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Cisco Router 851W: Configuring wireless LAN

Posted by Ivan
/ October 23, 2010 / Leave a comment

While preparing a Cisco Router 851w for a SOHO implementation I run into couple of issues. I tried to configure the router from the http interface but soon I figured out this is not the right way. I configured many switches, routers and access points but never a integrated one like the 851W. While working from the default configuration VLAN1 was assigned a static IP address in the 10.x.x.x range;...
VMWare: how to upgrade from ESXi 4.0 to 4.1?

Posted by Ivan
/ October 15, 2010 / 4 Comments

I am running several VMWare ESXi4 servers and I wanted to upgrade them to the latest release of ESXi4.1. The following steps I used to achieve this job in less than 5 minutes. Please make sure you installed vSpere CLI and download the upgrade package on you system before you can start. How to upgrade to VMWare ESXi 4.1? VMWare ESXi4 upgrade to ESXi4.1 video In this demo I am...
MacOS: Screencapture Snagit for Mac (beta)

Posted by Ivan
/ October 5, 2010 / 1 Comment

Techsmith released their version of Snagit tool for MacOS. I have been using Snagit before on my windows systems and I was really missing this cool feature on the Mac. Yes! there are several ways to use screen capture options with Mac but none of them are really convenient for me. My problem I was not able to share the screen capture quickly to other Mac application. I always needed...
MacOS: MarsEdit blog editor for Mac

Posted by Ivan
/ September 14, 2010 / 1 Comment

While reading a post from Webdesigner Depot named How to Blog Effectively I learned some new things. On my pc’s I often use Windows Live Writer or WordPress Admin to write and publish my blog posts. I searched for a while a stable and easy to use desktop blog editing tool for my Mac’s and I finally found a good one. MarsEdit Browser-based interfaces are slow, clumsy, and require you to...
MacOS: CalDAV Google’s Calendar with iCal

Posted by Ivan
/ September 4, 2010 / Leave a comment

I am using Google services for many years other than the search engine. Additional Google services are countless and if you take some time to learn them you will differently enjoy them. At least I am. Last night I worked on my MacBook Pro where I configured the iCal personal calendar application for MacOS. It was so easy to add your Google Calendar that I am sharing this information with...
Exchange 2010: Installation screenshots

Posted by Ivan
/ July 5, 2010 / 1 Comment

The following screenshots explain the GUI steps needed to install Exchange 2010 server on a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine. Before you can install Exchange 2010 IIS and features needs to be installed and enabled first. The following steps will perform these: Start Windows Powershell Import-Module ServerManager Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy Reboot After reboot start Windows PowerShell again and run Set-Service NetTcpPortSharing -StartupType Automatic Run Setup
Windows 7: Use Bitlocker to Go as replacement for TrueCrypt

Posted by Ivan
/ July 5, 2010 / 5 Comments

For several years I used TrueCrypt based encryption to secure my data. Since the release of Windows 7 and enhancements in the disk management I now see the possibility to replace TrueCrypt. Why should I replace TrueCrypt? The reason is simple. I am working with a managed Windows 7 client and I don’t want to load non standard software on my client. There are certain “Computer Use Policy” in place...
Tools: Why use file integrity MD5 checksum?

Posted by Ivan
/ June 28, 2010 / Leave a comment

Last night I copied aWindows Server 2008 R2 server image to my central site. The copy of 3 GB took almost 5 hours over the network. I exported my Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine as OVF template. Due the image size of the virtual machine I used 7z tool to slit the image into 50MB files. I copied the directory to the storage server and started the extraction! ...
Software Deployment: how to re-arm Office 2010 installation?

Posted by Ivan
/ June 21, 2010 / 1 Comment

If you are working on a Office 2010 deployment and no KMS server has been setup you may run out of the grace period. Office 2010 now requires product activation similar to Windows Vista/7. The following Microsoft Office Activation Wizard may appear. As I don’t want to activate the installation at this moment I will use the Office 2010 rearm feature available. Start a elevated command prompt (cmd.exe). Go to...
Internet Browser: Safari 5

Posted by Ivan
/ June 10, 2010 / Leave a comment

Some days ago I read a tweet or a post somewhere and today the update of Safari 5 is available on my MacOS. Refinance Home Loan This update contains new features including: Safari Reader: Click on the new Reader icon to view articles on the web in a single, clutter-free page. Improved Performance: Safari 5 executes JavaScript up to 25% faster than Safari 4. Better page caching and DNS prefetching...