GPOGuy's GPO for VDI

GPO for VDI

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WCL309

TechEd 11

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011?sort=sequential&direction=desc&page=4

Excel PowerPivot accessing SAP BW

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2010/BIU303

and a whitepaper that was mentioned in the presentation

How to access SAP BW from external applications

Quite interesting performance analysis about different connectors to SAP BW.
http://www.simba.com/docs/ODBO-BAPI-and-XMLA-Its-All-MDX-to-Me.pdf

My recommendation is XMLA with Microsoft Reporting Services 2008 R2 and Report Bulder 3.0 or Reporting Service 2008 and Report Bulder 2.0, but it's because I've tried only that :(

WSUS updates for Adobe and Java

FYI: there is an open source tool that add a functionality to Microsoft update server to patch 3rd party prodcuts such as Flash or Java http://www.localupdatepublisher.com/index.html

How to use SQL reporting in Sharepoint 2010

Nice and easy videos on how to use SQL reporting in Sharepoint
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh239870

Windows Attack surface analyser

Attack Surface Analyzer is a verification tool by Microsoft to catalog changes in system state, runtime parameters, and securable objects on the Windows OS.

repost from http://orangedeuce.blogspot.com/2011/03/introducing-attack-surface-analyzer.html#links

VDI-in-a-box

VDI-in-a-box Citrix solution seems to be the easiest way to jump to VDI world. http://www.kaviza.com/

Virtual DC and time sync

This is important to know for virtualised DCs:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/virtual_active_directory_domain_controller_virtualization_hyperv(WS.10).aspx