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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 the steps. The warning I was presented over and over. This message make sense but not when I need to...
Qnap: SABnzbd+_0.4.11 QPKG package installation

Posted by Ivan
/ October 25, 2009 / 3 Comments

My LAN IP addresses recently changed and therefore I needed to move my Qnap TS-109 NAS box to a new IP address. Since than I was not able to open the SABnzbd+ web interface on tcp port 8800. The Qdownload folder and sabnzb subfolder still worked when presenting an NZB file. The SABnzbd+ daemon worked but I was not able to use GUI. After leaning that Qnap released their v3...
Qnap: Introducing the brand new GUI v3

Posted by Ivan
/ October 25, 2009 / Leave a comment

Qnap released their new FIRMWARE V3 which brings the best user experience with the AJAX technology for their NAS users. Firmware v3 features: QNAP NAS now supports Virtual Disk which enables the NAS to connect to other iSCSI targets over the network by the built-in iSCSI initiator feature for flexible storage expansion. EXT4 file system supports larger volume size (>16TB) and higher performance than EXT3. For more information, please...
Windows: Microsoft Security Essentials free virusscanner

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

Well this is something to consider if you don’t have any virus protection so far. You should and Microsoft offers it now for free. I will install it on my Windows 7 systems. Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and...
Sharepoint 2007: Office SharePoint Server Search service missing??

Posted by Ivan
/ October 23, 2009 / 2 Comments

For last couple of hours I am struggling with installing the SSP provider for Sharepoint 2007 server. During the creation of a new SSP provider a Indexer is required; well I can’t select any because it is empty. Searched on google and found out that I need to start “Office SharePoint Server Search” service in Central Administration website “Central Administration > Operations > Services on Server” and enable that service....
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 as domain\RTCService with the currently configured password due to the following error: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. ...
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 done in your Sharepoint 2007 configuration: Icons are not displayed for Adobe PDF documents that are listed in the search...
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.
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 file. I found the following error in mine: I opened C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\ssl folder but it...
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 looking into these specs the system should be quick and easy to use. Watch the processes and the memory usage...