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Windows XP: Automatic Updates

Posted by Ivan
/ February 19, 2009 / 9 Comments

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...

Posted in Windows XP
Software Deployment: Microsoft Visio Viewer

Posted by Ivan
/ February 11, 2009 / 3 Comments

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...

Posted in Microsoft, Software Deployment
VMWare ESX: Blue screen during installation of Windows XP

Posted by Ivan
/ February 10, 2009 / 1 Comment

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...

Posted in ESX, VMWare
WordPress: how to set external SMTP server?

Posted by Ivan
/ February 9, 2009 / 16 Comments

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...

Posted in Wordpress
Active Directory: Tombstone Lifetime of 60 days with a virtual machine

Posted by Ivan
/ February 8, 2009 / Leave a comment

My domain controllers didn’t receive any replication updates from their partners. I checked Event Viewer and saw a lot of error messages and warnings. The domain controller I was analyzing, run on Windows Server 2008 as a virtual machine. EventID 1925, 1435 and 1663 warnings were showed in the Directory...

Posted in Windows Active Directory
Riverbed: 6months review in enterprise network

Posted by Ivan
/ February 3, 2009 / Leave a comment

Today I received the following email from Riverbed in my mailbox: Cost savings, data protection, and productivity remain top priorities driving major new IT initiatives. As organisations look to accelerate applications, consolidate infrastructure and optimise bandwidth utilisation, they are increasingly turning to WAN optimisation providers like Riverbed to help them...

Posted in Riverbed