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Create virtual machines for VDI.
Useful script for creating a pool of identically configured machines to either assign to users from which to create pools in the context of Connection Broker.
Waking the virtual machine… – Neowin Forums.
See the trick here about ensuring that the RD Virtualization Host (that’s the server with the Hyper-V role installed, or a Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 box, that hosts your virtual machine pool) reverts to the RDV_Rollback snapshot on logoff / login of a different user. This prevents one user from ‘polluting’ the machine with extraneous personal data prior to the reuse by the next user.
Download details: Update for Outlook 2007 KB933493.
A little too much slothery for you in Outlook 2007 search? This has been a big problem for us, particularly with larger mailboxes. This hotfix claims to address the issue, at least in certain cases. We’ll see…
Were you wondering whether you could use the standalone (and free) Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 as the host for your desktop operating systems (Win7) in an all-Microsoft VDI deployment? This short article from John Savill over at Windows IT Pro asserts a resounding ‘yes’.
Lpksetup Command-Line Options.
If you try and install the 2008 Server R2 SP1 beta and run into issues related to unsupported languages, simply run lpksetup from the command line, and remove unwanted/unsupported languages and then repeat the install.
Fantastic overview of RemoteFX as presented at TechEd in New Orleans this past June, 2010.
Cat Power – Tomcat on Server 2008 Core with IIS7 – jorkeo – hosting geek – Site Home – TechNet Blogs.
Might one be able to combine Tomcat under IIS (on 2k8 Server Core) together with Guacamole and some VNC server (like UltraVNC) and some basic connection broker logic to create a VDI solution which is accessible from literally any browser that supports HTML5, period. And yes, that would naturally include your iPad, for those of you maybe chomping at the bit to use said device to enable remote desktop access.
Googles New OS Will Offer Remote Desktop Capabilities.
In the bridge between the old world and new, even Google are tipping their hat to the hosted desktop model we’re soon to launch with Heritage Legal Technologies.
Opensolaris – ZFS recovery after kernel panic | Daz’s bits and bobs.
Possibly key lead on zpool recovery…
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