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BgInfo

Posted by Ivan
/ April 23, 2008 / Leave a comment

If you manage multiple computer systems than BgInfo tool from Microsoft (formal SysInternals) is the right tool to display relevant computer information (CPU,Hostname, IP/DNS/DHCP/Default Gateway, Memory,Disk,etc.) of the system. I am using this tool on all my virtual and physical host machines to identify what kind of system I am...

Posted in BgInfo, Microsoft, Tools
Windows 7 and MinWin

Posted by Ivan
/ April 19, 2008 / Leave a comment

Windows 7 (formerly known as Blackcomb and Vienna) is the working name for the next major version of Microsoft Windows as the successor of Windows Vista. Eric Traut talks Windows 7 and MinWin from Long Zheng on Vimeo. For complete session of Eric Traut demonstration of Windows 7 click here....

Posted in Microsoft
Cacti RRD graphs are not updated and the application slow

Posted by Ivan
/ April 17, 2008 / 1 Comment

I have two identical Cacti (0.8.6h) virtual machines and both based on CactiEZ version 1 installation. I have been migrating the virtual machines between different Vmware hosts and at some point my second Cacti appliance did not update the RRD graphs and using the web interface was very slow. I...

Posted in Cacti
Top 3 security tips for client virtual machines!

Posted by Ivan
/ April 16, 2008 / Leave a comment

How many of us have Windows Updates automatically configured and Virus Protection installed when using client OS virtual machines for test environments? I hope most of you because unprotected virtual machine in your enterprise environment has the same risk as a physical machine. There is no difference between a virtual...

Posted in Security, Virtualization
Office 2007: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS

Posted by Ivan
/ April 14, 2008 / 1 Comment

Microsoft Office 2007 has a free PDF or XPS converter which is available for download from the Microsoft’s website and easy to install. No need for additional PDF printer/converter; just install and convert any of your documents into these two popular document formats. Download SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe from here. Run SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe...

Posted in Office 2007
Windows Vista Problems Reports and Solution

Posted by Ivan
/ April 12, 2008 / 1 Comment

This morning the Problem Reports and Solutions window pop-up in my screen. I like many of the new features Vista has and especially this one when troubleshooting client issues. For example I run 7u program as a SVS layer and couple of times Windows Explorer stopped working as shown in...

Posted in Windows Vista
Dell PowerEdge 2600 Second CPU installation

Posted by Ivan
/ April 9, 2008 / 1 Comment

Today I planned to reallocate some of the components of a Dell PowerEdge 2600 server to another one. I had two Dell PowerEdge 2600 servers. I added memory, hard disks and a second Intel Xeon 2.4 GHZ CPU. I power on the server and I saw no input from the...

Posted in Dell
Apply KB949219 to virtual machines after upgrading to Hyper-V RC0

Posted by Ivan
/ April 7, 2008 / 1 Comment

After I installed Hyper-V RC0 on the physical host server I than start upgrading vm additions on my Windows Server 2008 virtual machine. I uninstalled the old Integration Services tools from my virtual machine, reboot and than reinstalled the Integrations tools again. I reboot the virtual machine and checked the...

Posted in Hyper-V
Hyper-V Remote Management console Windows Vista permissions

Posted by Ivan
/ April 7, 2008 / 1 Comment

After you have installed Hyper-V Remote Management mmc console on your Windows Vista SP1 client and you connect to your Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V RC0 host servers which are sitting in a workgroup you will hit same problem as I did and many others. You do not have the requested...

Posted in Hyper-V, Windows Vista
Cisco: how to configure multiple ports on a switch as trunk?

Posted by Ivan
/ April 7, 2008 / 2 Comments

If you are managing Cisco network equipment and switches in particular then you should be aware of the following feature. This feature can save you a lot of time when configuring Cisco switches. In my example I configured 20 ports to be as trunk in a lab environment. Switch1#conf t...

Posted in Cisco, VMWare

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