Thinstall have done it again.

Some time ago they released a version of the ica client which did not require any installation nor leave any footprint in the system registry, now they are preparing to launch their application virtualization suite.

Mark Russinovich better know as "Sysinternals" just relased a new version of "Process Monitor", the new version was coded from scratch and intergrated the tools "Filemon" and "Regmon". Many people worried that Sysinternals collection would no longer be free, but part of the deal was that utilities created by Mark would remain free for all use... Get it here

Article updated!!30/11/2006

Microsoft released the terminal services client 6.0 for Windows XP in the download section. We already had the rdp6 client running but that required a few replacements of the original mstsc.exe in both windows\system32 directory and the caching directory. It's now officially installed and there are backup's made...

Microsoft released a software development kit for Windows Vista and .net framework 3.0 runtime components. It is a iso download of 1185.5MB.

You can get the goodie here

Microsoft released a spreadsheet with the policy settings that you can configure in the new Windows Vista (RTM build 6000).

You can download the sheet here

as browsing to search a script I stumbled on a big picture that Windows Powershell version 1.0. We knew that Windows Powershell had a RC already but didn't know that it's now officially version 1.x.

You need also the .net2 RTM (realese to manufacturing edition) to be able to work with the powershell.