What a great way to waste a lot of time when you're in a hurry. After having installed Vista on my newly rebuilt PC after christmas, I was setting up my rdp shortcuts to my Windows 2003 Server in the quick launch bar as usual, and I ran into a problem. It turns out I couldn't connect to the console session of the server, even if the shortcut used to launch the rdp file included the /console switch

mstc myrdpfile.rdp /console

After a bit of digging, and some help from Gerryn on IRCNet, it turns out that the reason was that /console had been removed from the RDP client, and this change was not in Vista, but in Vista SP1 (I had installed SP1 RC refresh immediately after installing Vista due to Vistas completely unacceptable performance without it).

Armed with this extra bit of knowledge I found a post by Nick MacKechnie describing the change and explaining that this had been replaced by the /admin switch which is better suited for the new features of Windows 2008.

Unfortunately the description in the switch listing for mstsc.exe could be clearer:

Unless you've been hiding under a rock the last few days, or don't really care at all, you'll know that Adobe has announced the CS3 edition of products and will be shipping (most) editions soon. Set aside all the fancy new stuff (and there is some GREAT new stuff in there almost regardless which products you use), one of the things I'm most anxiously waiting to see is if they *finally* fixed their bloody installers when it comes to the upgrade products.

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Yesterday I came back from a two day meeting/workshop/discussion at our Copenhagen office. There was a representative from a consultancy company giving a presentation on the features of SMS 2003, and in between (much to his frustration, I think) we got some good discussions going. While I must admit that it doesn't look nearly as polished and advanced as I expected, I think it has great potential, and it's certainly more flexible in both structure and implementation possibilities than some other solutions I've seen. It was an intense two days, and when I finally got home around 22:30 on friday, I barely got my clothes off before I fell asleep :)