Archive for May, 2009

Windows 7 RC: Add virtual disk (.vhd) with Disk Management”

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

The wow experience as IT pro and Windows 7 RC having VHD format integrated into the operating system.

The Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format is a publicly available image format specification that specifies a virtual hard disk encapsulated in a single file, capable of hosting native file systems while supporting standard disk and file operations. They are commonly used as part of the Hyper-V feature of Windows Server 2008 R2, for example. For more information about VHDs, see Additional references. You can use Disk Management to create, attach, and detach virtual hard disks (VHDs). Membership in Backup Operators or Administrators, or equivalent, is the minimum required to complete these procedures.

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Create new Virtual Hard Disk and attach it as your local drive.

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The virtual hard disk is attached now. Initiate the disk and assign letter & format. I can now encrypt it with Bitlocker and password.

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How cool is that? ;-) No TrueCrypt anymore for me….

Microsoft Outlook: how to backup my signature?

Friday, May 15th, 2009

One of the things I always struggled with is creating a backup of my Microsoft Outlook signatures. This is the first time I found how to create a backup of them.

The solutions is simple and easy. You could script this and automate when doing client/profile migrations.

Start –> Run and go paste this %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Signatures

That’s it. You can copy these files to whatever location you want.

Microsoft Outlook Signature location

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Thursday, May 14th, 2009

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JeOS: Installing mutt without an Internet connection

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Ubuntu LogoI needed to install mutt on my JeOS virtual appliance without having an internet connection because the machine is sitting behind firewall. Mutt is handy in scripts and you can attach your files. The files can be mysql database dumps for example.

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. It is great for testing mail server setups and sending email messages via the command line.

  

Download the .deb files:

Install

  • dpkg -i mutt_1.5.17+20080114-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
  • dpkg -i mutt-patched_1.5.17+20080114-1ubuntu1_i386.deb