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Windows 7: USB/DVD Download Tool

Posted by Ivan
/ December 15, 2009 / 2 Comments

If you are planning to deploy and install Windows 7 on your pc’s and you are downloading ISO files than this tool can help you in creating the USB or DVD’s installation files. Now days I only download the ISO files from MSDN of the Microsoft Volume Licensing website. How...

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Sharepoint 2007: Adobe PDF support

Posted by Ivan
/ December 14, 2009 / 1 Comment

Adobe PDF file format is by default not available on a Windows Server 2003 or a SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) installation. Most organizations today use PDF files and it would be helpful for their users to have PDF files stored in the full text search index. To get this working install...

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Windows Server 2003: how to disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security with script?

Posted by Ivan
/ October 26, 2009 / 5 Comments

After 6 years of working with Windows Server 2003 I finally made this script to disabe the restricted IE mode. Microsoft already fixed this feature for Windows Server 2008 and it can be easly switched off in Server Manager. For Windows Server 2003 you still need to open appwiz.cpl and run...

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OCS: Office Communications Server down after KB974571

Posted by Ivan
/ October 19, 2009 / 8 Comments

Last week Microsoft released serveral security updates and KB974571 broke our production OCS 2007 server at our hosted environment. Serveral events were shown in the Systemlog: Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7038 Date: 10/17/2009 Time: 7:04:25 PM User: N/A Computer: OCS Description: The RtcSrv service was unable to log on...

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Sharepoint 2007: PDF icon is missing

Posted by Ivan
/ September 24, 2009 / Leave a comment

When uploading PDF documents to “Document Libraries” in Sharepoint 2007 the icon is missing. It takes couple steps to get this done. One task to your planning when putting the Sharepoint 2007 server in production. I run these steps in my DEV environment. Follow the hyperlinks below to get this...

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Windows 7: Release to Manufacturing

Posted by Ivan
/ July 29, 2009 / 1 Comment

Development of Windows 7 has been completed and Microsoft announced release to manufacturing (RTM). Last week I bought my first MAC ever and just started learning MacOS, but still looking forward to get Windows 7 loaded on all my systems.

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VMWare: Failed to start VMware VirtualCenter Server service?

Posted by Ivan
/ July 16, 2009 / 5 Comments

My Openfiler iSCSI SAN failed and all virtual machines on my Virtual Center Server needed to be reboot. After reboot the “VMWare VirtualCenter Server” service failed to start showing the following error message: I opened Windows Explorer, browsed to to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs and opened latest vpxd-XX.log log...

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Lenovo: X200 notebook and why reinstall?

Posted by Ivan
/ July 16, 2009 / Leave a comment

Took the Lenovo X200 out of the box and went through the Windows Vista wizard. The English MUI was installed and it took me 10 minutes before I could do anything. The system has fast Intel Core 2 Duo CPU running at 1.86Ghz and 2 GB of RAM. Well just...

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Windows 2003: Windows could not start?

Posted by Ivan
/ July 14, 2009 / Leave a comment

Last night I lost my Openfiler iSCSI SAN with a “kernel panic” stop message. All virtual machines which were located on that VMWare ESX cluster froze. After I found the problem I reboot the Openfiler machine, and server came back successfully. While checking all virtual machines I encountered another problem...

Posted in Windows Server 2003
Tools: ImgBurn without Admin Permissions

Posted by Ivan
/ June 9, 2009 / 2 Comments

Recently ImgBurn was scripted for an enterprise deployment. None of the end users using ImgBurn are local administrators. With Nero you could install NeroRights to provide such privileges but ImgBurn has nothing included. To solve this problem, small change group policy is required. This can be done in the local,...

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