Eric Denekamp

You got to love sponsored links

Eric Denekamp — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:11:07 GMT

When test my latest tweet about IPv6< ran into the following website:

The Info Support add is a movie about our company.

Is this coincidence or not?

I wonder I wonder I wonder

Eric Denekamp — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:47:46 GMT

How long I have to wait for my exam results to be returned to me.

Prometric tells you at the end of a beta exam that it might take about 8 weeks, normally it is something like that. but now it takes ages for the 70-693 to return the score…

At this point in Time I am VERY Curious….

If I passed these two exams, I may call myself ITPro: Virtualization administrator 2008 R2. Which sounds great.

CMS error?

Eric Denekamp — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:27:59 GMT

Following the news on our government I noticed something:

These are three clippings of the same website.

1 and 2 are clippings of overview pages, the first is the “complete story” Remarkable is here that on 2 and 3 a press conference is mentioned. This press conference is scheduled for 15:00 hours, but the posting is done at 14:08. it seems that the CMS of de Stentor can manage schedulig of publishing in the “full article” but not in the “teaser” abstract.

Funny thing.

Browser choice

Eric Denekamp — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:23:34 GMT

Today as you may know, Microsoft will start sending out the browser choice update. In the news I heard about the update displaying the list differently in different browsers: I tried this with both IE and Chrome: this is the result:

These are only the first five choices, where there are nine.

In these two browsers only the most left and right are at the same location: Mozilla Firefox and Flock,

Non Professional 3

Eric Denekamp — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:33:53 GMT

Yesterday I reported about the non professional certification, today i found the source of this: this is about the Partner Competence for Desktop Virtualization:

The lower competence I talked about in this blogpost and the upper some time ago in this post.

Well that one cleared it up i hope.

Microsoft Certified Non Professional 2

Eric Denekamp — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:49:09 GMT

Some time ago I posted about the Certified Non Professional certification Microsoft had in store for us. Thanks to Helmer I just realized that I can become another MCNP…

:-)

Boot your Server 2008 R2 from USB.

Eric Denekamp — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:50:58 GMT

This is something I Need to try one of these days…

http://www.brajkovic.info/virtualization/microsoft-hyper-v-server/boot-hyper-v-server-from-usb-stick/

It looks like a well described procedure. Now I need some time to do this…

UAG RTM and TMG generally available!!!!

Eric Denekamp — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:02:00 GMT

At the Forefront Blog I have seen that UAG is RTM since today and TMG is generally available.

UAG is the successor of IAG (Intelligent Application Gateway), UAG is the new application to enable users for Remote Access. this is acomplished in two ways: the first is the new Direct Access technology, that uses IPv6 technologies, the other is SSL VPN like tunneling.

Furthermore UAG makes granular acces possible based on the trustworthyness of the endpoint, like Availability and up-to-dateness of anti malware, settings of the Firewall etc etc.

Forefront timeline

Eric Denekamp — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:53:58 GMT

When Reading up on my Forefront news, I noticed this old news, I missed it, so I decided to share:

http://blogs.technet.com/forefront/archive/2009/10/08/schedule-and-strategy-update-for-forefront-endpoint-protection.aspx

So ForeFront EndPoint Protection is postponed… :-(

Too Bad, because I really like it.

Ah well, It gives me more time to play with the Beta…

I have been in a Panel Discussion at TechEd 2009 in Berlin.

Eric Denekamp — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:24:17 GMT

if you are interested you can watch it here.

It is official now: TMG is RTM

Eric Denekamp — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:56:40 GMT

Last week I reported is hot from the product team manager session at Teched, Now it is confirmed at the product team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/11/17/forefront-threat-management-gateway-2010-release.aspx

ForeFront TMG is RTM…..

Office 2010 activation problem solved

Eric Denekamp — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:52:47 GMT

As regular readers of my blog might know, I always try to run beta software as soon as possible. This Time I am running office 2010 (twenty ten not twothousand and ten) beta. Last night I downloaded it from the Technet website. It installed, but the office professional plus did not give me the opportunity to enter a Product Key. so I assumed I could enter it later. when everything was installed, I tried to hunt down the location to add that key. it turns out that in every Office Application that is located under: File, Help:

There you should be able to activate the product OR to give in another Product Key. but too bad, my install only gave me the following screen:

A friend of mine, Helmer, posted a link that might do the trick, so I went to his Blogpost, but to no avail. It did not work.

SO I decided to repair my Install, for that looked like the problem in the screen above. I started the setup again and to my surprise I had an option that I needed:

So I selected the last option: enter a product key, and continued and there it was, the box to enter the Product key.

I entered the key and it even gave me the opportunity to change my setup by selecting options or deselecting option.

I restarted an office application and it was activated indeed…

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