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I have 15 t5500 HP thin client and i am looking for Server configuration which can handle upto 20 thin clients.
Usage: Internet (browser), MS office, Simple multimedia (Movies, Songs).
No Games, No CPU intensive programs (like photoshop or visual studio etc).
I need to know a Normal configuration for the Server.
My thoughts:
8GB RAM, Core i5,500GB Hard disk,Windows Server 2008.
Does 1 licence of Windows server 2008 supports 15-20 thin clients?
Thank you
Little Complex of a question, but from my expeirence for 20 users on a windows 2008 system you will need at least 16 GB of RAM. My envirnment when I used physical machines I used Dell PowerEdge 1950's with Dual Xeon E5410s (4 Cores # 2.33GHz), 500GB is more than what I used but that is definitly something not to skimp on if you can get away with it.
1 Windows Sever 2008 Cal comes with 5 user CALs but you will need to purchase either user or machine CALs. Difference either each user will need a CAL, which will follow them or a CAL for each of the thin clients and it doesn't matter how many users you have logon as long as they are using one of those devices. You will need to install the TS Licensing Server feature as well and point your TS server to that installation. That is where you would install the purchased licenses
Now a little practical matter, multimedia does not work well across an RDP connection even while on the same LAN. You can get it to work ok but if all 20 clients are streaming video it will become very choppy to almost unwatchable. The hardware that you are wanting to use, yes its possible but I doubt very highly that you will achieve a very usable environment for your users. Now if you went with Windows 2003 Server x64 you could get away with the hardware you wanted. The reason is because of how Microsoft designed the user enviornment in 2008 they separated the memory for each user session while in 2003 and 2000 the sessions shared some of the memory.
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This is part of a migration from Vista to Windows7. I now have a dual boot computer, with Win7 the preferred OS. From time to time I might need to go back to Vista to see how the things were configured there and then I will need to go back to Win7 to configure/install the same app there.
This is a computer that had very complex settings and it was difficult and risky to upgrade in place, to install Win7 over Vista.
In order to avoid countless reboots I would like to be able to always run Win7 and when I need I would like to be able to fire up VMWare Workstation and to start a Vista Machine that would have as HDD the physical HDD where currently Vista resides. I would expect the VMWare machine to run the OS installed on that HDD and I would expect Vista no to see that the hardware changed. My apps are not hardware dependent.
Is this possible?
Its possible and there are a few ways you could go about doing this.
The Easy Way
VMware Desktop allows you to use your existing partition/Disk to boot from only if its an IDE Disk.
https://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_disk_dualboot.html
The hard way
You can capture the Windows Vista OS as an .wim image with Windows Deployment Tool ImageX.exe. Then use other tools to create a bootable ISO. You would have to update the image though every time you feel there are a lot of changes made in Vista you want to see in VMware.
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I'm relatively new to the SNMP protocol and its imperative that I find a way to get details of the computers on my network. I need to get the following from each machine remotely:
Architecture
RAM
HDD Size
CPU Speed
Is this possible with to retrieve the listed variables with SNMP?
All of the machines have been modified at some point and have Windows XP Pro installed. Also, WMI is not an option. I have went through the RFC1213 and SNMPv2 MIBs however I may be overlooking these variables.
I have 1 machine that I'm using to test methods. It is Windows XP Home. It has the SNMP service installed.
First, please spend more time learning SNMP. That means at least you should go beyond RFC1213.
Second, Microsoft's SNMP support its own MIB documents. Try to install SNMP support on a Windows XP machine and then you can find them (*.mib) in %windir%\system32. From them you can find OID specific to Windows. It might not cover all objects you want, but it can be a starting point.
In all, Microsoft prefers WMI to SNMP, so you should convince your boss and other stakeholders that choosing SNMP might become a problem in the future.
Yes, this is possible. To do so you need to install the SNMP service for Windows XP. Follow the instructions from the MS official website
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Currently I have a dedicated server with WHM and Joomla running.
I want to transfer it to new server. This new server has high speed bandwidth.
I only have remote access to the new server which has Win 2008 R2 installed and it shows it was installed on a VM.
I need to configure this server to run a domain name with Joomla which will be access by 10k visitors/month.
I have knowledge on WHM and CPanel only. How I can started with any ready made packages?
The reason my management changed the server is for better performance as current dedicated server is slower.
However, I guess the new server is installed on a VM..
Please guide.
The first thing you need to do is not move your Joomla site to a Windows server. The configuration of the server is critical to the performance of Joomla and you will have nagging issues until the end of time trying to run Joomla on Windows. It can be done, but it's a massive headache and there is absolutely no advantage to doing so. There are dozens of reputable hosting companies that have servers configured specifically to run Joomla optimally. Take a look at Rochen (I have over 50 sites on Rochen) or CloudAccess, both have official relationships with the Joomla project and both have very reasonable pricing.
Also, 10k visitors per month does not require a dedicated server unless all of those users are on simultaneously running SQL query heavy apps. You could easily run a site that size on a managed virtual server and have no performance issues at all. I've got sites with hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors running on a single MVS with no issues at all.
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For decades, X11 has provided the possibility to have many virtual desktops that can be accessed by different people from different machines. The virtual desktops are thus independent of the real physical desktop.
I'm wondering whether there is something similar already on MS windows OS. I would think this could be easily done if virtual desktop managers could make the virtual desktops ---that they already maintain in memory--- available to remote desktop applications.
My needs come from the following situation. Often time, I have to provide support to remote users. In many cases, the support would take hours. Unfortunately, during this time, the user's computer is completely control by us and the user can't do anything. Now my question is whether there is a solution that would allow us to work and repair the user's computer on one virtual desktop while the user is actually working on the other virtual desktop attached the physical one.
Any input would be much appreciated.
Klaus.
The desktop versions of Windows are artificially limited by Microsoft to one desktop session at a time. They want you to spend the big bucks on Terminal Server if you want to have multiple sessions.
Workstation builds of Windows (with the notable exception of Media Center Edition, to support extender devices) are hardcoded to prevent concurrent sessions. That said, there are very unofficial third party binary patches that modify the Terminal Services code to remove the limitation.
Remote Desktop, from Microsoft is what you are looking for.
There are hacks for various versions of windows that allow concurrent Remote Desktop sessions. Here's one for Windows 7, but similar exist for vista and XP.
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I have Windows File sharing enabled on an OS X 10.4 computer. It's accessible via \rudy\myshare for all the Windows users on the network, except for one guy running Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition.
All the other users are running Vista or XP, all 32-bit. All the workgroup information is the same, all login with the same username/password.
The Vista 64 guy can see the Mac on the network, but his login is rejected every time.
Now, I imagine that Vista Ultimate is has something configured differently to the Business version and XP but I don't really know where to look. Any ideas?
Try changing the local security policy on that Vista box for "Local Policies\Security Options\Network Security: LAN manager authentication level" from “Send NTLMv2 response only” to “Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated”.
No I have successfully done this with my Vista 64-bit machine. You may want to try using the IP Address of the machine and try connecting that way. Or maybe check out the log files on the Mac to see what the rejection error was.