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 the [...]

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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 of [...]

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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, [...]

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A terrible thing today is spam which counts for 70% of all email sent (and received). There are a lot of ways to block spam but one thing you don’t want is to have your email marketing domain to become blacklisted. On a previous post called “Email Marketing with Lyris Server” I mentioned about taking [...]

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Lyris is one of the biggest email marketing systems out there. I was very well impressed at a recent conference at the level of detail in testing, tracking and deliverability of Lyris. Email marketing has become a major marketing field and still a lot of big companies are either not doing it or doing [...]

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