February 2007

February 27, 2007
- Share

Manually Publishing and Un-publishing Terminal Server License Servers

Terminal Servers automatically discover TS License Servers available in a deployment by querying the Active Directory Catalog for a list of license servers. This list is in the “TS-Enterprise-License-Server” object in the Catalog Server. Typically, License Servers in “Enterprise” discovery mode publish themselves to this list during installation. However, this process may go wrong...

5 Comments

February 23, 2007
- Share

AES Authentication in Vista…Keep in Mind If You’re Testing Vista

By Alex Simons

In the concerted effort to provide more secure methods of authentication we have added in product behind-the-scenes support for Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and other security enhancements. More info on that is here: http://www.microsoft.com/brasil/technet/itsolutions/network/evaluate/new_network.mspx and here: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a form of encryption that was adopted by the United...

2 Comments

February 20, 2007
- Share

Access Denied, or other Access Failure to SMB Shares From Vista Clients

By Alex Simons

Some of the fun we in product support have is that, once a new product is released nowadays, we get to chart the unexplored waters of new security settings interoperating with our customers real world environments. With Windows XP and Server 2003 we saw that there were challenges brought about by the SMB signing,...

0 Comments

February 14, 2007
- Share

Resources for diagnosing TS Licensing Problems

By termserv

If you have deployed Terminal Server Licensing and are running into any issues with it, most likely they will be due to Client connection failures, license server activation failures, license issuance and upgrade problems. In this article, we discuss some of the categories of problems that could occur in your Windows Server 2003 Terminal...

6 Comments

February 13, 2007
- Share

Active Directory in Longhorn Server

By Alex Simons

Recently I posted saying that I’d give a preview of Longhorn Server Active Directory. Well, here it is. I will caution all who read this to take into account that we are still in a beta production phase, so some or all of these items could change (or perhaps not make it in the product...

3 Comments

February 7, 2007
- Share

Active Directory in Longhorn…Feature Feedback Requested

By Alex Simons

One of the most time consuming, aggravating and emotionally draining issues our customers can go through is a disaster recovery issue. The general gyst of this type of thing is: -Accidental deletion of <insert terrifyingly large number here> users, groups or other objects in AD -Mad scramble to immediately hinder AD replication throughout...

9 Comments

February 6, 2007
- Share

Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0) for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Localized versions released

By termserv

We’ve released the localized versions of the new Remote Desktop Client corresponding to Vista for the following languages: Windows Server 2003: Chinese – Simplified, Chinese – Traditional, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese – Brazil, Russian, Spanish – Spain, Swedish. Windows XP: Arabic, Chinese – Simplified, Chinese – Traditional, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French,...

11 Comments

Big news in our drive to eliminate passwords: FIDO2 / WebAuthn Reaches Candidate Recommendation status!

Howdy folks, At Microsoft we’ve been working hard to eliminate passwords since the very earliest stages of Windows 10. We’ve made great progress with Windows Hello and our mobile Authenticator app that’s available on iOS and Android. But to date we have not had an interoperable solution that works across all industry platforms and browsers....

...

Brad Anderson

Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Mobility + Security

Co-Management is Instant and Easy With #Just4Clicks

If you ever got to shadow a Microsoft leader for a day and listen in on the meetings they attend, I think you’d be surprised by how much time is spent talking about how to support the day-to-day work done by IT Pros. We think about this constantly. A lot of answers to these questions...

...

Brad Anderson

Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Mobility + Security

Highlights from the GA of the Intune APIs in Microsoft Graph

On Wednesday we announced that the Microsoft Intune APIs being surfaced through Microsoft Graph have been moved from “preview” to Generally Available. We are really excited about this milestone, and we look forward to learning how to make it even better as you give us feedback and direction on the way you want to use...

...

Follow Microsoft