Why is Amazon’s SAS70 Audit Bogus? | Cloudscaling.

Interesting discussion and comments. With SAS70 chucked around so much in the cloud space, it’s important to understand what it really means.

How to Disable SMB 2.0 on Windows Vista/2008.

Surprisingly, it appears necessary to disable SMB 2.0 on Server 2008 in order to resolve the Worldox GX2 stability issues. Given the vast improvements in performance and scalability offered with SMB 2.0 in Windows Server 2008, I have to believe World Software consider this workaround unacceptable as a long term solution and trust they’re working hard on a fix.

Download Confirmation.

This sort you right through GPO management of IE ESC, including various methods of managing and installing on login in Terminal Server environments, etc.

Standard users cannot turn off the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security feature on a Windows Server 2003-based terminal server.

Finally some light at the end of the tunnel wrt solving our Enhanced Security configuration issue.

Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services (RDS) (2 of 2) | NetworkWorld.com Community.

This thread addresses many of the issues that we’ve been having with the publication of RDWeb. We are trying to configure TMG for multiple tenants, but it is not clear that this is possible. Sure, we can publish multiple RDWeb pages from multiple RDWeb servers via TMG web publishing rules (that key on header information), but it is not clear that the subsequent RDP traffic can be directed on the basis of host header. i.e. there is only one way to offer multiple RDP connections at one external IP address, and that is to use simple RDP port mapping, however this breaks VDI which requires the careful coordination of RDWeb, the Connection Broker, and the Gateway box.

Publishing Remote Desktop Service with Forefront TMG 2010 – WSSRA.

Some of the publishing requirements for RDWeb under TMG.

Holly Welch – LinkedIn.

Holly did a great job on our www.heritagelegaltechnologies.com website, which will be live soon.

Using Multiple Monitors in Remote Desktop Session – Remote Desktop Services Terminal Services Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

How to configure and restrict the maximum number of monitors offered over RDP in Win7 / Server 2008 R2.

Solutions for Virtualizing Domain Controllers Part 1.

Back when we were originally architecting our virtualization infrastructure, there was the question of which domain we should join our virtualization hosts to. And the conclusion was to simply join them to the primary DC in our single forest arrangement, but this caused obvious problems. For one, the moment we virtualize that DC, we are in a precarious and untenable ‘nested’ dependency situation: the DC which is required to maintain the integrity of our HV cluster is itself hosted on a member cluster node, an impossibility. And so the backoff position was to move away from domain joined cluser nodes to a simple workgroup, while dropping the CSV and cluster failover functionality for the moment (which requires domain joined nodes). But ultimately, we do need that cluster failover functionality along with the other management benefits that are only conferred on domain joined machines. One solution is to commission a pair of highly available physical(!) machines as a primary and secondary DC as part of an entirely orthogonal forest for the sole and exclusive purpose of managing the virtualization cluster. But what an inefficient use of hardware, when one of the primary purposes of virtualization is hardware efficiency and consolidation! The link here discusses the workgroup and ’separate domain’ options in further detail. I am also investigating the creation of a read-only physical backup DC which can exist in support of the primary forest, keeping the number of forests at one and allowing for the safe virtualization of the primary DC 0n a cluster node joined the the same domain.

I’ve been running jailbroken on my 3GS for some time, but hadn’t made the effort to get the MyWi application working. Got it working last night, after downloading MyWi through Cydia. Magic! Not only is my WiFi only iPad just as good as any 3G capable one, but I can share my WiFi connection with all iPads and laptops in use on family roadtrips.

MyWi installation: http://www.cultofmac.com/mywi-4-0-create-a-wireless-hotspot-on-your-ipad-how-to/49086

… and off to the races you go…