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Microsoft MCSE 2003 Certified

Posted by Ivan
/ March 25, 2008 / Leave a comment

Today I passed my third IT certification exam in 6 months. I successfully passed the 70-296 “Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSE Certified on Windows 2000” exam with a score of 800. I prepared myself with one ebook from Syngress and some additional example questions in four weeks. From today I am MCSE certified for Windows Server 2003 and I am looking forward...
Installing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Posted by Ivan
/ March 25, 2008 / Leave a comment

Before you start downloading the SP1 package check your Windows Vista version. To find out which edition you are running, click Start, right-click Computer, and then click Properties. In the System section, you can view the operating system under System type. If you are installing SP1 from an installation disc, the correct version will install automatically. Currently I am running 64-bit Operating System of Windows Vista. Download the Windows Vista...
10000 visitors at Networknet since 17 january 2008

Posted by Ivan
/ March 20, 2008 / Leave a comment

ClustrMaps is the only hit counter that (i) accurately shows you the locations of all visitors to your site on a thumbnail map embedded in your page, (ii) uses dot-clusters that scale up to huge numbers, and (iii) lets you store old maps in an archive. The advantage of ClustrMaps Pro is that you can embed the maps into your own site rather than linking to the ClustrMaps site for...
Cisco: how to setup Windows PPTP VPN server port forwarding on PIX?

Posted by Ivan
/ March 19, 2008 / 5 Comments

In the following example I am configuring port forwarding to a Windows Server 2003 PPTP VPN server. My lab has been configured as shown in the diagram. I have a /28 network registered on the Internet and 14 public IP Addresses are available though the ISP uplink. The SDSL modem is providing these IP addresses by the internal DHCP server. For the Cisco PIX 501 firewall I am using manual...
Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 and Windows Vista

Posted by Ivan
/ March 19, 2008 / 1 Comment

For a while I have been struggling with Office Communicator 2005 and Windows Vista. Office Communicator 2007 is not supporting Office Live Communications 2005 server and there I am forced to use the Office Communicator 2005 client. All presence and chat features worked fine with 2005 but when it came for sharing your desktop or sharing a file the communicator started to complain about the firewall or me sitting behind...
Vista Codec Package

Posted by Ivan
/ March 17, 2008 / Leave a comment

Last year I download and installed the Vista Codec Package; couple minutes ago I was trying to get one xvid screencast opened by Windows Media Player but it was not able to acquire the codec. Vista Codec Package includes all popular codec components like Xvid, DivX, AC3 and others which your default installation of Vista is missing. Go to this website http://shark007.testbox.dk and check out yourself.
Desktop Virtualization With Acquisition of Kidaro

Posted by Ivan
/ March 16, 2008 / Leave a comment

March 12, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced its intended acquisition of Kidaro, a leading provider of desktop virtualization solutions for enterprises. In combining Kidaro’s virtualization technology with its suite of desktop management tools, known as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance, Microsoft will enable IT professionals to optimize their desktop infrastructure by providing management capabilities for Virtual PCs, streamlining deployments and easing application compatibility issues. Turning Virtualization...
Which Desktop Virtualization Product should I choose?

Posted by Ivan
/ March 15, 2008 / Leave a comment

In the overview below I have summarized small list of supported features of my favorite desktop virtualization products. Hopefully this overview will help you decide which of those you should evaluate. Microsoft has Virtual PC 2007 which is for free but VMWare Workstation and Parallel Workstation have features which are missing in Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007. Parallels Workstation license is $50 and the VMWare Workstation is $190 so depending on...
Failed to lock the file! VMWare virtual disk (vmdk)

Posted by Ivan
/ March 12, 2008 / 297 Comments

I copied one of my Windows XP virtual machine running on a VMWare Server 1.02 system locally to my workstation. After the files were copied I opened the vmx file with VMWare Workstation 6 and received the following error below after trying to start the virtual machine. The virrtual machine contained one snapshot on the VMWare Server. Locate the virtual machine in Windows Explorer and delete any .lck folders Start...
BitLocker: how to use Bitlocker encryption without TPM or USB?

Posted by Ivan
/ March 11, 2008 / 7 Comments

I wanted to learn how to use Bitlocker encryption. The requirement I had is to enable Bitlocker drive encryption on a virtual machine without a TPM security chip or access to USB devices. Before starting I read the Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption Step-by-Step Guide from Technet and I found following statement: Using USB removable storage on a virtual machine is not going to work. The only way to get BitLocker working...