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Windows Server 2008 R2 : enable wireless networking?

Posted by Ivan
/ January 31, 2010 / 4 Comments

When installing Windows Server 2008 R2 out of the box the configuration does not support wireless networking. If drivers are available Windows will find them with plug and play installation but not enable the functionality. Since Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 supports booting from a VHD file from...

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PowerShell: How to delete a file based on a list of computers?

Posted by Ivan
/ January 31, 2010 / 12 Comments

The following PowerShell script recipe will help you delete a remote file based on a list of computers stored in a text file. New PowerShell function will be created during the session which will be piped from the text file. Create new file named C:\Scripts\Active_Computers.txt and populate the computer names....

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PowerShell: How to check list of computers for a specific remote file ?

Posted by Ivan
/ January 31, 2010 / 6 Comments

The following PowerShell script recipe will help you check a remote file based on a list of computers stored in a text file. During the session a PowerShell function will be created which will be piped into the text file with computers. In the following PowerShell example I will check...

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Exchange 2007: Server up but no new email

Posted by Ivan
/ December 31, 2009 / Leave a comment

No new emails were delivered for my Networknet.nl domain. Second configured MX record received new emails for my personal email address. I logged on the Exchange 2007 server but at first glance I could not see any issues. I opened Internet Explorer and browsed to http://centralops.net/co/EmailDossier.aspx. Email Dossier from...

Posted in Exchange
Software Deployment: Windows XP East Asian languages

Posted by Ivan
/ December 16, 2009 / 4 Comments

The following steps will help you to silently install the East Asian languages for Windows XP. This check box can be easy set during the winnt.sif installation or when the image is syspreped. What happens if you have not set this option and you need to change this on more...

Posted in Software Deployment, Windows XP
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...

Posted in Windows 7
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...

Posted in Sharepoint 2007
Sharepoint: Create table of content page based on a Document Library

Posted by Ivan
/ November 8, 2009 / 9 Comments

How to create table of content (TOC) of a SharePoint document library? Let’s take a SharePoint “Document Library” which has several different sub folders. For example the structure below: Within these sub folders there are several documents stored. For example within the “Form” sub folder where documents are stored based...

Posted in Microsoft, Sharepoint 2007
Sharepoint: SharePoint Designer Workflow screencasts

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

Today I watched the 5 part screencasts series presented by Bjørn’s from the USP Journal. If you never worked with creating custom workflows with Sharepoint Designer before than this is a good start. These series helped me build some business logic for a internal Sharepoint project I am doing right...

Posted in Microsoft, Sharepoint 2007, Uncategorized
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...

Posted in Windows Server 2003