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We are in the process of designing a new network structure. We would like to have: Cloud based Firewall, Spam filter, web filter, and VPN ALL from the same company. I look at it as a Turn key cloud solution. Any ideas? Thanks in advance

Thanks ... appreciate your help. We'll explore the PAC file. Hopefully you'll remember something, but I know how it is when things happened a year ago ... We seem to format over that stuff.

POW ... I'm having the same problem. Did you ever get this figured out. (Both the Auto-naming and the Auto-Join Domain) ?

We are trying to work with SCVMM to create a virtual environment for testing. For us the price is right if we can make it work. We have 2 Windows 2008 r2 servers in a FARM using a connection broker. Both servers have 2tb Raid arrays and 64gB of RAM. Building VM's indiviually works great and are functional and fast. Application are delivered to the VM's via App-V ...seemless Our struggle is: When we are trying to use SCVMM to create ...say 30 machines for a test lab...it fails unless we build them one at a time. I can find no way to get around this. Basically, when the VM is created ...it sends the BITS ...restarts the machine, (Windows 7) does the starting registry stuff ...gets to about 5% and restarts ......Gives a "something happend and I cannot start error" In the Event log .... Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS/Admin Source: Hyper-V-VMMS Event ID: 13100 User: System Has anyone encountered this before? Can it even be done? Thanks, Dave

I've seen the same thing if the VHD file was deleted "BEFORE" it was deleted within the HyperV management. VHD may be gone but a snapshot remains? Could also be causing the problem. If you can stop the HyperV service you should be able to delete it. (you may have to restart the server itself) The VM may then come up as corrupt, but will allow you to delete it. Hopefully this helps d

We are going to be Virtualizing 600-800 Windows 7 machines in a VDI environment. Reading today ....I found a Microsoft "Remote Desktop Virtualization Host Capacity Planning in Windows Server 2008 R2" This paragraph hit me a bit: "To better assess the impact of virtual machine startup, a test was run that consisted of simultaneously logging in 64 users against the 16 core test server. The 64 user set was chosen because this is the maximum number of users supported per server in a cluster environment, which is the likely configuration for a large capacity deployment. " In the Same document it talks about configurung a Server to support up to 150 W7 VMs. (I assume a Single Server) Question: Without clustering, can you use a RDS Seission host Farm, provide similar failover, and keep the supported number of VM's at a much higher level. ie: ( 150 users per Farm member rather than the 64 cluster limit) Looking for any input to help in our decision process. Dave

ScarfedOne: Looking forward to your post on SSO. Atamakosi: Thanks for your input. May save me some time.

If you are using Hyper V as the Hypervisor for your VDI-In-A Box ...it works great for small numbers of machines. Again ...hardware dependant, based on what you are trying to accomplish. I have it running in a test environment to compare MS RDS/VDI and Citrix VDI-I-a-Box. d

Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but it could provision old machines to work either with VDI or TS/RDS. We are using VDI. Microsoft version. Server 2008R2, Connection Broker, Remote Web Access, (installed not used for out of district stuff yet.) I'm using APP-V to deliver applications to the VDI VM's. The VM's are pooled and all differencing disks to a master. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/thin-client-virtual-machines/91494-rdp-thinclient-setup.html is were I posted how I connect and "kinda" lock down the stations for ease of use. Hope this helps..... d

Couple things. My "want" was to use old desktop computer as client computers that boot, run Remote desktop client, attach to a MS RDS pool and when the session terminated, retrun the student to a login screen. I have not quite got the Signal Sign on working yet, but in progress. Three files: 1.RDP file that points to the Pool. This can be found on the connection broker Server once you have configured a Pool. In c:\windows\remotepackages\RemoteDesktops 2. A powershell script that launches MTSC with the Pool file Named it Startup.ps1 Start-Process c:\windows\system32\MSTSC.exe c:\temp\pool.rdp Wait-Process MSTSC Start-Process logoff.exe 3. A VB script (I named it RDPShell.vbs) that calls the Powershell script (Startup.ps1) All you need to do is replace the path for "strPath" to the location and file name that you need. Dim objShell,objFSO,objFile Set objShell=CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set objFSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") 'enter the path for your PowerShell Script strPath="C:\temp\Startup.ps1" 'verify file exists If objFSO.FileExists(strPath) Then 'return short path name set objFile=objFSO.GetFile(strPath) strCMD="powershell -nologo -command " & Chr(34) & "&{" &_ objFile.ShortPath & "}" & Chr(34) 'Uncomment next line for debugging 'WScript.Echo strCMD 'use 0 to hide window objShell.Run strCMD,0 Else 'Display error message WScript.Echo "Failed to find " & strPath WScript.Quit End If 4. Replace the Explorer.exe shell using regedit.exe (HKey_LM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell) with wscript.exe c:\temp\RDPShell.vbs Once you have modified the registry for the PC, when a user logs in it runs the series of files. Login leads to RDS login, session starts. When the users logs out of the session, it returns to the script and logs out the user. Leaving the machine at a login screen. ** You will need to install/apply the following in order for XP machines to understand the Pooling process of the RDP file. find it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951608 ***Once you have modified the regisrty ..the only way to get back in and change it is to load the registry from another machine and edit it from there. Regedit > File> Connect Network Registry (Connect/Disconnect) Hope this helps. Next (now) I'm trying to figure out the SSO part. wish me luck. You can also modify the Pool.RDP to meet your needs. The only thing that I have yet to figure out is ..that the RDP file requires a password instead of passing the current credentials. Good luck, d

On your connection broker, browse to Windows\RemotePackages\RemoteDesktops. If you created a Pool on the connection broker, the associated .RDP file to connect to it is in that directory.Copy it out of the location to ..?? maybe your destop for testing, and it should work.

I have used setup Windows7 and XP machines to use a script as the replacement shell for explorer. It Opens and RDP file that connect to the RDS Pool ...waites for MTSC to End then logs the user off. Thus returning to the login screen. Fairly easy setup..(even though it took me a while to accomplish it. Let me know if you want more info. Works great for a school setup. Login ...get your session ..exit seesion ....back to login screen. D

Is there any way to use MSTSC or a Remote Desktop Clinet to connect to a RDS Pool of computers? I am running a standard MS setup. Hyper-V on a Win2k8 R2 server. Remote Desktop Virtual Host. I have a RDS Connection broker configured with a Win7 Pool. I have a RDS Web Access Server All are configured and working. I would like to be able to get the clients to connect to the pool rather than to an individual machine. I would prefer NOT to user the Web Access Server to do this. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. 1st post ..... be gentle 1Steelhead