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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...

Posted in Windows Vista
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...

Posted in Exchange
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...

Posted in Hyper-V
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...

Posted in CentOS
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...

Posted in CentOS
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...

Posted in Security
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...

Posted in Windows Live Writer