Patch Windows 2003 Terminal Server to allow more than 2 concurrent sessions
As you might know Windows 2003 Server accepts at most 2 concurrent Terminal Server sessions (and 1 console session) in Remote Administration mode (which is the default). Of course if you switch to Application Mode you can have an unlimited number of sessions but this requires licenses and a license server.
Read more at: http://www.remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2008/08/31/patch-windows-2003-terminal-server-to-allow-more-than-2-concurrent-sessions/
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
VMware published an e-book on business continuity and disaster recovery.
Description
This VMware® VMbook focuses on business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) and is intended to guide the reader through the step-by-step process to set-up a multisite VMware Infrastructure that is capable of supporting BCDR services for designated virtual machines at time of test or during an actual event that necessitated the declaration of a disaster, resulting in the activation of services in a designated BCDR site.
USB Tool
USBDeview is a small utility that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used.
For each USB device, exteneded information is displayed: Device name/description, device type, serial number (for mass storage devices), the date/time that device was added, VendorID, ProductID, and more…
USBDeview also allows you to uninstall USB devices that you previously used, and disconnect USB devices that are currently connected to your computer.
You can also use USBDeview on a remote computer, as long as you login to that computer with admin user.
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XEN vs ESX 3.5 Preformance
In this session, Ron Oglesby will share his results of running Xen and VMware ESX head-to-head on the same hardware. In addition to normal server testing, Ron also tested Citrix Presentation Servers as guests in each environment.
The slide deck for this presentation can be downloaded here. To see the video, click here or on the image below.
