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Exchange 2007: inbound email problems

Posted by Ivan
/ December 1, 2007 / Leave a comment

On my Exchange 2007 server inbound mail traffic did not work. I was able to send out emails, but when receiving the replies failed (all bounced). During the migration I configured a second mx record at my hosting provider. All undelivered emails were forwarded to the second mail server. My Outlook client was configured to the second POP3 mailbox and everything worked fine from the surface. After getting the following Delivery notification from LinkedIn and Gmail I started to troubleshoot my...
Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 KB936330 install failed

Posted by Ivan
/ November 29, 2007 / 3 Comments

Update: 2008/03/20 I see more and more people coming to my blog when searching for this KB article. The post below I published when I tried to install the SP1 during the test phases before it was available to public; unfortunately I was not able to get the SP1 installed; most probably of my installed software. Go directly to this website if you have any problems from now. Update:2008/04/08 Thanks to www.ghacks.net and their...
Exchange 2007: My first installation

Posted by Ivan
/ November 25, 2007 / Leave a comment

The screen capture below shows the installation summery of my first Exchange Server 2007 ever. Exchange 2007 requires a 64bit Windows Server operating system. This was my opportunity to test the Windows Server 2008 RC0 Hypervisor on my new Intel Q6600 Quad Core system. Oeps 90 minutes in total ;(. Finally I could test a Exchange Server 2007 installation myself. I reinstalled the Q6600 serverbox HDD with VistaX64 and I will start...
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise RC0 Hypervisor

Posted by Ivan
/ November 25, 2007 / Leave a comment

For 6 weeks I have been struggling with my emails on my new Q6600 server. Today I cleaned up my mailbox and organized all emails from last month. I also found a screenshot which I forwarded to my work email. This was my first experience with Microsoft preview of Hypervisor technology. Before the guest booted to Windows Server I created the image below. Wow, but very slow as I will post my next...
CentOS how to install VMWare tools?

Posted by Ivan
/ November 21, 2007 / 4 Comments

If you are working with a virtualization platform then most of the time some components are needed for host integration. I have installed my CentOS virtual machine on a VMWare Server host and now I want to install the VMWare tools. How to install VMWare tools on a CentOS operating system? Locate the VMWare tools ISO file for linux operating system. Most of the time there is an option like...
CentOS how to change hostname?

Posted by Ivan
/ November 21, 2007 / 37 Comments

I personally prefer to install CentOS as my linux distribution. Today I needed to change the hostname of my virtual guest machine running CentOS. How to change hostname of a CentOS system? There are several ways to do that but I am using the old way. VI is my friend and still working. I am using a remote SSH session to one of my virtual machines but you can perform same steps...
Security: Privacy on the Internet and solve that with JanusVM

Posted by Ivan
/ November 14, 2007 / Leave a comment

As a security professional I am concerned for my logs left on the ISP going to the Internet. Couple months ago I heard something about a “Tor” network. My requirements was to initiate a tunnel based a TCP application like Remote Desktop Client (RPD). After some research on Google and Tor wiki pages I found a virtual appliance called JanusVM. I downloaded the 20MB zip file and put it on...
Windows Live Writer

Posted by Ivan
/ November 11, 2007 / Leave a comment

Today I was working on my notebook and I installed Windows Live Mail. I joined to Google Gmail and I wanted use Windows Live Mail as my mail client. Gmail supports the IMAP protocol and I wanted to see how this was working with a local mail client. Getting Google Adds on the web version is sometimes annoying. After downloading small installation executable I could add additional tools like Windows Live...
Windows Server 2008 Domain Join with netdom.exe

Posted by Ivan
/ October 16, 2007 / 6 Comments

The following command will join the NET-IIS-01 workload into the Networknet.nl forest domain. Enter the Administrator password and after the netdom has finished reboot the server with shutdown.exe /r /t5.
Windows Server 2008 Core IPv4 configuration

Posted by Ivan
/ October 16, 2007 / Leave a comment

View the installed interfaces netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces Configure the fixed IP address, netmask and the default gateway netsh interface ipv4 set address name=”nr” source=static address=192.168.1.1 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.254 Configure the DNS server netsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver name=”nr” address=192.168.1.1 index=1