June 2008 - Posts
So I have started uploading some video, as an experiment, to video.msn.com aka Soapbox. You can start seeing some of it at my Live Space…
http://bwatters.space.live.com
It has an RSS Feed, that unfortunately cannot be consumed by a Zune…come on Microsoft, get it together!!! And the videos cannot be downloaded, again, GET IT TOGETHER!!! I have some space on the SkyDrive…
RSS feed for my Soapbox…http://video.msn.com/rss.aspx?userId=-6588238715943526632
RSS feed for my SkyDrive video share…http://cid-a491dfcb38b5df18.skydrive.live.com/feed.aspx/pub-vids
Have fun, leave me a comment, whatever…
There has been some documentation about this, but I wanted to take a moment to blog about it. The latest iteration of remote desktop includes a new switch that essentially replaces the old /console switch. The new switch is /admin and it…"Connects you to the session for administering the a server." If you have scripts or batch files or even RD files that includes the /console or enter it on a command line or 'run' or even the vista instant search, it acts like it connects you but it does not actually connect the user to the 'console' it really just ignores that switch all together.
Run from a command line or Vista Instant Search mstsc /?
I may have to do some investigation on the /public switch. I presume it means a shared session that is visible on the monitor at the server as well as remotely, but I do not know that at this time…
Good luck, post back if you do know, or find out…
I like to consider myself up with the times. In college, we studied a book called "The Pacific Century" apparently revisited here. We discussed at length the impact of the Pacific Rim, as well as of India. We further went on to discuss the coming impact of these Nation States on the US and the World. Much of what was discussed 15 years ago, either has happened or is on the verge of it.
Yesterday I was talking to a friend, and he mentioned a video on You Tube 'Shift Happens', search for it. I have seen similar things wandering the web, but it reminded me that we are not the presumed center of the Universe. As Americans we are brought up believing that ALL major things around the world happen here, or because of us, and that cannot be farther from the truth. In my corner of the world that may be somewhat true, but go too far past the end of the block, and all that changes… FAST!
So how does this impact L2TC, our partners and clients. It all depends. We do not have to look to far past our TV or car or clothes, or food. I am not, and we as a company are not 'protectionist' as a rule. I make it a point to watch for items related to foreign investment and apply that across all our investments. We are looking into starting either a new division or spin off a company that will focus on technology, that while developed in the US by multi-national, but primarily US based companies, is now produced almost exclusively in foreign locales and imported to the US. The technology could be made practically anywhere, but the global marketplace has determined that Asia is the best place for production. Whether that is because of cheap labor or plentiful supply of materials, I do not know, but I do know that there is not currently a company in the US producing competing products, wholly on US soil.
As for our Partners and clients, this marketplace is dominated by technology, from end to end. Our clients are information workers, even if their business is manufacturing furniture; they make money from information and data. And all those systems are made in Asia and imported. We work hard to help our clients understand the impact of technology on their business, specifically how they can leverage that for the benefit of the company. Some people only look at their PC as a conduit for email, and their crackberry as an extension of that. There are so many factors on technology today, from the devices to the networks to the data delivered and analyzed. We help clients who rather than fear the technology, open up and start leveraging that as a key business driver in their success.
Google, et al forced Microsoft to open up the Windows Instant Search tool to other search providers and indexes…good for competition, maybe not so good for end users. The focus today is not on that however, it is on adding a link to your Windows SharePoint Services Server index to the Windows Vista Instant Search tool. Basically, it is very simple, and this information is in a variety of places, but, I was struggling to locate the info today at a client, so I thought I would go ahead and put it into a blog, for posterity.
So basically, I did the following…Asked Live Search for Vista Search gpedit.msc and soon enough I came across this… http://www.winvistaclub.com/t68.html. I followed it to the location in GPEdit, in this case User Config -> Admin Templates -> Windows Components -> Instant Search I edited it for our MOSS Site, simply by opening up our site, and entering a search term, and then copying and pasting the url, up to and including k=, then I added %w which is the variable for the search phrase. Then I followed the remaining instructions for gpupdate /force in an administrative command line, and tested successfully.
This is a great tool for me, and makes life very easy now…I am very used to working from the keyboard and pressing the start key, then typing whatever I am looking to launch or find. It works quite well and quite quickly. Now with this, I simply do the same, but this time instead of using the suggestions, mouse up to search the intranet and away I go…