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  1. JeOS: how to install missing crontab?

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    While working with my Ubunu JeOS 8.04 virtual machine I found out that crontab was missing. Crontab was not included by default. Crontab is the linux scheduler to run things on specific times you define. Oeps seems crontab is missing on my system. How to install crontab on Ubuntu JeOS?...
  2. SMS 2003: Error 25100

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    I am still managing a SMS 2003 environment and last week we encountered following message on one of the SMS 2003 clients. The message appeared in Application Eventviewer and SMS client did not report back to our SMS Primary site: Event Type:        Error Event Source:      MsiInstaller Event Category:    None Event...
  3. WordPress: intranet and firewall

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    I am a huge fan of WordPress blogging platform. Recently I introduced the platform in my enterprise environment. WordPress is running behind a restricted network and it has no connection to the Internet. While installing and finalizing the virtual machine which is used to host WordPress I encountered one problem...
  4. Ubuntu: JeOS mod_rewrite Apache2

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    While building, configuring and testing my virtual machine based on Ubuntu JeOS 8.04 I encountered the problem with mod_rewrite module. I migrated one of my WordPress blogs to this new vm and tried to get it working. Main page and admin area worked fine; but when opening subpages or any...
  5. Ubuntu: JeOS vm clone and Network

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    I am creating and configuring virtual appliances for ESX server with Ubuntu JeOS 8.04 server release. When you create something it is always good to test what you created. I finshed one of my JeOS virtual machines running with ESX server and cloned the JeOS virtual machine.  JeOS appliance was booted and...
  6. Windows XP: Automatic Updates

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    When reviewing my Windows XP client eventlogs I encountered the following two error messages: The client did not receive any Security Updates since those eventsstarted. For whatever reason the SoftwareDistribution database used by “Automatic Updates” service become corrupted. To fix this problem: Immediately after “Automatic Updates” service was started my...
  7. Software Deployment: Microsoft Visio Viewer

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    In an enterprise environment Microsoft Visio is a common tool to see. The price for a single license is significant so you don’t want to load this to as default installation on all your clients. Microsoft provides a small viewer for Visio drawings which is integrated with Internet Explorer. I would like to include this add-on to...
  8. VMWare ESX: Blue screen during installation of Windows XP

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    If you try to install Windows XP virtual machine on a VMWare ESX host you will receive the following error blue screen during the Setup phase.   Make sure you download the SCSI LSI Logic driver. Restart the setup; run F6 and load the SCSI drivers. With the lastest versions of...
  9. WordPress: how to set external SMTP server?

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    I installed and configured a WordPress virtual machine appliance. The virtual machine was running in an intranet environment. An internal SMTP server was used which allowed to email relay into our Microsoft Exchange organization. The vm appliance had an admin option to configure the SMTP relay server. I configured the...