Eric Denekamp

Windows 7 Mobility center rocks

Eric Denekamp — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:27:32 GMT

One of the features I really like about Windows Vista and Windows 7 is the Windows Mobility Center.I have been using it without looking very deep into it, but today while my students are doing a lab, I looked into it a little bit more: and I ran into the following feature setting: When switching to presentation mode it already blocked pop-ups etc. so your presentation is not interrupted by Joe who comes into messenger with his always funny remarks. We all know how embarrassing that can be. I like the feature Windows 7 has of the “slideshow desktop Background”, but when presenting I would like to have it as professional as possible, even with our company background. I used to change backgrounds manually, but today I found the following:

which gives me access to the following options screen:

This solves my problem of having a lot of preparation to do ahead of starting a presentation.

Now I wish this option would become available in Server 2008 R2…

ForeFrontDemo Environment growing

Eric Denekamp — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:33:11 GMT

This week is a Forefront week, I am building a nice environment with all the new stuff forefront has to offer in it.

Still using Forefront Security for Exchange 2007 but for the rest is will be NEW stuf: Forefront Protection Manager, Threat Management Gateway and in the future it will also hold the UAG (Unified Access Gateway). The latter I do not have a direct need for and no time to implement it.

I really love my job that gives me the possibility to play around with these new things and call it WORK..

I will keep you posted.

Windows XP Mode

Eric Denekamp — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:06:07 GMT

The new option to run older applications that are not suited for Windows 7, is available for download on this festive day…

Get it her: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

Starting programming

Eric Denekamp — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:54:27 GMT

If you are (Like myself) somebody without too much programming experience, but want to get better, Microsoft created the Programming for kids site. It can help you start learning about object orientation...

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/10/17/microsoft-opens-kids-corner-programming-education-website

Get on the Bus update 4.

Eric Denekamp — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:34:12 GMT

You can register for the Get on the Bus tour: http://www.infosupport.com/getonthebus

It is both for te Mechelen event as for the Veenendaal Event.

We hope to meet you there…

Get on the bus update 3

Eric Denekamp — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:50:11 GMT

We have a confirmation of the Dates and times of the Get on the bus tour:

On Friday, Oct 30^th 2009, at InfoSupport in Mechelen, Belgium, from 9:00 – 12:00

On Monday, Nov 2^nd 2009, at InfoSupport in Veenendaal, The Netherlands, from 18:00 – 21:00

We are creating a page to register, keep your eyes on this blog to learn more.

I hope to meet you all at one of our locations.

More about the Get on the bus tour:

Eric Denekamp — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:37:59 GMT

I just heard that amongst the speakers will be: Stephen Rose and Joey Snow.

A webcast with Stephen rose Can be found here.

The blog of Joey Snow van be found here.

Bothe are know for their knowledge on their subject and inspiring speakers…

Exciting news about Get on the Bus and TechEd EMEA

Eric Denekamp — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:23:53 GMT

I just heard today that the Get on The Bus tour will have its Dutch stop at our company in Veenendaal and its Belgian Stop in Mechelen at our location. Is this cool or what?

The date in the Netherlands will be 2nd of november, and the date for Belgium will be the 30th of oktober.

Mark those dates please.

for more info: keep track of this blog or the Get on the bus page mentioned above.

Nice Live writer Plug-ins

Eric Denekamp — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:44:24 GMT

A colleague of mine just tweeted about some nice plug-ins for live writer, and as a very dependant user of Live Writer and of twitter, i went to look at the list, it is here:

http://www.technobuzz.net/windows-live-writer-plugins/

I found one that announces your new blog posts to twitter. That is a plug-in I have been looking for for some time, I already tweeted my blog updates to Twitter, but had to do that manually every time I created a new interesting blog post.

