Windows

Microsoft has released its preview for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7. The full blog post can be found here.

This blog post has a great video with a significant benchmark test versus Google Chrome and it clearly smokes Google Chrome on that test. The video explains that Internet Explorer can now harness a computers GPU to perform graphics rendering for web applications. Check the video out for yourself!

I ran into an issue recently where Thin Clients were connecting to a Server 2008 R2 RDS Farm. The RDS Farm had three Sessions Hosts and one Connection Broker. DNS was providing round-robin and the Connection Broker was providing load balancing.

The issue we were facing was that the Thin Clients were experiencing a double logon. When they connected they would logon, and immediately after they hit enter, they were given a second logon. It almost seemed like it was rejecting their password. But it wasn’t. They would retype their credentials and get in and continue on.

This didn’t always happen and what we observed was the following.