09 Aug
We often come across instances where firms are using NTLM Authentication (Windows integrated authentication) for SharePoint, and expect that Internet Explorer will automatically pass through the authentication from machines within the company, however they still get prompted for credentials. This issue exists with any IIS website, not just SharePoint, but seems to come up more Read more…
28 Jul
One of the challenges in maintaining and managing a large scale XenApp farm is automating application publishing. Servers may have dozens of applications published to them and manually managing these applications is time consuming and impractical. At the moment, organizations have the option of using Citrix’s Installation Manager or third party solutions such as Enteo’s Read more…
23 Jul
Microsoft has made a very interesting virtualization play this week by submitting source code for the Linux kernel. This will allow Linux guests to run on the maturing Windows 2008 hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V. This is an unexpected move from Microsoft to publicly release source code and an indicator of their appetite to compete with VMware’s Read more…
21 Jul
So you’ve decided to implement Matter Centricity at your firm. Whether you are using Autonomy iManage (formerly Interwoven), Open Text eDOCS (formerly Hummingbird), or another Document Management System (DMS), the basic idea behind Matter Centricity is the same — to present virtual Redwelds for each matter, with folders to categorize and classify documents within. Couldn’t be Read more…
13 Jul
WSS does not have a user profile service and does not allow any kind of native targeting of content to users in different groups. This is one of the more serious limitations of WSS, especially for corporate intranets, where pages might need to be customized for users in different offices. MOSS, on the other hand, Read more…
09 Jul
Among the benefits of a server based computing (SBC) environment, are the potential savings that exist when purchasing cheaper desktops or terminals on the client side. The logic being that because applications are being run on a server, the client just needs enough horsepower to present the server based applications to the user. Of course Read more…
06 Jul
Microsoft has done a nice job of late regarding supporting their operating systems and applications when they are run in a virtual machine. First they created the Server Virtualization Validation Program to validate their software running on hypervisors from various vendors, including their own Hyper-V. They’ve taken the SVVP one step further by adding a Read more…
01 Jul
Media playback within a XenApp or XenDesktop session has always been a challenge when designing a server based computing solution. The user’s experience is degraded through choppy playback and the host server is taxed processing the audio and video playback. Administrators have typically addressed this challenge by educating users to leverage their local client browser Read more…
30 Jun
One of the great things about using virtual machines is how easy it is to quickly modify their hardware configuration. One common change that administrators often make is to expand the size of the virtual machine’s hard disk. Windows data volumes are easy to expand by simply growing the disk file and then using Microsoft’s Read more…