors of their new
companies, only telling their version to save the world?

Do not get me wrong, the community is much larger than these guys, but it does
worry me in a way. Especially Rick's statement and to go for the underdog like
Provision which has a position in the market like Citrix had in the beginning.
Has the biggest player out there disappointed their most loyal evangelists? If
so, then what about the customers? Are they stuck with a vendor they might not
be so happy with? Will we also see a shift in market space, and finally get
some real competition in SBC technology?

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2. KB Articles / Webcasts of the Month

Information about new Group Policy preferences in Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943729

Network shares become unresponsive on a Windows Server 2003-based computer
after some time, and you receive an error message
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948732

Stop error message when multiple console applications are opened and closed
within a short time frame on a Windows Server 2003-based computer: "0x000000F4"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948928

After you apply a GPO to redirect a folder to a network share on Windows
XP-based or on Windows Server 2003-based client computers, the redirected
folder is empty
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938380

Roaming profiles do not work after migration from Windows 2000 to Windows
Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949665

When you start a 32-bit application in a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003,
a delay occurs
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948570

You cannot use the Reg.exe utility to access 64-bit registry keys on a 64-bit
computer from a computer that is running a 32-bit version of Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948698

The "Font smoothing" feature has no effect in Windows Server 2003 terminal
sessions
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946633

Error message when you run the Icacls.exe utility to set ownership of a file or
of a folder on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 SP2: "Access is
denied"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947870

The Icacls.exe utility cannot display non-English languages on Windows Server
2003 Service Pack 2-based computers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944820

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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: Stefan; when I run a full desktop session in Citrix, then that is
exactly what I get. Now I would like to see the same in a Terminal Server
session, thus without this yellow bar in the middle of the top screen. Is there
any way to get rid if it?

Regards,

Theo,

ANSWER: You are in luck. This little banner is actually controlled by a
registry key. You can have it removed on the client machine via the following
value:

<em>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client
"PinConnectionBar" = REG_DWORD:0</em>

I did not come up with this one myself. You can read all about it in this
following Microsoft article here(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=907478).

4. Learning Zone

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts
http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/Install-Configure-Provision-Networks-Virtual-Access-Suite-Part3.html
Date - Mar 5, 2008; Author - Brien M Posey; Section - Articles & Tutorials ::
Scripting
In this article Brien finishes up the types of commands to use in Terminal
Server Scripting. In the next articles in these series, Brien will go into the
scripting languages.

How to install and configure Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite (VAS)
Enterprise Edition (Part 3)
http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/Install-Configure-Provision-Networks-Virtual-Access-Suite-Part1.html
Date - Feb 20, 2008; Author - Patrick Rouse; Section - Articles & Tutorials ::
General
Patrick describes how to install, configure and administer the Desktop Services
features of the Provision Networks Vas solution.

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5. Tip of the Month

This month a great freeware tool has been released from Sepago. It is called
SepagoClassRoom and it lets you define training classrooms dynamically and
across spatial boundaries (i.e., even across different sites). sepagoCLASSROOM
achieves this through the consequent use of the shadowing functions of the
terminal server, giving the lecturer full control over the classroom situation.
It can be used to administer several training classrooms. Various participant
seats can be assigned to each classroom. In turn, a certain participant can be
assigned to each participant seat.

If this is something that may match your training needs, make sure to check it
out and download it here(http://www.sepago.de/e/sepagoCLASSROOM.html).

6. Blog Posts

Tad talks about what's new with TS in Win2008.
http://edge.technet.com/Media/395

Tad explains the TS Gateway and RemoteApp publishing.
http://edge.technet.com/Media/405

Sriram whiteboards the multi-user kernel.
http://edge.technet.com/Media/407

Niraj expands on TS Gateway, and Kevin talks about TS Web Access and publishing.
http://edge.technet.com/Media/408

Another interesting article on the new Terminal Services is how the IT
department from Microsoft itself deploys it. Read all about it.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc304366.aspx

Integrating Vista and Terminal Services 2008 authentication? Combining Windows
2008 Terminal Server with a Vista Client enables using the Credential Security
Service Provider (CredSSP) to optimize the logon procedure to a Terminal
Server. With CredSSP it is not necessary to create a temporary session to
determine a user session is already available.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2008/03/14/instantaneous-session-broker-redirection-leveraging-credssp.aspx

Want to catch up on best practices on using GPOs for deploying Terminal
Services? Read the article from Gabe Knuth on Brian's site.
http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Group-Policy-Best-Practices

Citrix released a beta of their VDI xendesktop solution. Want to dive in early
and give it a spin?
http://www.citrix.com/English/SS/downloads/details.asp?dID=36239&downloadID=745716&pID=163057

Microsoft has updated it's "Infrastructure Planning and Design" for Terminal
Services. I would consider this mandatory reading for those of you who are
serious about deploying large setups.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ad3921fb-8224-4681-9064-075fdf042b0c&displaylang=en&Hash=zbTku2eDAulQQ5ce164kExI6FWkXdcaO5jU4o5KP95OdrG7offvqnmCoPOYX4LbVnfAyt3kvNUJTEwpPbUM31A%3d%3d

Thomas did some snooping inside the content of Delaware (Citrix's next version
of Presentation Server) and discovered that there were features there for
supporting the Secure Gateway. This means that you can still use the good old
(free) CSG on a Windows Server 2008.
http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=272&Itemid=254

An interesting article that goes deep under the hood of Citrix's Speedscreen
technology. If you are as curious as me read here!
http://citrixblogger.org/2008/03/04/brian-madden-explains-speedscreen

You can now make your Terminal Server 2008 MultiLanguage aware for free.
Microsoft has released the MUI for server 2008.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e9f6f200-cfaf-4516-8e96-e4d4750397ff&DisplayLang=en

Another in depth article on Microsoft's new Hyper-V technology. I think it is a
good thing that we are seeing more of these to get a good impression, without
setting up a test farm ourselves.
http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/Microsoft-Windows-Server-2008--Hyper-V-solution-overview

Want to test yourself after reading the above article? You are in luck.
Microsoft has released the RC0 and you are free to play with it.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b7464b44-821d-4a7c-9d9c-7d74ec14437c&DisplayLang=en

Citrix introduced Session Reliability some time ago. The impact it had on port
usage has not been discussed in detail.
http://citrixblogger.org/2008/03/14/two-port-ica

7. Events / Links of the Month

So much for March. A month with most of its news in the Community, and not so
much in the Industry (compared to last month). No company takeovers for a
change, although I doubt that it will remain like this for the rest of the
year. We have a lot of fights coming up over the VDI space and Citrix needs to
deal with the marketing rumors about ICA being obsolete over RDP. Will they
hold their ground, and will we all be talking RDP in a year or two? I think we
will get some answers during the rest of this year.

See you next month!

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