In our Windows 7 client environment, we use roaming profiles, redirected shell folders (including Start Menu), and offline files by default. Offline files are indexed by policy. So we assume searching the redirected user folders to be be fast, since everything is indexed locally, and even read operations are performed on the local cache since [...]

Matt (e-learning technologist @ UCL) just let me discover this very simple and fast cloud application. EtherPad is sort of a online collaborative draft editing tool that lets you create public (cookies-and unique URL-based) or private (user-authentication) “pads”. The creator or any invited participant can invite other participant for simultaneously or asynchronously co-editing the pad. [...]

Abbreviations: BYOC/D -  Bring Your Own Computer/Device UCL – University College London QAS – Quest Authentication Services AppV – Application Virtualization RDP – remote Desktop Protocol I’m currently sharing views and experience with UCL IT guys about a “New Desktop” project. I have been active for years in providing the best possible desktop experience to [...]

Some SysAdmins are confronted with domain member servers or domain member computers regularly loose there trust relationship with the domain controllers, forcing them to logon as local admin and re-join the machine to the domain. The explanation is easy. Every domain computer has an AD computer account with an automatically generated password. Computer account passwords [...]

Interesting, facts-based paper by Paul Thurrot, read here. This article is pretty in line with what I’m currently experiencing here at University College London, where 22000 students and most of the staff and faculty have been migrated to live@edu (live@ucl).