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Last week Ericom announced the availability of a free version of PowerTerm WebConnect for Desktop Virtualization (VDI) on top of the Oracle VM virtualization platform. Since Oracle VM is itself a free offering, the combined solution enables you to implement Desktop Virtualization in your production environment without paying any license fees for either of these products. This is a great way to

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If you’re involved in IT in general, and in virtualization in particular, then Doug Brown’s excellent DABCC-TV video podcast is a must-see. DABCC-TV is a video show geared around virtualization and Server-Based Computing news and support, providing "how to" videos, detailed video interviews and product demonstrations pertaining to technologies such as VMware, Microsoft, SoftGrid, Citrix,

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If you follow my blog you may have read several posts that I've written about Vista's User Account Control (UAC). In these posts I expressed several criticisms of UAC, but overall my approach has been positive. UAC isn't perfect and it’s annoying (by design), but it is certainly a step in the right direction. Moreover, I think that Microsoft should be given credit for its willingness to take some

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Microsoft have released several step-by-step guides for Windows Server 2008. These guides are intended to help IT Professionals learn about and evaluate Windows Server 2008. Several of these guides address Terminal Services functionality on that platform: Windows Server 2008 TS Licensing Step-By-Step GuideWindows Server 2008 TS Gateway Server Step-By-Step Setup GuideStep-by-Step Guide for

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Last year I wrote a post about why Vista UAC is a Good Thing, but also that because of its intrusive approach many users will turn it off. In that post I wrote: The problem is that any security measure is only worthwhile if it is actually used. And such measures only get used if they are not too much of a pain. How useful would car safety-belts be if they were so tight that nobody could buckle up

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Joshua Schnoll, senior product manager for Terminal Services at Microsoft speaks about Microsoft’s relationship with Ericom. Here is a snippet from this 2 minute audio recording: “We have been working very closely with Ericom around the release of Windows Server 2008 …”.

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My first Microsoft TechNet Webcast, “Extending Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services with Ericom's Free PowerTerm WebConnect Add-On”, is now behind me and I wanted to thank several people who helped making it successful. First, I would like to thank Joshua Schnoll from Microsoft for being an excellent co-presenter. I also want to thank Michael Shetrit from Ericom for helping me prepare and run

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Last year I wrote a somewhat humoristic post about the importance of defaults and not asking end-users for information they are not equipped to provide. As an example of this I described the PowerTerm WebConnect client download and installation mechanism and explained that, unlike other client installers, it does not require end-users to provide any configuration settings such as the server

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In my previous post I wrote that I don't understand if Citrix will or won’t compete with Microsoft for server virtualization once Microsoft’s Hyper-V is released. A few readers who apparently work for Citrix responded in comments to my post stating that Citrix and Microsoft will not compete because the two companies are collaborating on virtualization. I am indeed aware of this collaboration but

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I recently read a post on the official Citrix blog entitled "Top 2 XenApp Questions at Windows Server 2008 Launch Events". According to this post the two top questions were: Do Citrix and Microsoft compete in the virtualization space?Do I need Citrix with Windows Server 2008?Citrix are apparently still working out the answer to question number 2, which I guess is to be expected given that they

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Check it out

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Mark it on your calendar - Joshua Schnoll, Senior Product Manager on the Terminal Services team at Microsoft, and I will be delivering a TechNet Webcast titled: Extending Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services with Ericom's Free PowerTerm WebConnect Add-On. It’s level 300 Webcast which means that we will be conducting a live demo of the combined Ericom / Microsoft solution. Join us - it's going to

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As I wrote in my previous post, Ericom has announced a new free product: PowerTerm WebConnect for Windows 2008. In this post I would like to clarify what this announcement means, and provide some details about this offering and its benefits. I’ll do this in the form of a FAQ: 1. Why are you providing a free version of your product? We at Ericom are very excited about Windows Server 2008 Terminal

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Congratulations to Microsoft on the release of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. Ericom Software a is Launch Event Sponsor, and we took this opportunity to announce our new free offering: PowerTerm WebConnect for Windows Server 2008. This product builds on Microsoft's exciting new platform to provide an out-of-the-box solution for Server Based Computing / Terminal

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Microsoft's step of realising the specifications of various protocols and formats to the public, which I reported on two-days ago, is part of its new Open Source Interoperability Initiative. You can find more information about this initiative at its FAQ page. It is worth noting that not everybody is excited about this step by Microsoft. As far as I can tell the main complaint is that Microsoft

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Have you ever wanted to know how Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) works on the inside? Well now you can. Microsoft has just made the specifications of RDP freely available for download, all 30,000 pages of it. This move by Microsoft has even been reported at The New York Times and CNN. From The New York Times:Seeking to satisfy European antitrust officials, Microsoft said on Thursday

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In the "service to the community" department: Microsoft has announced that "MSDN subscribers can now access Windows Vista SP1 via the subscriber download area". If you are not an MSDN subscribers you will be able to download Windows Vista SP1 from Microsoft Download Center in mid-March. Alternatively you will be able to receive it via Windows Update.If you want to learn which new functionality

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A cool feature introduced in Vista is the ability to remote the Aero Glass UI over RDP. One reason this feature is cool is that the remote computer need not be able to support Aero Glass on its own for this feature to work. Even systems that are not powerful enough to provide Aero Glass when accessed directly can support it when accessed remotely from a system that is powerful enough. This magic

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Twenty three days before its official launch party, Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2008 has been Released to Manufacturing (RTM). This is undoubtedly a huge achievement for Microsoft and one of the largest software projects ever, involving 5,000 people over a three year period. The Windows Server development team is, understandably, very happy and we at Ericom wish to congratulate

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About a month ago I wrote a critique of a Network World blog post about virtualization. In my critique I wrote that Citrix’s VDI product, XenDesktop, is distinct form its Terminal Services product, Presentation Server. This is unlike Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect which combines both in a single solution. An anonymous commentator, who I’m guessing is affiliated with Citrix, blasted me for this

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I’m guessing that by now many of you have heard that Microsoft has purchased Calista Technologies. As Brian Madden explained in his post analyzing this purchase: Calista ... was in the process of developing extensions to Windows and RDP that virtualized the entire GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) of the host computer. This enables RDP to support multimedia, streaming and synchronized audio, and

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While I've published a few post here about 64-bit computing and its benefits for Server Based Computing, it's fun to consider some of its additional potential benefits. For example, I recently ran across a report that "Blizzard apparently used signed integers for their World of Warcraft gold values as some people have recently hit the limit of 2^31" (via Slashdot). When developing 32-bit

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When we started working with SSL VPN manufacturers to integrate our PowerTerm WebConnect with their products we quickly ran into a problem: PowerTerm WebConnect did not operate like other Server Based Computing / Remote Access products they had previously worked with. This meant that the integration method they had previously used was not applicable for PowerTerm WebConnect. Fortunately we

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From the White Paper:In recent years, Server-Based Computing (SBC) has been recognized as being a preferred method for enterprises to manage the access to and delivery of applications and desktops. Yet even with all its proven benefits, the number of organizations actually using SBC is disproportionately small in comparison to the number of organizations that could and should benefit from it. The

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In a recent post I explained how Windows Terminal Server logons can be sped up by removing unnecessary startup applications. Interestingly TS RemoteApp, the new Windows Server 2008 seamless windows mechanism, hardly suffers from this type of slowdowns. This is because TS RemoteApp has a much more significant limitation - it doesn’t actually run most startup applications at all. What this means is

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