RDP to MCE without effecting TV

Autor brendon | 31.03.2010 | Category 7, MediaCenter, TechStuff, VISTA

One limitation of my setup at home is that all television channels go through the Media Center so when I need to do maintenance I have to interrupt my wife’s programs.

While not officially supported by Microsoft, there is an excellent modification that The Missing Remote has published. A simple batch file installs a different DLL for Terminal services that allows the console to remain logged on while up to 2 other users log into a separate RDP session.

Now I can do any management and monitoring or changes necessary without having to submit a “TV-Outage Request”. :-D Very cool.

Who Switched off the lights??

Autor brendon | 27.03.2010 | Category Rant

In my personal contribution to Earth hour, I have switched off the lights for the http://brendon.davis.to landing page.

Remember - Reduce, Re-use & Recycle!!!

SQL SBS Built-in command

Autor brendon | 08.03.2010 | Category TechStuff

For all those times I can’t remember how to access the built in MS SQL Database on Windows SBS Server. Use built-in authentication and the server address of \\.\pipe\mssql$microsoft##ssee\sql\query.

Now you can modify the memory and processor, log files, etc.