Lewan Technology Blog

Opening multiple Visio files and switching between them is a pain. I figured there had to be a way to make Visio to always open files in separate windows, so you can see the visio drawings seperately (eg: dual monitors).

Microsoft KB article for RDP 7.0 for Windows XP SP3, Vista SP1 and Vista SP2.

There is a slight problem when trying to deploy printers using group policies in Small Business Server 2008. When following the steps for server 2008 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722179(WS.10).aspx ) you will find that the pushprinterconnections.exe file located on server 2008 is 64-bit. This can be a big problem because the executable is incompatible with any 32-bit machines.

Have you ever run into a situation where you needed to join a new domain but keep the old profile? One of our senior engineers (Greg Prawl) provided this information to me the other day when I was doing a domain migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008. This process allows you to keep the old domain profile when you join a new domain.

We've already posted some useful info on licensing servers for a virtual environment, but we also get the question a lot of how virtualization changes licensing for hosted desktop (aka VDI) environments. Well, here are some very useful links.

Here are some very useful calculator links that we show many of our customers on the benefits of virtualization.