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As you may know, Windows PowerShell 2.0 introduced a new remoting feature, allowing for remote management of computers. While this feature can be enabled manually (or scripted) with the PowerShell 2.0 cmdlet Enable-PSRemoting , I would recommend using Group Policy whenever possible. This guide will show...

I recently worked with a Hyper-V case, where the differencing disk files (.AVHD) for snapshots didn`t appear at the expected location. As we figured this out, I would like to share the experience we had regarding this. A virtual machine has two important directories, the VM root and the snapshot root...

I will be presenting at something called “the Microsoft day” at HackCon 2009. This would be February 16th in Oslo, Norway. My speak would be about Windows Server 2003/Windows Server 2008 security. Really looking forward to this – I have always enjoyed HackCon. So if you would be attending – please stop...

At least if you are in Norway :) In March TechNet Live and MSDN Live would go for yet another roadtrip in Norway, visiting Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim and Oslo. I have the pleasure of presenting in every city – this time I´m going to talk about Exchange Server. In Stavanger I´m also going to talk about...

Hi all. I've finally found some time to write about what I been working a lot on the last couple of months, the Microsoft Hyper-V product. I've done 2 projects so far, using clustering and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM 2008). I will not focus on explaining what it is, or the...

Citrix has made these new Consulting Whitepapers for XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008. If you are working on XenApp 5.0 for Windows 2008 these are great bookmark links. They are all available for download via Citrix Support site. http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/vishalg/2009/01/05/New+Consulting...

Just before Christmas I experienced a fileserver cluster running on Windows Server 2008 with poor performance. Researching the problem we figured out that the antivirus was causing the problem. A quick search on Internet gave us a lot of results from other people suffering the same problem.Today I had...

Well, I can give you the conclusion first. Yes, in 90 % of all environments, you will still find Citrix XenApp giving value for your money ! Well, this answer is based upon a few vital points of interest. Let’s take a short look at the main new things Windows 2008 TS offers: TS RemoteApp Comparable to...

If you wish to list out the soon expiring certificates on your CA, then you can use the following certutil syntax: certutil –view –restrict "NotAfter<=9/1/2008 08:00AM,NotAfter>=10/1/2008 08:00AM" –out "RequestID,RequesterName" The above command will list the certificates expiring...

Is it hard to do security right? Or is it easy? If you read some product brochures it looks like it´s easy; " 256 bit encryption ", " makes you secure ", " be secure "... So why do I still think security is not as easy as buying a product? All products are a part of your...