Microsoft anounced today that the service pack 1 release candidate for Windows Vista has gone public.

Tattoo policies are policies not managed by Microsoft. So if you delete the policy the registry settings is stil there. Tattoo policies are normally used if the set provided by Microsoft isn't sufficient enough for managing applications for instance.

Last year I wrote a howto on howto hide local drives in a windows server 2000/2003 environement. Time past and Microsoft was busy building Windows Server 2008 which is currenlty in RC0.

Today McM and I were talking on msn while he suddenly asked me "do you know the tool The Dude". I never heard of it and rapidly got a url to this tool.

The datacrash team has since a week there hands on a test esx server (yes with a monlty trail key cause we are poor) but we loaded up a few virtual machines and I thought "let's compaire the windows server 2008 terminal server policies against those in 2003).

Most of the configurations in citrix metaframe server are backupped by scripts or normal backups. Like published applications which you can export and import with pat.exe.