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Windows: Internet Explorer 8

Posted by Ivan
/ March 22, 2009 / Leave a comment

Internet Explorer 8 is released to public. I installed recent beta’s of IE 8 and I had some problems with it. Before I installed IE 8 I run one test which I will share below. The result is promising ;-). 10%+ less memory usage by IE 8 when comparing same websites opened in IE 7....

Posted in IE, Uncategorized
SMS 2003: Error 25100

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

I am still managing a SMS 2003 environment and last week we encountered following message on one of the SMS 2003 clients. The message appeared in Application Eventviewer and SMS client did not report back to our SMS Primary site: Event Type: Error Event Source: MsiInstaller Event Category: None Event...

Posted in 2003
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
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
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
Screencast: Windows Live Essentials

Posted by Ivan
/ December 30, 2008 / Leave a comment

Windows Live Essentials with one download, lots of great stuff in one installation. Thanks Microsoft. The installation includes the following programs: Messenger beta Mail beta Writer beta Photo Gallery beta Movie Maker beta Family Safety beta Toolbar beta Wow what an update 😉 I like the new integration with Live...

Posted in Microsoft
Windows Server 2008: NTLDR is missing

Posted by Ivan
/ December 30, 2008 / 13 Comments

Couple days ago I imported one of my VMs into ESX server. This VM was created with VMWare Workstation and itworked fine before. After VMWare Converter was finished I boot up the machine. The boot process failed and stopped with the message below: Oeps my NTLDR boot record was missing...

Posted in Windows Server
Windows XP: missing UNIDRV.DLL or UNIDRVUI.DLL

Posted by Ivan
/ December 20, 2008 / 7 Comments

During my installation of a screen capture application named Snagit, the setup asked me to provide two DLL’s (unidrv.dll and unidrvui.dll). I searched for them in two directories c:\windows\inf and c:\windows\system32\drivers. In both directories the files were not available. The installation of the application was successful. After a reboot it...

Posted in Microsoft, Windows XP
VMWare ESX: Hyper-V and memory overcommit? forget it!

Posted by Ivan
/ December 18, 2008 / 1 Comment

Hyper-V Manager error when trying to start my 4th virtual machine: An error occurred while attempting to change the state of virtual machine. Unable to allocate MB of RAM. Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service. etc… Before I reinstall my test Dell PowerEdge 2900 Quad core...

Posted in ESX, Hyper-V