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Office 2007: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS

Posted by Ivan
/ April 14, 2008 / 1 Comment

Microsoft Office 2007 has a free PDF or XPS converter which is available for download from the Microsoft’s website and easy to install. No need for additional PDF printer/converter; just install and convert any of your documents into these two popular document formats. Download SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe from here. Run SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe...

Posted in Office 2007
Windows Vista Problems Reports and Solution

Posted by Ivan
/ April 12, 2008 / 1 Comment

This morning the Problem Reports and Solutions window pop-up in my screen. I like many of the new features Vista has and especially this one when troubleshooting client issues. For example I run 7u program as a SVS layer and couple of times Windows Explorer stopped working as shown in...

Posted in Windows Vista
Dell PowerEdge 2600 Second CPU installation

Posted by Ivan
/ April 9, 2008 / 1 Comment

Today I planned to reallocate some of the components of a Dell PowerEdge 2600 server to another one. I had two Dell PowerEdge 2600 servers. I added memory, hard disks and a second Intel Xeon 2.4 GHZ CPU. I power on the server and I saw no input from the...

Posted in Dell
Apply KB949219 to virtual machines after upgrading to Hyper-V RC0

Posted by Ivan
/ April 7, 2008 / 1 Comment

After I installed Hyper-V RC0 on the physical host server I than start upgrading vm additions on my Windows Server 2008 virtual machine. I uninstalled the old Integration Services tools from my virtual machine, reboot and than reinstalled the Integrations tools again. I reboot the virtual machine and checked the...

Posted in Hyper-V
Hyper-V Remote Management console Windows Vista permissions

Posted by Ivan
/ April 7, 2008 / 1 Comment

After you have installed Hyper-V Remote Management mmc console on your Windows Vista SP1 client and you connect to your Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V RC0 host servers which are sitting in a workgroup you will hit same problem as I did and many others. You do not have the requested...

Posted in Hyper-V, Windows Vista
Cisco: how to configure multiple ports on a switch as trunk?

Posted by Ivan
/ April 7, 2008 / 2 Comments

If you are managing Cisco network equipment and switches in particular then you should be aware of the following feature. This feature can save you a lot of time when configuring Cisco switches. In my example I configured 20 ports to be as trunk in a lab environment. Switch1#conf t...

Posted in Cisco, VMWare
Remote management console Hyper-V RC0 role Vista SP1

Posted by Ivan
/ April 7, 2008 / 1 Comment

KB949758 allows you to install the remote management console of a Windows Server 2008 computer running the Hyper-V RC0 role. Download the update here for x86 or x64 if you are running Windows Vista SP1. I already hit couple of times issues when managing my virtual machines remotely with RDP...

Posted in Hyper-V, Windows Vista
Internet Explorer 7 Search Providers howto and my favorite ones

Posted by Ivan
/ April 5, 2008 / Leave a comment

Couple times I tried to get my IE Search box customized with my own search providers. I read the AddSearchProvider Method from MSDN website and than created couple of my favorite website to have them in my search box available. One of my XML files I created for Networknet.nl Search...

Posted in IE
Hyper-V RC0 Upgrade KB949219

Posted by Ivan
/ April 4, 2008 / Leave a comment

After Windows Server 2008 RTM was released I download and made a DVD. I installed the Hyper-V beta release and start testing the Microsoft’s hypervisor. The Release Candidate 0 (RC0) update to the Hyper-V role provides improvements to security, stability, performance, user experience, forward compatibility of configurations, and the programming...

Posted in Hyper-V
TechNet Magazine

Posted by Ivan
/ April 3, 2008 / Leave a comment

TechNet Magazine is het tijdschrift van Microsoft Nederland speciaal voor IT-professionals. In elke editie van dit tweemaandelijkse magazine vindt u: dieptechnische artikelen geschreven door de beste technische auteurs en Microsoft-experts alles over de nieuwste technologieën en oplossingen praktijkvoorbeelden en ervaringen van IT- professionals informatie direct uit de bron. Bedankt voor...

Posted in Dutch, Microsoft