Like all books I was hoping for something that delivered a little bit more than the man pages and online docs. Sadly this wasn't really the case. Now I'm not saying that ‘Running Xen’ is a bad book. It's not. It's just missing that “something more”, that “je ne sais quoi” (I cannot believe I've just typed that and not removed it). If you're going to somewhere without man pages or online docs, then it's an invaluable reference.

…redirected App data directories, and causes a crash (Visual C++ Runtime error). Unfortunately after updating one or two of our customers at work it appeared that a few user accounts still had a redirected app data directory, presumably because they weren't around when it was removed. Thankfully fixing it is pretty easy (although potentially time consuming depending on your setup), if the redirection policy isn't active and is simply a case of changing the relevant entry under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders, and then logging off and back on, and migrating the redirected files back into the local profile directory.

Here's another one that caught me out today, but I've never come across before. Under a DFS share, any linked shares are created as junctions. It appears that the permissions on these junctions do affect the permissions of the data within the linked share. Whilst this is logical, given how junction points work, what really threw me was that the wonderful, wonderful GUI didn't reflect this and the permissions on the junction point had been inadvertently changed.

I guess I've not come across this before as most of the printers we deploy use the same driver name for client side and server side drivers, but it appears that you can force a Terminal Server to use a certain driver, in place of what the client is telling the server. KB239088details the process. I found that the wizard wasn't much use at all - but it's not like the process is particularly complicated.

Given it's all over the forums and it's now the end of day after the release of the episode: “LUGRadio will be finishing after LUGRadio Live UK 2008” (so that's basically 2 remaining episodes, including LRL)! There are various reasons for this, and if you're not already aware of them I'd suggest listening to S5E21yourself. To have a hovis moment, I discovered LUGRadio at the start of season 2, which culminated in LRL 2005.

Unless you've been living in a hole for the past few days, or you're seriously anti-Windows or simply not into your virtualisation at all, you're probably aware that Hyper-V, the replacement for Virtual Server 2005, has gone “gold” (RTM). There's all sorts of news on this, but little in the way of unix and unix-like related info on the web. Despite having 2 customers with it at work, I've not had the opportunity to try any of the unix-like systems on it either.

We had a good one at work the other day. One of our customer's terminal servers, from their load balanced cluster, had run out of diskspace on C:, due to a rogue update of some bespoke software and a lack of quotas. This is something which was missed from the config, but we or the customer never noticed, as we're pretty good at monitoring this stuff and resolving the issue before it causes trouble.

Transport rules are a new thing for Exchange, in it's latest incarnation (Exchange 2007), and it allows for some pretty interesting configuration and behaviour when a mail is in transit. If you're familiar with earlier versions of Exchange it's probably best to compare them to Event Sinks, only that they're much more friendly. If you don't know what that means then a more apt description would be simple to create rules, that allow you to do anything from append text to the bottom of an email, to apply filters on messages between both internal and external users.

It seems times are changing. About 15 years ago Shannon Larrattstarted something called BME, which some of you may know. This eventually flourished into the current and ever popular modblog, over the last few years. Today Shannon announced that he will be relinquishing hispart ownershipand handing it over to his ex-wife, Rachel, in it's entirety. I wish Shannonall the luck in the world in whatever he decides to do, and to thank him for what he's done for the modification culture.

Ok, so maybe not again. After all there's not much you can get that happy about when it comes to filesystems these days - a lot of the really exciting stuff has been done so far. Like Resier[3|4], ZFS is one I'd heard about, did some research on but never considered using at all. The fact that it currently only runs on Solaris or via FUSE under Linux (which in itself can be considered to be a benefit, as the filesystem is recoverable and separate from the kernel - performance supposedly sucks though), had kind of put me off a bit.