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Ubuntu: JeOS mod_rewrite Apache2

Posted by Ivan
/ March 11, 2009 / Leave a comment

While building, configuring and testing my virtual machine based on Ubuntu JeOS 8.04 I encountered the problem with mod_rewrite module. I migrated one of my WordPress blogs to this new vm and tried to get it working. Main page and admin area worked fine; but when opening subpages or any...

Posted in JeOS, Ubuntu
Ubuntu: JeOS vm clone and Network

Posted by Ivan
/ March 8, 2009 / 1 Comment

I am creating and configuring virtual appliances for ESX server with Ubuntu JeOS 8.04 server release. When you create something it is always good to test what you created. I finshed one of my JeOS virtual machines running with ESX server and cloned the JeOS virtual machine. JeOS appliance was booted and...

Posted in JeOS
Windows XP: Automatic Updates

Posted by Ivan
/ February 19, 2009 / 9 Comments

When reviewing my Windows XP client eventlogs I encountered the following two error messages: The client did not receive any Security Updates since those eventsstarted. For whatever reason the SoftwareDistribution database used by “Automatic Updates” service become corrupted. To fix this problem: Immediately after “Automatic Updates” service was started my...

Posted in Windows XP
Software Deployment: Microsoft Visio Viewer

Posted by Ivan
/ February 11, 2009 / 3 Comments

In an enterprise environment Microsoft Visio is a common tool to see. The price for a single license is significant so you don’t want to load this to as default installation on all your clients. Microsoft provides a small viewer for Visio drawings which is integrated with Internet Explorer. I would like to include this add-on to...

Posted in Microsoft, Software Deployment
VMWare ESX: Blue screen during installation of Windows XP

Posted by Ivan
/ February 10, 2009 / 1 Comment

If you try to install Windows XP virtual machine on a VMWare ESX host you will receive the following error blue screen during the Setup phase. Make sure you download the SCSI LSI Logic driver. Restart the setup; run F6 and load the SCSI drivers. With the lastest versions of...

Posted in ESX, VMWare
WordPress: how to set external SMTP server?

Posted by Ivan
/ February 9, 2009 / 16 Comments

I installed and configured a WordPress virtual machine appliance. The virtual machine was running in an intranet environment. An internal SMTP server was used which allowed to email relay into our Microsoft Exchange organization. The vm appliance had an admin option to configure the SMTP relay server. I configured the...

Posted in Wordpress
Active Directory: Tombstone Lifetime of 60 days with a virtual machine

Posted by Ivan
/ February 8, 2009 / Leave a comment

My domain controllers didn’t receive any replication updates from their partners. I checked Event Viewer and saw a lot of error messages and warnings. The domain controller I was analyzing, run on Windows Server 2008 as a virtual machine. EventID 1925, 1435 and 1663 warnings were showed in the Directory...

Posted in Windows Active Directory
Riverbed: 6months review in enterprise network

Posted by Ivan
/ February 3, 2009 / Leave a comment

Today I received the following email from Riverbed in my mailbox: Cost savings, data protection, and productivity remain top priorities driving major new IT initiatives. As organisations look to accelerate applications, consolidate infrastructure and optimise bandwidth utilisation, they are increasingly turning to WAN optimisation providers like Riverbed to help them...

Posted in Riverbed
Windows 7 Beta: What’s new in Win7?

Posted by Ivan
/ January 15, 2009 / Leave a comment

Finally after 2,5 year Windows Vista was released I can say “WOW” with the first public beta of Windows 7. The installation process went smooth. I installed one VM and two physical machines. The setup went fine on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M57 and on my ASUS home system. I am...

Posted in Windows 7, Workstation
Tools: BGInfo silent run and no license agreement

Posted by Ivan
/ January 13, 2009 / 2 Comments

BGInfo is very useful when managing dozen of Windows Servers in physical and virtual environments. I even managed to get this tool deployed to all client computers at work. It has a huge value for support personal. Since SysInternals has been taken over by Microsoft it now shows a “License...

Posted in BgInfo