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Webtrack: HDX™ MediaStream op XenApp6 beter bekeken

August 12th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Protected: Hoe open ik een Dell 19″ rack zonder sleutel

August 11th, 2010 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Testing HideIP VPN

June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

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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SNMP traps from VMware

March 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

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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Enabling SNMP on VMware ESX

March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

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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Use PowerShell to set remote registry permissions

February 12th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Portforwarding on a Netgear WPN824v2 with different source and target ports

December 15th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Allow users to remotely view services

December 15th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Import Certificate on a Synology Disk Station

November 10th, 2009 · 7 Comments

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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Outlook outbox keeps growing

October 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments

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

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