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Shannon Fritz

Shannon Fritz

Infrastructure Architect and Server Team Lead at Concurrency. Shannon is an MVP in Forefront and Enterprise Security, MCSE in Private Cloud and MCSA Windows Server 2012. He's also a self-professed media junkie. Just ask him about MediaCenter!
Contributions by Shannon Fritz

Encrypted Container using BitLocker and VHD

I've talked with some people who have been using third party tools like TrueCrypt to make a container file (tutorial) which allows them to store files securely in what is essentially a virtual hard d...

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Remote Access book by Ben Ari is out!

Ben Ari is back with another great book, this time on the Remote Access role in Windows Server 2012 and it covers Planning and Deployment for both DirectAccess and VPN scenarios.  The book is also ap...

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RDS8 - Add a 2008 R2 Session Host

Read more Step-by-Step Guides on Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012. It’s not talked about very much but there is a somewhat hidden feature in Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services...

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Seeing Red in Server Manager 2012?

Does the Server Manager console in Windows Server 2012 always seem to show your Roles and Servers Groups in Red due to “Manageability” errors that say “Online - Cannot get BPA results” ? This seems t...

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RDS8 – Add a Licensing Server

Read more Step-by-Step Guides on Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012. An important part of really finishing a deployment of Remote Desktop Services is the Licensing role, or “RDLI”. Witho...

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Smart Sizing Exposed in Remote Desktop UI, at last!

One of the coolest "little secret” features that has been in Windows since XP has been the ability for the RDP client to “smart size” or Scale the contents of the Remote Desktop to fit the boundary o...

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RDS8 - Gateway and Certificates on Windows Server 2012

Read more Step-by-Step Guides on Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012. As the name implies, Remote Desktop Services is a way of delivering services for desktops that are not “local”. Howev...

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RDS8 - Quick and Easy, RemoteApp on Windows Server 2012

Read more Step-by-Step Guides on Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012. I’ll show you how you can set up RemoteApp publishing using a single server in less time than it takes to watch an ep...

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