Windows Server Team

Microsoft is currently running a series of webcasts under the heading of MCS Talks: Enterprise Architecture with topics including: Infrastructure architecture, Core infrastructure, Messaging, Security and PKI, Identity and access management, Desktop deployment, Configuration management, Operations management, SharePoint, and Application virtualisation.

The number of user groups around Microsoft products seems to be increasing steadily and another group has recently started — the Active Directory UK user group (ADUG) — who aim to build a community of Active Directory users, be they experts or beginners, where they will be able to ask questions, share experiences and learn from each other.

I was putting together a demo environment earlier today and needed to publish a Terminal Services RemoteApp, so I installed Terminal Services (and IIS) on my Windows Server 2008 notebook. Later on, I noticed that Outlook was not working in cached mode and I found that offline store (.OST) files and features that rely on them are disabled when running on a Terminal Services server.

A few months ago, I wrote a post on customising Windows Server 2008 Server Core and Michael Armstrong tipped me off about a cool utility, written by former MVP Guy Teverovsky, called Core Configurator. I say former MVP, because Guy has given up that award to join Microsoft in Israel.

I prefer VBScript — see the below for a very good FAQ on using VBScript for this purpose: tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=5798