Console switch for mstsc?
As a Systems Administrator, I do a lot of troubleshooting every day for end-users. I also look after a number of servers and often have to complete very long tasks on these servers. One particular job that I’m working on at the minute is importing users .pst files into Enterprise Vault archives. This is a time consuming process that requires you to be logged in all the time.
So normally, I’d open up a console RDP session to the win2003 server using mstsc /v: servername /console. This connects to session 0 on the box and allows me to disconnect the session and leave it running overnight and not have my session time out and cause the job to fail. However recently I updated mstsc.exe on my machine to version 6.0 to resolve another problem I was having remoting to my XP machine from my Vista PC at home. However it appeared that the /console switch no longer worked. Also when the /? switch was used, it wasn’t even mentioned. Read on…
How to beat the recession in Ireland.. Apparently.
I got this email today. I have no idea if it’s true but its certainly amusing. I think I can see one or two problems with the maths already, but I have no idea really. Would like some opinions or feelings if you have them…
Wednesday April 15 2009
I recently had a long conversation with a [...]
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Well… I’d like to say it was 10 but it wasn’t. Although much of it was a haze I’m pretty certain we managed to visit only 6 drinking establishments (not including bars in Ireland…). But let me start from the start.
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