Late last week I turned in the last of a 20-video series on "Introduction to VBScript Scripting". That series, narrated by yours truly, will use an administrator-focused approach to helping you learn the art of scripting with VBScript. Its a great series because unlike a lot of the learning materials out there, this one is heavily focused on the things Windows administrators need out of VBScript.

The series is currently in post-production and...

 
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Related to the other announcement today of my upcoming "Introduction to VBScript" video series to be released by CBT Nuggets, I figured I'd drop links to my other two videos over at CBT Nuggets. Each series is 15 videos long, but they release one for free. This is the actual video content, and in and of itself includes some great info on SMS and Citrix.

You'll need to register to get access to both video, but...

 
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Following on the coattails of today's WSUS news, there is a slight variation in how the upgrade works for SBS servers. From the "Official SBS Blog"...

WSUS 3.0 is being offered today as an update for servers running Windows Server 2003 SP1 and WSUS 2.0 (release or SP1). However there is an exclusion for SBS servers that will not automatically upgrade your SBS servers. This is a change to the announcement previously made on the WSUS blog that the WSUS 3.0 server and client package would be automatically be pushed out to all servers. This applies to all SBS servers - Release, SP1, and R2.

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The 3.0 upgrade for previous versions of WSUS is being posted to the WSUS catalog today. So, once you complete your next sync, you should have it as an option.

From the WSUS Team Blog:

Just wanted to let you know - today is the day two updates will be available to you to assist in your management and deployment of WSUS 3.0.

First ,we are making an update available for WSUS 2.0 SP1, which will create a 3.0 "self update tree" on your WSUS 2.0 /SP1 servers. The self-update tree update contains the code for the WSUS 3.0 client. That means, once this update is approved and installed on your WSUS 2.0 SP1 server, 2.0 clients "mapped" to that server will be "self updated" to the 3.0 client the next time the client 'checks in' with the WSUS 2.0 SP1 server. The server remains WSUS 2.0 SP1, while the clients are able to update themselves from the server, to the 3.0 version. We did this to ensure customers had a distributable method to update their clients and realize new performance optimizations, but still manage the plan and timing to upgrade the servers to WSUS 3.0. This update is classified as a critical update for all server categories on which WSUS 2.0 SP1 is supported, with the exception of SBS R2.

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If you're unfamiliar with the new features and functionality that comes with the upgrade of Citrix and the Citrix Access Suite to 4.5, the company has made available a set of video demos that illustrate the product.

The videos are relatively short but a little marketing-heavy, but for those unfamilar with the product suite they do give a pretty good run-down on what's now available.

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