Welcome to 2009. Here’s a deal for you. Welcome to 2009 - where we've got a LOT of great stuff lined up for you. First of all, our "Monsters of Tech" class in Denver this coming April is still open for registration, and we've lowered the per-student price to just $2,000 for the entire week. Check out the

IT Book Report: “The Definitive Guide to Building a Windows Server 2008 Infrastruture” 10 months in the making, this e-book is finally released in its final form. Now in sharing the role of author and in this case reviewer as well, this review will obviously have some bias. But with that said, I can tell you that this book is your definitive guide

Terminal Services Part 11: Apps to Host. Apps Not to Host. � With all the features discussed to this point in this series, you would think that Terminal Services is a solution for all the applications in your environment. � Just move every application over to your TS servers, and your problems are resolved. � Users can access applications from anywhere,

Terminal Services Part 10: Making the Choice: TS vs. Citrix? One of the biggest questions that has been on people’s minds since the dawn of Terminal Services is, “When do I need to make the jump to Citrix?” Citrix and Terminal Services have throughout their lifetime been inexorably linked. This is partially due to the similarities in technology, but even

Terminal Services Part 9: Licenses: Domain, Forest, or Workgroup? And yet we’re not done yet with the decisions we need to make about our Terminal Services licenses. The Per User versus Per Device question is only one of the architectural questions that you need to answer before ever installing any software. Next up is the determination of how your

Terminal Services Part 8: Licensing - Per User or Per Device? Later on in Parts 22 through 24 I’ll talk more about the actual installation and configuration of licenses for your Terminal Servers.� However, at this point it is important to know that extra licensing will be required for you to use Terminal Services in your environment.� These extra Terminal Server

Greg Now Moderates the Minasi Terminal Services Forum If you're the papparazi and need more of your daily Greggo, you can now check him out answering questions and generally causing trouble over at the Minasi Forum, moderating the Terminal Services forum. The Minasi Forum is growing to become one of the central clearinghouses for good information needed by

Terminal Services Part 6: Determining Anticipated User Load � At the same time as determining the applications you wish to host in your Terminal Services environment, your planning process should also include an analysis of the number of concurrent users you expect to be able to host on a single server.� Lacking formal testing software, this process for

[UPDATE] We Want to Come Train You - Maybe for Free Greg and I are looking to put together some classes in 2009 - public, in-person training on Windows PowerShell, What's New and Changed in Win2008 (which will help set you up for Win7, too, of course), and Terminal Services. They'd be delivered in a week-long format of expert-led training. To

Terminal Services Part 5: When to Use and Not Use Terminal Services � When considering leveraging Terminal Services in your environment, there are a number of situations in which its use makes sense.� There are also a number of situations where hosting applications atop Terminal Services will actually reduce their performance.� When thinking about those applications you wish to host atop Terminal

Terminal Services Part 4: Introducing the Five Role Services Installing the Terminal Services role in Server 2008 by default nets you…well…nothing. As with virtually all roles in Windows Server 2008, the role itself only identifies “something the server desires to be.” All the functionality that makes up that role is contained within its role services. There are five role

Terminal Services Part 3: The RDC Client Along with the two server-side parts talked about in Part 2, there is a third component of Terminal Services that is required at the client side. The Remote Desktop Client or RDC is a necessary tool to be used at every client to connect to a Terminal Server. This client

Now With a Full Week’s Supply of Content! Beginning next week, we'll be bringing you new, fully-technical content every day of the week! Our goal is to help you learn new technologies, new tricks, and new decision-making criteria so that you can be more effective and efficient. We'll do this through short, easily-digested articles arranged in series so

Terminal Services Part 2: Sessioning and the RDP Protocol Distilling down to bare minimums, Terminal Services can be broken down into two halves: First, the “sessioning” half, which is the ability of Microsoft Windows to simultaneously host multiple user sessions on the same server. Each user session is administratively separate from others, with its own identified processes, threads, and

Episode 3 This month's episode invites listeners to call in and leave a voicemail - we're looking to hear what Microsoft technologies you have to support - that you really know nothing about. Got some SQL? An old Application Center install? Let us know: Use Skype to leave a voicemail for user