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Riverbed: 6months review in enterprise network

Posted by Ivan
/ February 3, 2009 / Leave a comment

Today I received the following email from Riverbed in my mailbox: Cost savings, data protection, and productivity remain top priorities driving major new IT initiatives. As organisations look to accelerate applications, consolidate infrastructure and optimise bandwidth utilisation, they are increasingly turning to WAN optimisation providers like Riverbed to help them face these challenges for their data centre, branch office and mobile worker environments. Join Steelhead Mobile Product Marketing Manager Joe...
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 looking forward to see the latest version released. What’s new in Windows 7? If you hadn’t download Windows 7 Beta...
Tools: BGInfo silent run and no license agreement

Posted by Ivan
/ January 13, 2009 / 2 Comments

BGInfo is very useful when managing dozen of Windows Servers in physical and virtual environments. I even managed to get this tool deployed to all client computers at work. It has a huge value for support personal. Since SysInternals has been taken over by Microsoft it now shows a “License Agreement” windows. Sure this is not a problem on the servers; but for client computers we don’t want to bug...
Software Packaging: Adobe Customization Wizard

Posted by Ivan
/ January 6, 2009 / Leave a comment

If you are a software packager and planning to script the Adobe Reader for enterprise software deployment, then Adobe Customization Wizard tool is definitely you need to have when customizing Adobe Reader settings. Adobe Customization Wizard is a free download-able utility designed to help IT professionals take greater control of enterprise-wide deployments of Adobe® Acrobat® and Adobe Reader®. With it you can customize the Acrobat installer and application features prior...
WordPress: XML-RPC services disabled

Posted by Ivan
/ January 4, 2009 / 9 Comments

Some while ago I created a new WordPress blog. Recently I updated my Windows Live Writer configuration and I registered my new blog in Windows Live Writer. Just after entering all required parameters I got the following warning: WordPress developers decided to disable “Remote Publishing” from version 2.6 and higher. Networknet.nl is running since 2.5 and I never hit this problem before. To enable the “Remote Publishing” feature logon to...
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 Spaces and Photo Gallery with 25GB free diskspace. To download Windows Live Essentials please go to here.
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 or something went wrong during the import. Therefore I mounted the Windows Server 2008 DVD and boot from it. Click...
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 started showing messages that the application printer was not installed. I uninstall the application and I started again but now...
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 server I wanted to share this with you. Hyper-V does not support memory overcommitment and I don’t like that. The...
100000 Visitors at Networknet.nl

Posted by Ivan
/ December 18, 2008 / Leave a comment

Wow! On 12th of June 2007Networknet.nl Blog become online . In the first half year I was learning WordPress system and posted some posts. After getting familiar with the blogging system I started to blog on various topics and areas I was working on. I received feedback from the readers hitting my website (thanks to google 😉 ) and enjoyed publishing my posts. Where do we stand now: 20-03-2008 :...