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VMWare: Windows 7 USB installation disk
Dec 16th
In my previous post I created a USB installation disk with Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. Now I am going to use the USB disk to install my systems but also I can use this media to install my virtual machines. VMWare Workstation 6.5 or lower does not support to boot from USB removable disks, but there is a workaround to achieve that.
Start VMWare Workstation and open the properties of your VM; than create new virtual harddisk and use the physical partition of the inserted USB disk. In following screenshots you can see what I did to get this done:
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Loading ...Windows 7: USB/DVD Download Tool
Dec 15th
If you are planning to deploy and install Windows 7 on your computer systems and you are downloading ISO files than this tool can help you in creating the USB or DVD’s installation files. Now days I only download the ISO file from MSDN of the Microsoft Volume Licensing websites.
The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool. Once this is done, you can install Windows 7 directly from the USB flash drive or DVD.
To download the tool please click here. Run the setup, next and install.
Start the “Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool” shortcut from the menu.
Browse the iso file and click next.
Choose USB drive or DVD.
Select your removable drive and click Begin copying.
That’s it! Insert the USB drive and power the system, change the boot order and select the removable drive.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sharepoint 2007: Adobe PDF support
Dec 14th
Adobe PDF file format is by default not available on a Windows Server 2003 or a SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) installation. Most organizations today use PDF files and it would be helpful for their users to have PDF files stored in the full text search index. To get this working install the Adobe Reader from Adobe website.
I installed the latest version of Adobe Reader 9.2 today and followed the instructions I found on the following links:
- http://www.joiningdots.net/blog/2007/05/sharepoint-2007-and-adobe-pdf.html
- http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archive/2007/03/29/indexing-pdf-documents-with-adobe-reader-v-8-and-moss-2007.aspx
Searching with some keyword of the PDF files the result returned nothing. PDF files were not index.
Reviewed the Crawl log and found failing messages for PDF files:
Crawled (The filtering process could not process this item. This might be because you do not have the latest file filter for this type of item. Install the corresponding filter and retry your crawl. )
I also tried to add the path system variable to the Adobe Reader installation folder and did another full index but this did not help.
The solution for the problem was changing two registry entries:
- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf and change Default Reg_Multi_SZ value to
- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf and change Default Reg_Multi_SZ value to
{E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}
{E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}
After these registry entries have been modified run iisreset; “net stop osearch” and “net start osearch”. Re-run the full index crawler on your content.
Thanks to the community I got the PDF icon and the PDF search working on the Sharepoint 2007 platform!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...VMWare : Workstation 7 first impression
Nov 25th
VMWare has updated their client virtualization platform and released the VMWare Workstation 7 release.
Why upgrade?
- Ultimate Desktop Virtualization Product for Windows 7
- Best 3D Graphics Just Got Better with for support Windows Aero in Windows Vista and Windows 7 virtual machines
- Most Advanced Virtualization Platform with up to 4 virtual processors or 4 virtual cores and up to 32GB of memory per virtual machine.
- Features Professionals Cannot Live Without for installing and running VMware vSphere 4 and VMware ESXi in a virtual machine
- Protect from Prying Eyes with 256-bit AES encryption.
Why Choose VMware Workstation? Check out this cool video from the VMWare site.
The wow experience with the latest release. The guys from VMWare did great job!
The encryption feature:
3D graphics
Just check it out. I am going to test the VMWare 4 hypervisor installation soon.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sharepoint: Create table of content page based on a Document Library
Nov 8th
We have a Sharepoint “Document Library” which has several different subfolders. E.g.
Within these subfolders there are several documents stored. For example within the “Form” subfolder where form documents are stored based on word or PDF files. All those subfolders within the “Information Technology” document folder hold several documents. The challenge I had is to create a table of content page which showed all those subfolders with their document content. I created a new page based on “Blank Web Part Page” and add the “Information Technology” document library which showed all the folders.
I could change current view and change the “Folders” option to show all items without folders but still this solution didn’t help. I wanted to filter individual “Document Library” subfolders and their content.
I tried all possible options with this “Information Technology” webpart to filter for a subfolder but nothing which helped me. Than I learned from Laura Rogers here how to insert a “Data View Web Part” and filter the content within a “Document Library”.
Some steps to achieve this:
- Create new ASPX file and attach your masterpage (Format menu –> Master Page –> Attach Master Page..)
- Create new custom content for PlaceHolderMain
- Drag your “Document Library” in the content area you want to show
- Make sure you are in the table and in the taskpane go to “Data Source Details” and click the Current Data Source link.
- Change the scope level to RecursiveAll
- We are done now and all documents will be shown stored in this “Document Library”. Now we can filter the path for specific Sharepoint subfolders. Click on the chevron of the data view and click Filter.
- The Filter Criteria window is shown and you can set all different type of criteria. Enter the subfolder you want to show. In my case the Form folder.
- Save the ASPX file and check it out.
The result:
Hopefully by now you get the picture how to customize the data view webpart. You can change all columns and insert hyperlinks were needed.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sharepoint: SharePoint Designer Workflow screencasts
Nov 8th
Today I watched the 5 part screencasts series presented by Bjørn’s from the USP Journal. If you never worked with creating custom workflows with Sharepoint Designer before than this is a good start. These series helped me build some business logic for a internal Sharepoint project I am doing right now.
Part1
Part2
Part3
Part4
Part5
For more information check out this website here.
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