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Mac: What to do when my Mac is slow?

Posted by Ivan
/ September 5, 2011 / Leave a comment

Two years ago I switched from a PC to a Mac. I have three Macs running as my workstation system, a portable MacBook and a multimedia Mac Mini. Last week I realized it was time to do some upgrade to improve the performance of my iMac and Mac Mini. Both...

Posted in Apple
Windows 7: best practices for enterprise deployment of Bitlocker

Posted by Ivan
/ August 5, 2011 / 5 Comments

BitLocker is one of the features included with the Ultimate and Enterprise editions of Windows 7 for a full disk encryption of the hard disks. This additional feature helped me during a migration project to Windows 7 to get rid of the additional third party application (Safeboot) for disk encryption....

Posted in Bitlocker, Windows 7
Windows Server: how to permit users to log on remotely to a domain controller?

Posted by Ivan
/ July 27, 2011 / 7 Comments

Active Directory Domain Controller (AD-DS) is an important Windows Infrastructure role. In some circumstances you will have to provide remote access (RDP) to your helpdesk- and/or support personnel to connect to those machines. For me I needed to develop a plan to allow non “Domain Admin” personnel to remotely connect...

Posted in Windows Server
Windows 7: How to initialize/reset Offline Files database?

Posted by Ivan
/ March 22, 2011 / 21 Comments

Problem Statement In the last year I have seen many strange problems when Offline Files and Redirected folders have been enabled on Windows 7. Many times the Group Policy Folder Redirection failed due to the folders were set to offline or automatic caching from the shares. To start with a...

Posted in Windows 7
Exchange 2010: Installation screenshots

Posted by Ivan
/ July 5, 2010 / 1 Comment

The following screenshots explain the GUI steps needed to install Exchange 2010 server on a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine. Before you can install Exchange 2010 IIS and features needs to be installed and enabled first. The following steps will perform these: Start Windows Powershell Import-Module ServerManager Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy...

Posted in Exchange 2010, Microsoft
Windows 7: Use Bitlocker to Go as replacement for TrueCrypt

Posted by Ivan
/ July 5, 2010 / 5 Comments

For several years I used TrueCrypt based encryption to secure my data. Since the release of Windows 7 and enhancements in the disk management I now see the possibility to replace TrueCrypt. Why should I replace TrueCrypt? The reason is simple. I am working with a managed Windows 7 client...

Posted in Bitlocker, Windows 7
Tools: Why use file integrity MD5 checksum?

Posted by Ivan
/ June 28, 2010 / Leave a comment

Last night I copied aWindows Server 2008 R2 server image to my central site. The copy of 3 GB took almost 5 hours over the network. I exported my Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine as OVF template. Due the image size of the virtual machine I used 7z tool...

Posted in MD5, Tools
Software Deployment: how to re-arm Office 2010 installation?

Posted by Ivan
/ June 21, 2010 / 1 Comment

If you are working on a Office 2010 deployment and no KMS server has been setup you may run out of the grace period. Office 2010 now requires product activation similar to Windows Vista/7. The following Microsoft Office Activation Wizard may appear. As I don’t want to activate the installation...

Posted in Office 2010, Software Deployment
Windows Virtual PC : Attach a floppy drive (VFD)

Posted by Ivan
/ March 13, 2010 / 5 Comments

Out of the box Windows Virtual PC default does not support adding a Virtual Floppy drive. This feature has been removed from the GUI and hidden for general public. Windows Virtual PC still allows you to attach and work with VFD files. You will need to complete some steps from Command...

Posted in Microsoft, Windows Virtual PC
Windows 7: Create a directory symbolic link to a network share

Posted by Ivan
/ March 13, 2010 / 1 Comment

Mklink allows you to create a symbolic link to a directory or a file. This was a long-waited feature for Windows and available on unix/linux based systems. Windows Vista introduced this new feature and with Windows 7 we can utilize this now in more depth with the libraries. Make sure...

Posted in Windows 7