Update: the Tag Generator mentioned here, crashes live writer on my windows 7 x64 machine…

Running Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 on Windows Server 2008 R2

Eric Denekamp — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:59:29 GMT

Today I got a question of somebody on how to install Virtual Serve 2005 on a server 2008 r2 setup, He is a trainer as I am, and sometimes he wants to run Virtual machines in Hyper-V, but sometimes We need to use the Virtual machines given to us by Microsoft. Thos e machines are sometimes made to run under Virtual Server and to fix all the stuff related to the incompatibility of The two virtualization platforms, is sometimes too much work for the result. So I started investigating> it seemed that there is an incompatibility issue here. ( the message box plainly says so.) I searched on the internet on how to solve this, knowing that Server 2008 r2 is quite the same thing as Windows 7. I found the following article on technet on how to run Virtual Server on Windows 7 and tried it on my setup with Server 2008.

When you want some performance in your virtuals under Virtual Server, you should consider creating a Dual Boot with one OS: http://blogs.infosupport.com/blogs/ericd/archive/2008/09/25/_1C20_Dual-boot_1D20_-with-one-installation-of-Windows.aspx

If you do not, Everything will work, but Virtual Server will make no use of the Hardware Virtualizations capabilities of your processor, because they will be monopolized By Hyper-V.

First You have to prepare the webserver if you want to use the webinterface to manage your virtuals. In the following post I described already what to install.

http://blogs.infosupport.com/blogs/ericd/archive/2007/07/02/Virtual-server-2005-R2-SP1-and-Vista.aspx

now you have to disable the compatibility check: the following article told me so:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprovirt/thread/a98e77b7-95d4-444f-8dbc-630c98074436/

Now I installed Virtual Server and tried to create a virtual machine and start it. Up till now it seems to start. I have not tried the last part:

<quote>

Next restore all settings what you changed in Group Policy and restart your computer. Unfortunately Application Compatibility Engine will detect Virtual server services and block that again. So you have to go to the Virtual Server directory (Usually C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Server\) and rename the vssrvc.exe to something else (example: vssrvc_newname.exe). Open the registry editor and replace all entry which contains "vssrvc.exe" to vssrvc_newname.exe (path, DCOM object details, etc)
Finally restart your computer and enjoy Virtual server 2005 at Windows 7 RC :)

</quote>

That I’ll try tomorrow.

New Names for the Forefront Suite of products

Eric Denekamp — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:13:39 GMT

Yesterday at the partner conference a new name for products of the Forefront Suite was announced:

Previous Name	New Name
Forefront Client Security	Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
Forefront Security for Exchange Server	Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server
Forefront Security for SharePoint	Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint
Forefront Online Security for Exchange (ранее Exchange Hosted Filtering)	Forefront Online Protection for Exchange
ISA Server 2006	Forefront Threat Management Gateway Web Security Service
Forefront codename “Stirling”	Forefront Protection Suite (FPS)

For The IAG software a new name was already announced: UAG: Unified Access Gateway

Also The Geneva “products” were given a Name:

“Geneva” Server	Active Directory Federation Services
“Geneva” Framework	Windows Identity Foundation

Nigerian Scam

Eric Denekamp — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:12:00 GMT

Today i found this jewel from a fellow trainer in Canada about a Nigerian Scam. It is absolutely hilarious if it were not a serious thing when running into this. It gives us another idea about being on guard…

http://rperreaux.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5D7BD18D324CBEEF!371.entry

Thanks Rolly, for it is enlightening and entertaining.

Is this exciting or what

Eric Denekamp — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:28:16 GMT

I bet I am the umpth to report this, but I found it necessary to report it anyway: another release date is being whispered on the internet. now by Neowin.net, and it is said to be july 13th. just in time before my vacation.

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/07/03/confirmed-windows-7-set-to-rtm-on-july-13th

There are whispers about Windows server 2008 R2 to be RTM-ed on the same date…

The word is out

Eric Denekamp — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:13:56 GMT

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/default.aspx talks about release dates of Windows 7. For English and Dutch 22 oktober is the date…

Non-Professional again.

Eric Denekamp — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:52:16 GMT

Some time ago I blogged about the Microsoft Certified Non-Professional, server virtualization. to complete your certifications, you should become Microsoft Certified Non-Professional, desktop virtualization: