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Exchange 2010: Installation screenshots
Jul 5th
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
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Loading ...Windows 7: Use Bitlocker to Go as replacement for TrueCrypt
Jul 5th
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. How? Well I would create a VHD fixed disk and encrypt this virtual volume with Bitlocker to Go.
Note: before you start please make sure you are running Windows 7 Enterprise or Windows 7 Ultimate version
- Start Computer Management
- Click Disk Management and right click
- Click Create VHD
- Enter the VHD filename and location; the Virtual disk size and set the format to fixed size. The disk will be encrypted so you need to set it fixed. Click OK.
- New volume is created now. Please initialize the disk, create new SIMPLE volume, choose drive letter and format it as NTFS.
- After following the steps new disk should appear in Windows Explorer.
- Go to Windows Explorer and right click on the new created drive. Choose Turn on Bitlocker…
- Check Use a password to unlock the drive and type your password. Click Next
- Save the recovery key to a secure location. I would recommend to print it out and keep this somewhere offsite! Click Next
- Click Start Encryption to encrypt the VHD disk.
- Depending on the selected size the VHD disk will be encrypted.
If you running on a installation of Windows 7 Enterprise of Windows 7 Ultimate than Bitlocker to Go is available for you and you can secure your DATA with the proposed solution. I am not going to share this VHD with other operating systems like OSX or Linux, but If I would need to access the secured volume with non windows 7 based system I would always use a virtual machine based on Win7.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Why use file integrity MD5 checksum?
Jun 28th
Last night I copied my Windows Server 2008 R2 server image to a 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!
7-Zip: Data error in file.vmdk. File is broken
The export stopped at 23%. When looking at the file structure all files were 50MB and I could not find any which was less than that. So I had two choices now. a) start copy again or b)run a file integrity MD5 checksum on my source directory which contained all the files and than run that against the destination.
I decided to go for the B option and looked for a good MD5 checksum tool. On exactfile.com I found a small console utility named exf.exe and than I created a digest file against my source folder.
The exf.exe –md5sum took couple of minutes to generate the file. I than copied exf.exe and my exactfile.md5 to the destination folder.
After running exf.exe –c extractfile.md5 the MD5 checksum failed on file number 16. When looking at the file it has the same size 512000KB as any other files.
I copied file 016 again over the network and start the extract process all over again. I spent like 15 minutes to find a solution and copy only 50MB file to solve this whole problem.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Software Deployment: Re-arm Office 2010
Jun 21st
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.
This copy of Microsoft Office is not activated.
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 C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform
- Run OSPPREARM.EXE
After the OSPPREARM.EXE has run you will get the “Microsoft Office rearm successful” message.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Internet Browser: Safari 5
Jun 10th
Some days ago I read a tweet or a post somewhere and today the update of Safari 5 is available on my MacOS.
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 speed up browsing.
- Bing Search Option: New Bing search option for Safari’s Search Field, in addition to Google and Yahoo!.
- Improved HTML5 support: Safari supports over a dozen new HTML5 features, including Geolocation, full screen for HTML5 video, closed captions for HTML5 video, new sectioning elements (article, aside, footer, header, hgroup, nav and section), HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource, WebSocket, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, and HTML5 Ruby.
- Safari Developer Tools: A new Timeline Panel in the Web Inspector shows how Safari interacts with a website and identifies areas for optimization. New keyboard shortcuts make it faster to switch between panels.
Other improvements include:
- Smarter Address Field: The Smart Address Field can now match text against the titles of webpages in History and Bookmarks, as well as any part of their URL.
- Tabs Setting: Automatically open new webpages in tabs instead of in separate windows.
- Hardware Acceleration for Windows: Use the power of the computer’s graphics processor to smoothly display media and effects on PC as well as Mac.
- Search History with Date: A new date indicator in Full History Search shows when webpages were viewed.
- Top Sites/History Button: Switch easily between Top Sites and Full History Search with a new button that appears at the top of each view.
- Private Browsing Icon: A “Private” icon appears in the Smart Address Field when Private Browsing is on. Click on the icon to turn off Private Browsing.
- DNS Prefetching: Safari looks up the addresses of links on webpages and can load those pages faster.
- Improved Page Caching: Safari can add additional types of webpages to the cache so they load quickly.
- XSS Auditor: Safari can filter potentially malicious scripts used in cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
- Improved JavaScript Support: Safari allows web applications that use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) to run faster and more securely.
- For more information about fixes that improve performance, stability and compatibility, please see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4134
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
If you read the news in the last couple months than you would understand why Bing is added I additional search engine. I still think that google is nr1 search engine and Bing doing it’s best. Anyway the update is installed and I am loving it.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...AppV Sequencing: Microsoft Project 2010
May 26th
If you are using Microsoft AppV technology and planning to sequence Office 2010, Visio 2010 or Project 2010 please make sure you install the Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V binaries.
Today with a co-worker we were working on sequencing Project 2010 and at some point during the installation we’ve got the following error message.
Error 1920. Service Office Software Protection Platform (osppsvc) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services.
Microsoft Project 2010 uses the Office Software Protection Platform (SPP) service that basically is the same activation technology that is used to activate volume editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. This service in contained in the Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V. Before you sequence Project 2010, this service must be installed and configured on the sequencing server. It must also be installed on any client computers that you want to stream Project 2010. For more information please read Prescriptive guidance for sequencing Office 2010 in Microsoft App-V.
To download Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V click here.
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