Category: Windows 2008

Configuring Terminal Server Gateway on Windows 2008

Terminal Services on Windows 2008 bring a new feature called “TS Gateway” that we use to connect from outside the organization to computers that use Terminal Server in the local area network. To be able to use this feature, we have to install it on a server on the network, we don't care if you have Terminal Server services installed or not. In the router/firewall we will redirect port 443tcp to this server and this in turn will redirect us to the Terminal Servers securely through 3389tcp, we can also apply certain directives to secure the connection a little more.

Terminal Server Session Agent – Terminal Server Session Broker

Es una función que permite a los clientes reconectarse a una sesión existente en una granja de Balanceo de Carga.TS Session Broker almacena información correspondiente a la diferentes sesiones, como por ejemplo Session ID y los usuarios asociados a la misma, y el nombre del servidor en el cual dicha sesión se encuentra. Esta funcionalidad permite distribuir la carga de sesiones entre servidores de la misma granja.

What's new in Terminal Services on Windows 2008

TS – Terminal Services is Microsoft's technology that provides us with remote access to applications installed on a server from computers on the local network or from the Internet. Of course, this would not be the right way to access a server to manage it, simply for users to connect to server desktops or applications, never to administer it, That's what it's for to check the “Enable Remote Desktop on this server” in “Control Panel” > “System”.

Microsoft Windows Server Installation and Configuration 2008 Hyper-V

At last, This document shows how we can use one of the latest new features that Microsoft has released in its new Windows OS 2008. Formerly called Viridian, and better known as Windows Server Virtualization, is Microsoft's hypervisor, the one that allows virtualizations of virtual machines on an x64-bit physical machine. This will allow us to create a virtual environment in our organization and have virtual machines on physical servers, as many as the physical servers support or licenses we have.

Defragment or compact the Active Directory database in Windows 2008

In this document, we will learn how to compact and defragment the Active Directory database. This process must be carried out on each of the domain controllers that we have. With this we will achieve a higher performance, that the database takes up less space. Before starting with this wizard, it is advisable to make a backup of Active Directory. This document shows how to do this on a Microsoft Windows server 2008.

Installing and Configuring Microsoft SoftGrid – Application Virtualization for Terminal Services

GOOD, What is this? A new product from Microsoft? Of course not, Something bought, of course. How to describe it, It's something that distributes virtualized applications to whomever we want. Exactly, We have an app called “Softgrid Sequencer” which what it does is virtualize an application. This virtualized application is saved on and distributed from the Softgrid server, Who? to XP/Vista stations or terminal servers. For what? To avoid running around installing a post x post application or TS server x TS server. It is used to run an application that we do not have installed on our XP, for example Winrar, but we would have the direct access and when we open it that application comes from the Softgrid server to us and we execute it as if it were installed, but without being since it does not generate anything in Program Files or in the Registry… […]