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PhotoShop: iPhone icon template (PSD)

Posted by Ivan
/ January 23, 2010 / Leave a comment

I am releasing my first Photoshop template to public. I am catching up with my Photoshop skills and experimenting how to use different techniques available as tutorials seen on the web. Photoshop iPhone Icon template This template is ready for use for your iPhone app or integrate the graphic on your website. Click here to dowload the PhotoShop Apple iPhone Icon template.
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 Centralops.net Allows you to validate and investigate email addresses. SMTP session 220 w2k8.Networknet.nl Microsoft ESMTP MAIL...
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 than 500+ Windows XP clients? When checking my Windows XP client the “Regional and Language Options” in Control Panel the...
VMWare: how to install Windows 7 from USB media on VMWare Workstation?

Posted by Ivan
/ December 16, 2009 / 16 Comments

In my previous post I created a USB installation disk with the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. Now I am going to use the USB flash disk drive to install my systems. I also can use this media to install my virtual machines. VMWare Workstation 6.5 or lower does not support to boot from USB removable disks, but there is a workaround to achieve that. Start VMWare Workstation and...
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 to install Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool? That’s it! Insert the USB drive and power the system, change the boot...
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 the Adobe Reader from Adobe website. I installed the latest version of Adobe Reader 9.2 today and followed the instructions...
VMWare: why upgrade to VMWare Workstation 7?

Posted by Ivan
/ November 25, 2009 / 1 Comment

VMWare has updated their client virtualization platform and released the VMWare Workstation 7 release. Why upgrade to VMWare Workstation 7? Why Choose VMware Workstation? Check out this cool video from the VMWare site. The wow experience with the latest release. The guys from VMWare did a great job! The encryption feature 3D graphics...
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 on word or PDF file types. All sub folders within the “Information Technology” library hold several documents. The challenge I...
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 now. Part1 Part2 Part3 Part4 Part5 For more information check out this website here.
Software Deployment: The easiest way to get apps with Ninite

Posted by Ivan
/ October 27, 2009 / Leave a comment

If you are upgrading to Windows 7 from XP you will need to do a clean install, and installing your favorite apps again is time consuming and annoying. Now you can install your favorite applications while waiting they are installed for you. How many times did you go to all the websites, download, installed and configured them over and over again. With Ninite things have become smarter and more efficient....