archiveFebruary 2018

Remote Desktop 6.0, the latest version of Microsoft Remote Desktop client, which comes pre-installed with Vista was slower than molasses when I tried connecting to some Windows 2003 servers. In particular, I was trying to manage a Windows 2003 R2 64-bit Server running Exchange 2007 with 4GB of RAM and...

Sp_configure 'remote access', 1 doesn't do what you think it does. The option name is misleading as it has nothing to do with allowing/disallowing users to access the server from a remote location, it's server-to-server connections. There's a ton of misinformation out there on this. Try it yourself, set the...