News

January 2003

Added the WSH Extensions page! This is HOT, and isn;t just for WSH. Provides script and generally COM-accessible extensions for all sorts of basic functionality not integrated into WSH. Queues and stacks, advanced derived math functions, statistical analysis, system metrics, and basic TS control.

November 2002 News

Yes, I've been doing modifications, but I haven't been documenting them. As of 10.25, here is some of the new material:

Date conversions information added to the WSH page.
International WSH version links added to the WSH page.

October 2002 News

[10.18] Added SetVB6RTPerms.cmd to files collection. Resets the permissions on the VB6 runtimes so that all users have sufficient permissions to execute them on a Terminal Server.
TS Session Enumeration project from a modified form of the compiled code for Q291789 - HOWTO: Use the WTSEnumerateSessions Terminal Server Function from Visual Basic.
[10.17] Added COM interfaces for MstsMhst.
Corrected missing carets needed to correctly escape square brackets in the help function - thanks to Rob van der Woude! If you do scripting, make sure you check out his site, by the way - his Shutdown Page is the canonical reference for system shutdown and reboot command techniques on systems.
[10.15] Added WshConsole to the downloads - an interactive WSH scripting tool.
[10.14] The WmiBiosStrings script is an example of how to return basic BIOS data from an array of remote hosts with WMI installed. As is often the case with my WMI scripts, this is soemthing that started out with pieces of my material, then evolved into two-thirds Torgeir Bakken-written material.
[10.13] TsModes added - COM object for checking and setting Terminal Server user, logon, and flat temp directory modes.
GlobalMutex demo in VB6. Shows how an application can easily register itself in the server-global namespace on a Terminal Server!
Added a routine to set environment variables via WMI to my collection of Torgeir Bakken scripts.
Security Update: There is at least TS "dictionary attack" application. This is not due to a security flaw in TS; dictionary attacks are possible against any system of any kind. The issue is that many users choose very weak passwords. If your Terminal Server is Internet-accessible, enforcing strong passwords with the built-in security tools is the most effective countermeasure - and makes you a very disappointing target.
[10.10] PrnInfo, an ActiveX control based on Karl Peterson's PrnInfo tool, can be used for accessing complete installed printer data on a server. The accompanying test script demos cycling through all printers, then pulling up the paper settings interface for all systems which are not currently set to A4 (specifically for those European TS administrators who had problems with paper size resets following SP3). Details.
[10.08] COM wrapper for the GetLastInputInfo API, thanks to an idea suggested by Ivan Brugiolo of Microsoft. Original API wrapping by Rolf Gerlicher turned this into a 5-minute project.
Demo Full-Screen autoconnect Terminal Services Client.
[10.07] Rough draft of the applications on Terminal Services page is now available.

September 2002 News

[09.29] We've recently begun a new project. The information is not in usable form yet, but work is proceeding on creating a list of "known" good and bad applications for use on TS, with correct installation procedures and gotchas you may need to address.
[09.25] Corrected code in disconnection script on Terminal Services Script Library page.
[09.23] Minor links errata fixed.
[09.22] Peachtree 8/9 Terminal Services Installation page added.
[09.14] Short URL for the TS FAQ verified.
[09.13]
Microsoft Newsgroup Posts page.
Monte Hansen's kvbWinsockLib interface definitions
MsPaper - Interface Definitions for the Office XP Scanning Tools.
Terminal Services Commands listing based on Win2K TS commands added for quick reference.
Mapback.vbs - a crude demo of mapping drive letters back to a LAN client from TS.
Terminal Services Protocols References - relevant RFCs and ITU-T drafts

The following are very simple tools and demos for msrdp.ocx (the TS web client). They can be handy for beginners trying to see how something can be done the first time.
Constants for VB API Wrappers, Public Enum WTS, vbtypes for wrapping the TS API
VB6-Embedded RDP Client - Simple demo of how to embed the RDP client in a VB6 app.
MsRdpNET - a simple demo of wrapping Microsoft's redistributable RDP web client inside a VB.NET project. It's TINY, too - only 40k. Unfortunately you need the 21MB dotnetfx redistributable in order to run it.
[09.06] Corrected issues with the autoinstall MSI wrapper for the new TS Web client. Thanks to Alvin Loh of Microsoft's Terminal Services team for catching this.
[09.02] Finally abstracted my Terminal Services/Remote Desktop WSH code and posted a Terminal Services Script Library. It's more of a bookrack than a library...

August 2002 News

[08.31] Fixed the Tier6 client to handle the new TS client per MS02-047! Re-released on the SourceForge Project Puddleby site.
[08.31] Updated Windows 2000 Terminal Server Licensing Simplified to cover Terminal Services Internet Connector Licensing
[08.31] I've been playing with VMware GSX server lately (unfortunately just the demo); I just put together some script code for VMware GSX.
[08.30] Updated TS/RDP Autologon Script for use with the new version of the web client.
[08.29] Life after MS02-047: Making Web-Based Remote Desktop Work
A recent patch for Internet Explorer has broken the Terminal Services/Remote Desktop web client. This documents the process to fix the problem on the TS Web Server.
[08.28] Jeffrey Randow put up my old Terminal Services FAQ on the Remote Networking Wiki site. The much cleaner look for it and for this site are both due to him introducing me to stylesheets.
[08.22] It's moving day! The Technical Remote Computing index page is now live.

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