FAQ on windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Service

1.  Licensing
Remote Desktop Services functionality is integrated into the following Windows Server products:
– Windows Server 2008 R2, Standard Edition
– Windows Server 2008 R2, Enterprise Edition
– Windows Server 2008 R2, Datacenter Edition. 

Remote Desktop Services is licensed on a per-device or per-user basis and is not available on a per-server or concurrent user basis. Each device or user, whether it connects directly to any RDS component, or indirectly via another server, requires appropriate licenses to be assigned.

WS08 TS-CALs will continue to work in WS08 R2.

2. Sizing Tool
The Remote Desktop Load Simulation toolset is used for server capacity planning and performance/scalability analysis.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3f5f040-ab7b-4ec6-9ed3-1698105510ad&displaylang=en

In a server-based computing environment, all application execution and data processing occur on the server. Therefore it is extremely interesting to test the scalability and capacity of servers to determine how many client sessions a server can typically support under a variety of different scenarios. One of the most reliable ways to find out the number or users a server can support for a particular scenario is to log on a large number of users on the server simultaneously. The Remote Desktop Load Simulation tools provide the functionality which makes it possible to generate the required user load on the server.

 
3. RD Web Access
Only support ActiveX enable browser.  ActiveX was specifically designed to work with Windows systems. ActiveX is not supported by Microsoft on other operating systems such as Mac or Linux. For Mac Safari, NO

Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Slide

Hi All,
       For those who attended "New Efficiency Launch event" today.
http://www.microsoft.com/singapore/thenewefficiency/default.aspx

This will be my slide I used to present regarding Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services.
http://cid-7a652addf155994c.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Share/NEL%20Nov%2009%20-%20Remote%20Desktop%20and%20Applications%20with%20WS08R2%20Overview.pptx

MSN Virus Removal

MSN is a hugely popular instant messenger use over the world.
This makes it highly vulnerable to viruses since we are bound to click on a lot of links which get sent from friends on MSN messenger hence infecting computers with viruses and trojans.

http://www.msnvirusremoval.com can detect more than 16,242 viruses.

NTLM versus Kerberos

Authentication is the process of verifying the identity.
As the default authentication protocol for Windows 2000 and above, the Kerberos protocol is designed to be more secure and scalable than NTLM.

Let see how these 2 authentication process work.
http://cid-7a652addf155994c.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Share/NTLM%20versus%20Kerberos.docx