MSI-Packaging for Group Policy

This article discusses various third-party tools you can use to repackage applications into MSI files so you can deploy them using Group Policy in your Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 enterprise environment. The article also includes helpful links to resources on Microsoft.com and third-party sites where you can find out more about repackaging applications and deploying them using Group Policy.

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/MSI-Packaging-Tools.html

WOL

A little application to send Wake On Lan Magic Packets to your computer. With a correctly configured computer, network card, and a little luck, you can turn on your computer across the internet!

http://magicpacket.free.fr/

Top 10 things you don't know about Windows Server 2008 R2

By now you know that the latest version of Windows Server has hit the streets for a lot of folks and will be available to all in just a few weeks. Some of the big features like Microsoft Hyper-V have received a lot of attention, but there are several other new features coming to the fray with this release.

Let's take a brief look at 10 of them you might not have heard much about:

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Control the Issuance of RDS CALs

This post is for customers or administrators who want to control which Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) servers are issued Remote Desktop Services client access licenses (RDS CALs) and which version of RDS CAL is issued to the RD Session Host servers. By default, a Remote Desktop license server issues an RDS CAL (if an appropriate RDS CAL is available) to any RD Session Host server that requests one on behalf of a client that is trying to connect to the RD Session Host server. This post also discusses how to control the auto-discovery of a license server running Windows Server 2008 R2 from terminal servers running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003.


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Converting VMware ESX machines to Hyper-V format

Organizations that are running VMware virtualization tools and wish to migrate to a Hyper-V resource pool will need to recover their existing virtual machine assets. This involves converting the virtual machines from VMware to Hyper-V format. This is relatively simple to do, and there are actually two ways to do it.

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IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office

Quoting an inside source, the German economic newspaper, “Handelsblatt” reports that staff at IBM have been given ten days to change to Symphony, IBM's in-house Lotus software. The use of Microsoft Office will in future require managerial approval. With immediate affect, the Open Document Format (ODF) will rule at IBM with the file ending .doc soon belonging to the past.


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Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.0.14 (Legacy) Released

PortableApps.com is proud to announce the release of Mozilla Firefox_®, Portable Edition 3.0.14 (Legacy Edition) in 15 languages. It's the current Mozilla Firefox browser from the older 3.0 release bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can take your browser, bookmarks, settings and extensions on the go. It's intended for web page testers and the small percentage of users who have not yet updated to 3.5, though users are encouraged to upgrade to the current Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.5.3 release for better portable performance. This new release updates Firefox to 3.0.14. We've expanded the languages available to include Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Russian and Spanish (Spain and International). It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And, as always, it's open source and completely free.

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