Ryan Mangan, is set to co-host a tech talk and networking event focused around using Windows 10 in enterprise applications. The event will take place on Wednesday 23 September at Systech’s headquarters in Brough, East Yorkshire and is set to attract IT professionals from across the UK. Alongside Ryan, the event will be hosted by several... Continue Reading →
Server 2012 Update - Enables Remote Desktop Connection Broker on a Domain Controller This article describes a servicing stack update that is available for Windows RT, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012. This update contains the following improvements and fixes the following issues: Improvement 1 Reduces the number of occurrences of the following errors: 80070490... Continue Reading →
Microsoft have released a reference architecture guide for Windows Azure desktops. see the following link: Click me "Remote Desktop Services Technical Article Summary: This document defines a set of architectural blocks for using Windows Azure Virtual Machines to create multitenant, hosted Windows desktop and application services, referred to in this document as “desktop hosting.” The... Continue Reading →
This post shows you how to setup RDS 2012 on Windows Azure: please see previous posts for guides on configuring RDS. Deploy RDS VM Ensure you setup the Virtual Network and Domain controller before deploying the RDS VM. You can ether create a site to site VPN to a on-premise Domain Controller or create a... Continue Reading →
I have spent some time researching windows Thin PC Thin Clients. My self and a colleague Chris Shaw came up with a solution that loads a RDP file from the root directory (C:\>). My RDS environment has multiple VDI pools so i needed to use a RDP file to load VDI sessions. You can use... Continue Reading →
For those who have problems with users expiring passwords, you can use the following guide to enable the password reset. please see the following information provided by Microsoft's RDS Team Blog Enabling Password reset for RDWeb To configure Password Reset on RDweb you will need to open IIS on the RDWA Server. You will need to modify... Continue Reading →
Hi, Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) 2012 requires DTLS, and RDP 8.0 support before SSO will work with windows 7 SP1 clients. You would also be required to enable the MsRdpClientShell Class (ActiveX Control) if you want to use SSO from the website. Ensure that you have Windows 7 SP1 Download and install KB2574819 and... Continue Reading →
Microsoft has released Outlook.com today. This is Hotmails replacement and has a very similar theme to the Windows 8 operating system. Microsoft are also looking at integrating clientless Skype to enable users to video conference from the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2012/jul12/07-31Outlookcom.aspx
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