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WordPress version 2.5 upgrade

Posted by Ivan
/ March 31, 2008 / Leave a comment

Two hours ago I upgraded Networknet.nl with WordPress version 2.5 and immediately after the php binaries and database were upgraded I hit my first problem. Within my Widgets Design Sidebar I have the Pages widget which shows all pages on the right side of my blog starting with “About me”.....

Posted in OpenSource
Share your Outlook 2007 calendar online

Posted by Ivan
/ March 27, 2008 / Leave a comment

Are you looking how to share your calendar with co-workers, customers or any other email contacts who are not sitting in your Exchange organization? Today I shared my Outlook 2007 calendar which is sitting on a Exchange server with Microsoft’s Outlook Calendar Sharing Service. The published calendar is based on...

Posted in Office 2007
Microsoft MCSE 2003 Certified

Posted by Ivan
/ March 25, 2008 / Leave a comment

Today I passed my third IT certification exam in 6 months. I successfully passed the 70-296 “Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSE Certified on Windows 2000” exam with a score of 800. I prepared myself with one ebook from Syngress and some additional...

Posted in Certifications
Installing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Posted by Ivan
/ March 25, 2008 / Leave a comment

Before you start downloading the SP1 package check your Windows Vista version. To find out which edition you are running, click Start, right-click Computer, and then click Properties. In the System section, you can view the operating system under System type. If you are installing SP1 from an installation disc,...

Posted in Windows Vista
10000 visitors at Networknet since 17 january 2008

Posted by Ivan
/ March 20, 2008 / Leave a comment

ClustrMaps is the only hit counter that (i) accurately shows you the locations of all visitors to your site on a thumbnail map embedded in your page, (ii) uses dot-clusters that scale up to huge numbers, and (iii) lets you store old maps in an archive. The advantage of ClustrMaps...

Posted in Personal
Cisco: how to setup Windows PPTP VPN server port forwarding on PIX?

Posted by Ivan
/ March 19, 2008 / 5 Comments

In the following example I am configuring port forwarding to a Windows Server 2003 PPTP VPN server. My lab has been configured as shown in the diagram. I have a /28 network registered on the Internet and 14 public IP Addresses are available though the ISP uplink. The SDSL modem...

Posted in Cisco
Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 and Windows Vista

Posted by Ivan
/ March 19, 2008 / 1 Comment

For a while I have been struggling with Office Communicator 2005 and Windows Vista. Office Communicator 2007 is not supporting Office Live Communications 2005 server and there I am forced to use the Office Communicator 2005 client. All presence and chat features worked fine with 2005 but when it came...

Posted in Microsoft, Windows Vista
Vista Codec Package

Posted by Ivan
/ March 17, 2008 / Leave a comment

Last year I download and installed the Vista Codec Package; couple minutes ago I was trying to get one xvid screencast opened by Windows Media Player but it was not able to acquire the codec. Vista Codec Package includes all popular codec components like Xvid, DivX, AC3 and others which...

Posted in Codec
Desktop Virtualization With Acquisition of Kidaro

Posted by Ivan
/ March 16, 2008 / Leave a comment

March 12, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced its intended acquisition of Kidaro, a leading provider of desktop virtualization solutions for enterprises. In combining Kidaro’s virtualization technology with its suite of desktop management tools, known as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance, Microsoft will enable IT professionals to...

Posted in Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft
Which Desktop Virtualization Product should I choose?

Posted by Ivan
/ March 15, 2008 / Leave a comment

In the overview below I have summarized small list of supported features of my favorite desktop virtualization products. Hopefully this overview will help you decide which of those you should evaluate. Microsoft has Virtual PC 2007 which is for free but VMWare Workstation and Parallel Workstation have features which are...

Posted in Desktop Virtualization