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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 with my development MS SQL server. Just after the POST boot phase a black screen was shown and boot process...
WordPress: Flickr Manager for WP 2.8

Posted by Ivan
/ July 14, 2009 / 1 Comment

Since upgrade to WordPress 2.8 “Flickr Manager” plugin stopped to work. I was able to upload my files to Flickr but failed to insert the picture into my posts or pages. As Flickr Pro member and WordPress fan I love this extension into WordPress. Today a found solution on my problem. Flickr Manager (2.8) A modified version of Flickr Manager for wordpress to work with wordpress 2.8 Thanks guys from...
Cisco: How to reset password of a switch?

Posted by Ivan
/ July 14, 2009 / 4 Comments

Did you ever needed to login on a Cisco Switch and change the configuration? The responsible person is on vacation or out of the office; you forgot the password of the switch and you want to login, and do your job to make the configuration working. Some months ago I had a problem with a failing network segment and I needed to act quickly for this production area. I found...
WordPress: latest and greatest release of 2.8

Posted by Ivan
/ July 4, 2009 / Leave a comment

For three weeks I planned to install the latest release of WordPress 2.8. The list of improvements and enhancements is endless! Highlights New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns Allow configuring the number of items...
Windows Wallpaper: How to disable branded wallpaper?

Posted by Ivan
/ June 26, 2009 / Leave a comment

If you using a OEM Windows installation often there will be a wallpaper set when you login from the console or with Remote Desktop services. For me this is annoying when using RDP session as it is slow to render the wallpaper bitmaps over the internet connection or WAN. I prefer the disable this. Example Open RegEdit and navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop and check Wallpaper key. To disable the wallpaper...
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, site, domain or OU level GPO. Start gpedit.msc as administrator and go to Local Policies, Security Options, and configure “Devices:Restrict...
Veeam: Veeam Monitor Free Edition 4.0

Posted by Ivan
/ June 9, 2009 / 1 Comment

Veeam released latest version of their “Veeam Monitor 4.0 Free Edition for VMware” which is free monitoring tool for ESXi hosts. The Veeam Monitor Free Edition is an easy-to-use VMware monitoring solution designed to meet the day-to-day needs of VMware administrators who need real-time performance monitoring and alerting. Built from the ground up specifically for the virtual world, Veeam Monitor provides a bird’s-eye view of key performance metrics across your virtual...
Windows 7 RC: Add virtual disk (.vhd) with Disk Management”

Posted by Ivan
/ May 19, 2009 / 4 Comments

My wow experience as IT Professional. Windows 7 RC introduced VHD file mounting into the operating system. Create new Virtual Hard Disk and attach it as your local drive. The virtual hard disk is attached now. Initiate the disk and assign letter & format. I can now encrypt it with Bitlocker and password. How cool is that? 😉 No TrueCrypt anymore for me….
Microsoft Outlook: how to backup my signature?

Posted by Ivan
/ May 15, 2009 / 2 Comments

One of the things I always struggled with is creating a backup of my Microsoft Outlook signatures. This is the first time I found how to create a backup of them. The solutions is simple and easy. You could script this and automate when doing client/profile migrations. Start –> Run and go paste this %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Signatures That’s it. You can copy these files to whatever location you want.
Networknet.nl Logo: May 2009

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

Announcing new Networknet.nl Blog logo. This new logo first perfect with the new WordPress theme I currently found. Free Laptops For Students