| Continuous Professional Development - 29 August 2007 |
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| August 2007 | |
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Continuing professional development plays an important role in assisting Compucon channel members to remain current and develop new competencies in information technology practices 3:30pm Personal/Executive Back Up System (Kevin Davidson) There are many ways and devices for data back up on a personal level. We have found one device that stands out from the rest. This device provides scheduling and automation of back up functions that are easy to operate. Most importantly, it provides encryption of data, emails and files that are backed up to the device so that the backup is absolutely private. Compucon will introduce this device to the channel here if channel members are convinced that it is a good solution. Download Personal/Executive Back Up System 4:15pm System Platform & Roadmap Update (TN Chan) We will do a brief analysis of why AMD has performance leadership and how Intel improves its computing subsystem efficiency by going outside the CPU. We will learn how AMD helps maintaining platform consistency and what challenges we have to address on Intel platforms. If time allows, we will explain what is blade server and its merits over the traditional rack mounted system arrangement. Download System Platform & Roadmap Update 5:00pm Microsoft Terminal Services (Sean Dring) My biggest problem with Terminal Services is how the licensing works, either per user or per device. The whole system would be easier to manage and make more sense if per simultaneous use, ie 10 licences would allow 10 connections at any one time, as a user logs off it would free up the connection. Please clarify licensing of Applications when running terminal server. Rules for adding Office as an Application to a Terminal Server ... such as can we use OEM? It might be interesting to hear more detail about the Client and Resource Access Policies. With regard to the 2003 version, (and possibly the 2008 version) I would dearly like to know how to allow users access without having to make them members of the Administrators group. Performance issues- optimum hardware (CPU and memory size); The documentation with TS talks of needing 10MB of extra RAM per each added user. This is minimal in terms of the general trend to have at least 1GB and preferably 2GB of System Ram Memory on board. There is a slight loss of speed when using a TS session from a remote location on good Broadband connections of say 2.5Mbps download and 128Kbps upload. What kind of performance can a client expect on a dial up connection compared to this speedy broadband connection? Co-existence of TS with other server services such as Domain Control, F&P etc in the same Server Hardware. Does Microsoft have any recommendation on a Full Microsoft Server Farm inclusive of Terminal Services? Security issues with respect to Terminal Services, local and remote sites. What measures are available to protect customer data during a TS session? How secure is port 3389 that TS uses since it must be known to hackers for instance that pin holes are put in Router Firewalls to make TS work. Establishing VPN via say a router with built in VPN tunnels each end may be a better option. How secure is the RDP client? Download Microsoft Terminal Services |