By Shawn Bass on
Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:36:43 AM
The MS SoftGrid team has added a blog entry describing how to use scripts within .OSD files to modify the behavior of the application launch. They've also provided some basic examples of how one would use them.
Read the entire article at their blog here.
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 9:07:39 AM
Massimo has a great blog entry questioning whether or not Microsoft's Viridian hypervisor (coming slightly after Longhorn server) will have any effect of being able to knock vmware from it's dominence in the x86 virtualization market. Also discussed is the impact of Xen in the x86 virtualization market. I'm not going to attempt to summarize all of Massimo's points as I don't think I would do it the same justice. It is a fantastic read though, and coming from a marketplace where everyone is always stating that Microsoft will bury Citrix, my personal .02 is that vmware will be in much the same boat (always staying one step ahead).
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:12:49 AM
Per the Terminal Service's team blog, Microsoft has enabled support for revokation of TS Device licensing in Longhorn Terminal Services. This should come as great news for the 3 people who are actually running 2003 Terminal Services in Per Device mode 
Read the complete blog entry here
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:33:07 PM
I've blogged previously about the release of the Idokorro Mobile Blackberry client, and at the time I mentioned that there were some instances where you would receive a Terminal Services error that you weren't part of the Remote Desktop users group. I'm happy to say that Idokorro has released a beta client that fixes this issue. I don't want to share the download URL that they sent me privately, but you can contact them for a beta URL link to test this.
I'm loving this new way of using Citrix.
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Thursday, April 05, 2007 1:24:59 PM
I came across this blog post on Jungsonn Studio's blog the other day where they demonstrate how Google Adsense is vulnerable to a type of cross-site scripting attack that when the suspect javascript code is executed and you visit your Adsense account in another browser tab, they are able to switch your Adsense account over to them. Pretty interesting find, and it really makes you think about all the times that you authenticate into a variety of different sites within different browser tabs all the while having done lots of surfing of other pages (of which you don't know that you can trust). It's definitely something that all of the bloggers out there that use Google Adsense should be thinking about when they pop into their account from a browser tab
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By Shawn Bass on
Thursday, April 05, 2007 7:03:58 AM
The Terminal Services team at Microsoft have posted the first in a series of blog entries on what's happening with TS Licensing in the Longhorn timeframe. Many people know that TS user licensing is not tracked in 2003 Server, and every is fully expecting that to change in Longhorn. However, the startling piece of this article (for me anyway) was this line:
"Note that in Longhorn, per-user licenses are only tracked and not enforced."
I'm not sure if this is in reference only to the beta product, or if it's the plan for the actual product launch. I'd be very surprised if per user licensing wasn't enforced, though I'd have to say I'd be very happy if that was the case. Licensing enforcement sucks!
View the blog entry here.
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:05:49 PM
Though I didn't find this weeks tips to be particularly interesting, they may be news to someone who is new to SoftGrid. Hopefully the team will keep blogging new tips every week (that would be fantastic!) Read this week's tips on their blog entry here.
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:04:00 PM
If you haven't had a chance to test 2003 SP2 AND you're configured to automatic updates, you may be interested in knowing that Microsoft has a fix that will allow your servers to bypass the forced install of 2003 SP2 that will begin on June 12th, 2007. If you're interested in using this opt-out, visit Microsoft's download site here for the download and instructions.
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:29:56 PM
I've always known that you're not supposed to use PST files across the network (LAN or WAN), but up until recently I did not have the specific proof as to the magnitude of problems it can cause (outside of corruption in the PST). I was recently looking for this information to pass to a client of mine, and I came across a great blog article from the Server Performance Team at Microsoft. Turns out there's all sorts of issues from I/O deadlocking to paged pool depletion, etc. Head over their blog and view the article.
Shawn
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By Shawn Bass on
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 2:37:17 PM
MS07-017 is a re-release of an earlier patch against a vulnerability in Animated Cursors. Apparently when the code was created for the first fix, the rest of the code wasn't audited and another vulnerability was recently found. The patch can be found on Microsoft's website over here
This vulnerability affects all versions of Windows from 2000 through Vista, so you'll definitely want to patch this one. Also, there's at least 4-5 public exploits available for this one. You can be certain that it's being exploited in the wild.
Shawn
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