Crisis normally create a great environment for quick learning. Some would say that it also exposes lack of planing, which in my experience both are equally true. Last week I had a server’s HD die on me and I suddenly had to rescue some of the newer data that for some stupid reason I had [...]

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Recently we acquired a nice Tandberg Video Conferencing system, we normally stick with the Sony range as its menu interface is very easy to use, but we decided to give Tandberg a try. What a beast, great slick menu system, loads of options, built in MCU (Multipoint Conference Unit), 2 XLR mic inputs (Phantom Powered), [...]

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Put Windows Terminal Server into “Maintenance” Mode I find that quite often if I am having to diagnose a problem on our Windows 2003 Terminal Server my users continue to log on and try to work. If my maintenance requires rebooting the server, or running diagnostics on the server then this can cause problems for [...]

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Sometimes when I have logged onto our Windows 2003 Terminal Server there have been over a dozen idle sessions. Many of these sessions have only been idle for short periods of time, but often we have sessions that have been idle for many hours, and sometimes even days. Today I decided to limit the amount [...]

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It looks like Windows Server 2008 will have some pretty hefty enhancements when it comes to terminal services and thin client computing. We currently use Windows Terminal Services on Windows Server 2003 at our work and it greatly helps in our administrative load and the number of systems that we need to support, so some [...]

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Following up on my previous posts on Email Marketing Server and Domain Name Credibility, there is another interesting tool for anyone setting up a Mail server. Once you have setup your DNS and RDNS entries you may want to check that all your settings are correct and this site dnsreport.com is a great tool, it [...]

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