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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.

Group Policy Center

Autor brendon | 21.01.2010 | Category 7, Server, TechStuff, VISTA

Alan Burchill, one of the organisers for the Brisbane Infrastructure Group and a speaker at last year’s auTechEd has started up a web site for the thing he loves most. The Group Policy Center is now online and answering all those questions you didn’t know you asked.

On a serious note though, Alan and Lilia did an awesome presentation at TechEd and I’m sure this site will show the same level of awesome-ness. Rock on Al.

BitLocker Command Line

Autor brendon | 04.02.2009 | Category TechStuff, VISTA

Now I know this is posted in several other locations. Since I have started playing around with BitLocker, I cannot for the life of me remember the command line. So here it is:

C:\WINDOWS\System32\cscript manage-bde.wsf -help

Enjoy

Good VISTA TechNet article

Autor brendon | 09.03.2007 | Category TechStuff, VISTA

I just finished reading Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 2. While this is very technical, I suggest that anyone who works heavily with VISTA have a read. There were a lot of ‘oh, that’s why’ moments through this article.

Have a great weekend ;-)