Managing Remote Desktop on Windows Server 2003
I have been working more on my demo VM and wanted to use Remote Desktop to demonstrate various users in various roles. By default Windows 2003 is pretty well locked down and I found this
great article from
Mitch Tulloch which explains what you have to do.
Terminal Services Licensing
I noticed that there is a limit of 2 connections by default and I can install
Terminal Services Licensing to get round this, but have not yet got round to fixing this up. I'm not quite sure what is involved on a development MSDN license.
Active Directory & SharePoint Security
Along with this, I had to set up Active Directory and some groups which I could then set up some scenarios. I was reading
Joel Olsen's article on Security on the best way of managing AD groups with SharePoint groups. It has some great points here especially when you are thinking of how to configure this for production and the easiest way of managing this across the Enterprise.
MySites
Part of the demonstration is a MySites based personalisation scenario to show Enterprise Social Networking in SharePoint. There isn't much out there in terms of MySite configuration but I found a
Activating MySite Creation by Amanda which shows you what you have to check from a default MOSS install to get it so Users can create their MySites.
Microsoft SharePoint & the Enterprise
While I've brought up Enterprise 2.0, there's also a
great post discussing whether SharePoint/Microsoft will be the Facebook of the Enterprise. This has been followed up by an
awesome post by Mike. I will be doing a presentation at the
Perth User Group on Tuesday on Using SharePoint to implement Enterprise 2.0. Feel free to come along it's at Microsoft HQ in QV1 after 5.
InfoWorld also had a
article on whether Microsoft will change it's ways with the Office 2007 and go into direct competition with Google Apps. Cap Gemini are going into partnership with Google to sell the Enterprise edition so it'll be interesting to see whether Microsoft will move into this space with it's Live suite for the Enterprise space.