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Cisco: how to setup Windows PPTP VPN server port forwarding on PIX?

Posted by Ivan
/ March 19, 2008 / 5 Comments

In the following example I am configuring port forwarding to a Windows Server 2003 PPTP VPN server. My lab has been configured as shown in the diagram. I have a /28 network registered on the Internet and 14 public IP Addresses are available though the ISP uplink. The SDSL modem...

Posted in Cisco
Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 and Windows Vista

Posted by Ivan
/ March 19, 2008 / 1 Comment

For a while I have been struggling with Office Communicator 2005 and Windows Vista. Office Communicator 2007 is not supporting Office Live Communications 2005 server and there I am forced to use the Office Communicator 2005 client. All presence and chat features worked fine with 2005 but when it came...

Posted in Microsoft, Windows Vista
Vista Codec Package

Posted by Ivan
/ March 17, 2008 / Leave a comment

Last year I download and installed the Vista Codec Package; couple minutes ago I was trying to get one xvid screencast opened by Windows Media Player but it was not able to acquire the codec. Vista Codec Package includes all popular codec components like Xvid, DivX, AC3 and others which...

Posted in Codec
Desktop Virtualization With Acquisition of Kidaro

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

March 12, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced its intended acquisition of Kidaro, a leading provider of desktop virtualization solutions for enterprises. In combining Kidaro’s virtualization technology with its suite of desktop management tools, known as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance, Microsoft will enable IT professionals to...

Posted in Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft
Which Desktop Virtualization Product should I choose?

Posted by Ivan
/ March 15, 2008 / Leave a comment

In the overview below I have summarized small list of supported features of my favorite desktop virtualization products. Hopefully this overview will help you decide which of those you should evaluate. Microsoft has Virtual PC 2007 which is for free but VMWare Workstation and Parallel Workstation have features which are...

Posted in Desktop Virtualization
Failed to lock the file! VMWare virtual disk (vmdk)

Posted by Ivan
/ March 12, 2008 / 297 Comments

I copied one of my Windows XP virtual machine running on a VMWare Server 1.02 system locally to my workstation. After the files were copied I opened the vmx file with VMWare Workstation 6 and received the following error below after trying to start the virtual machine. The virrtual machine...

Posted in VMWare
BitLocker: how to use Bitlocker encryption without TPM or USB?

Posted by Ivan
/ March 11, 2008 / 7 Comments

I wanted to learn how to use Bitlocker encryption. The requirement I had is to enable Bitlocker drive encryption on a virtual machine without a TPM security chip or access to USB devices. Before starting I read the Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption Step-by-Step Guide from Technet and I found following statement:...

Posted in Bitlocker, Windows Vista
Backup and Recovery cookbook with Acronis and Microsoft

Posted by Ivan
/ March 10, 2008 / Leave a comment

Doing some research and going through my del.icio.us links I hit the blog of Virtual PC Guy from MSDN. He had a web link to one of the latest cookbooks "Deployment Cookbook: Backup and Recovery with Microsoft® Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1 and Acronis® True Image 9.1 Enterprise...

Posted in Acronis
Rode X/kruis op je harde schijf Windows Verkenner

Posted by Ivan
/ March 10, 2008 / 1 Comment

Ben je ook een slachtoffer van een virus/trojan of een adware programma en heb je een rode kruis wanneer je Deze Computer of Windows Verkenner opstart? Waarschijnlijk is je computer heel traag wanneer je verbinding maakt met het internet en allerelei pagina’s gaan open wanneer je Internet Explorer opstart. Wanneer...

Posted in Dutch, Windows
NTP and network protocol analyzer session

Posted by Ivan
/ March 8, 2008 / Leave a comment

After I reconfigured my Windows Time Service I download and installed WireShark network protocol analyzer tool. I start capturing all traffic on my physical Ethernet interface for more than 12 hours. I was wondering what kind of traffic was generated by my windows client after I configured the NTP server...

Posted in Windows

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