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Dutch VMware User Group Event 2008
Tot twee weken geleden wist ik niet zeker of ik dit jaar aan de VMug Event 2008 deel kon nemen. Gelukkig kon ik de dag vrij krijgen en was een van de zeshonderd gelukkigen. Dit jaar wederom het event en nu maar liefst plaats voor 600 deelnemers. Vorig jaar waren er 400 en wie weet hoeveel er volgend jaar zullen zijn gezien de wereldwijde crisis en de kostenbesparing die wij... -
Windows Server: SSH remote console with freeSSHd
If you are managing routers, switches and linux machines then sometimes it makes sense to install a SSH daemon on your Windows machines. I installed freeSSHd daemon which is free on couple of my Windows Server 2008 machines. Loading my Windows machines with SSH I have an unified way of administrating my environment. What is freeSSHD? freeSSHd, like it’s name says, is a free implementation of an SSH server. It... -
Riverbed: working with remote AutoCAD files
AutoCAD “Out of the Box” is not tuned to perform particularly well in a WAN environment. This tip is about ways to make AutoCAD respond faster in a networked environment. After implmenting central file serverices with Riverbed appliances the performance and usage of AutoCAD drawing become almost unusable when browsing for a file in Windows Explorer. AutoCAD files were located on a LAN connected file server before and migrated. Autodesk’s... -
Active Directory : KCC recreate NTDS links
If you are experiencing replication problems between your domain controllers, then there is a quick and dirty way to force the NDTS topology updates. Usually I encounter those problems when I move DC’s between different locations in my test environment. Start “Active Directory Sites and Services” console, locate the site and domain controller, open NTDS settings and remove all connection links. Start “Command Prompt” and execute repadmin /kcc (Forces the... -
VMWare Workstation: high-speed USB 2.0 support vm
Since couple days I am running Windows XP x64 and I wanted to scan some documents with my old Canon Lide scanner which is connected by USB cable on the host. Drivers are not supported in Windows XP x64 and therefore I am using a Windows XP 32bit virtual machine. After connecting the scanner in Removable Devices I get the message below: Please upgrade your virtual machine to enable high-speed... -
Webdesign: CSS Min-Height for Internet Explorer
This morning I started creating and testing a new CSS website template for one of my pending projects. After creating the CSS stylesheet and basic HTML page with DIV’s my content container and footer are not being displayed as they should. For the content div container I assigned CSS property “min-height=400px;”. Using of min height of 400px the website will have nice overview instead depending on the content I enter... -
Tools: ImgBurn on Windows Server 2008
ImgBurn is a free tool that enables you to burn CD/DVD images with ease. All the latest drives are supported (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones). Advanced functionality can be found in the ImgBurn context menus. If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes. If you never heard of this tool than now you should download and install it ;).... -
Tools: visionapp Remote Desktop 2008 Express (vRD 2008)
vRD 2008 is a tool for the management of remote Windows computers via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). vRD is ideal for administrators who need to maintain simultaneous connections to multiple servers. Connection-specific settings and login credentials can be organized in folders and subfolders for quick access. visionapp Remote Desktop 2008 is currently one of the most popular products in the market of RDP tools. visionapp Remote Desktop 2008 Express... -
Exchange 2007: Services fail to start
If you are running a Windows Server 2008 virtual machine with “AD DS” Services (Domain Controller) and you installed Exchange 2007 SP1 on the same machine than three services may fail to start. During the boot process of the virtual machine Active Directory Services are not ready and some Exchange 2007 services will fail to start. Screenshot of the Services console during my troubleshooting actions. Microsoft Exchange Information Store, Microsoft... -
PDF: Is there an good alternative for Adobe Reader?
The answer is yes 🙂 . Foxit Reader is incredibly small and very fast. Foxit Reader is good alternative if you want to have on your system. Foxit Reader 2.3 is just released. The new version 2.3 includes a multimedia player feature allowing Foxit users to not only read PDFs, but to watch and listen to the audio/video elements coming with PDFs as well. Foxit Reader is a free PDF...
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