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Welkom bij de Webtrack over Citrix HDX Mediastream. Ik wil je verzoeken om na het bekijken van de Webtrack de evaluatie in te vullen:

EVALUATIE

Klik hier om naar de Webtrack te gaan.

N.B.: de video is in HD kwaliteit te bekijken op YouTube.

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I tuned in to the BBC last night to watch Wimbledon (I only watch Wimbledon, Top Gear and Top Gear on BBC). But to my surprise I got BBC World and BBC entertainment. When I phoned my provider it turned out to be a conflict between my provider and some other provider and it wasn’t clear when things were fixed.

Time for a solution. I started some googling and found HideIP VPN

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My previous post was about enabling SNMP on ESX with the purpose to allow SNMP management software to GET information. It’s however very usefull to let VMware send traps as well.

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I was looking for some documentation on howto enable SNMP on VMware ESX 4.0.

I couldn’t find a clear overview and had to merge all documentation myself (see the links at the bottom of this post). For documentation purposes I wrote this blog.

To configure SNMP you need vSphere CLI. Instead of installing it I decided to have a go at the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA). This is a virtual machine you can download and allows you (amongst other features) to run scripts.

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I needed to set registry permissions on a lot of Windows Server 2003 machines. I don’t like regini and find setacl a bit complex, so I turned to PowerShell. None off the servers had PowerShell installed, so I decided to run a script on one of the servers to fix them all.

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My good old linksys router with DD-WRT firmware on it could not keep up with my fast internet connection. The cpu usage was at 100% at a 20 mbps download speed. So I traded it in for a free Netgear WPN824v2.

You cannot configure everything from the web management page. I wanted a portforwarder with a different source and target port. I found that you can use telnet. Take a look a this page. I decided to give it a go!

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A domain user asked for permissions to view services on a database server. A remote desktop wasn’t necessary. I decided to create a services.msc snapin to the server. I received an “Access Denied” error.

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As a former notary of Thawte’s discontinued Web of Trust (WOT) I got an offer for a free 2-year SSL certificate. Thank you Thawte!

I wanted to use this certificate on my Synology Disk Station (DS 107). A first I received the error message “Private key and certificate are not matched.”

In this article I explain the steps I followed.

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The outbox in my Exchange account kept growing. I’m using Outlook 2007 in Cached Exchange Modus.

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